Inkwell Institute
International Studies
Latin American Desk
Do you remember the Monroe Doctrine? In case your history is a bit shaky….
policy that was introduced on December 2, 1823, which stated that further efforts by European countries to colonize land or interfere with states in the Americas would be viewed by the United States of America as acts of aggression requiring US intervention.
Okay you got your history lesson in for the week….but what the Hell am I going on about?
The Doctrine has been used on Cuba, Grenada and a couple of other countries in Central and South America….but why is it being dredged up again?
Do you recall about three years ago when the “Tripartite of Demons” were North Korea, Iran and Venezuela, well at least the Chavez was the demon? But in the last couple of years the rhetoric toward Chavez has seem to cool down…..but there is something that I cannot understand…that is that the silence of the Neocons on a developing situation in Venezuela……
Russia has agreed to help Venezuela draw up plans to build a nuclear power plant.
Atomic energy was one of many areas of cooperation discussed as Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin made his first trip to the South American country.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Friday the goal of the power plant is to develop nuclear energy for “peaceful purposes,” and not to develop a bomb.
In the past Chavez has been a concern to the US…mainly because of his desire for a build up of arms and such…..will he be a thorn in the side of the US?
We have our problems with Iran, North Korea and minor ones for Pakistan, India and Israel…not to mention all the countries that are moving to build nuke power plants (for peaceful purposes) (sarcasm was intended)…..
I will be waiting to hear from the Hispanic-phobes on this situation…and just what exactly will the response be from the US of A….
Years ago…I predicted that there would be a new ever expanding “Cold War” and arms race….and it looks like the weapon of choice is the ever popular nuke….go figure…..and yes…that was also sarcasm….
And there is more….the US has an agreement with Russia on arms and the news coming out of Moscow is not good……
The new U.S.-Russian arms control treaty is a much better deal for Russia than its predecessor, but Moscow reserves the right to withdraw from it if a planned U.S. missile defense system grows into a threat, Russia’s foreign minister said Tuesday.
The deal can be used somehow to justify the nukes for Venezuela? I wait for those darn pesky Neocons to jump all over this as a talking point against the Obama agenda….and I wait!
The problem for normal people (that is, those of us that don’t have a mind like a corkscrew) is that, just like cockney rhyming slang is only fully understood by cocknies in the UK, diplomatic speak is only really intelligible to other diplomats – and even then only with the help of a phrase book!
Another problem is we can only handle one “bad guy” at a time….look at 2001….it was that prick Saddam…although others were mentioned we had to focus on Saddam……when we need a diversion then the other bad guy will come to the forefront…..
This post and yesterday’s post on Gun rights….would have got a ton of rebuttal a couple years ago…..today none of it is important…apparently the loss of freedom is (whatever that means)….sorry just find it interesting the difference a couple of years makes……..
That’s because they can “only handle one bad guy at a time” 😆
So true…and right now they are so confused they have two…Iran and Obama……that could explain their moronic rants….
Now that you mention it, the conservative blogs that I do subscribe to have been very quiet about this. Looks like there is something to that theory that they can only handle one or two things at a time.
IMO, they talk about situations that get more bang for the buck…….Chavez is not that important right now….and I have seen the same thing they are very silent on Chavez, for now……you would think that a nuke deal between Chavez and Russia would raise few flags….
They probably still think Reagan beat Russia, so there’s no problem…
Sad fact is they DO believe that Reagan beat the USSR…it is a mantra for the GOP….
I know 😆