George
Galloway
You
could scour the bowels of US imperial crimes, from the
Mexican-American War to the Gulf of Tonkin in Vietnam, and you won’t
find a more brazen cynical act of gangsterism than that which is now
underway against Venezuela.
Not
since Hitler justified blitzing Poland by claiming it had encroached
on the frontier into Nazi Germany has a more blatant set of
falsehoods been adduced as a pretext for conflict.
In
Venezuela, it will quickly become a civil war that will most likely
draw in other countries from Cuba to Colombia and Brazil (as I
previously predicted here) with incalculable consequences – not
least for the world’s oil prices.
Discerning
readers will already be aware that Venezuela has the world’s
largest oil reserves and is a major producer – and the biggest
seller to the American market.
This is
not about Maduro, the former bus driver-turned-foreign minister who
is now the elected president of Venezuela. If it were, I’d waste my
time critiquing his period in office. It’s not about Maduro because
the US had been seeking to overthrow his predecessor Hugo Chavez for
more than a decade before this. Even though Chavez was one of the
most electorally successful politicians on the planet in a democratic
process described by former US president Jimmy Carter as “the
best in the world,” US presidents Bush, Obama and Trump
routinely called him a dictator.
Before
they drop the bombs, they drop the narrative, of course. And the
disinformation bombardment in Venezuela has been one of the longest
bombing runs in history. Massive sums of US money have been spent on
media distortion, subversion, sabotage, military coups, and threats
of invasion throughout the Chavez-Maduro era. The gold-toothed
Venezuelan emigres who fled to Miami with their ill-gotten gains have
long been effectively a coup in the making. The recruitment of
neighboring Colombia into “associate membership” of NATO, the
propeling of Brazil’s Bolsonaro (another NATO applicant) to power,
and plans for US military bases there have all been in preparation
for this day.
Although
many such crimes have been committed across all continents for
centuries by the US, none have constituted such comic-opera
gangsterism as this latest – more ‘Bugsy Malone’ than ‘The
Godfather.’
An
almost random figure whose name was largely unknown until this week
has disdained to put himself up for election as president of the
republic, instead pronouncing himself to actually be the president,
and has even sworn himself in! All the “experts” on Syria,
Ukraine and Russia are scrambling to studios, practicing in the taxi
how to say his name.
And the
“international community” recognizes Juan Guaido. This includes
US, Canada and assorted American satrapies across the world. They
will likely soon be joined by the so-called democratic European
Union, NATO and almost certainly the UK. It is a new form, to be sure
– usually the hated Latin American presidents are dead, like
Allende in Chile, or have fled or been jailed before the coup de
grace is delivered.
But
Trump is in a hurry.
As
investigations come ever closer to the Trump syndicate, as the clock
ticks towards impeachment or defeat in 2020, as the war-cell of
Bolton and company screech for a victory, somewhere, anywhere, it has
come to this. It is a “Wag the Dog” war, and it’s coming to
your screens soon – today in fact.
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