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A lot.

Part of the destabilization is created by opening the flood gates for immigration, i.e. creating a brain drain in Venezuela.

When you have doctors, engineers, petroleum workers, teachers, pack up and leave to the US in the tens of thousands, that has an impact.

When you have these strategic level initiatives where we want to get rid of a government as in Venezuela every part of the US government plays a role, not just the DOD.

Even US immigration policies are fine tuned to support this national initiative.

You politically isolate, economically sanction, propagandize, support dissident groups, send in SF to train equip and lead violent opposition groups, shut down air traffic, cut them off from being able to borrow money, conduct cyber operations, interfere with their shipping (rights to navigation - which is an act of war, but it’s all ok when we do it) do airstrike to freeze their military and prevent it from being able to conduct operations against the groups we arm and equip so that they have freedom of movement...

We’ll have peace once Venezuela’s oil production and reserves are under US control, once Russian influence is purged.

May it be China’s influence on the Panama canal (a civilian Chinese firm managed it), or the Russians doing trade with and supporting Venezuela’s government, the Monroe doctrine is still very much so in effect.

Yet we demand that Russia accepts NATO on their border. LOL

I’m not even against this, I think spheres of influence are real, unavoidable, every one has them in different ways, and they actually HELP prevent big wars between large powers.

I just find it ironic that we demand our sphere of influence that expands over an entire continent, 1,900 miles from our border in Panama, even further in Venezuela, or over 6,000 miles away to the Solomon Islands, but then use these feel good junk arguments of “sovereignty” as an excuse to encroach on others sphere of influence.

The concept of the “sphere of influence” was used in a pejorative manner by some politicians and the media regards Ukraine.

Example: https://www.axios.com/2021/12/01/nato-russia-ukraine-invasion

It is actually just a descriptive concept on how to see things and the world really runs.

Even Germany or Switzerland have a sphere of influence and if you don’t believe that, ask the Greeks if the Germans tell them what to do. So does France and the UK whose influence extends militarily as well into Africa in particular. We have the largest sphere of influence on the planet and use FORCE to guard it, but then talk about how Russia has no right to such a thing.

The concept of a “sphere of influence,” if understood and respected, actually PREVENTS wars like in the Ukraine, or now Venezuela where the US is about to topple a government because of foreign influence. Does anyone really believe the cartel narrative?

If you believe the cartel narrative, then you probably still believe we invaded Iraq for WMD, none found. Got rid of Assad because of human rights, Syria is now led by a Muslim fundamentalist and is going backwards. Is Libya better off today? Today you actually have Islamic radical controlled areas in Libya: https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/fd15280eb1334de785cad39611648876_6.jpeg?quality=80

These conflicts are about money and power, who is making the money and who has the power. The WMD, human rights, terrorist, cartel crap is for the masses that want to feel good and are in need for a moralistic sound good justification that is complete BS.