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Gordon Marlatt's avatar

Looking at how well tarifs worked against Canada we can expect that the sanctions against Venezuelan will promp the people to rally around their leadership and the US will again become the force that united all of the Venezuelan people.

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Amrita B's avatar

Hmm.... Communal agriculture also might be a solution for US food cost and distribution problems.

Thanks for the helpful overview on Venezuela.

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Eddie Gomez's avatar

Brazen,morally bankrupt, and illegal by any standard !

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Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

"Ahora es de todos!" My one and only trip to South America was to Venezuela in 2006. I remember the courage and determination of the people in the communities that I met. They were so inspiring. Viva Chavez. Viva Maduro! Viva los pueblos de Venezuela!

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Bebe Schroer's avatar

Extrajudicial killing = murder. Thou shalt not murder. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's oil.

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SAM's avatar

in a long term view, every time the u.s. sanctions another country, they do it a favor in the sense that they breed self-subsistence and make it so the country eventually doesn't need to be a part of the post-brenton woods economic order established by the anglo empire. the situation is similar in iran. but then of course, the spoiled imperial brat throws a tantrum and declares a war. unless the u.s. simply resorts to nuking large swaths of the world, there is a zero percent chance it can handle adding venezuela and iran to the list of wars its already waging. add china to the mix and we're in for a hell of ride.

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Will Durant's avatar

Countries from Mexico to Patagonia need to be united with their own version of the Monroe Doctrine. Unity is becoming necessary, absolutely essential for the Global South.

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Will Durant's avatar

Worst caricature of the evil Yanqui Imperialist won’t play well anywhere in the Americas south of the Rio Grande. Look for more solidarity south of the border and more help from China. We are committing economic suicide, and our inevitable demise is well deserved. Yanqui go home!!!

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Jon Notabot's avatar

President JD Vance continues to succeed at fooling people into believing Donald Trump is really calling the shots - or, that Mr Trump as any ideas on administering a legitimate government for purposes other than total self preservation. Donald Trump was never meant to be more than a Trojan Horse and a wrecking ball to implement the ideas put forth over a quarter century ago in Project for a New American Century. President Vance along with his own handlers in Silicon Valley, Israel, Russia, the global dirty-energy cartel, the Christian Industrial Complex and the entirety of the GOP appear poised to jettison Donald Trump in the near future, as his once popular cult-like following dwindles symmetrically with his usefulness as a weapon of mass distraction. Trump's days running cover for the true powers of our time are coming to a close. His usefulness to those who benefited from him doing the dirty work is drying up, but they'll certainly milk whatever they can through the sunset phase - including one final atrocious act: choking Venezuela into submission with our taxpayer funded military. And in the aftermath, President JD Vance and his international entourage will all say the same thing: "It was out of our hands, there was nothing we could do - he was crazy". But they'll certainly keep the spoils.

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