{"id":43506,"date":"2019-02-04T08:14:48","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T13:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43506"},"modified":"2019-02-04T08:14:50","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T13:14:50","slug":"bertrand-russell-diagnoses-washington-war-madness-and-the-coming-rape-of-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43506","title":{"rendered":"Bertrand Russell Diagnoses Washington War Madness and the Coming Rape of Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/images\/news\/2019\/02\/03\/or-42175.jpg?116748\" alt=\"Bertrand Russell Diagnoses Washington War Madness and the Coming Rape of Venezuela\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2019\/02\/03\/bertrand-russell-diagnoses-washington-war-madness-and-coming-rape-venezuela.html\">Bertrand Russell Diagnoses Washington War Madness and the Coming Rape of Venezuela<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is a scene depressingly familiar to inhabitants of Political Washington over the past 30 years since US armed invasion of small or vulnerable countries came back into fashion after being briefly discredited following the Vietnam War. This time it is Venezuela and its twice democratically-elected President Nicolas Maduro that is being demonized as a Diabolical Menace to the very survival of All That is Good and True.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One does not have to uncritically admire everything President Maduro has done as leader of his country to confidently predict what will happen if the US government succeeds in toppling him and imposing its own ridiculous figurehead \u2013 boyish, fearful, eager-to-please little Juan Guiado: Venezuela\u2019s version of Mario Rubio and the nonentity being touted as his country\u2019s liberator (how the spirit of Simon Bolivar must be raging \u2013 or laughing uncontrollably!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then, the miseries of the unfortunate Venezuelan people will not end: They will only just have begun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Washington\u2019s Armchair Heroes are determined to transform the Bolivarian Republic into the Gulliverian Republic \u2013 a joke of a state presided over by worthless tiny midgets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We have seen this same infernal script play out in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Ukraine with efforts to impose it on Syria and Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The outcome is always the same: Worse wars, worse suffering, huge increases in civilian death tolls, collapses of economies, violent anarchy, flourishing extreme Islamist and other terrorist groups where previously there were none, enormous rackets sexually enslaving children and young women, soaring per capita drug abuse rates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The philosopher-statesmen and wise pundit-prophets of Washington shake their heads sadly and move on every looking for new worlds to liberate \u2013 and destroy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why is this happening yet again as it has remorselessly before under the previous five successive US presidents?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bertrand Russell Diagnoses Washington War Madness and the Coming Rape of Venezuela It is a scene depressingly familiar to inhabitants of Political Washington over the past 30 years since US armed invasion of small or vulnerable countries came back into fashion after being briefly discredited following the Vietnam War. This time it is Venezuela 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":[24294,24295,20635,8203,827,851,865],"class_list":["post-43506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-betrand-russell","tag-juan-guiado","tag-martin-sieff","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-united-states","tag-venezuela","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43506","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=43506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43507,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43506\/revisions\/43507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}