A close reading [10] of the facts indicates [11] that Putin and Trump worked out a global carve-up [12] in which Russia gets Ukraine and the US gets Venezuela. This was implicitly acknowledged in the "Trump Corollary [13]" to the Monroe Doctrine enshrined in the National Security Strategy [14] released by the White House weeks before the illegal [15] Venezuela attack was launched [16]. In this light, Russian protests [17] of the US aggression at the UN Security Council seem strictly pro forma. Both dissident left voices [18] in Venezuela and democratic socialists [19] in Ukraine have made the point that to betray one country is to betray the other. In Episode 312 [20] of the CounterVortex podcast [21], Bill Weinberg demonstrates how the global divide-and-rule racket [22] that is campism has never made less sense.
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