{"id":45923,"date":"2019-05-04T11:05:26","date_gmt":"2019-05-04T16:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45923"},"modified":"2019-05-04T11:05:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-04T16:05:29","slug":"behold-the-breathtaking-weakness-of-the-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45923","title":{"rendered":"Behold the Breathtaking Weakness of the Empire!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/tsaker\/behold-the-breathtaking-weakness-of-the-empire\/\">Behold the Breathtaking Weakness of the Empire!<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/tsaker\/behold-the-breathtaking-weakness-of-the-empire\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/The_people_of_Venezuela-600x257.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Empire has suffered painful defeats in Afghanistan and Iraq, but one has to admit that these are \u201ctough\u201d countries to crack. The Empire also appears to have lost control of Libya, but that is another complex country which is very hard to control. We also saw all the pathetic huffing and puffing with the DPRK. But, let\u2019s be honest, the US never stood a chance to bully the DPRK into submission, nevermind invading or regime-changing it. Syria was much weaker, but here Russia, Iran and Hezbollah did a world class job of repelling all the AngloZionist attacks, political and military. Besides, I for one will never blame Trump for not listening to Bolton and not triggering WWIII over Syria (yet?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Venezuela?!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No Hezbollah or Iran backing Maduro there. And Venezuela is way too far away from Russia to allow her to do what she did in Syria. In fact, Venezuela is in the proverbial \u201cbackyard\u201d of the US and is surrounded by hostile puppet regimes. And yet, tonight, it appears that the US puppet Guaid\u00f3 has failed in his coup attempt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moon of Alabama did a great job covering the events of the day, so I will refer you to the excellent article \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.moonofalabama.org\/2019\/04\/venezuela-random-guyaid%C3%B3-launches-new-coup-attempt.html\">Venezuela \u2013 Random Guyaid\u00f3\u2019s New Coup Attempt Turns Out to Be A Dangerous Joke<\/a>\u201c. I fully concur that today\u2019s coup was both a joke and very dangerous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Russian readers can also check out&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/vz.ru\/world\/2019\/4\/30\/975827.html\">this article by Vzgliad<\/a>&nbsp;which also gives a lot of interesting details, including the fact that Guaid\u00f3 launched his coup from the Colombian Embassy in Caracas (see&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?sl=ru&amp;tl=en&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fvz.ru%2Fworld%2F2019%2F4%2F30%2F975827.html\">here<\/a>&nbsp;for a machine translation).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the thing which amazes me most tonight is the truly breathtakingly pathetic weakness of the clowns who launched this latest failed operation: Pompeo and Mr MAGA. Check them out:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Pompeo_blames_Russia.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Pompeo_blames_Russia.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\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>Behold the Breathtaking Weakness of the Empire! The Empire has suffered painful defeats in Afghanistan and Iraq, but one has to admit that these are \u201ctough\u201d countries to crack. The Empire also appears to have lost control of Libya, but that is another complex country which is very hard to control. We also saw all [&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":[5,6],"tags":[15128,2422,694,4373,19452,851],"class_list":["post-45923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-mike-pompeo","tag-nicolas-maduro","tag-russia","tag-the-saker","tag-the-unz-review","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45923","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=45923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45924,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45923\/revisions\/45924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}