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Originally Posted by Jeff Lebowski
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But then you have to share with the Venezuelans, It's much more profitable to use political and military influence (taxpayer funded) to just take it, and selling that intervention to the American people is cheap, as they already own the media.
The American playbook in South America since WW2 has essentially been a 3 step process:
1. Send in "Economic Hit Men" to convince countries to sign bad deals that hands their resources to American corporations. These deals usually take the form of taking out a big loan from the IMF, then giving that money to massive American engineering companies to extract the resources, while only allowing a pittance of the profits to go the country, often this is just enough money to pay off the people who hold influence in those countries.
2. If that doesn't work, start to use foreign relations and intelligence to place people who are agreeable with step 1 in positions of power. The CIA usually does the dirty work in this phase: blackmail, assassinations, threats, etc.
3. If that doesn't work, then direct or indirect intervention from the US military. Arming 'rebels fighting for the people' is a favorite tactic.
Sounds like step 3 is really heating up. The above only needs to be plausible enough for the media to sell it the American people, they don't even have to do that good of a job of selling it, just enough to make it divisive enough that people are too busy squabbling about it to get in the way. Brace yourselves for CNN and MSNBC to lie their absolute ####ing asses off about Venezuela.