The US invaded Iraq based on known lies that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, when he did not. The U.S. has committed military aggression against at least 23 countries in the past 30 years.
The US abused the UN authorized mission of the "right to protect" civilians in Libya. Libya had a high standard of development until the US and its coalition destroyed the country and caused the assassination of its leader Muammar Gaddafi.
The US then purloined Libya's arsenal of weapons and shipped them by a CIA rat line to Syria to overthrow the legal government of Bashar al-Assad. The US covertly backed terrorists in Syria in 2011 and is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Syrians. The US now is openly invading Syria and flouts the UN Charter and international law.
The US has declared that Venezuela is a threat to the national security of the US. It is such a ridiculous charge that Obama could not keep a straight face when he made the declaration in 2015. Obama mumbled that his true motivation was that Venezuela was not "democratic enough".
The real reason for US sanctions against Venezuela is that it is a socialist country that nationalized its oil for the benefit of the Venezuelan people. The US was caught red-handed in a 2002 failed coup d'etat against the democratically elected Hugo Chavez. The coup failed because the people of Venezuela rose up against the coup plotters. The US is now openly calling for another military coup in Venezuela and is funding anti-democratic opposition groups.
General Wesley Clark has publicly stated that a high-ranking officer in the Pentagon told him shortly after 9-11 that the US planned to "take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran".
After 17 years the US has not changed its plans. Once a country gets on the US list to "take-out" it can never get off; the US is relentless even if it takes years or decades.
Countries that nationalize their natural resources or keep out US capital are on the list for regime change. Russia, Venezuela, Cuba, Syria, Iran and North Korea are at the top of the list.
In his 2002 "Axis of Evil" speech George W. Bush put North Korea 8th on the list that General Wesley Clark spoke about. The US is just biding its time. First it plans to take-out Iran. Then it will try to "finish off" with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
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