TWANLOCSays it all.
As for Venezuela...not that I have to defend the government...but
where's the beef my friend?
"Governments" pop off at the mouth all the time...words are swell, words are wonderful and I like words...but words don't mean jack squat without action. Other than freezing assets and suspending imports of oil the US government hasn't done a damn thing in-country...the US government has no boots on the ground...
And to be perfectly fair and honest...most all "governments" turn everything "to sh*t". It's what they do well. Russia is no different. I say again...Russia in no different. They are driven by greed, power and ego...just like any other flawed human-led government...we can quibble over degrees...but in the end it is just that...quibbling. Tally up both sides of everybody's ledgers...their overall score on the useless and dangerous scale will be pretty damn close...it's only the outliers, the worst of regimes that comparisons start to generate differentiation.
It's a concept those extreme Russophiles and cult of personality PaulBot types like at Zerohedge that simply cannot conceive of any other government on the planet being worse than America (and people keep invading us to live here...because it sucks so much!)...which is obviously insane...there is no Eden, no Shangri-la. The Good Book says to put away childish things...a lot of people struggle with that concept.
And the old "invited" angle doesn't fly...Moscow is 6,176 miles from Caracas...they have no strategic interest there, it violates even the Putin Standard of the right of first invasion of neighboring sovereign nations
in the name of that sh*t belongs to us...Washington DC is just 2,053 miles away and hasn't invaded...Russia was also "invited" to Afghanistan, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia...that all worked out well. Venezuela is a client state, calling it an invite is like saying banging a prostitute isn't cheating on your wife...
Russia deploys troops and 35 tons of cargo...
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2019-03-25/russia-deploys-troops-equipment-to-venezuelaAmerica's fault! Yeah, tHugo and Maduro's socialist junta paradise had zip to do with it.
Blackouts, blackmarket and black days...America's fault!
https://news.yahoo.com/blackout-hits-swaths-venezuela-including-caracas-193309849.htmlHorror, fear, despair and looting!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/26/venezuela-maracaibo-power-electricity-lootingGoddamn Americans!
This "disturbed society" is all America's fault!
I guess that's why people are chanting "freedom!" and saying it was a mistake to go down the socialist road and surrender their guns to the benign government...America made them do it!
I'm sure Russia will fix all of that, no price to be paid...and the people will live prosperous and happy lives forever and ever!
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