How Deep, Señor Penn? – small dead animals

h/t TLH

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it usually takes awhile but eventually socialism fails. there is one truth that is undeniable, and this is, that EVERBODY CANNOT HAVE EVERTHING.

According to Joan Leishman, CBC Radio’s risible foreign-policy expert, it was still all about the oil prices. Not a peep about the well-publicized shortages and lineups well before oil prices collapsed. I haven’t heard anything from her lately; maybe she was overwhelmed by a sense of bathos.

Defining what “failure” is depends on your perspective.
The Chavezista kleptocrat rulers like their socialist
peers in Cuba, Zimbabwe, etc, are hardly failures if
you check their bank balances.

When you have massed riots in the streets your rule of a country is failing.
When the United States is publically considering the chaos of your failure to rule a security threat to the United States, they are considering an invasion.
Fail and fail.
Cuba had Russia to prop them up, Zimbabwe gets propped up by the British Commonwealth. Who is propping up Venezuela? Nobody.

Who is propping up Venezuela? Nobody.
Actually, Iran has had a presence in that country ever since Chavez started kissing up to it. Also, Cuba also has military personnel there, presumably assisting in controlling the masses. John Batchelor had an item about it on his show a few days ago.
Using Cuban troops to prop up a failing leftist government is nothing new. It happened in Angola during the civil war there over 40 years ago and that was why the communist side won.

I’m sorry I didn’t make myself clear enough. Who is propping up Venezuela with needed food and drugs or money to buy such things? Who is trading with Venezuela and giving them hard currency?
When did Russia support Cuba with troops or the British Commonwealth prop up Zimbabwe with troops?
Context.

Venezuela is socialist failure on steroids, a great case study of the coercive progressive state, being so much wiser than the serfs who support it.
The video clearly shows socialism is venom to economies, never sustainable, like the sun running out of H2, expanding outward and engulfing society.
This is why Americans insist on keeping their guns. The coercive state is ALWAYS corrupt and only emotion, hatred and violence can salve that.

When did Russia support Cuba with troops
October 1962
British Commonwealth prop up Zimbabwe with troops
When it was still called Rhodesia and before Ian Smith declared independence in 1965.

Russia isn’t helping, it’s “helping” …
“The financials confirm several parts of the explosive Rosneft story published by Reuters on Friday, which said the Russian company had prepaid PDVSA $1.49 billion for future oil shipments in 2016, with a collateral on 49.9% of Citgo’s shares. Also, on April 2017, Rosneft again paid PDVSA $1.02 billion in advance for future oil shipments. These schemes, devised in desperation to make ends meet, could severely compromise future cash flows for the company.”
https://www.caracaschronicles.com/2017/08/15/picking-through-the-crazy-in-pdvsas-financial-statement-2/
There’s a few nuggets in this financial statement, including:
“Revenue was down 33.5% from $72.2 billion in 2015 to $48 billion in 2016. Net income was down a staggering 88.2% from $7.3 billion to $0.83 billion. Oil output dropped 10% to 2.57 million barrels per day, from 2.9 million in 2015.”
Perhaps predictable after Baker Hughs stopped working in Venezuela, leaving a 1 billion debt that Venezuela can’t possibly pay.
It’s not such a long summation, it’s easy to see that even if oil had stayed at + $100. / barrel, the country would run out of money. That oil crashed to less than 1/2 that has only sped it up by a few years.
There’s never enough money… ect…
Note in paragraph 5 that the author brings up KPMG isn’t really putting their good name on this report. So the chance that the report is overly optimistic is likely.
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Look, I’m nearly 60 yrs old, I know history.
The Cuban people were not in open revolt in 1962, Russian troops were in Cuba to train them on and install missile systems. The Russians were not there to support Cuban troops, who were VETERANS of the Cuban revolution and had overthrown Batista’s forces and government in 1959, less than 2 years earlier..
Rhodesia was not and is not Zimbabwe. If it is your contention that the Rhodesian government was socialist, your are wrong.
Rhodesia was staunchly anti-communist.
Context.

Could it possibly be a social-political-economic system that derived from Termite Mounds? Or
the political prisoners, the gulags, the secret police or genocides? Maybe it was the fact
that once vibrant capitalist economy has been reduced to rubble like Haiti or Zimbabwe.

I’m sure they can. They just have to take turns. Very, very short ones.

yer nearly 60 and know history, really, yer a blowhard who has absolutely no clue about history. Yes the Russian troops did help with suppressing the Cuban people, who were disarmed and unable to “open revolt”.I happen to be a little older than you and remember things a little better, because I listened to the news. 60 years would make that you were a kid, uninterested in the news, in 1962. And you libtards always spin the news to suit your narrative

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/15/world/us-underestimated-soviet-force-in-cuba-during-62-missile-crisis.html
McNamara was told this in 1987, it was made public in 1992. When did you hear the news? In 1962. Riiiight. Sure.
No revolt by Cuban people. Bay of Pigs invasion FAILED in April 1961. It was not supported by civil revolt.
On what basis is it your contention that Russian troops helped suppress the Cuban people? Link?

I sent an email to ms Klein’s contact info.
got a ‘get back to ya on that’. ya, riiiiight . . . . .

You made a very good point Oz. Then, like now the vanguards of revolutions were the children of privilege.
It was mainly the pseudo-intellectual college students who were brainwashed by their professors who
took up the torches and pitchforks. The peasants were too busy eeking out a living on small family farms
and the petty capitalists too busy engaging in commerce to take up the cause of revolution.
Revolution is rarely taken up by the masses. Socialism and communism are usually taken up by idle “Yoots,”
and idle minds. The “Masses” almost never engage in socialist or communist revolutions. All it takes is
10-15% to achieve the overthrow of the government. They were not a factor in 1962 Cuba or the earlier
communist revolution. The idea that the masses revolted in Russia, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, or Cuba
is history revision. The first objective is to overthrow the government. The second objective
always to suppress the masses!

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