We are quickly entering a time of confusion when people will be polarized and voices of restrain and reason will simply be drown out by the rhetoric.
When you hear that Venezuela has "Violated National Interest" in the US, which is not only untrue but almost exactly the opposite of what we can see with our own eyes, then reality obviously becomes secondary as explained in the video below.
What Venezuela has done is associate itself too closely with China which together with the BRICS represents a clear danger to the hegemony of the US dollar and since the US cannot directly retaliate militarily against China, they attacked a weaker link in the anti-US global South.
Strategically, this makes a lot of sense as we could see in the Middle East, when Israel attacked and defeated its adversaries one by one: Hamas first, then Hezbollah, then Syria, currently Lebanon and soon if they have it their way, Iran.
It is not very hard to understand that the same strategy will now be applied against all the partners of China, one by one, in order to weaken China economically before a final squeeze, either directly with further arming of Taiwan or more likely indirectly with a tighter control of natural resources.
So however you look at it, this is an inexorable march towards war since the US cannot accept any, even remote, challenge to its hegemony. The only question left is when and how.
Can China afford to let Iran fall for example? From a purely practical aspect, oil mostly, the answer is probably yes. But from a psychological point of view and the flagrant display of impotence this would represent, the answer may be no.
We are clearly entering dangerous waters.
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