“Iran (1953), Iraq (2003), Libya (2011), Russia (2022), Syria (2024), and now Venezuela (2026). The common denominator underlying the U.S. attacks and economic sanctions against all these countries is America’s weaponization of the world’s oil trade.”
“The overriding aim of today’s U.S. diplomacy in what its strategists call a civilizational war against China, Russia and their prospective BRICS allies is to block the withdrawal of countries from the U.S.-controlled world economy and frustrate the emergence of a Eurasian-centered economic grouping.”
What spelled the end for Maduro was when “Venezuela announced in 2017 that it was going to start pricing its oil exports in non-dollar currencies, threatening the petrodollar market practice.”
~ Quotes from Michael Hudson
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