Comments by "Animal Farm" (@animalfarm7467) on "Venezuela’s Crisis: What My Fellow Liberals Don’t Understand | NYT Opinion" video.

  1. I just don’t understand why we have to get involved? - It's very simple why the Empire is attempting to crush Venezuela. Some years ago US oligarchs (Koch Industries) were exploiting the largest oil reserve on the planet filled with Venezuelan heavy crude oil for which their Gulf refineries were designed. When Chavez came to power, he renegotiated the oil price and this sent the plutocrats into a spin. The Kochs attempted to use the Canadian Tar Sands oil in their Corpus Christi refinery but as you well know there is a lot of political trouble with the pipeline they intended to use. Now the Kochs are back with a vengeance and they have their minions (Pence, Pompeo, Rubio. etc) in the right places to carry out the coup to return Venezuelan oil to their hands. The Washington puppet Guaidó is only there to deliver the oil and to give Washington control of Venezuela. Sure there have been many slip-ups along the way; the failed CIA coup against Chavez in 2002 that was halted by a street protest by the majority, the pathetic assassination attempt on Maduro, but the sanctions have been very effective at turning the people against Maduro; but to date, not effective enough. This is the same strategy the Empire used when Madeline Albright killed half a million children in Iraq through sanctions hoping the population would rise against Saddam, but that too failed. So the plutocrats are reverting to the old propaganda machines like the New York Times and the CIA Washington Post for help in convincing the Useful Idiots of Empire who, at the end of the day, actually pay the bill for the plutocrats’ military aggression of Empire. Being the New York Times, I did expect to see some shills of the plutocrats in the comments, but they are as far as the eye can see. It makes you wonder how many of these are paid to sell the plutocrats narrative and how many are Useful Idiots of Empire that back this imperial aggression through ignorance and stupidity. I guess we will never know. So next time you watch the video of Bolton commenting on how useful Venezuelan oil would be for the US economy, or how he is negotiating with US oil companies to have them exploit Venezuelan oil, you may begin to appreciate what he is talking about. There is even a video of the other Koch puppet Trump saying, "Why aren’t we going to war with Venezuela; it has the oil", before he was elected. So forget all this garbage you hear and read on the mainstream propaganda machines; if you're not a corporate shill and are interested in the facts, go and look for yourselves.
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  2. Ryan_Foster: Never forget, "“Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future.” And the other reality of life is Corporate media and Corporate politicians lie for Empire.
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  3. Ryan_Foster: From a time when the Washington Post was less influenced by the CIA: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/nov98/nazicars30.htm?noredirect=on Pay special attention to, "a book scheduled for publication next year will accuse General Motors Corp. of playing a key role in Hitler's invasions of Poland and the Soviet Union" And, "But documents discovered in German and American archives show a much more complicated picture. In certain instances, American managers of both GM and Ford went along with the conversion of their German plants to military production at a time when U.S. government documents show they were still resisting calls by the Roosevelt administration to step up military production in their plants at home."
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  4. Ryan_Foster: And if you really want to get into the nuts & bolts of history: The Myth of the Good War: America in the Second World War by Jacques R. Pauwels - https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Good-War-USA-World/dp/1550287710
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