Quote: (10-21-2016 03:09 AM)Vicious Wrote:
That's overly simplified, there will be one or more foreign powers that will consolidate the power vacuum currently in country. Let's not forget that the country has some of the most promising and least exploited oil reserves in the region. As the oil price goes up this will make the country all the more tastier to a more hostile takeover.
You can be on the ball or someone else will. At this stage it could just be run under UN flag with the US being and no one could reasonably protest it. Russia would like squirm in the security council but the pressure on them would be enormous.
Russia would most likely sit back in its seat to consume popcorn. They got out of the business of materially helping shitpile tropical countries a long time ago. China cannot reasonably intervene in Venezuela any more than Japan could even practically invade California. They've got plenty of resources to exploit either on their doorsteps or in their own countries and would welcome the US driving up its debts even further in another pointless war.
Remissas, discite, vivet.
God save us from people who mean well. -storm