- OffGuardian (@OffGuardian0) January 26, 2019
Venezuela is the latest example of how, over the past thirty years (since the restoration of capitalism in the Soviet bloc), the United States has attempted to replace international law with what it calls the "rules-based order"-i.e., the U.S. makes the rules and everybody else follows its orders.
And to replace the post-WWII architecture of international relations based on the UN with the authority of the ersatz "international community," which means the U.S. and its minion states. To make itself the judge, jury, and cop of the world.
It's called "imperialism." What the U.S is doing to Venezuela is a criminal aggression that no longer has any place in the world. It is the U.S. having its imperial way with a Latin American country. Everyone with any anti-colonial credibility must unhesitatingly and unequivocally identify and denounce this action for what it is, and do whatever they can to put a stop to it. The blatancy of the Trump administration's actions here is flushing out all the rats-Republican and Democrat, conservative and "progressive"-who just cannot bring themselves to do this.
We Are What We Are
The United States is an imperialist country. Imperialism is a fundamental, defining aspect of the American political regime.
It is not a matter of a particular person. It's not a matter of a particular political party. It is not a problem of Donald Trump, or certainly of the Republicans versus the Democrats.
It's not a blip, or a bad apple, or a mistake, or ignorance, or-the most pernicious excuse of all-an excess of naivete leading astray good intentions. It's not any kind of historical or political aberration. It is what the United States does, deliberately-the core enterprise of the U.S. in the world.
It is the enterprise that's perpetuated by all the "greatest country in the world" tropes of American exceptionalism-from Trump's thuggish "Take the oil" to Obama's mellifluous "[T]he United States is and remains the one indispensable nation." As we saw in pathetic, self-congratulatory re-enactment at the State of the Union address, the U.S. still thinks it's the savior nation it projected itself to be in World War II movies.
Imperialism is the enterprise that anyone who will ever be allowed to be elected as President must accept, embrace, and captain. It makes no sense to run for President unless you understand that.
The attack on Venezuela should make this sink in: The U.S. is an imperialist country and the Democratic and Republican parties are fully committed to that. Neither of these parties is going to nominate a presidential candidate who is not an imperialist. If what you are witnessing toward Venezuela right now doesn't lead you to drop all illusions about those facts, you are living in a fantastic world.
Watch the bipartisan political and media elite embrace the imperialist mission. Our Congress, which consistently shirks its clear constitutional authority/responsibility to authorize war, has just voted with bipartisan enthusiasm (70-26 in the Senate) to block the president from withdrawing troops from Syria and Iraq. The Congress is duly re-asserting the U.S. imperialist prerogative to plant its armed forces anywhere it wants.
Here's the picture of bipartisan American imperialism:
Appreciate @SpeakerPelosi's strong statement of support. The U.S. stands united in its support of Venezuelan Interim President Juan Guaidà ³, and of the peaceful, constitutional transition to democracy in Venezuela. https://t.co/slwxPTHwoZ
- John Bolton (@AmbJohnBolton) February 10, 2019
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