@CurlingCanada Cheating in curling and then aggressively and repeatedly telling the opponent to "f*ck off".
How about that for fair play and the olympic spirit!
Are you withdrawing from the competition now?
@CurlingCanada Cheating in curling and then aggressively and repeatedly telling the opponent to "f*ck off".
How about that for fair play and the olympic spirit!
Are you withdrawing from the competition now?
What’s happening in Venezuela fits a pattern that’s been repeated for decades – crisis isn’t an accident, it’s leverage.
The U.S. has a long history of intervening when governments challenge its strategic or economic interests. Sometimes that meant coups. Sometimes assassinations. Sometimes invasions.
Usually a combined effort between the CIA to destabilize, the World Bank and IMF to give a predatory loan to the new government and then US corporations entering the country.
Full control.
In the modern era, it often means sanctions, financial isolation, diplomatic delegitimization, and support for alternative power structures.
The method evolves. The objective doesn’t.
Venezuela didn’t collapse in a vacuum. Years of corruption and mismanagement weakened the state – then external pressure finished the job. Sanctions choked oil revenue, restricted access to global finance, and accelerated economic breakdown. Once institutions fail and people are desperate, political outcomes become easier to shape.
This isn’t unique.
Chile didn’t “choose” Pinochet – the U.S. actively destabilized Allende before backing a coup. Iran didn’t lose Mossadegh organically – he was removed after nationalizing oil. Guatemala, Brazil, Iraq – different countries, same logic. Crisis creates openings. Openings get exploited.
Regime change doesn’t usually announce itself. It arrives disguised as concern – for democracy, for stability, for human rights – after pressure has already hollowed out the state.
By the time the outcome arrives, it’s framed as inevitable.
Venezuela today isn’t about Maduro.
It’s certainly not about helping the Venezuelan people (although that may be a positive side effect).
It’s about a system that repeatedly uses economic pain and political chaos as tools to assume control.
Shock doesn’t just break societies – it makes them malleable.
And history shows that once a playbook works, powerful actors don’t abandon it.
They perfect it.
Welcome to the USA.
I never understood Bitcoin Maxi's that won't entertain making more profits on other assets while Bitcoin is not in a stage 2 uptrend and other assets are.
You can add a lot more Bitcoin on your balance sheet by chasing other stage 2's and buying bitcoin stage 2's afterwards
@Aktieprenoren@DigitaltGuld@ekonomigurun_ Om du vänder på det och tänker att BTC är en form av elektrisk valuta. Alltså att du byter elektricitet till en annan form. Som tex att vatten blir till ånga. Att du kan spara din el som du förbrukat(mining) i en annan form som är sällsynt och i begränsad upplaga. Eller?
@Aktieprenoren@DigitaltGuld@ekonomigurun_ Nej, dollar är Fiat. Fiat betyder vanliga valutor som inte har någon värde förutom att statsapparaten ger det ett värde. Blockkedjan är 100% säkert. Det är inte blockkedjan i sig som är scam utan coinsen(token) som man kan handla med som i sin tur har ett värde. Tex. Dogecoin