The Richest Country on Earth Invaded a Poor Country For No Good Reason – And the Stock Markets Soared

The United States rang in the new year by sending troops into Venezuela, snatching their president, hauling him back to the U.S., charging him with some kind of drug trafficking thingy, running afoul of all kinds of laws and ethics – and reportedly killing dozens of people in the process.

It was a “shocking” turn of events, if you pay attention to the media, which barfed out other terms like “brazen” and “unprecedented” and “stunning” – except it really was none of those things. There was nothing shocking or brazen or unprecedented or stunning about it, not if you’ve been paying attention to the following:

• Since around 1950 or so, the USA has been more than willing to invade smaller, non-Caucasian countries for the murkiest of reasons. Just ask anyone from Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Iraq or Afghanistan. It never turns out well for those countries – or the United States. This Venezuela affair will be no different. Give it time. Unless something miraculous happens, it will turn into a major clusterfuck, just like always.
• The current U.S. president – a broken-down, corrupt and increasingly deranged douchebag who pretends to be a tough guy but famously avoided serving in Vietnam, and throws a tantrum every time someone insults or disagrees with him – has been hinting at a military action in Venezuela for a while now. He and his clown-ass regime reportedly are also rattling their swords about potential excursions into Colombia, Greenland, and wherever else their fascist little hearts and minds desire.

In official White House circles, the Venezuela invasion has been presented as an anti-drug/narco-terrorism action. But only the dimmest of dimwits could possibly believe that. After all, the White House recently pardoned another narco-trafficking Latin American former president, this one from Honduras.

But Honduras isn’t sitting on a huge reserve of oil. Venezuela is – and that’s why our military swept in.

The U.S. wants that Venezuelan oil, and so the U.S. plans to take it. That’s the main reason for the invasion — because the United States is addicted to oil in much the same way that a junkie is addicted to the drugs the U.S. regime pretends to be so concerned about.

Another reason for the invasion is that the U.S. president needs to force-feed Americans a distraction so they don’t keep thinking about his shitty economic program, low approval ratings, involvement in a pedophile scandal, and fears of an impeachment. Nothing will distract the American masses quite like a good ol’ military operation in a much smaller, much weaker country.

We’ll see how all this plays out. America has a short attention span. Soon enough, this invasion will be tired old news, and then America will go back to thinking about whatever the hell it thinks about when it’s bored, which is pretty much all the time.

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There are 1,001 reasons this whole Venezuela affair has a foul stench. One of them is that it’s allegedly being orchestrated by a regime that has the collective IQ of a concrete block.

I can’t think of a single person in the current administration who has even a minimal qualification to lead the richest and most powerful country on the planet. They’re a bunch of rank, moronic amateurs who suddenly found themselves holding the keys to the castle only because the American electorate is just as stupid as they are, and the opposition Democratic party is weak and feckless, and the mainstream media is a vacuous, limp-dick shell of what it should be and used to be.

If I were to make a bet, I’d bet that the whole Venezuela affair is the brainchild of mega-billionaire tech bros and corporate CEOs who stand to gain the most by having clowns running the country.

Here’s something interesting about the Venezuela invasion: The U.S. stock markets soared after it happened.

On the first day of trading after the invasion, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose by nearly 600 points and hit a new all-time high. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq also skyrocketed. So did energy and oilfield services stocks. So did AI stocks – which depend on vast amounts of oil to power the vast amounts of energy they require to operate.

The momentum continued into the next day, with the S&P 500 and Dow closing at new record highs as investors “shrugged off Venezuela events and other potential geopolitical risks to focus on the economy and corporate news,” according to USA Today.

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If you’re looking for something unprecedented, here’s one: The stock markets setting new highs following a military event that usually causes the kind of geopolitical uncertainty that sends the markets tumbling.

This could not have been a coincidence — the markets soaring following a military invasion into a country nobody in the United States really gives much of a shit about. Somebody must have known all this ahead of time. A whole lot of people got a whole lot richer when it happened — and the ones who got the richest were the richest of the rich.

That’s why I don’t think it was the dumbass president and his dumbass lackeys calling the shots. I think it was all those rich corporate interests. They hold the strings that make the dumbass president dance.

Mega-billionaires like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and Larry Ellison aren’t content with just having more money than anyone has ever had in the history of the world. No, they want even more money and more power, in true oligarch fashion. That’s why they’ve moved beyond their core industries to gobble up media and social media companies, so they can push their agenda to a wider audience. That’s where the real power lies — in feeding bullshit to the widest audience possible.

The ultra-wealthy found the perfect useful idiot in the current president, who was born rich himself. They can influence invasions into foreign, oil-rich countries, along with all the other pro-capitalist, anti-humanist policies the useful idiot has embraced.

They’re probably feeling pretty goddamn good about themselves now, getting richer while others suffer. But they better not get too comfortable just yet. Because if history has taught us anything, it’s that at some point they’ll overplay their hand. And when that happens, they’ll have to face the music (again) for choosing greed over humanity (again).

Oh, they’ll come up with the usual excuses and rationalizations. But it will still be fun to watch them squirm (again).