Facing Down the Bullies
Here is a neat and short comment on a blog about the USA kidnapping of a Venezuelan diplomat.
The piece this responds to is at; “The US Has Placed Itself In Charge Over Which Nations Get To Eat”
You will notice that the countries the western Imperialists go after like this have internal problems which make them vulnerable to such attacks. In the primary example of Venezuela, it is famous for having vast swathes of prime agricultural land sitting idle while its people starve.
The problem is not that they are being blockaded but that the government is incapable of organizing agriculture. They cannot get the land back into the hands of small farmers. They cannot organize the upstream infrastructure to support them, or the downstream infrastructure to process food and get it in into local markets.
Iran and Syria both have very corrupt and inefficient governments. Yemen was riven by tribal conflicts for generations before the Saudis and friends decided to wipe them off the map. Yet nobody is starving in China or Russia.
The lesson is that countries which are minimally well ordered are generally able to provide all necessities to their populations. They easily repel attempts to start insurgencies. They ride out economic blockades. They also help each other against imperial aggression.
As for this recent practice of abducting the diplomats and business people of targeted governments, you will notice that they tend not to do this to countries which have means and will to retaliate. The arrest of Meng Wangzhou did not go very well for Canada or the USA.
This would be little comfort to Mr. Saab in his predicament. However, the measures which would get him back on the street and deter any further such abductions are obvious.
Some would argue the near certainty of such measures provoking the USA to take their aggression to the next level. The best reply is that Venezuela has reasonably capable armed forces.
The USA has consistently lost wars against nominally much weaker opponents. It should be understood that the reason the USA adopts these chickenshit forms of aggression against Venezuela is because it cannot attack with conventional forces. tr