Onward to Venezuela

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro
is not allowing  any American
meddling . He's right and he smelled
the "sauce".

Venezuela has occupied on and off in our chaotic media press for sometime , in between the Government Shutdown . There are vary serious things going on. The whole social media exploded with anti-American sentiment . While our nation and its leaders are accusing Russia of meddling in our election , and at the same time our nations leaders are drawing plans to overthrow another nation , its leaders by supporting a coup .  During a Monday White House press briefing national security adviser John Bolton was photographed carrying a notepad — presumably as he was fresh out of a national security meeting — and one of the things which appears to be handwritten on the pad is "5,000 troops to Colombia". The contents of the notepad were spotted almost immediately by multiple journalists online after an NBC news release featuring the AP photo was published.  Bolton during the White House presser revealed that President Trump is "leaving open the possibility of a U.S. military intervention to protect (1.1)>>opposition leader Juan Guaidó, members of the nation's assembly and American diplomatic personnel," according to NBC.  (1)>> "The president has made it clear that all options are on the table," Bolton told reporters while holding the yellow notepad. "We also today call on the Venezuelan military and security forces to accept the peaceful, democratic and constitutional transfer of power," Bolton said. But could, as the notepad suggests, this involve plans to send 5,000 American troops to neighboring Colombia, a close US ally in Latin America? The CIA has been plotting with so-called rebels in Venezuela from the early days of the Trump administration. (2)>>Many are are also supporting Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro world wide . Trump announced via

John Bolton's infamous note pad
detailing 5,000 troops
to Columbia .

Twitter  that he "officially recognized the President of the Venezuelan National Assembly, Juan Guaido, as the Interim President of Venezuela," thus severing already strained tieswith Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro days after he was sworn into his second term. Maduro officially cut ties with Washington in response, but Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday in a statement that the U.S. "does not consider former president Maduro to have the legal authority to break diplomatic relations." 

Just where does the United States of America have a right of what ever authority to tell another nation of whom , or what should be its leaders [ whether they are rightfully elected or not] With all the American media hype surrounding Russian meddling in our country . Our nations leaders have the audacity without any moral restraint  , or treaty , or abiding with international law committing the same thing [ nation's leaders -media] of accusing Russia of doing to our country . Now there is talk of a military intervention . (3)>>It

smells of genuine stupidity . Last year, The Trump administration held secret meetings with rebellious military officers from Venezuela over the last year to discuss their plans to overthrow President Nicolás Maduro, according to American officials and a former Venezuelan military commander who participated in the talks. Establishing a clandestine channel with coup plotters in Venezuela was a big gamble for Washington, given its long history of covert intervention across Latin America. Many in the region still deeply resent the United States for backing previous rebellions, coups and plots in countries like Cuba, Nicaragua, Brazil and Chile, and for turning a blind eye to the abuses military regimes committed during the Cold War.The Trump administration on Monday wouldn’t rule out taking military action to overthrow Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and rolled out crippling sanctions against his regime in its latest effort to pressure him into resigning. National security adviser John Bolton announced the sanctions, which are targeting Venezuela’s state-owned oil company — a potentially earth-shattering economic move that strips Maduro and his increasingly isolated government of its most important source of income along with $7 billion in assets.
Its all about Oil 

With the Venezuela crisis escalating after the US’ provocative intervention against elected leader Nicolas Maduro last week, an honest admission by National Security Advisor John Bolton was overlooked by the media: It’s about oil. Trump’s top adviser, who has been branded the most fervent hawk in the administration, has admitted that Washington is heavily invested in political outcomes in Caracas particularly because of Venezuela’s vast untapped oil reserves. (4)>>Indeed, it just so happens that Venezuela has the world’s largest proven oil reserves. We’re looking at the oil assets,” Bolton said. “That’s the single most important income stream to the government of Venezuela. We’re looking at what to do to that.”“We’re in conversation with major American companies now,” he continued. “I think we’re trying to get to the same end result here.”“It will make a big difference to the United States economically if we could have American oil companies really invest in and produce the oil capabilities in Venezuela,” Bolton admitted.He acknowledges Oil the single largest stream of income to the Government (thus people) of Venezuela and then says he wants US Corporations to have that revenue stream instead. 80 percent of the shares in all US Corporations are owned by the one percent so we can see who the real master is here. Bolton’s interest in seeing the US economy profit off Venezuela’s plentiful natural resources shouldn’t be much of a surprise. Trump himself has a history of arguing for regime changes in oil-rich countries around the world… but only if US companies benefit. “I’m interested in Libya if we take the oil. If we don’t take the oil, no interest,”he told Fox in 2012 a month after the disastrous US-led NATO intervention which left Libya a failed state. “We’ll help you, but we want 50 percent of your oil,” he said of Libya in another interview. Trump has also advocated a “take the oil” policy for Iraq in the past. In a video posted to Facebook early on Wednesday, Maduro accused the U.S. "empire" of conspiring with right-wing forces both within Venezuela and abroad of conspiring together to seize power, but warned that any attempt to overthrow his government by force could result in yet another overseas civil war instigated at the behest of the Americans.

NOTES AND COMMENTS:
(1.1)>>opposition leader Juan Guaidó.  Juan Guaidó, Only a few months ago, the 35-year-old was an obscure character in a politically marginal far-right group closely associated with gruesome acts of street violence. Even in his own party, Guaidó had been a mid-level figure in the opposition-dominated National Assembly, which is now held under contempt according to Venezuela’s constitution. But after a single phone call from from US Vice President Mike Pence, Guaidó proclaimed himself president of Venezuela. Anointed as the leader of his country by Washington, a previously unknown political bottom-dweller was vaulted onto the international stage as the US-selected leader of the nation with the world’s largest oil reserves.While Guaidó seemed to have materialized out of nowhere, he was, in fact, the product of more than a decade of assiduous grooming by the US government’s elite regime change factories. Alongside a cadre of right-wing student activists, Guaidó was cultivated to undermine Venezuela’s socialist-oriented government, destabilize the country, and one day seize power. Though he has been a minor figure in Venezuelan politics, he had spent years quietly demonstrated his worthiness in Washington’s halls of power.(1)>> "The president has made it clear that all options are on the table," Trump’s vision of toppling Maduro further muddles his already erratic foreign policy, which favors sweeping statements and skirts the consequences of unbalancing the global order. He has proposed withdrawing U.S. troops from Europe, Syria, and South Korea, for instance, but also suggested sending the military into Mexico to hunt down drug traffickers. He has said that America never should have gone into Iraq—but that while we were there, we should have “taken the oil.” He appears to favor allowing Bashar al-Assad to maintain his power, and has hinted that Russia should be forgiven for invading Ukraine, but has reportedly teamed up with Israel to help destabilize Iran with the goal of facilitating regime change in Tehran.(2)>>Many are are also supporting Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro .  So far Russia and China , several nations are supporting Maduro [Moscow isn't alone in its support for Maduro — China, Syria, Iran, Turkey] . Russia and China strongly criticized U.S. sanctions placed on Venezuela, with the former pledging to support the beleaguered President Nicolas Maduro. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday the sanctions completely undermined confidence in a international financial system that is dominated by the U.S., Russian news agency Interfax reported. Russia is an important source of financial support to the Venezuelan government, providing billions of dollars in loans, some as pre-payment for future deliveries of oil.  Russia dispatched two nuclear-capable Tu-160 bombers to the country in a further show of support. (3)>>It smells of genuine stupidity .  It seems that the New Cold war has shifted to South America . With Russian support , the whole Idea of sending American troops to overthrow Maduro is nothing but a hesitation on the part of the United  States , perhaps more dangerous if you consider how US relations have sunk . China also voiced its opposition to sanctions, saying the U.S. should bear responsibility for their consequences. Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said historical experience showed foreign interference "only makes situations more complicated," Reuters reported. According to polling conducted inside Venezuela, an overwhelming majority of people—from across the nation's political spectrum—would oppose U.S. intervention and disapprove of the economic sanctions that the Trump administration has only increased in recent days. So the stupidity of it excels beyond logic. (4)>>Indeed, it just so happens that Venezuela has the world’s largest proven oil reserves. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said in an interview Wednesday that the U.S. just wants to seize Venezuela’s oil and mineral resources and that is the reason behind backing the coup and intervention in the Latin American country.  The new U.S. measures against Venezuela include the freezing of some US$7 billion in assets of the Venezuelan state oil company (PDVSA), in addition to an estimated loss of US$11 billion of exports over the next few years.