alt Hacker NewsYeah, I was mostly surprised about the brazenness of it all. So the plan is to take over the government, take over the oil industry, sell the oil and in infinite grace give the Venezuelans some part of it back (minus of course the "compensation" for the years in which US companies were kept out of the country)
And all that as official doctrine, not even some secret strategy paper or covert ops campaign.
Edit: I had to chuckle at his "reviewing" of the Monroe doctrine as DONroe doctrine. There is "on the nose" and there is "punching someone in the face"...
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> "And all that as official doctrine"
The Donroe Doctrine.
I think a lot of people don't understand the difference between geopolitical control and economic control.
Being explicit, I'm saying that having access to a resource doesn't mean you get to sell it to whoever you like.
Nobody from Latin America is surprised, the US has been a bully state since the cold war.
The official doctrine yesterday was they were killing Americans with drug trafficking. That didn't even get mentioned today.
> the plan is
There is no plan. Again.
Machado is standing by. But she’s a woman so Trump has ruled her out.
> minus of course the "compensation" for the years in which US companies were kept out of the country
I don’t want to sound like I’m running coverage for the Americans, but wasn’t a lot of that infrastructure built by foreign multinationals and then expropriated by Chávez in 2007?