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In reply to the discussion: Venezuela's Maduro blasts 'devil' Obama [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)this.
There was shit going on during that election. It wasn't "well monitored" in many sectors. To claim it was is just not accurate.
That said, Maduro probably won, but if Obama wants to make a little noise about shenanigans, why not? It's not like Hugo and Bus Driver have been shy down the years about insulting Obama with rather heated rhetoric.
How long would America stand for it if Obama threw the same sort of invective that those two have done on a regular basis?
And bottom line, they have nowhere to go, at the end of the day. They can whine and use nasty words and phrases, and huff and puff, but we're their biggest trading partner and if we REALLY wanted to fuck with them, we could show them our ass, invite them to kiss it, and make them cry like babies. Who else wants their heavy, hard-to-refine oil? They've got lots of it, but it's cumbersome, and not every refinery can handle it. In fact, most can't, and most don't want to convert to be able to handle it.
The fact that we HAVEN'T 'sanctioned' them or lowered the trade boom on them is because this Fight The Power bullshit means way more to them than it does to us. They use this USA/Devil nonsense to incite the not-too-bright masses....and no one outside VZ takes that bullshit seriously--it's all for "internal consumption" and it makes them look like morons.