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Title: Politicians Confronted on Venezuela, Have No Idea What is Even Going On
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URL Source: https://dailystormer.name/politicia ... no-idea-what-is-even-going-on/
Published: Feb 1, 2019
Author: Andrew Anglin
Post Date: 2019-02-01 10:04:29 by Ada
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Comments: 7
This video is incredible. Mex Blumenthal went to the capitol and interviewed a bunch of politicians in the halls of Congress on the topic of Venezuela and the current push for war against that country by the Trump Administration, and none of them had any idea what the hell is even going on. Several of them appeared to agree with Blumenthal that this is “meddling,” and some of them said that it was wrong. Others kind of knew the line, and said that Maduro is evil so we have to do freedom. No one had a very clear or polished explanation, however, of the sort that you would get from a CNN anchor. This video really should be a wakeup call to anyone who thinks our government is run by anything other than incompetent idiots who are only in power for the reason that they can’t compete in other industries and they are willing to be shills. You would think it would make sense to put the people from the brightest class in charge of public policy, but this is simply not the way things work. The system is too corrupt to allow good people, and smart people simply don’t want to get involved. So you have a bunch of catladies and blacks and just dumb boomers who have no idea what is even going on and don’t even have a clear understanding of their own talking points. Our entire government is basically a hoax. This Venezuela issue just all of the sudden popped up, and the lawmakers know they are supposed to go along with it, but they don’t know what they’re supposed to be going along with. A coup has been announced in the most brazen imaginable way by the Trump Administration, there is bipartisan support for the agenda, the EU has announced full support for the agenda, no one can explain why. They leave the justifications to the media, who comes up with atrocity lies and backward nonsense. One Congressbitch that Blumenthal ambushes says that people in the country are starving, and he says “oh so you don’t support the sanctions then?” and she is a little bit savvier than the rest and says he’s trying to trap her. Eventually she says she does support the sanctions. As we’ve learned, Venezuela is a shithole. However, the main reason for the extreme poverty is the sanctions. And the sanctions are on the country because it is allied with countries that the US state views as enemies, most prominently Russia. The media won’t mention the sanctions, they will simply claim that the extreme poverty is a result of oppression. And they’re just hoping people will go along with it. I don’t know how stupid the average Trump supporter is, but I at least hope that the fact that this is the first time ever that the entire Jewish media and the Democrats have rallied around to support a Trump agenda gives them some pause.
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#2. To: Ada, Make Neocon Globalism Great Again (#0)
Is it fair to call MAGA neocon lite, or possibly MAGAcons?
European Union African Union Asian Union South American Union North American Union Sunni (so called Jew) Union Is that all of them ?
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestI don’t know how stupid the average Trump supporter is, but I at least hope that the fact that this is the first time ever that the entire Jewish media and the Democrats have rallied around to support a Trump agenda gives them some pause.
Trump and the MAGA Crowd Embrace the Neocon Plan for Venezuela
The fact so few of these establishment labeled “white nationalists” had anything to say about Trump’s illegal bombing of Syria, or the death toll from his war against ISIS, leads me to believe they enthusiastically support intervention in foreign nations, most recently Venezuela. They are not opposed to these illegal actions, which leads one to believe they subscribe to the neoliberal religion, or at least are not opposed to it.
From the start, it was obvious Trump was not a noninterventionist. He sincerely believes in using state violence to realize his vision of making America great again, which is to say continuing neoliberal interventionist policies in violation of international law, policies designed and implemented by a global elite, the practitioners of the neoliberal creed of creative destruction that employs mass murder and societal destruction as regime change tools.
Trump has said he’s not interested in nation-building. On the other hand, he said he is in favor of making victims pay for the destruction of their nations and societies. Recall his promise to make Iraq pay for its destruction. Trump said he would do this by stealing Iraqi oil and also said “terrorists” (those resisting occupation) would be tortured in the presence of their families.
It is obvious Trump was playing to a specific audience, the neocons. He also appealed to the noninterventionists by declaring he would bring the troops home. Trump made this promise again in regard to Syria, but he was overruled by the real controllers of US foreign policy, the neocons. So powerful is their sway John Bolton managed to team up with his soulmate, the convicted Iran-Contra criminal Elliot Abrams.
The effort to further destabilize Venezuela has nothing to do with helping the people. Trump’s decision to declare Juan Guaidó supreme leader of Venezuela and eventually depose the elected president Nicolas Maduro is only the latest in a long series of efforts by the United States government to eradicate Bolivarianism. In the case of Venezuela, the plan is to undermine and destroy Chavism, the Venezuelan version of Bolivarianism.
Simón Bolívar’s Carta de Jamaica, written in 1815, called for the end of Spanish conquest, the establishment of new South American nations, and the formation of a union of those nations opposed to imperialism. In other words, allowing the people to decide their destiny, not bankers on Wall Street and corporations itching to exploit the continent’s bounty of natural resources.
For the neoliberals, fire alarms went off in 2008 when Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Venezuela formed Banco del Sur, or Bank of the South, in response to the World Bank and the IMF demanding sacrificial structural adjustment as a condition to receive emergency funding.
In the previous decade, Hugo Chávez was elected and this produced further consternation on Wall Street. It took the CIA and its clone NED three years to pull off a coup that ultimately failed. Following the two day imprisonment of Chávez and his release, the US-organized Venezuelan opposition organized a general strike that shut down the oil industry and economically crippled the country. GDP fell 27 percent during the first four months of 2003. It cost the oil industry $13.3 billion. This economic warfare resulted in Venezuela defaulting on its international petroleum supply contracts as it was unable to meet its commitments.
Trump, his neocon advisers (his latest addition, Elliot Abrams, is a senior CFR member), and the MAGA ranks insist Venezuela is in “our backyard,” which means it is entirely reasonable to sponsor the opposition, meddle in elections, foment coups, and if need be use the US military to force Maduro from office, never mind the people who will be killed in the process.
Even supposed “liberals” believe the US government has the right to intervene in the internal affairs of other nations within the US proclaimed “backyard,” a throwback to Manifest Destiny and Roosevelt’s Big Stick warship diplomacy.
Consider “comedian” Bill Maher. He recently declared on his television show the US has the right to overthrow the Maduro government. Bill and the neocons are on the same page. Venezuela is our backyard. We decide who will rule the country.
The MAGA faction—now apparently cleansed of noninterventionists—supports the foreign policy of the neocons. Read Breitbart and The Drudge Report. Nothing there about the neocon infestation at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue or the illegality of subverting a foreign country which just so happens to be in possession of the world’s largest supply of petroleum.
MAGA is now throughly neocon-ized. Breitbart supports the policies of Israel, including those of the Likud Party and the New Right Party, the latter formed by settlers and ideological Zionists.
The Left hates Trump, reject his ideas about a border wall, and are steadfastly opposed to all of his proposals—with the exception of foreign policy.
Obama successfully neutered the antiwar and nonintervention movement in the United States. During the Bush wars, there were demonstrations and these were predominately organized by the Left. But after Obama entered office and the rhetoric changed, these illegal wars magically transformed into “humanitarian” interventions. Obama dramatically increased the drone war, organized the destruction of Libya with his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, and set the stage for the slaughter of more than a half million Syrians.
Despite campaign trail ramblings about defunding NATO and bringing the troops home, Trump continued this dying empire legacy. He appointed generals to run his foreign policy and when this didn’t produce results, he fired the generals and brought the neocons in. Neocons get things done, as the corpses of more than a million Iraqis and tens of thousands of Afghans demonstrate. Trump is a textbook example of a malignant narcissist. His prime concern is his image and place in history.
The MAGA crowd will support anything and everything Trump does. Move the capital of Israel to Jerusalem. Check. Feed the military industrial complex and become its number one salesman. Check. Expand the warfare doctrine into space. Check. Build “usable” nukes. Check. Continue the inhumane treatment of illegal aliens and their children, same as Obama. Check. Appoint Goldman Sachs bankers and CFR operatives in key positions, including at the Treasury. Check. Forget that promise to audit the Federal Reserve. Check. I could go on, but what’s the point?
It’s working out nicely for the ruling elite—for the moment.
While the Left and Right fight it out over identity politics, the state continues and expands its agenda behind the scenes. Incessant propaganda and a shocking ambivalence by the people to inform themselves on geopolitical issues has produced a populace either largely ignorant or simply disinterested in what its government does in the Middle East, Africa, and South America. If they have an opinion, it is formed by establishment news and social media.
Thus The New York Times can safely publish an “op-ed” penned by Juan Guaidó, the future dictator of Venezuela, calling for an overthrow of the government. Few complain or point out the obvious—Mr. Guaidó is the main character in a stage production scripted in Washington DC and the backrooms of Wall Street and London.
The reality has yet to sink in and it is truly amazing—no matter the president or majority in Congress, the same neoliberal agenda creeps forward. It is often disguised in several ways, but is the same beast created during Bretton Woods following the Second World War.
If this simple fact is not understood and accepted, we can’t hope to stop what is now shaping up on the world stage as the neocons provoke and threaten every perceived and invented enemy, from Venezuela to North Korea, Iran, and Syria to—most ominously—Russia and China, the last two bristling with nukes.
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