{"id":43443,"date":"2019-02-02T09:14:13","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T14:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43443"},"modified":"2019-02-02T09:14:15","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T14:14:15","slug":"the-us-aggression-against-venezuela-as-a-diagnostic-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43443","title":{"rendered":"The US aggression against Venezuela as a diagnostic tool"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thesaker.is\/the-us-aggression-against-venezuela-as-a-diagnostic-tool\/\">The US aggression against Venezuela as a diagnostic tool<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The Neocons never cease to amaze me and their latest stunt with Venezuela falls into this bizarre category of events which are both absolutely unthinkable and simultaneously absolutely predictable.&nbsp; This apparent logical contradiction is the direct result of a worldview and mindset which is, I believe, unique to the Neocons: a mix of imperial hubris and infinite arrogance, a complete lack of decency, a total contempt for the rest of mankind, crass ignorance, a narcissist\/sociopath\u2019s inability to have any kind of empathy or imagine another guy\u2019s reaction and, finally, last but most certainly not least, crass stupidity.&nbsp; There is so much which can be said about the latest US aggression on Venezuela that entire books could be (and will be) written about this, but I want to begin by look at a few specific but nonetheless very symptomatic aspects:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cIn your face\u201d stupidity or bootcamp-like deliberate public humiliation?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember the almost universal reaction of horror when Bolton was appointed as National Security Advisor?\u00a0 Well, apparently, either the Neocons completely missed that, which I doubt, or they did what they always do and decided to double-down by retrieving Elliott Abrams from storage and appointing him US Special Envoy to Venezuela.\u00a0 I mean, yes, of course, the Neocons are stupid and sociopathic enough not to ever care about others, but in this case I think that we are dealing with a \u201cSkripal tactic\u201d: do something so ridiculously stupid and offensive that it places all your vassals before a stark choice: either submit and pretend like you did not notice or, alternatively, dare to say something and face with wrath of Uncle Shmuel (the Neocon\u2019s version of Uncle Sam).\u00a0 <\/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 US aggression against Venezuela as a diagnostic tool The Neocons never cease to amaze me and their latest stunt with Venezuela falls into this bizarre category of events which are both absolutely unthinkable and simultaneously absolutely predictable.&nbsp; This apparent logical contradiction is the direct result of a worldview and mindset which is, I believe, [&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":[24159,20799,4487,561,4373,827,851],"class_list":["post-43443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-elliott-abrams","tag-imperial-hubris","tag-john-bolton","tag-neocons","tag-the-saker","tag-united-states","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43443","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=43443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43444,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43443\/revisions\/43444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}