US 'Democracy Promotion' Only Works When Oil Is Involved
The Guardian hails the US removal of Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro, with opposition leader María Corina Machado apparently ready to share a Nobel Peace Prize for her role. Missing from this glowing account? The decades of US-backed coups and destabilization campaigns in resource-rich nations, from Chile in '73 to Iraq in '03. It's not 'democracy promotion' when US oil companies are poised to
'reimburse' themselves via national assets, as Trump openly admitted to NBC News. Mike Johnson's 'not a regime change, but a change of behavior' line? That's what interventionists say before every intervention. One might wonder why such 'concern' for democracy doesn't extend to, say, Saudi Arabia, a key US ally and oil producer. Perhaps their behavior is already aligned?