An inconvienent fact for commie scum

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[–]BravoVictor 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Probably, but that threat seems less likely now. Russia is already trading oil with China in yuan and India is likely to begin doing the same, if they're not already.

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Yes, but the BRICS nations are in a multilateral aggreement that encompasses many spheres of activity including defense. Venezuela isn't part of this, they are one nation. The BRICS nations standing up to the USA is one thing, they have about 2/3rds of all the nukes in the world along with a very large chunk of the population. Venezuela is but a single nation, without nuclear bombs, and a population of only 28 million, slightly LESS than Canada.

Last time a single nation stood up to the US hegemony, well... Lybia.

[–]BravoVictor 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's true. However, both Russia and China are economically supportive of Venezuela, and while Venezuela still has a lot of problems, they've defeated several soft-coup attempts by the US over the last decade. I don't think the US has much stomach to more regime change after all it's failings in the middle east. Libya now has active slave markets.

You seeing a very interesting dynamic rising in the US. Conservatives are the group more likely to want to go to war, since they're more community minded, physically fit and generally who serves in the US military. However, after years of war, they're now wary of elite costal liberals sending them off to die in shit hole countries they've never heard of, while their kids get brainwashed back at home.

And now that liberals have a hate boner for Putin, since they still blame him for Trump's win in 2016, they're itching to go to full blown war with him in Ukraine. However, liberals are notorious cowards who hate guns and statistically wouldn't defend their own country if they were invaded, making conservatives even more wary about letting liberals tell them to go die in a foreign country.

Granted, DC's very good at manufacturing consent for war, but I feel like their game's starting to slip now that a ton of people aren't getting their news from corporate media. They've really been pushing a ton of propaganda to get Americans ramped up for WWIII, but there's a sizeable portion on both the right and left who aren't buying it anymore. They could still push more wars in other countries, and probably will, but it'll come at a higher political price than it used to.