By openly supporting insurrection by a militant faction in order to subject the Ukranian government to a level of stress that it, and particularly its apparently incapable pres, Yanukovich, were incapable of handling, I think the US crossed something of a Rubicon. It openly and enthusiastically backed a violent putsch against a democratically-elected government it didn’t happen to like. Neo-liberal enthusiasts, it should be noted, splashed across this boundary without even getting their feet wet…except from the dull-witted drooling of Western correspondents apparently besotted by the contrived tire-burning, Molotov-cocktail tossing freedom-fighter narrative layered over the political struggle.[My emphasis]
And be sure, Venezuela is on the hook for the same treatment right now.
The Obama administration’s new-found affection for street riots to overthrow unfriendly elected government will get its next road test in Venezuela. Caracas is starting to look like Kiev. The conservative youth of the private universities are already on the street looking for trouble and the excuse to exercise righteous violence like their ultranationalist brothers in Ukraine.
As they tried before with Hugo Chavez under G.W. Bush.
I wanna see how all those "radical" black folks who had all manner of commentary about Bush, when he was fucking with Chavez, are going to explain themselves now. With their mouths firmly clamped on the Obama phallus I doubt they will object with anything more than the "well if the people want.." commentary that occurred during the Libya coup.
