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They may complain & suffer the consequences of a bad Gov, but a foreign power invading their home land .. Never! They'll unite & fight back any occupying force. Not uniformed with direct armed confrontation, but underground operations.

A lot of talk about oil. Very little talk about democracy. The opposite of the Bush years' Iraq rhetoric, but the same goal. Greed and profits. Same as it ever was.

Thank you for the article. It's interesting to hear how much better things were under Chavez. As far as right-wing Americans are concerned, they were both evil, Cuba-supporting communists.

An absent yet omnipotent state. Sounds kind of familiar, doesn’t it? All authority and no responsibility sure sounds like the Trump administration. Here’s a fun one: Will Russell Vought help them with their health care and infrastructure the same way he helped us? Will Trump feed or clothe them? No.

this is what happens if Dutch disease is allowed to run untreated for decades. All other industries die away, and when the resource industry in question crashes, the economy goes into debt and the other industries don't recover. Exactly what saudi arabia and other gulf states are trying to avoid