Mystery ... are we there yet? Where is "there" ... where is here? (You Are Here).
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| Venezuela oil |
"During that earlier period, Venezuela had been largely spared the brutal
excesses of direct U.S. interventionism in the region (due in part to
the repressive rule of successive U.S.-supported strongmen Juan Vicente Gómez and Marcos Pérez Jiménez). That changed in 1998, when Hugo Chávez, Maduro’s far more popular predecessor, became president and pursued policies of popular sovereignty and resource nationalism aimed at ensuring the nation’s vast oil reserves (the largest in the world) served Venezuelans rather than being siphoned off to enrich foreign corporations. From then on, Venezuela became the latest target
of Washington’s efforts to undermine, discipline, and ultimately
neutralize 'troublesome' progressive governments across Latin America." (Tom Dispatch).
The South American country increasingly at odds with the Trump administration has the world’s largest oil reserves (NY Times).
(cf, The Peak Of The Oil Wars, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19). The last people to know about "it" will be ... guess ... guess again:
"At some point in time in the military the two were conflated, but the
one that allows wars to replace peace is the one the military selected,
like their forerunners in the Roman military, and they became a
warmongering spiritual group:
The enemy aggressor is always pursuing a course of larceny, murder, rapine and barbarism. We are always moving forward with high mission, a destiny imposed by the Deity to regenerate our victims, while incidentally capturing their markets; to civilise savage and senile and paranoid peoples, while blundering accidentally into their oil wells.
It is the belief that got us into the addiction to Middle East oil and oil wars (see The Universal Smedley - 2).
The U.S. military is the world's number one single user of oil (Oil is Biggest Military Weakness)."
(Doing The Right Thing - Mithraism - 2).
The previous post in this series is here.
