Why is the US So Frightened of Venezuela?
Weekend Edition April 3-5, 2015
Standing Up to the Empire
Why is the US So Frightened of Venezuela?
by MARIA PAEZ VICTOR
Obama is not in Kansas anymore, but he does not seem to know it. Latin America no longer slavishly accepts orders from the USA; it is no longer the USAs back yard.
The mainstream media has downplayed the fact that President Obama has just declared yet another country an enemy of the USA one in the American Hemisphere. He has issued an Executive Order declaring Venezuela an extraordinary and unusual threat to the national security of the United States
How a nation that spends less than 1% of its GDP on military expenditures, has no latest state-of-the-art military weaponry, and an army of merely 120,000 can possibly threaten the security of the mighty United States, is entirely incomprehensible.
And yet, an invasion of Venezuela, before a theoretical possibility, after Obamas order has become a scenario with real probabilities. The Venezuelan government is not taking this threat lightly having seen what the greed for oil has done to Iraq, Libya, and Syria.
More:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/04/03/why-is-the-us-so-frightened-of-venezuela/
djean111
(14,255 posts)It is very odd. Must be the oil, because the 1% seems to have a comfortable grip on both political parties, so they surely cannot be afraid of creeping Socialism. I guess that if Kerry still refers to South America as our backyard, maybe the US still feels there is some use for pretending we are in charge there.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)What Obama and the rest of TPTB are afraid of is not Venezuela, it's socialism, as practiced in Venezuela.
Chakaconcarne
(2,466 posts)Unstable enough it gives the 1% an example of how socialism does not work AND it makes VZ's valuable resource ripe for the picking.
The VZ president has already accused the US of meddling in their affairs. ..I wonder how much truth there is to that.. do we have some kind of ops helping things along?
I feel like a stage is being set...maybe not for next year or even 5 years...
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)I'm not seeing something here or what I think may be going on is pissing me off big-time. If this country pulls another "Dick Chaney goes to war for oil" bullshit, we truly ARE the monsters of the world.
SamKnause
(13,110 posts)stands up for and protects Venezuela from the warmongering U.S.
I am embarrassed and ashamed of my country's government in the U.S.
They represent the 1% and the 1% want Venezuela's oil.
I fear they will stop at nothing to get it.
Long live the Bolivarian Revolution !!!
Viva Venezuela !!!
Thanks Judi.
hack89
(39,171 posts)the US doesn't have to actually do anything except stand back and watch.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)GGJohn
(9,951 posts)tecelote
(5,122 posts)You can bet we're already down there doing things we'll read about in twenty years - just ask Ollie.
No reason for an executive order if not to legitimize our activities.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)n2doc
(47,953 posts)Not Scared. Covetous.
swilton
(5,069 posts)Russia is beefing up its relations with Cuba, Nicaragua as well as Venezuela.