The U.S doesn’t care about Venezuela’s form of government (August 2024)

I queued this article in September of 2024 but never published it. The linked video is no longer available on YouTube nor can any trace be found of anything with that name on either DuckDuckGo (Bing) or Google because search engines apparently don’t index Rumble.[1] I’ll leave the link to YouTube, though, so we can all enjoy the big black hole provided by Google.

What Interest Does the U.S. Have in Who Governs Venezuela? by Glenn Greenwald (YouTube)

In the video, Greenwald discusses how the U.S. is completely uninterested in Venezuela’s elections and much more interested in its continued resistance to becoming a vassal state.

“Does anyone ever talk about the need to democratize Saudi Arabia or object to the lack of democracy in Egypt or the United Arab Emirates? No, of course not. Nobody does. Or in Jordan or in Kuwait? Because we have no interest in changing the governments there. We’re very happy with the governments there. So we don’t care at all about whether there’s democracy.”

Uncle Sam relaxes with a glass of oil and his feet on a pile of skullsDon’t ever forget that pretty much everything you hear in the U.S. media about Venezuela is a manipulative lie intended to make you not only support the U.S. continuing crippling economic sanctions but also any upcoming military (including CIA) incursions to gain control of that country’s resources.[2]

These propaganda are designed to make you cheer coups as “victories for democracy” because they will now put an end to the completely fictitious waves of Venezuelan criminal rapists that are flooding the U.S. Thanks FOX News![3]

Glenn continues,

“So, how is it that you can have U.S. officials openly admitting—boasting—that the reason there’s a change in government in a country from a democratically elected leader to one that’s imposed on those people undemocratically was because the United States helped engineer the subversion of democracy?

“How can you hear things like that, on the one hand, or know that the United States embraces the most tyrannical despots on the planet in places like Saudi Arabia and Egypt and then believe, on the other hand, that the reason we’re so concerned about the integrity of democracy and elections in Venezuela is because we’re just so benevolent—we just care so much about democracy, we just want to spread freedom all over the world?

“It’s something that will never stop being confounding and bewildering to me, generally. I understand that propaganda often is designed to work well based on studies of how the human mind functions. It’s a science developed over many decades but sometimes it’s so blatant—the falsehoods on which it’s based—that I do think it’s worth documenting. But it’s still something that I don’t understand how it isn’t just immediately visible as the obvious fraud that it is.”

The clip he showed where the U.S. official was boasting about a coup was from CSPAN. No-one watches that. If neither silo promoted it, then people don’t “know” that this happened or what the official had admitted. The NY Times isn’t going to tell them, and neither is FOX News.

Also, people don’t “know” that Saudi Arabia and Egypt are dictatorships. They are not described as such when mentioned, unlike Venezuela where Maduro—and Chavez before him—are continually described as dictators, even though they’re actually elected. Ghaddafi was continuously elected, as well. Putin is also elected.. People don’t “know” what Glenn assumes that they know so there’s no paradox by which he should be bewildered.

His context is that, whenever he hears about Egypt or Saudi Arabia, he thinks about them as dictatorships, not as the loving, democratic, open, economic partners that they’re described as by the mainstream media. His context is that, when he hears about Russia or Venezuela or Iran or North Korea or China, he wonders why the focus is on their often fictitious crimes and not on the real crimes of vassal nations.

People don’t think like that because they don’t “know” these things. They know them when you tell them and they will temporarily agree with you during a discussion but it will all quickly fade from memory and be replaced with the avalanche of propaganda that they hear all day, every day.

They claim not to listen to it, but it worms its way in nevertheless. All of the subtle—or even quite overt—phrases that have no anchor in reality or truth. All of the descriptions and characterizations, which, while not outright falsities, leave out so much context and detail and countervailing information that they amount to lies intended to manipulate people and produce a particular mindset.