Did those morons in Europe and the United States enter a complete, final, terminal state of amnesia and indoctrination? Don't they see and care what their governments and corporations are doing all over the world?
It seems that all that can still lift them up from the couch is either that bloody football or regime-sponsored events like "Je suis Charlie".
So this is their famous "democracy" -- the one that the West wants to 'export' and sticks down the throat of the Chinese people, of Russians, of Latin Americans: the establishment can butcher millions of people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in Somalia, in Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, Papua, Kashmir, Syria and Ukraine, it can attempt to overthrow any democratically elected government in Latin America, but the citizens of the Empire are so 'pacified', so fucked, really, that they don't even recognize what is happening in front of their eyes, or what is done in their name. And if they recognize it, they don't care.
It must remind one of those Germans who were living next to concentration camps, during the war, looking at the smoke coming up from the chimneys, and then claiming that 'they did not know'.
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Have they -- Europeans and North Americans -- lost their marbles? Their Christian fundamentalist/corporatist states are imposing sanctions on Russia -- for nothing. Actually, Russia is being punished for the successful Western act of overthrowing the Ukrainian government! It is all totally bizarre, grotesque, comical. It makes a person with at least a few intact pieces of brain want to puke.
They first create ISIS in those NATO sponsored 'refugee camps' in Southern Turkey and Jordan, in order to overthrow the legitimate government in Damascus. Then when ISIS goes gaga, they use it as justification to redeploy troops in Iraq, and to bomb Syria! And European and North Americans still immobilized on their asses and still getting stoned and pissed, instead of at least building a few good, old-fashioned barricades!
And now Venezuela!
I believe that Latin America should, immediately, impose sanctions on the United States.
This is not a joke; it can and should be done. This is the only way to deal with the Empire! Merely exposing its acts only, does not obviously help. It just laughs back and continues murdering people and destroying countries that do not want to lick its boots and to sacrifice its people. It does it all in broad daylight.
Venezuela should approach the UN Security Council, and then the ICC (although states like the US or Israel do not recognize it, as they are 'above the law').
Then sanctions should be imposed against the U.S., first by Venezuela, then by most of other Latin American countries. China and Russia should offer their mighty shoulders, and protect Latin America against further attacks, militarily.
Enough of fear; enough of this horror! The world cannot count on the Europeans and North Americans. They cannot and are unwilling to control their governments and corporate bandits. Their countries are forming, in fact, a bunch of failed states, processing materials that are plundered abroad.
What happened in Venezuela on Feb 12th should never be accepted as the norm. Not anymore.
The world is not a chessboard, Mr. Obama. But what you are playing is not even chess. It is dirty; an extremely dirty game, which should be stopped by all means.
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