By Finian Cunningham
February 01, 2019
February 01, 2019
US national security
advisor John Bolton tweeted cynically this week that he “wishes” Venezuelan
President Nicolas Maduro to take “retirement on a nice beach somewhere far
away”.
Meanwhile, in nastier tone, Washington and its Western allies have denigrated the Venezuelan government as a “mafia regime” and a “kleptocracy”.
These are all attempts to blackmail, intimidate and vandalize Venezuela into submitting to a criminal regime-change plan for the South American country.
Meanwhile, in nastier tone, Washington and its Western allies have denigrated the Venezuelan government as a “mafia regime” and a “kleptocracy”.
These are all attempts to blackmail, intimidate and vandalize Venezuela into submitting to a criminal regime-change plan for the South American country.
There is no doubt that what’s going on here is another criminal interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign nation by the United States and its European lackeys. And yet these arrogant actors have the cheek to accuse Russia of “interfering in Western democracies”.
What is astounding though is that despite the
Venezuelan manoeuvre being so blatantly obvious, the Western so-called news
media have the audacity to give the orchestrated development a veneer
of credibility. The abject servility of supposed Western journalism
is pathetic.
Anyone with an open mind knows that
in Venezuela it is a classic demonstration of motive and means
for regime change. The motive is Venezuela’s vast natural oil wealth,
believed to be the biggest known reserves of hydrocarbons on the
planet. Augmented to that factor is the country has been governed
for the past 20 years by socialist administrations committed
to developing the wellbeing of the nation, instead of pandering
to Western capital. Present economic woes are due to years of American
sanctions, or financial warfare.
As for means, the events in Venezuela
are following the US playbook for regime change used
in countless other countries, most notably Ukraine.
Washington has bankrolled opposition groups some
of which have Neo-fascist tendencies, using violence, sabotage and murder
to destabilize the country.
The opposition figure, 35-year-old Juan Guaido,
and his far-right Popular Will party have been trained by the American CIA
for this very moment, according to investigative journalist Max
Blumenthal. From recent obscurity, Guaido has been catapulted onto the
international stage by dubious American political and media support,
exalted as a “democratic champion”, even though his Neo-fascist fringe
group has been involved in hundreds of killings, including
against Venezuela security forces.
This week, Guaido, who has declared himself
“interim president”, claimed that his wife and family were “intimidated”
by Venezuelan security forces. It was an unconfirmed claim,
but widely aired by Western media outlets as if it were fact.
Then, right on cue, the Trump White House “responded” by saying there
would be “serious consequences” for the Venezuelan government
of elected President Nicolas Maduro. Further on cue, Guaido then
hinted he would accept US military intervention for “protection”.
This is a close replay of what happened
in Ukraine in 2014. The elected president of that country,
Viktor Yanukovych, was demonized and delegitimized by a relentless Western
media campaign, while violent Neo-Nazi groups, bankrolled and trained by the
CIA, were lionized as a “pro-democracy” movement.
We only have to look at the ensuing
chaos, corruption and conflict in today’s Ukraine under the rule
of a Neo-fascist regime in Kiev to readily see what US-backed
“democracy” translates into.
What Washington is doing in Venezuela is
flagrantly illegal. President Maduro was duly elected last May. He appears
to have the support of the majority of the population. Yet a
minority opposition faction which is predominantly affiliated to the
traditional ruling class has been transformed by Washington and its
dutiful media into a just cause for democracy.
The regime change underway in Venezuela is
perhaps the most brazen yet. Washington intends to confiscate financial
assets belonging to the state oil company and hand over billions
of dollars to opposition groups led by Guaido. This grand theft
of a nation’s entire wealth and the subversion of government is being
played out in front of the whole world.
Russia has vowed that it will do everything
to support the legitimate government of President Maduro. Moscow is
not alone. China, Iran, Turkey and other nations have denounced what Washington
is daring to do.
However, it is incredible how European governments
and media have gone along with this American-led lynch mob to violate
Venezuela. You would think after the regime-change disasters that
Washington has perpetrated in Syria, Libya, Ukraine, among many other
places, that there would be some pause in Western media. Not a bit
of it. As soon as the regime-change plot kicked-in in Venezuela,
the Western media and European governments followed suit like lapdogs
to the American agenda. This is brainwashing, Pavlovian style.
Russia and those other countries mentioned
above are commendably upholding international law and sovereign rights
of nations to be not molested by external aggression.
Moscow has no doubt learned harsh lessons
from US and European duplicity. Russia was caught out by the dirty
trick of regime change in Libya. That’s no doubt why it has taken a
much firmer, critical stance over Syria and Ukraine.
Russia is right to draw another critical line
regarding Venezuela. If the US and its pathetic European minions get away
with their crimes in this strategically important country, then the
damage to international law will be immense. It will be open season
for regime change everywhere.
Anyone with a sense of justice and
concern for world peace knows that the imperialist bully
in Washington has to be stopped. Venezuela is a moment of truth.
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