In Venezuela's case, the underlying competence of the actual people [regardless of their political bent – after all, things weren't great when they put a communist in power] likely exacerbates the oil issue. Venezuela's primary market is, or was, the US. The loss of revenue means they can't just import from other places whatever they want to cover what they can't, or weren't motivated, to make themselves.
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Adam Bailey
I can rephrase you as follows:
"If countries leaders were not communist antiUSA zealots then even some socialist policies could be salvaged."
Jaxon Turner
Well, the attack on oil prices was coordinated between the US and Saudi Arabia and had a large part to do with the downfall of the USSR – or at least its monetary issues that brought other things to the forefront. Latent nationalism, corruption in the food distribution system, interventionist foreign wars that didn't make much sense to the population [sound familiar?], maybe a lack of the myopia that capitalist systems seem to produce in the consumer good section that prevented the Soviets from any kind of large scale production of high technology they had created.
It should be pointed out, though, that the people of the Soviet Union did vote over 70% in the affirmative to stay in a reduced, reformed Soviet Union. That resolution was overturned by Boris Yeltsin and I believe the two presidents of Ukraine/Belarus. Knowing what we know now about Yeltsin, since we're not all US mil-shill morons here [right?], I think you can draw some conclusions there.
Ayden Stewart
I really don't think the fracking thing would be different if Venezuela was nicer to the US. It's something that was happening regardless. Venezuela's position isn't much different than the US's, actually, with regard to how the US is reduced to violently threatening Germany, France, Denmark, etc. over natural gas purchases from Russia. It is in a position where most of its neighbors have large scale hydrocarbon industries and there are oceans separating it from the other largest import markets. The US just has the benefit of an absolutely massive domestic market.
Hudson Cook
He's a left-leaning centrist, we aren't getting a Bolsonaro and Salvini. Better than a marxist jew who starves everyone except for himself though.
Nicholas James
Countries recognising Juan Guaido as Venezuela's president:
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Brayden Ward
Nice argument.
Yeah we really need more gibsmedat spics crossing over the border.
But helping whites? Nah fuck that.
Camden Myers
Status: Isolated
Colton Reyes
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Colombian president recognizes Guaidó aswell
Brandon White
Which was possible only after USSR sent troops to assault a muslim nation aka Afghanistan.
Which according to communist scum appears out of thin air and not thank to inherant motivational failure in collectivised farming.
Planned economy does not work for the demand of the consumer. There is no consumer in socialist view, only the worker. And what good is the work of a worker if there is nobody willing to buy his produce? Fucking nothing.
The "reformed" USSR was basicly a confederation. The end to that came from a coup of old hardliners who wanted communism to remain. After coup the communist party was discredited which made the old resolution null de facto and de jure. The ARMY that was sent by the hardliner commies into Moscow to kill Yeltsin and co. refused to obey orders and changed flags from red to russian. Some protestors in Moscov died under the tracks of soviet tanks. Just look at picrelated. Was this a foreign intervention? No. Those are tanks of the red aremy, the worker-peasant army. Why would they turn away from a glorious socialist paradise? They were hungry, disillusioned and disgrunted.