JEFF J. BROWN—Again, the West is the best at psychological deflection/reflection, attacking its enemies for the exact same things it is doing, whether it’s true or not, so that at the dinner table and water cooler, its brainwashed citizens talk about all the supposedly horrible acts China, Russia, Iran and Venezuela are committing, and not about the reality of what their truly evil, genocidal governments are in fact perpetrating at home and around the world, costing millions of lives a year.
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Flagrant, Cynical, Public attempt at coup d’état – Venezuela
38 minutes readCHRIS FAURE—Despite the various governments in Latin America that became right leaning and had their governments appointed by the Hegemon, the people in Latin America understand where their opposition comes from. I cannot see Brazil or Colombia sending troops on the ground. The Venezuelan right is not united. American troops? Trump will most probably lose his base. I cannot see this.
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MOA—Under a normal process the Venezuelan government would now arrest the U.S. diplomats as soon as they leave the legally protected embassy compound. They would be put on a plane and evicted from the country. But it seems likely that U.S. planned for this conflict and that the diplomats are prepared to stay in the embassy for a long time.
The best for Venezuela to do now is to simply isolate the embassy. It must be well guarded to prevent false flag attacks against it. No visitors should be allowed. All the embassy’s communication lines should be cut (it would still have satellite communication) and electricity and water should be rationed. Humanitarian aid should be conceded only after specific requests. It is important to play this ‘by the book’ so that the U.S. can not use the issue to escalate.
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MoA—All ‘western’ media repeat the claim that the U.S. sponsored dude claimed the presidency based on article 233 of the constitution. But none of them refute that obviously false claim. Article 233 of the constitution (pdf) of Venezuela details the procedures for the case that the president “becomes permanently unavailable” [or incapacitated] which Nicolas Maduro obviously is not. Moreover the next in place if the president becomes unavailable is the vice president, not the leader of the National Assembly. The dude has no legal basis to claim the presidency.
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While the opportunistic “Never-Trumper #Resistance” mob struggles to find its moral voice, across the Atlantic most of the abject European vassals get ready to endorse (Britain already did) Trump’s lawless conduct in Venezuela. Expect in short order to see France, Spain, Germany—countries that keep lecturing the world about the rule of law, democracy, peace, non-intervention, etc.—and others across that continent, to join the US in its clearly wanton meddling in Venezuela, a step already taken by NATO member Canada, who recognised Guaido almost as quickly as the US itself. Frankly, it does not get much more disgusting than that. The only good thing is that such exhibitions of vile hypocrisy put more nails in the coffin of global neoliberalism, demolishing the malodorous conceits on which the West keeps claiming its right to rule the planet.