(np) Common Sense imho

[David Morris]

There are many components at play, but I think the people who are now
fighting with their own blood, add the sheer numbers of their groundswell,
want one simple thing:

HAVE DEMOCRACY
ENFORCE the will of the vote!

On Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 4:46 PM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> https://www.gregpalast.com/how-to-stop-putins-war-windfall-by-ending-our-embargo-of-venezuelan-oil/
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> “This is a country which has a 2 million barrel a day OPEC allotment, and
> we’re getting almost none of it. And they have tremendous gas reserves. So,
> if the Germans are afraid that Putin will cut off their pipe, well, stop
> cutting off Venezuela’s pipe. Because it’s not only the United States, it’s
> the European Union and Britain, which are saying we won’t take Venezuelan
> oil.
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> “And even more, we won’t let Venezuela pump the oil, because the embargo
> has stopped them from getting the parts and equipment that they need to
> keep their oil industry running, which is quite complex because it’s based
> on heavy oil, so it’s very difficult without the parts, the expertise, and
> the funding.
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> “For example, the Koch Brothers have a refinery on the Gulf Coast of Texas.
> They were the number one customer of Venezuela. We took the oil that
> Venezuela sent us to the Koch Brothers’ refinery, and the US treasury
> seized all the money. When Venezuela sells oil, they can’t get the money,
> so, obviously, they’re not going to sell it to us or to Europe because they
> can’t get the money, so their oil production is extremely limited.
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> “People are literally starving in Venezuela, and they don’t have medicine
> to fight COVID. It’s cruel. It’s horrible. If Putin were doing this in
> Ukraine, we’d be screaming and hollering, but yet we’re doing it to
> Venezuela. And who’s suffering from it? We are, because we’re knocking more
> than a million barrels a day out of the world market.
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> “This is a leftover Trump disaster. Trump cutoff Venezuela, ordered the
> embargo, ordered the blockade. Why? Well, number one, they say Venezuela is
> not really a democratic nation. So, instead we’re getting our oil and gas
> from the democratic nation of Saudi Arabia? By the way, our biggest source
> of imports to the West is Russia. So the great democracies we’d rather get
> our gas from are Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Russia, and Kazakhstan? These are the
> great democracies we’re getting oil from instead of Venezuela?”
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