{"id":43195,"date":"2019-01-26T13:21:39","date_gmt":"2019-01-26T18:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43195"},"modified":"2019-01-26T13:21:41","modified_gmt":"2019-01-26T18:21:41","slug":"the-american-empire-pivots-toward-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43195","title":{"rendered":"The American Empire Pivots Toward Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/2019\/01\/24\/the-american-empire-pivots-toward-venezuela\/\">The American Empire Pivots Toward Venezuela<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-24-at-3.00.41-PM-1024x708.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-55777\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Many people are coming to quick takes on yesterday\u2019s extraordinary decision by the U.S. government to recognize an unelected opposition leader as interim President of Venezuela based on their view of Maduro and his government. Similar to the emotional responses to those first clips of the Covington students and Nathan Phillips, such superficial opinions feel good and confirm biases, but don\u2019t tell you much about what\u2019s really going on. From my seat, the move by the Trump administration to choose the leader of Venezuela by diktat is just straight up imperial geopolitics. Nothing more, nothing less.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A month ago, I reassessed my geopolitical assumptions in the post,&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/2018\/12\/20\/is-u-s-geopolitical-strategy-experiencing-a-monumental-shift\/\">Is U.S. Geopolitical Strategy Experiencing a Monumental Shift?&nbsp;<\/a><\/strong>In it, I detailed how U.S. foreign policy seemed to be shifting toward a focus on containing China, which would lead to a far more serious confrontation between the world\u2019s number one and number two economies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong><em>I\u2019ve now seen enough to seriously consider that we may be entering an entirely new geopolitical environment dominated by vastly increased tensions between the U.S. and China. If so, it will likely last a lot longer than you think as leaders in both China in the U.S. will be looking for a scapegoat as their crony, financialized economies struggle under unpayable debt and unimaginable levels of corruption.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>With the attempt to push Russia back in Syria a clear failure, the neocons in Trump\u2019s administration quickly got to work on their next scheme. Enter Venezuela.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Empire Pivots Toward Venezuela Many people are coming to quick takes on yesterday\u2019s extraordinary decision by the U.S. government to recognize an unelected opposition leader as interim President of Venezuela based on their view of Maduro and his government. Similar to the emotional responses to those first clips of the Covington students and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3602,4285,6174,2422,851],"class_list":["post-43195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-american-empire","tag-liberty-blitzkrieg","tag-michael-krieger","tag-nicolas-maduro","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43196,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43195\/revisions\/43196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}