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USA:s kräver `ensamrätt´ över sin `Bakgård´ och ett
antal venezuelaner applåderar den man som sätter sig över dessa: John Bolton: ”Detta
är VÅR hemisfär”!
Av Dick Emanuelsson
TEGUCIGALPA / 2019-05-04 / I politiska kriser bekänner
som bekant folk färg. Som i FB-gruppen ”Latinamerikaintresserade” (som leds av
en sverigebaserad venezuelan) där ett litet antal menar att det bästa vore ett
inbördeskrig och en USA-intervention. Som den republikanske senatorn Rick Scott
från Florida och en av den högerextrema gruppen The Party.
Folkmordskvintetten i
Vita Huset som dagligen hotar med militär intervention av Venezuela möts med
tystnad från de nämnda. Lite krystat postar de budskap från fascister och
likasinnade som målar upp ett icke existerat ryskt eller kubanskt hot och gör
allt för att internationalisera den politiska krisen i Venezuela.
Två ryska militärplan
landade för en månad sedan i Maiquetia och lyfte efter två dagar med sina hundra
passagerare. Ett antal ryssar har på plats i Venezuela och i Moskva instruerat
venezuelaner i hur de ska skjuta ner angripande flyg med ett ryskt luftvärnssystem
och hotades omedelbart av Vita Huset. Det borde väl vara i alla venezuelaners
intressen, det vill säga att skydda sitt fosterland mot utländska militära angripare.
Men icke sa Nicke, det karaktäriseras som ”rysk ockupation”.
Det blir än mer
pinsamt när samma venezuelaner anklagar tusentals kubanska läkare och sjuksköterskor
för att leda och ha tagit kontrollen över de väpnade styrkorna i Venezuela.
Egentligen är det
inte så märkligt. Var och en tar politisk ståndpunkt. Fosterlandsförrädare är
fosterlandsförrädare och det är sällan ränderna går ur.
Så det är inte heller
märkligt att en folkmordsrådgivare som John Bolton utan den minsta dallring på
stämman säger: 'This is our hemisphere!', ”Detta är VÅR hemisfär”!
Och uttalandet applåderas
i det tysta av herrarna och damerna som vill sitt land bombas av Bolton&Co.
Precis som våra fosterlandsförrädare
gjorde när de slickade stövlarna på de tyska fascisterna inför, under och efter
det andra världskriget som skördade 55 miljoner döda.
Frågan är hur många
döda John Bolton kalkylerar med i hans militära scenario av Venezuela?
John Bolton: 'This is
our hemisphere!'
By John Gong
Editor's note: Dr. John Gong is a research fellow at Charhar Institute
and professor at the University of International Business and Economics. The article reflects
the author's opinion, and not necessarily the views of CGTN.
U.S.
National Security Adviser John Bolton is a loose cannon that is bent on
plunging the United States into war. This man has been a warmonger for decades
ever since serving as U.S. representative to the UN during the Bush
administration.
When
President Trump appointed him to his current position, he knew that, and once
commented to close aides that “he
(Bolton) is going to get us into a war.”
The U.S. got close to it with the situation in
Venezuela on April 30.
Bolton has at various points harped on threats
posed to the United States by Iraq, Libya, Syria, Iran, the Democratic People's
Republic of Korea (DPRK), Cuba and of course now, Venezuela. His proposed
strategy in response has invariably been regime change.
Bolton worked on Iran for 20 years with what
one former senior national security official described as an “anal
focus.” His arm-twisting Trump into withdrawing from the Obama-era
agreement that limited the Iranian nuclear-weapons program appears to be paying
off right now.
We will see if tension at the Strait of Hormuz
will flare up into flames in the future.
But for the moment, Bolton's immediate passion
over regime change is Venezuela. The coup in Caracas was actually the second
America-encouraged-and-led flop of a regime change attempt. The first botched
one actually occurred in 2002, to topple then Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
Although
the CIA's involvement back then was shrouded in secrecy, a report by the U.S.
Inspector General at the request of U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd admitted
conclusively “that
the National Endowment of Democracy, the Department of Defense and other U.S.
assistance programs provided training, institution building, and other support
to organizations and individuals understood to be actively involved in the
events of April 11-14 (2002 coup)…”
And
this time around, the American involvement in Venezuela is certainly less
taciturn. Bolton's interest in Venezuela was already on display two weeks ago
during a gathering of surviving members of Brigade 2506 in Coral Gables,
Florida, which was the main military force assembled by the CIA for the
disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. The Caracas coup looks every bit like
the prelude of another Bay of Pigs replay.
During
that speech Bolton coined the phrase “troika
of tyranny,”
referring to the three left-leaning governments in the Western Hemisphere,
namely Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela. As the Washington Post reported on May 3,
a feverish array of activities actually took place between relevant U.S.
officials and representatives of the opposition leader Juan Guaidó in
Washington since January, leading up to the coup d'état in Caracas.
But
the real underpinning of Bolton's high-ground moralizing has nothing to do with
either freedom or democracy –
it is all about oil! In an interview on Fox News, Bolton could not have put it
more nakedly, “it
will make a big difference to the United States economically if we could have
American oil companies invest in and produce the oil capabilities in Venezuela.”
Venezuela
holds the world's largest oil reserve. Bolton's interest in oil as opposed to
freedom and democracy in Venezuela is further exposed in another interview with
New Yorker magazine, where he openly talks about the centuries-old Monroe
Doctrine.
“The
Monroe Doctrine is alive and well. It's our hemisphere,” he pointedly
declared.
The
“our hemisphere” reference is
certainly directed at Russians. Bolton claimed that
there were 20,000 Cubans in Venezuela who served as “surrogates
for the Russians” in addition to at least 100 Russian soldiers. “To
get the Russians out, you have to change the regime,”
Bolton was quoted as saying.
Regime change is certainly not just Bolton's
little invention. It has been enshrined as one of the cornerstones of the
American foreign policy – at least in some quarters of the Pentagon. Michael Ledeen, who
used to work as a policy consultant to the U.S. Department of State and the
Department of Defense once famously said what is now widely remembered as the
Ledeen Doctrine:
“Every 10 years or so, the United States needs to pick up some
small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the
world we mean business.”
We will see if Venezuela will end up on
Washington's list of small crappy little countries.
