Venezuela destroyed its oil industry. We can all guess on whose orders.
Since then, it’s been getting oil from China. Well, from Russia, of course, but China delivered it. As payment for its services, China used Venezuelans as guinea pigs. The social credit passport, for example, was rolled out by the Chinese in Venezuela for a trial run.
Venezuela is also an experiment in how much lawlessness and abuse under progressivist slogans people can tolerate. For now, the answer is: an endless amount.
That’s what happens to the useless people (aka “wasted lives”) in neoliberalism. They are used for medical, social and psychological experiments.
Now a new experiment is being run in Venezuela. The question it aims to answer is whether the US will put up with a Russia-China sponsored invasion in its own hemisphere.
The question that our pouty friends love to ask (“how would the US like it if Russia placed military bases in Mexico?”) will soon require a specific, non-pouty answer.
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Where are you finding news on this?
We did notice when we were in Peru 12 years ago, that China was making inroads there in much the same way they are doing in Africa– funding schools, mining deals. But every time I’ve gone looking for, like, English-language news articles or discussion of it: bupkus. It seems kind of geopolitically important, though.
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I know! Nobody is talking about this. My students are shocked when I show them photos of the Chinese social credit cards and oil tankers arriving in Venezuela. I’m in touch with some really cool people who are anti-Maduro resisters. And the great thing is that they are more pro-Ukrainian than anybody else because they so detest the Russian meddling in Venezuela.
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I’m very skeptical about this. It could definitely be just a probing thing to see how far things can go, but such a thing would be extremely unpopular in Latin America. Brazil is supposed to have moved troops nearer to the area and would likely oppose Venezuela. There isn’t any other nearby countries that would support such a move.
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“Before the referendum took place Vladímir Padrino López, the Venezuelan defence minister, issued a threat against Guyana disguised as reassurance. The border dispute “is not a war, for now”, he said. Nevertheless, Venezuela is unlikely to invade its neighbour. It “has a massive military advantage over Guyana, but Venezuela would not be confronting only Guyana”, says Rocío San Miguel, a military analyst. The United States and Brazil would swiftly come to the small nation’s defence with military help, she thinks.”
https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2023/12/04/venezuelas-autocrat-nicolas-maduro-threatens-to-annex-guyana
If there is one thing Latin Americans can be proud of is a lack of massive wars such as those that regularly occur in Europe. Not saying it’s impossible, but it would definitely be the Caribbean + Latin America + the US vs Venezuela. And no, China nor Russia are in any position to assist on anything near the same level.
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Latin Americans don’t need to wage wars on each other. They genocide their own populations instead. There has hardly been any Latin American country that hasn’t mowed down their own population through civil wars, dictatorships, cartel and gang violence, and genocide.
This is the reason they don’t fight among themselves. They are too busy with internal strife.
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A number of them were fighting each other in the 30s and 40s at the same time Europe was blowing up (Peru v. Ecuador, Paraguay v. Bolivia, etc). Were those just smaller conflicts than the numerous internal ones?
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” a Russia-China sponsored invasion”
I doubt if there will be a physical invasion any time soon. A quick look at google maps shows…. no roads between the two countries just jungle (and maybe marsh to the north which is far worse).
I assume that this is meant primarily to further normalize the idea of invasions of annexation so that by the time russia does invade a NATO country (most likely one of the Baltic countries) their shills can flood the information space with the idea that it’s normal and natural and nothing to worry about.
America will pay dearly for its ongoing failure to adequately support Ukraine….
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Exactly. It happens in little increments, and at first it seems like a no big deal but then little by little you start accepting things that you’d never accept before. Just like wokeness.
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It seems more likely that China is buying Venezuelan and Russian oil for their own use.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/petrochina-aims-resume-venezuelan-oil-imports-after-4-year-pause-2023-11-02/
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