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Venezuela's Guaido calls for uprising but military remains loyal to Maduro for now

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No mention of Putin's role here. Apparently President Maduro was ready to hop on a plane and get out of Dodge, but Putin put a quick stop to that.

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Looks like Guaido and his amigos, the CIA, have now burned their bridges. What's his Plan B? The Ecuadoran Embassy? Bolsonaro's Brazil? Or Mar-a-Lago?

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Maduro is inept and has led his country into ruin.

Then, when his citizens rightly complain about the results of his idiotic policies, he unleashes his private army of biker gangs on them.

I do not know if Guaido is better. Nor do I think that it benefits the United States to actively (or covertly) interfere to remove Maduro owing to some petty personal grudge between him and Trump.

But I do know that the past several years have been horrible for the good people of a beautiful and wonderful country and I am hoping for a good outcome for Venezuela.

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So, right after other media revealed that the people backing the 'self crowned king Guaido' were going to buy him an 'army' (Blackwater's thugs) Guaido announces that he has 'Venezuelan military supprort' while surrounded by armed thugs (and another guy who believes that any election that doesn't put him or his friends in power is 'rigged'), and 'the regime' (aka the legitimate, democratically elected government) reacts by...letting the civilian police handle the situation.

Remember, the regime that Guaido is trying to resurrect used to call out the military to quash protests on a regular basis, even if it was only one neighborhood where most were starving and weaponless that was involved.

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The fading US empire led by its 'golfing while America's burning but his personal fortune is increasing so he's happy' 'leader', and the re-ascending Russia empire led by the wealthiest man in the world (How'd a spy turned politician get that rich that fast?) are vying for power and control of oil and gas - and neither empire cares one rat's for the humans devastated by their respective power grabs. Watching closely is the ascending Chinese empire, which likewise cares nothing for Venezuela's people.

The nuclear-weapon-ed empires are doing similar things in Syria, Libya and elsewhere. The .01% in each empire and in their 'satellite' nations are getting richer, and have no regard for the rest.

Until the world can stop burning oil and gas in such huge quantities and use more alternatives, expect this to continue.

And expect climate change related problems to get worse.

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I thought Bolton ordered the coup?

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The fading US empire led by its 'golfing while America's burning but his personal fortune is increasing so he's happy' 'leader', and the re-ascending Russia empire led by the wealthiest man in the world (How'd a spy turned politician get that rich that fast?) are vying for power and control of oil and gas - and neither empire cares one rat's for the humans devastated by their respective power grabs. Watching closely is the ascending Chinese empire, which likewise cares nothing for Venezuela's people. 

ROFL, too funny.

The nuclear-weapon-ed empires are doing similar things in Syria, Libya and elsewhere. The .01% in each empire and in their 'satellite' nations are getting richer, and have no regard for the rest.

Until the world can stop burning oil and gas in such huge quantities and use more alternatives, expect this to continue.

And expect climate change related problems to get worse.

Yes, we have a lot of problems, but we have to think about climate change.

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"I have president Putin. He said it's not Russia. I will say this: I don't see any reason why it would be." (Donald Trump in Helsinki)

Keep Trump off of the phone with Putin, or Trump will self-implode and say more stupid BS about how everybody misunderstands Putin.

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What a strange headline, why the 'for now' on the end? Surely a better headline would have been

Venezuela's military remains loyal to government to suppress foreign-instigated coup

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Maduro won’t last, he knows the clock is running out, when you have your own countrymen eating out of garbage dumpsters and you can’t even afford or get the basics like food and toilet paper, it’s over. Maduro is running on borrowed time and he knows it.

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Pompeo and Bolton are the snake's head of an oil-hungry chain of dangerous Neo-Con fools.

Either they can't read, or don't believe anyone else has.

A couple of years ago, I read former CIA analyst William Blum's Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower. I was so incensed about the covert and sometimes bloody military operations pushing a U.S. foreign policy which U.S. citizens had no say in, that I got in touch with him, we exchanged a few e-mails, and after I suggested I organize an NPO project of making an audio version of the book, he suggested the revised edition of *Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II*** **as less data heavy and easier to read and listen to for the average consumer.

I immediately bought it, read it, and postponed the project because my relationship with the academia of Japan Inc. has been rocky for the last few years (still out of work).

Thought things have been tough for me since then, they have been even tougher for him — as he died last December. For the sake of those unenlightened about the 'hows and why' of U.S. Foreign policy, I think it's now time to break out my voice recorder.

Anyone interested in lending a hand, I am on Quora under 'Steven Martin' — otherwise this project will be a lone wolf affair. But rest assured, he (nor I) are in Julian Assange/Ed Snowden's danger. His sources were all legally available information published in the U.S. and his books blessed by Chomsky as 'the best of their kind'.

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The Monroe doctrine fanboys on here are disgusting to say the least. Whining about meddling from Russia while foaming at the mouth for joy when the same is exacted on another sovereign state. Disgusting!!

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@bass4funk

A lot of British people are forced to eat out of garbage dumpsters and can't even afford basics like food and toilet paper, and that is without the US stealing the country's money.

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A lot of British people are forced to eat out of garbage dumpsters and can't even afford basics like food and toilet paper, and that is without the US stealing the country's money.

Sorry to hear that.....then you need to talk to you local politicians. Maduro is doing everything to stay in power and the people don’t want him, have never warmed up to him and want him out, now I hope and pray Maduro gets the message and live, but I seriously doubt he’ll survive the year. The clock is ticking on Maduro.

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@stormcrow

No mention of Putin's role here

You're welcome to share with the world your insights on the subject.

Recent history teaches everyone willing to learn one simple lesson: however bad the situation in a country is, any U.S. intervention, direct or covert, will make the situation only much worse. Look at Iraq before the 2003 aggression and after, compare Libya before the 2011 NATO aggression abd after, look at Ukraine before the 2014 U.S.-orchestrated coup and after it. Guaido will bring a civil war to Venezuela.

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Hello Asakaze,

It's been a while. Naturally it would be best if all foreign parties stayed out of Venezuela, which is quite unlike what you're Russian friends have been doing with violent force in Ukraine.

When Chavez came to power, the Venezuelans gave America the bird and embraced everything that Chavez offered them. Personally, I was hoping that things would work out for the Venezuelans under Chavez and that their quality of life would improve. Well, since that time, we can all see that that was an empty promise with nothing to show for it but a really bad hangover afterward.

I say let the Venezuelan people decide, even though they were deceived before. Let them vote without the U.S. or the Russians putting their thumbs on the scale. Maybe the UN could come in to monitor such an election, but let the people of Venezuela vote and decide, not Putin.

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@stormcrow

you're Russian friends have been doing with violent force in Ukraine

What exactly you are talking about? And let me remind you that your American friends started the whole Ukrainian mess by machinating the illegal coup in 2014, basically the same thing they are trying to do now in Venezuela.

let the people of Venezuela vote and decide, not Putin

And what do you mean by "Putin deciding"? So far the only thing Putin did was not to recognize Guaido, that's all. Contrary to the U.S. officials who openly call Venezuelans to riot and actually meddling in the internal affairs of the country. The world must say to the U.S. "hands off Venezuela".

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Asakaze,

Last time I checked, the Russians invaded and sliced off a generous piece of Ukraine when they annexed Crimea.

Anyway, just let the people of Venezuela vote and decide for themselves who they want for their leader.

It's not for Russia, China or the U.S. to decide. Power to the people of Venezuela! Yeah!

What are you so afraid of?

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stormcrow

Last time I checked, the Russians invaded and sliced off a generous piece of Ukraine when they annexed Crimea

Last time I checked the populace of Crimea decided to say good-by to neonazi coup plotters in Kiev who were planning to start in Crimea the same bloodbath they started at Donbass.

What are you so afraid of?

Read carefully my previous posts. I'm afraid the U.S. can does to Venezuela the same horrible thing it did to Iraq, Libya and Ukraine.

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Annexation is a nice way of saying gobbled up. Any way you slice it, in this case the carving up of Ukraine, it's still gobbling up your neighbor.

But maybe we can agree on one thing, and that is letting the people of Venezuela vote and decide for themselves who they want to lead them.

Do you or can you agree with that simple idea?

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Annexation is a nice way of saying gobbled up

Whatever the semantics, the bottom line is that the U.S. has proved to be much of a threat to the world peace. Just look at the track record.  

Do you or can you agree with that simple idea?

 

Sure. Why Bolton and others just can't stand this simple idea?

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