According to John Bolton, the Trump Administration remains committed to
imposing regime change in Venezuela. In the near term, this is likely to
mean a major new round of sanctions aimed at punishing foreign companies that do business with Venezuela.
This would be a major shift. Current US sanctions are aimed at
preventing Venezuela from exporting oil, or at least getting paid for
it. The expectation that the US can unilaterally cut the country off
from the entire world through sanctions would be a huge escalation.
This is only one of the “series” of measures Bolton said to expect.
Bolton is known to favor military options, and talked up the idea of the
Monroe Doctrine justifying US intervention “to prevent foreign
interference and even recolonization.”
This is a weird way of trying to spin the very interventionist US
behavior in Venezuela, which is centered around trying to remove an
elected president and replace him with an opposition leader seen more in
line with US interests. While the Trump Administration has styled this
as part of a global war on socialism, it’s also hard to deny that it
amounts to US foreign interference in a major way.
Sanction Bolton instead.
… “This is a weird way of trying to spin the very interventionist US behavior in Venezuela, which is centered around trying to remove an elected president and replace him with an opposition leader seen more in line with US interests.”
To the gulag nonbeliever!
Bolton is only clarifying what the world doesn’t get; don’t do business with any country the U.S. says you can’t. The only question is, what did Venezuela do to upset Israel?
Except questions probably aren’t supposed to be asked. Whups.
John Bolton ranks garbage that deranged people on the street spew. War, hatred underpinned by religious self righteousness.
His audience is deranged people who live off inherited wealth. People who otherwise would be on the streets
The only difference is the money
European barbarians came to the north america and killed the people already living here in order to steal their land and privatize it. They destroyed agricultural systems so advanced they could not even see them.
Descendants of those barbarians now murder in eternal war world-wide. American citizens have killed twenty-one million completely innocent people since the end of ww2.
The US should be sanctioned and its overseas assets should be treated exactly the way the US and England treat foreign assets.
Keep sanctioning and you will find isolated and deprived of foreign imports.
Strange how the hard-core war hawks were once the hard-core draft dodgers.