alec wrote:
Andre wrote:
At least he isnt backing Maduro...Maybe h'ell get some of the gold which would surely change everything
I don't understand the Venezuela situation mostly because when I hear "10,000-percent inflation" it's hard to hear anything else .
All I can do after hearing "10,000-percent inflation" is quickly categorise :
Nicolás Maduro = supported by Putin
Juan Guaidó = supported by Trump
Maduro = same-old terrible
Guaidó = new terrible [like Jair Bolsonaro of Brasil]
Accurate ?
Putin and Trump on opposite sides of this equation : Is it real, is it Kabuki ... and through the political looking glass, how real is real, how Kabuki is Kabuki ?
10,000-percent inflation can't be real .
I can’t quote the inflation figure off the top of my head but I’ve read way over 10,000%. It’s not a matter of looking at it as Trump backing one and Puttin the other. The fact of the matter is Maduro presides over a government held in place thanks to inflating salaries of the military, arming bands of thugs to name some. We had those in the Noriega days. They were called “Dignity Battalions”. All designed to keep the common man under his fat thumb. The country with the largest oil reserves of the planet can’t even feed itself. Panama and Colombia are
overrun by refugees fleeing not only totalitarianism, but quite simply “starvation” or the inability to buy food, not to mention lack of medicine, toilet paper etc etc etc.
Trump is a total fool and his backing Gaudio as fast as he did may be a
political mistake considering that god knows what will happen next in that
country. In MHO the Venezuelan situation, a long time ago, went beyond
the faze of …don’t-meddle-in-Venezuelans- internal-affairs. Presently the
only hope that something might change is if the whole damn world openly
condemns those thugs.
By the way…this is not a rant…just saying what I think makes sense. The
situation over there reminds me so much of Panama in the 1980’s. The
big difference is that the rulers of Panama had zero ideology. They were
just in it for the business. They had the guns though.