John Bolton declared clearly why the U.S. is going for regime change in
Venezuela: OIL. The Trump regime uses every means at its disposal, particularly
economic ones, and even if in outrage a country has halted diplomatic relations
with the U.S., as Iran has fairly done for decades, that in itself is cause for
some kind of attack. The Trump regime is also now threatening European countries
over the erection of the SPV for trade with Iran, a move that one would hope
thoroughly alienates European governments.
What is happening right now in Venezuela has been in the works, carefully
coordinated and planned, for a long time. It’s quite remarkable that while the
U.S. has been trying to choke and destroy Nicolas Maduro, as it tried to choke
Chavez, stealing billions in dollars and gold and impoverishing many, it has the
gall, via a blustering Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, to offer $20 million this
month in "humanitarian assistance” to Venezuela at the same time.
That current offer is exactly equivalent in a hospital to taking away every
painkiller, every medicine, perhaps even bed linens And food, from an ill
patient, and handing that patient a single band aid. What’s a mere $20 million
in chump change to a country that can conger fiat dollars at no cost whatsoever?
And those countries, including European ones, that aver from kowtowing to the
Trump administration become alleged threats to U.S. "national security”, a
phrase that has lost specific definition aside from implying that some
government elsewhere merely sees things differently than Washington does and is
thus deemed a "threat”.
Many countries, many European ones, many in Latin America, even Canada now and
some in East Asia like Australia, have become mere slaves to the "empire”,
slaves to U.S. hegemonic pretensions, and all the while the U.S. government has
the gall to designate itself the leader of the "free world” which in fact is a
world that in many lands has mostly relinquished sovereignty because of U.S.
threats real or implied.
It is not just foreigners, including Iran and its people, who have been under
some kind of onerous attack. So have many Americans, too, by their own
government.
Trump, for example, shut down segments of the U.S. government, depriving almost
a million federal workers of salaries for over a month, while demanding billions
of dollars for a wall (like Israel’s wall snaking through the West Bank) along
the border with Mexico to keep out Latinos looking for a better life and this
largely because the U.S. literally has made life difficult for them in their
home countries, which has including propping up right wing governments that also
have become slaves to U.S. imperium while the U.S. offers personal benefits to
their narrow claques of "leaders”.
No doubt it would seem to the U.S.-designated "president” of Venezuela Juan
Guaido (who was never elected in a country that former U.S President Jimmy
Carter says has the fairest electoral system anywhere) that he has "benefitted”,
because otherwise he is of such little merit that this political wanker would
otherwise be a perennial non-entity.
And internally, Trump has minimal relative popularity now along with the U.S.
Congress where the very first piece of legislation under consideration in the
U.S. Senate in this new session post midterm elections has nada to do with
aiding the American people, but rather with breaching the U.S. Constitutional
amendment guaranteeing the long cherished right to free speech by making it a
crime, with punishments, to support efforts, even with speech, championing the
basic human rights of Palestinians -- all at the behest of arguably the most
criminal country on earth, Likud Israel. If this weren’t happening, it would be
unbelievable that it ever could happen.
Simply put, the U.S. government has drifted towards becoming a bare-faced
fascist enterprise, one not much better than what Nazi Germany was if one can be
so bold to speak the truth.
But also consider that the U.S. government has become a virtual slave itself,
and to whom is important. With regard to foreign policy in the Middle East, it
has become a slave to the Zionists and oligarchic Zionist American billionaires
who have literally purchased influence in Washington from politicians whose
primary concern is staying in office and having the financial wherewithal to do
so. Israel is preparing in time to annex the West Bank, all of it, and moreover,
it is demanding -- and has support among some members of the U.S. Congress for
the full and permanent annexation of the Syrian Golan.
This alone breaches many covenants of international law, the very "rules-based
order” the U.S. claims to have tried to maintain. But the extant alleged "rules”
apparently are not "rules” at all, because rules imply something fixed and well
honored. The "rules” seem now to have no meaning because they can be modified
whimsically to suit the illegal, in this case Israeli, demands of the moment.
What is interesting, and maybe particularly for Iranians, is that some of the
very bravest U.S. politicians now happen to be female Muslims elected in
November to the U.S. Congress for the first time. Democrats Ilhan Omar and
Rashida Tlaib, who along with non-Muslim Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, are not shy
about speaking truth, as they see it, to power. And despite the fact that they
are under some attack themselves for doing so on both sides of the aisle in
Congress, they are opening up heretofore unrealized domains of discourse on many
important issues in Washington and beyond, and not just on the matter of
destructive U.S. foreign policies.
But even more importantly, among the American people, if not among the
long-entrenched politicians, they are gaining some traction and admiration from
Americans generally for their bravery. On that note there is reason for some
optimism, however faint, in an ambience that would shock even British writer
George Orwell, who long ago imagined a future totalitarian world bereft of
individual freedoms.
Source:TehranTimes