Naked Resource grab will not make America great.

 U.S. ADOPTS EUROPEAN COLONIALISIM

NOT HOW TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN

I suspect many are praising the overthrow of Venezuela's government and the anticipated benefit of now having control of the worlds largest oil reserves. We are now going to be subjected to the narrative of how we have saved the Venezuelans from themselves and how we are going to rebuild the country for their benefit. We heard the same logic when we took over the oil in Iraq, and the Iraqi's, after over 20 years, are still not benefiting from their oil revenues. It is just a fancy picture of the naked aggression of empires of old, from the Romans to the the British Empire and now the United States. While it may be a short term feeling of Euphoria, it will hasten the rejection and repulsion of America in most of the world.

It seems this was an orchestrated overthrow with the cooperation of many of the insiders in Venezuela, a result of decades of NGO and CIA infiltration. The reality is that the socialism embraced by the Chavez and Maduro regimes is always destined to fail, it is usually best to let it fail of its own weight, rather than the approach that has culminated this weekend. In fact, we are seeing this failure right here at home and in Western Europe, it is decay from within.  Corrupt, immoral and exposed very transparently.

America became a great nation from the adherence to our constitution, the great opportunity for all to prosper and the greatest manufacturing country in the world, coupled with a currency that was as good as gold. None of those attributes apply anymore and we are reduced to the desperation of naked power and subversion to maintain the illusion of greatness. The United States even with its failures and flaws was the "Light upon the hill", the envy of the world.  It seems American's are the last to see the dismal reality of America viewed by most of the world.

So now that oil resources are captured to maintain the U.S. and western Europe, the next target will likely be Iran, the other great oil resource not under western control.  Oil also STOLEN from the west after their 1979 revolution. 

While it seems the hoped for access to Russian resources is not going exactly as planned, they have not entirely given up. The Venezuela regime change operation should make it clear that there is no negotiation that will ever be productive, it is submission or else. This applies to Russia, China, Africa and anywhere that is not under the control of the great power structure.

We should expect that much of the world will increase their efforts to flush out western NGO's and intelligence operatives, it could become much more dangerous for innocent westerners in much of the world. We will also see an acceleration in the flight from dollar linked oil and the flight from the dollar reserve currency. Much of this, along with military power, is the anchor of that world power. It cannot be maintained with exploding debt and a dismal manufacturing base.

Some time ago, I speculated that Trump would soon need to make his policies clear, he has, it is the same as the long line of leaders before him, war, intimidation and naked power, rather than mutual cooperation. Presidents come and Presidents go, but the post WW2 foreign policy has only become more immoral and more aggressive. I suspect that is signifying the last dying gasps of the American experiment.