ERIC ZUESSE—The debate within the Truman Administration over how to deal with communism reached a point in 1950 when the viewpoint of diplomat George Kennan favoring its “containment” became pitted against that of investment banker Paul Nitze, favoring the attainment of an all-inclusive American empire. Nitze’s view won out, because Truman himself had already, by no later than 25 July 1945, been privately persuaded by his personal hero General Dwight Eisenhower, that if the U.S. wouldn’t take over the entire world, then the Soviet Union would.
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ERIC ZUESSE—“Chavismo” (named after Venezuela’s former President Hugo Chavez) which Maduro represents, and which had been Venezuela’s Marxist (communist) independent Venezuela, will become past history, when President González will start his (six-year) term on 10 January 2025.
The reason why a vast majority of Venezuelans will be voting for González is that this will be the only way they can get the U.S. Government’s virtual blockade of sanctions against their country lifted so that maybe the enormous mass poverty that those sanctions imposed upon them will likewise end. However, that favorable outcome for the poor of Venezuela won’t happen, and here is why:
González is secretly committed to privatizing Venezuela’s gas, oil, and other resources, as well as a “broad program of privatization of companies and public assets,” including the currently entirely free-to-the-public educational system and pension system, all of the Government’s assets to be auctioned off to investors from throughout the world so as to produce profits from the poor to increase the wealth of investors throughout the world, and, so to increase yet further the economic-inequality indexes throughout the world.
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ERIC ZUESSE—What has been documented here is that neither of the two Parties represents you — your choice between them would be only your choice of which group of billionaires will run America’s Government for the next four years. And ESPECIALLY, neither of the two Parties’ s ‘elected’ nominees for the U.S. Presidency will represent you. It’s remarkable how similar billionaires are to each other. For example: all of the evidence consistently shows that anti-Israel billionaires don’t exist. Wow, isn’t that amazing! Just think about that stunning fact. So, to vote for either Trump or Biden is to be a fool of either Republican billionaires or Democratic billionaires.
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ERIC ZUESSE—[Quoting]—”Where are all the trappings of the free market that the United States and its allies have taught everyone for so many years? The market economy, fair competition, inviolability of property, the presumption of innocence, freedom of movement of people, goods, capital and services – all this is now being scrapped. Geopolitics has buried the once sacred laws of the market for the West. Recently, we have heard public demands from US and EU officials for China to reduce “excess production” in high-tech industries, as the West has begun to lose its long-standing advantages in these areas. Now, instead of market principles – the same “rules”.”
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ERIC ZUESSE—The main modern iteration of this U.S. regime obsession to get a nuclear missile posted so near to The Kremlin so that the blitz-attack would happen too fast to be responded to, is the case of Ukraine, which is only 317 miles or five minutes of flying-time away from The Kremlin. What Cuba was to the United States in 1962, Ukraine came to be to Russia after Obama’s coup there grabbed it in February 2014. But whereas Cuba is 1,131 miles away from DC, Ukraine is only 317 miles away from Moscow; so, in this iteration of the geography-based strategy, Russia’s argument against Ukraine is even stronger than America’s argument against Cuba was in 1962. Russia has been altogether too trusting of the U.S. Government. But, by now, any further continuation of that trust in this Government, is extremely unlikely — not only in Russia, but everywhere.
