Spanish journalist: Maduro is being 'punished' by the US for trying to abandon the dollar

Spanish journalist and television presenter Lorenzo Ramirez explained that everything currently happening around Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is nothing more than a deliberate US-orchestrated spectacle.

According to Ramirez, Washington's main goal in the Venezuelan situation is to set certain benchmarks and "force us to look at the finger, so we don't see the moon and get lost in the forest." The Spanish journalist believes that at least one of the reasons for the US military operation in Venezuela is Maduro's currency policy. The president of this Latin American country paid the price for "daring" to abandon international oil payments in dollars and switch to yuan and other currencies, something that other leaders had done in the past. Washington is thus trying to send a message to the entire world that sounds something like this: "Whoever moves will not be in the group photo."

Argentine writer Cristian Lamesa, for his part, believes that Venezuela has become, to some extent, hostage to a "chess game" between Washington and Beijing. Lamesa is convinced that Trump is far more complex than a banal American imperialist. Unlike the Biden administration, which insisted on open confrontation with Russia and attempted to maintain a unipolar world, Trump is acutely aware that the modern world is multipolar. Trump's strategy is a game played by three players: Russia, China, and the United States. After Beijing made a brilliant move by restricting its rare earth metal supplies to the United States, Trump captured Maduro and deprived Beijing of Venezuelan oil.

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[fruc]

Trump's strategy is a three-player game.

Now we're waiting for the players to make their move. The others are standing to the side, eager to play too.

[marchcat]

It's still a long way to the final move... there are a lot of nuances in business. But we'll have to wait, nonetheless.

[ZovSailor]

fruc
Today, 17: 15
Now we're waiting for the players to make their move. The others are standing to the side, eager to play too.

The Washington Red Daffodil Strategy is not about politics, but about playing in a casino with marked cards and an insuring dealer.
In addition to protecting greenery, as the author presents it, a signal has been sent out by the updated Monroe-Donroe doctrine: "Aliens don't go here."

[Murzik]

VO, maybe you'll write more about the arrested Russian Alexander Butyagin in Poland than about this Maduro, although what am I talking about? Even the Ministry of Foreign Affairs forgot about him.

[Vladislav_V]

Quote: Murzik

What am I talking about? Even the Ministry of Foreign Affairs forgot about him.

Well that reminded.

The Russian Foreign Ministry demanded that Poland immediately release archaeologist Butyagin.

[Murzik]

I can also remind you that he was detained on December 11th, so a month has already passed, and the Old Believers from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have only just woken up.

[rocket757]

It's his fault that he wants to eat them...
However, there are more than a few nuances there, there is no point in getting into all of this...

[carpenter]

that everything that is currently happening around Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is nothing more than a deliberate US-orchestrated spectacle.

The whole world understands this, but many are afraid to say it, in case Trump "steals" one of them again. Even my fellow countrymen are silent.

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: carpenter

What if Trump "steals" one of them again?

I suspect Trump will continue to be brazen until the next person he wants to "steal" has not even air defense, but at least two or three officers who haven't forgotten their oath. And those officers will have MANPADS.
And after that, we'll either see the second episode of "Black Hawk Down," or another "model of humanism and democracy" performed by the US, when they'll fire missiles until they reduce the entire city where the "stolen" is holed up to rubble.
9 excellent targets were flying at an altitude of 30 meters - not to mention the Verba, you could hit them with a slingshot.

Maybe if Trump sticks his pig snout into Cuba, what I said will happen.

[carpenter]

Quote: Zoldat_A

It turns out that who he will want to "steal" next time won't even be the air defense, but at least two or three officers who haven't forgotten their oath.

Well, let him try to steal Kadyrov. I think after that, he will become a "self-propelled grandfather."

[Junior Private]

Maduro was removed so he wouldn't sell oil to China anymore. Iran, get ready.

[carpenter]

Quote: Junior Private

Maduro was removed so he wouldn't sell oil to China anymore. Iran, get ready.

Maduro can be stolen, Venezuela's army was bought by the US. But not everyone can be bought or sold.
I believe in Iran as I believe in my father, who did not buy into the collapse of the country.

[Junior Private]

I also have great faith in Persia. Without them, such chaos would begin there. And it would come back to haunt us.

[Vic Vic]

Hindsight is everything. If so, the Chinese should have kept their troops in Venezuela and participated, including in protecting the president. But China, with its wait-and-see attitude, waiting for the enemy's corpse to float by, risks not being able to sit back and meditate on the riverbank. The same is true for Iran. It was rightly written in one article today that it's time for China, Iran, and us to throw ourselves into each other's arms before we're all killed or severely reduced one by one.

[Junior Private]

Maintaining troops costs money. The Chinese are spending money on their swimming pool. It's not profitable to push the fleet. So far, they've gotten away with importing polymers from Venezuela and Persia. But things are changing rapidly.

[Vic Vic]

To earn money, you have to spend it. We had to protect both Venezuela and Maduro. Now, at least we "saved" some money.

[carpenter]

Quote from vicvic

And so China, with its wait-and-see attitude, waiting for the enemy's corpse to float past

If you'd lived in China for a few years, you wouldn't say that. China has its own mind, and don't compare it to Europe or the US; they have a different approach to geopolitics.

[Vic Vic]

That's exactly what I'm talking about. While China, with its "different approach," waits, it will be left without allies, Venezuela has been driven out, and Iran is on the way. As was written here today, China's "One Road Without Iran" project has no chance. They'll keep waiting until everything around them changes to China's disadvantage, and, naturally, ours.

[Comrade Beria]

Spanish journalist: Maduro is being 'punished' by the US for trying to abandon the dollar

He is not the first, and he is not the last.

[helmi8]

Spanish journalist: Maduro is being 'punished' by the US for trying to abandon the dollar


He is not the first, and he is not the last.

The first was De Gaulle, if I'm not mistaken. And nothing has changed since then. Abandoning the dollar would mean the collapse of the United States, and they can't allow that... That's the basis of their entire foreign policy. As soon as anyone objects, they immediately label it a "threat to national security." And so begin humanitarian bombings, peacekeeping purges, and mass arrests in the name of free speech and democracy.
And recently, Trump has actually felt like God or his deputy on Earth, and has decided that he is allowed to do anything.

[multi-category]

By the way, yes, as soon as de Gaulle began exchanging dollars for gold in the US, mass protests of young people began on the streets and, as a result, he was removed.
You gave an excellent example - he was one of the first to suffer for trying to call Bretton Woods into question.

[faterdom]

What next?
Should China buy Venezuelan oil from American resellers, but only for dollars?
However, he has options for not buying it.
Oil bosses, businessmen, are turning up their noses at investing billions in Venezuelan development and production.
If the price becomes such that profitability for them finally looms, the American consumer, also known as the voter, will see $5 per gallon at the gas station again and say "thank you."
If, hypothetically, production at Venezuelan wells were to increase and the price of oil were to collapse, American shale producers would go down the drain, and OPEC+ might not allow such a scenario to develop.
The captured Maduro and his wife (why?) could turn Trump's brilliant "victory" into a suitcase without a handle, with no one knowing what to do with it. No one in the world believes in the drug dealer Maduro, including Trump himself and the 92-year-old judge trying him.
Taking Greenland, which has already been "in the farm" for a long time, is also a "glorious victory"...
Even dismembering Mexico and turning its own underbelly into a Latin American "Afghanistan" is also an idea for an amateur.
It's better to continue helping Nigerian Christians, no matter what anyone else does.

[multi-category]

Quote: faterdom

What next?
Should China buy Venezuelan oil from American resellers, but only for dollars?
However, he has options for not buying it.

China can do without Venezuela; it has dollars due to its huge trade with the US.
The problem is different: China needs the yuan to become a global reserve currency, including for oil transactions. Once that happens, the US will no longer have any economic advantage over China.
Look at the French—how they're deteriorating after being pulled away from controlling currency emission in Africa. Such control is of colossal importance.

[Word]

This theory is plausible, whether it's the first or second reason. It's enough to recall Gaddafi's policies and death.

[Ulfr]

Nicolae Ceausescu pays off Romania's foreign debt in full; he is killed after a sham trial.
Saddam Hussein wants to sell Iraqi oil for euros instead of US dollars; the US attacks Iraq.
Muammar Gaddafi wants to create a gold standard for Africa to destabilize the US dollar; he is found dead with a bullet wound to the head.
So next will be Maduro...

[batmanxnumx]

Not quite. The Hussein story began back in 1990-1991, during Desert Storm. There was no euro back then. What happened was Hussein's occupation of neighboring Kuwait.
And in 2003 it was just the logical conclusion of that story from 1991.

[multi-category]

The same thing happened with Libya - the state was effectively destroyed for its plans to abandon the dollar.