Russki Agitprop

[waregim]

Allotta people talk about Russki propaganda.
Few have actually seen it.

Here is a sample:

http://thesaker.is/the-saker-interviews-...venezuela/

Are there any factual errors?
Aside from the fact that it is clearly biased.

As if our MSM isnt.....
(Though it does have a tendency to be fact deficient)

[dueda]

The Venezuelan people will resist with heroism and patriotic spirit the constant siege of Trump’s government. The Bolivarian Revolution conceived a new nation project, which aims to obtain happiness, equality, equity, freedom, and brotherhood of all Venezuelans. These are inherent principles of our democracy and the Venezuelan way of socialism.

Maybe the Venezuelans are just trying to live amidst the lack of everything and plenty of armed uniforms. A "revolution" is not sacrifice of the masses under coercion by a few privileged (self-proclaimed) 'righteous', and nobody talks about how the country got in that situation to begin with. Can't imagine a useful analysis without that background, and ambassadors' opinions, even if correct, are just a sale; broken facts seldom tell the real tale.

[waregim]

Indeed, the babblings of a politician mean little.

But the basic premise of an onslaught of Yanks with guns and banksters vs a country who would actually use their wealth for the social contract rather than Wall Street investments seems apropos.

I believe you are closer to the center of things there. Perhaps you can offer a better perspective.

For example, one journalist recently reported that life in Venezuela was pretty 'normal'. Most folk just going about normal activity, with stores dealing in government subsidized provisions selling out quickly (and cheaply) but hardly the begging in the streets that characterized 1998 Moscow and Petrograd.

[dueda]

News here are shallow and made by idiots, for idiots; and very unreliable, biased to say the least.

I heard water and power are chaotic and don't last on many places; supermarkets are empty and you're lucky if you find a pack of toilet paper for US$ 100 in the black market. An iPhone 5 will cost $1000. Meat is better not ask for. Gasoline was cheap, now it's global Dollar prices, some people would rather sell their car than fill the tank, but nobody is buying.

It's not hard to believe if you live in LatAm for some years, that is the usual condition that come and go but never ends. Faces change, the game doesn't. It's so helpless that people get used and try to live a "normal" life; and begging won't work down South, most people have too little to part with, or are already used to the sheer amount of scammers on the streets.

On the other hand it's very hard to believe a crook cucaracho will ascend to power with intention of making a better world. Except for a Marshal Plan or a New Deal, there were extremely few events in history like that. Even the romanticized French and Soviet revolutions were, or soon became, just a farse.

[waregim]

There was nothing benign about the Marshall Plan.
It was ingenious theft.
First destroy the industrial base of vanquished nations - as in obliteration or removal of factories.
Then offer to 'loan' US dollars for reconstruction at very low rates, and insist that all profits be invested in $USD institutions, and that exports be made primarily to the US.
Europe/Japan became slave economies bound by the chain of the USD as well as constitutions written by US clerks. An office secretary in the case of Japan.
It ensured the Empire, with the dollar as the 'reserve' currency, the one ring that binds them all.

The new Deal was a concession of the capitalists to ensure that the true left did not gain power. This was the time of Emma Goldman as well as the popularity of marxists such as labor movements.

No relation whatever to the disgusting 'social marxists' of the neoliberal controlled opposition.

[dueda]

Enslaved by US economy and politics or not, those countries are light-years away from Africa and Latino-America; compare Germany to Guatemala...

[waregim]

Europe is essentially an industrialized region.
South America is used for raw materials.

Two *totally* different situations.

And what caused our revolution.
Britain insisted that the colonies not be permitted maunfactring.
The New World was never meant to be a source of real wealth (industry).
The colonist elite thought differently.

[dueda]

Yes, where the North invested in farms, down South it was plantations; where gringos made railways and weapons, we mined iron and made sugar, just to buy the tools and cakes from others. And yet we got a gigantic debt. So I believe a foreign policy would be better than ending without industry, paying high interest, and being vassal states anyway.

[waregim]

Monroe Doctrine.
South America is the US 'colonies'.
IMF is its financial 'instrument' - designed clearly to keep client states indebted, poor (austerity) and weak (must drop all tariff protctions).
But their leadership is well *compensated*!