{"id":45941,"date":"2019-05-05T06:21:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T11:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45941"},"modified":"2019-05-05T06:21:08","modified_gmt":"2019-05-05T11:21:08","slug":"another-jolly-little-war%ef%bb%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45941","title":{"rendered":"ANOTHER \u2018JOLLY LITTLE WAR\u2019?\ufeff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ericmargolis.com\/2019\/05\/another-jolly-little-war-2\/\">ANOTHER \u2018JOLLY LITTLE WAR\u2019?<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Sure. Let\u2019s invade Venezuela. Another jolly little war. It\u2019s full of commies and has a sea of oil. The only thing those Cuban-loving Venezuelans lack are weapons of mass destruction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week, leading US neocons openly threatened that if the CIA\u2019s latest attempts to stage a coup to overthrow Venezuela\u2019s Maduro government failed, Washington might send in the Marines.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, the coup was a big fiasco and the Venezuelan army didn\u2019t overthrow President Maduro. The CIA also failed to overthrow governments in Moscow, Tehran and Damascus. Its only \u2018success\u2019 to date has been in overthrowing Ukraine\u2019s pro-Moscow government and putting a bunch of corrupt clowns in its place at a cost near $10 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The US has not waged a major successful war since World War II \u2013 unless you count invading Grenada, Panama and Haiti, or bombing the hell out of Iraq, Syria, Somalia and Libya. That\u2019s a sobering thought given the Pentagon\u2019s recent announcement that it is cutting back on little colonial wars (aka \u2018the war on terror\u2019) to get ready for real big wars against Russia and China, or even North Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Venezuela is in a huge economic mess thanks to the crackpot economic policies of the Chavez and Maduro governments \u2013 and US economic sabotage. But my first law of international affairs is: \u2018Every nation has the absolute god-given right to mismanage its own affairs and elect its own crooks or idiots.\u2019&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, however, the administration\u2019s frenzied neocons want to start a war against Venezuela, a large, developed nation of 32.7 million, at the same time we are threatening war against Iran, interfering all around Africa, and confronting Russia, China and perhaps North Korea. Large parts of the Mideast and Afghanistan lie in ruins thanks to our \u2018liberation\u2019 campaigns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANOTHER \u2018JOLLY LITTLE WAR\u2019? Sure. Let\u2019s invade Venezuela. Another jolly little war. It\u2019s full of commies and has a sea of oil. The only thing those Cuban-loving Venezuelans lack are weapons of mass destruction. This week, leading US neocons openly threatened that if the CIA\u2019s latest attempts to stage a coup to overthrow Venezuela\u2019s Maduro [&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":[135,1983,17564,2422,827,851,862],"class_list":["post-45941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-cia","tag-cuba","tag-eric-margolis","tag-nicolas-maduro","tag-united-states","tag-venezuela","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45941","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=45941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45942,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45941\/revisions\/45942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}