. Sachs points out that both Venezuela and Ukraine are cases of the US attempting to impose its domination;
https://x.com/chrisbrunet/status/2008711034232574253
Very important from Jeffrey Sachs, interviewed by .
A number of people have made the facile point that Trump's actions in Venezuela mirror Putin's actions in Ukraine, and that people should be consistent and condemn both.
This ignores the basic class content of global politics. Sachs points out that both Venezuela and Ukraine are cases of the US attempting to impose its domination; both are instances of McDonalds not being able to flourish without McDonnell Douglas (to use Thomas Friedman's memorable expression); both are microcosms of a global struggle between imperialism and an emerging multipolarity.
"In the case of Ukraine, it was a 30-year project to bring Ukraine into the American military orbit... One should not glibly say that the US is doing in Venezuela what Putin did in Ukraine. It's actually that the US is doing in Venezuela what the US did in Ukraine. Both are US-provoked. These are both projects of the US and I hope people can come to understand how US foreign policy works and what a military-industrial state really means. What a military-industrial complex without constitutional bounds means. What the CIA means in such operations. If they did, they would understand that when we view Ukraine and Venezuela, we're viewing the same phenomenon as long-term projects of the would-be global hegemon carried out in different ways."
The full interview is well worth watching:
youtu.be/LhZuTOuwKGA?si
posted by Satish Sharma at
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