Posted on 03/10/2015 7:12:44 AM PDT by Reaganite Republican
Like other economically-dubious regimes in Tehran, Moscow, and elsewhere, Hugo Chavez's bumbling replacement Nicolas Maduro (same 100% commie as before, *now* with less-than-half-the-charm) has recently been painting America as the cause of all their problems, which are indeed considerable. Nothing new from them, but he's really pouring-it-on now that the US is slapping sanctions on the most corrupt of Maduro's shady bunch...
Remember Obama's warm greeting of Chavez, the smiles, funky handshake, and all? Just like Hillary's 'reset button' schtick at the Kremlin -and Obama's current bargaining with the Iranians- none of this ever changed a damn thing: these types will always 'hate' and need to demonize the world's most successful and influential nation (in history), who else they going to blame, themselves for the corruption and serial incompetence that has Russia, Iran, and Venezuela mired in economic backwardness and lack of opportunity (for honest/productive people)?
Truth is, these are weak oil-state dictatorships who are getting trounced by falling oil prices... and it couldn't happen to a nicer troika of anti-American schmucks.
Meanwhile, that's our fault somehow- we're stealing to not be paying $100/bbl, apparently.
Tehran, Caracas, and the Kremlin are like petulant children -or welfare addicts- with their warped sense of entitlement: once they got used to it, we owe it to them for us to get reamed on the oil price, as we have been for years (while they spend it build new weapons and point them at us).
Their lack of planning, diversification, and rule-of-law has Venezuelans entering dire fiscal straights- with nothing to fall back on, no cash, no a plan B... nada. With nobody else to blame, Maduro has chosen to bite the hand that feeds (the US is the only customer paying full price for Venezuelan oil -via Citgo stations/refineries- as all other buyers are sold at a discount in political deals, i.e. Cuba). As might a tiger turn on you when they're not getting fed quite enough steaks anymore, he's simply lunging at us.
Now that they no longer receive the bloated price they're used to living fat on, and the inadequacies of their creaking, rotten economic infrastructure have been exposed- then cornered dictators start throwing a tantrum, concocting bizarre conspiracy theories- while blaming us for everything- same, be it Venezuela, Iran, or Russia.
Maybe now Obama voters -and other pacifists- will understand that licking your sworn enemy's rear-end doesn't somehow make them like you, suddenly admit their own shortcomings, nor relinquish their arms- creaking regimes like these must have an outside enemy, and more often than not, that's going to be us. That's why a foreign policy that yearns for us to be 'liked' will always end in disaster for US interests.
What Obama's done to confront Caracas in any kind of meaningful way...
I really don't see it. But how funny to see how it's him they're also hating on now -while Commander Zero's probably more socialist than they are, just can't get away with it here...
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FYI
Obama declares Venezuela a threat to U.S. national security
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3265936/posts
http://news.yahoo.com/obama-declares-venezuela-threat-u-national-security-155726356—sector.html
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