Sure, saxony-anhalt’s fascists are bad news, but the resentment they harbor is, like here, against oligarch-centered economic policies.

The movements are not left vs right - they’re up vs down, a bipolar effort to claw back lives of dignity from corrupt, greedy, powerful men.

Reading an article, three values jump out:

$100B to revitalize Venezuela.
65B barrels of oil.
$200B revenue to VE.

Petroleum can be worth $40-110/bbl. Cost plus $1.30 is a nifty profit margin as seen from this side, but extractive a.f.

Colonizer treatment was horrid the first time — poverty brought Chavez / VE to power; then he nationalized the industry in ‘99 and necessary expertise fled after that, so that extreme’s horrid, too. Could we try a balanced path?

Why’d such a ‘good deal’ get “Friday News Dump” treatment? Perhaps because these usurious terms prove VE is a puppet regime.

@thegibson nice commemorative max avatar.

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