Your Independent Journal from the Heartland
Trump says he invaded Venezuela because they stole “our” oil! But how did “we” come to own Venezuela’s oil ?
We set up local dictators who then “sold” their country’s resources to Yanqui corporations. It was “strictly business”!
In time, those dictators fell to democratic rebellions. When those revolutions’ popular democracies came to power, they nationalized their country’s resources.
Now trump has stolen back what we stole previously, when Yanqui Imperialism ruled the hemisphere.
This expansion of dominance in the Americas is made possible by withdrawing our military assets from Europe and the Middle East, which Trump is handing over to Putin. A global realignment is unfolding, with the USA’s influence severely diminished by a president who admires dictators like Putin and Xi.
BRUCE JOFFE, Piedmont, Calif.
