Like wow, I no sooner post BOC's awesome Godzilla than SOCOM goes kinetic. What a raid, leaves Skorzeny in the techno dust, and now Maduro's getting the perp walk in New York. A message to Commie Mamdani? Yeah, and every other corrupt rainbow leftist that ever there was. What can we say?
The Venezuelan flex leaves risible Rainbow Europa and Whitehall looking peculiarly irrelevant, as in nobody cares what you think. Russia and Chyna? A strong signal, to put it mildly, stay out of our back yard, dammit, and let's hear it for Monroe. More broadly, some call it the end of globalist orthodoxy and a return to multipolar national interest.
Perhaps, but what do you think, so-called LSP? Good question. On the one hand, a bravura display of military power or, in the hideous language of our technocrat overlords, force projection. Respect, world take note. On the other, who will we choose to run Venezuela? Pressing issue, surely. One commenter on this shallow and frivolous mind blog offered a timely caveat:
The Bush Doctrine is apparently back. I wonder if Venezuela will be a better place now with the Carlyle Group running their ports, BlackRock controlling their shipping, the Gates Foundation running their farmlands, Musk running their media, Bezos running their economy, Pfizer running their healthcare, Palantir in charge of their security, and Royal Dutch Shell extracting their resources. Let's not forget too, Trump's Ambassador-at-Large---Log Cabin Republican Ric Grenell---who'll make sure that the Catholics down there accept the Rainbow Agenda.
Thanks, Night Wind, good call. But Bush doctrine? I don't see a ground invasion here but what can I say, situation developing. Still, NW's corporate interest caveat in mind, who will we chose to take over this oil rich state? Who knows. And also this.
The late Roman Republic fell, it would seem, into Empire, Imperium; as Roman conquest added up from Carthage on, delenda est, so too did tribute/tax money. In the end the cross currents of greed, power, ambition and the Republican mores of a free if now imperial city clashed. The upshot?
After a brutal civil war, Octavian won and became Augustus, the Empire had an Emperor. Fast forward to the 6th Century AD and a desolate city in ruins and a deserted Via Sacra. Do you think, dear friends, that history rhymes?
SPQR,
LSP
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Ideally, first a military governorship under US control and then sovreignity. Though folding them into a Territory of the US status, especially if we could ditch Puerto Rico (those ungrateful bastards still haven't learned English as a primary language.)
And we shouldn't listen to the UN or the world media or the world's ngos and nwo.
Now on to Greenland, Alberta, Sasquatchion and so forth...
So many factors at play here and folks far more knowledgeable than me will weigh in. The primary loser here is China. They may be forced into another Long March. As LL and others point out, China is in a fragile economic state now. Will the loss of this oil source be a tipping point?
If so, then like America stripping Imperial Japan of their far eastern oil supply a replay of history might occur.
FAFO goes both ways.
Not like China is going to meekly just shrug and say "Yes Massa" to DC.
Plenty of high tech levers to collapse the tottering power grid, a LOT of Chinese Made and Installed Computer bits in lots of interesting locations (remember the DOJ and DOD computer hacks just last year) to cause some troubles in the banking and stock market arena.
Might be an "interesting times" as that alleged Chinese curse says.
Thanks for the feature. I guess the question here is, has turning the American Republic over to the arbitrary rule of unaccountable globalist financial Oligarchs made the US a better place? If the answer is 'no,' then I don't think that we can assume that they'll do a better job of running the entire world. Up until the end of the 20th Century, we opposed Nazism and Communism for this very reason: we didn't want to live under those kinds of scientistic dictatorships.
The parallels with Rome are apt; I think that we've already lost the Republic and have been in the Empire Stage for a long time. We can also consider how Ancient Athens declined. Aristotle termed the late Athenian Government as a 'Theatocracy;' or rule by the theater. Athenian Democracy degenerated rapidly after the Greek Theater turned into an ancient version of Infotainment (and like our modern version, it, too, was subsidized by vested interests). Men like Socrates were executed and leaders like Pericles were exiled while fools who pandered to the mob came into power and like Rome, they also ended up under dictatorship.
History might rhyme, and now it might rap. Gah.
Beans, I like your style. Greenland, Alberta, SK. Right on, but what about the UK? Aren't our brothers across the Atlantic badly in need of liberation? Hey, it's not like they've got an army, navy or airforce. Easy, USMC would be overkill.
WSF, I'm above my paygrade here too. China seems strangely silent, as do the Russkies.
What can I say, Michael. Let's see how this plays out and yes, our Chinese friends are everywhere. And that's just Congress.
NW, your comment prompted me to think of the late Roman republic, thanks. Have we lost ours? I'd argue to the same kind of extent the Romans had by the time of, say, Sulla and beyond. We all know how that turned out and why should we be any better.
Vaguely on topic, have you read Tom Holland's excellent and perhaps perfectly written Rubicon? Give it a shot if you haven't, you'll like it. He details, amongst other things, the conflation of legal advocacy with acting, as borrowed from the then decadent Greeks, Theatocracy.
Cheers.
Dammit, Ritchie, you have a point, and a good one.
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