Why War On Venezuela Means War On Iran Soon
The U.S. moves to secure oil in its own "backyard"
Readers are probably tired of me wondering if it’s WW3 yet. But when the U.S. announces it has closed Venezuela’s airspace — after moving a fleet of warships and warplanes to the Caribbean — it seems like hot war may be spreading rapidly to our own backyard. That combined with strongarming allies in East Asia (and Australia) to encircle China with nuclear weapons sounds like a world war to me.
Venezuela has already been under attack for decades now: economic sanctions, attempted coups, and we’re on our second round of hand picking a successor for the properly elected president.
Remember self-proclaimed president Juan Guaidó who was slated to replace Hugo Chávez in a (failed) coup? And would anyone remember self-proclaimed president Maria Corina Machado had she not personified the Nobel Peace Prize going to the war on Venezuela? Machado wants Nicolás Maduro gone so that she can help oligarchs to her country’s massive oil reserves.
“A pro-government march in Caracas, Venezuela against Donald Trump and US attacks, in Caracas in 2019 (Photo credit: Ben Norton)” Source: Geopolitical Economy
Among Venezuela’s crimes in the eyes of the empire, running drug cartels is the pretext seized on for bombing speedboats off its coast. It’s a pretext that isn’t really true but since when did claims needed to start wars of plunder have to be true (cf. Saddam’s non-existent weapons of mass destruction)? The cartel pretext is useful for concealing the enmity of capitalists for a socialist economy with close ties to both China and Iran.
But an even more troubling and sinister motive may be at work in this phase of snowballing hot wars.
If war with Iran on behalf of the Zionist entity is the ultimate goal — and we have plenty of evidence that it is — securing Venezuelan oil could be seen as essential preparation prior to the Persian Gulf closing down.
Karim Bettache in the Orinoco Tribune on November 24:
Venezuela is being cast in a role it did not audition for: the alternative fuel station for an empire preparing to set the Middle East ablaze.
The theater of American foreign policy has become so transparent in its deceptions that even the most credulous among us should now see through the performance. The sudden elevation of Venezuela—a nation that warranted barely a mention during the recent presidential campaign—to the status of existential threat reveals not a new strategic priority, but the careful staging of alibis for wars already planned.
I wasn’t quite born yet when the U.S. and UK overthrew Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in August 1953 to protect their “interests” in Iran. Mossadegh had committed an unforgiveable crime in the eyes of the empire by nationalizing Iran’s oil industry. Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was put back on the throne to cooperate with the West, and the extreme repression of his regime led to revolution by Islamists in 1979. Israel and the U.S. have been gunning for another regime change ever since, right up to the present day.
Australian diplomat Alison Broinowski in a Pearls & Irritations piece published this week, “After Gaza, the next target is Iran,” noted:
the Australian government [expelled] the Iranian ambassador in August, following an unspecific allegation.. that an unnamed Iranian had organised a series of anti-semitic incidents in Sydney and Melbourne last December..
Australia is being softened up by Israeli propaganda for war against Iran, in which US intelligence operations in Pine Gap and Northwest Cape will involve and implicate us.
It seems Broinowski has a firm grasp on the global implications of war on Iran. As a member of the group Australians for War Powers Reform, she advocates for Australia to retain what’s left of its sovereignty as the U.S. tightens its grip on a key launching pad for warmongering in the eastern and southern hemispheres. And a key spying location via satellites now integral to conducting the war on Gaza, and on Russia via Ukraine.
Is it WW3 yet?