For the last year, European friends-turned-frenemies of the #UnitedStates have delicately navigated one shock after another, hoping for the best as #Trump threatened to lay waste to the #GlobalOrder.
When Trump scolded #NATO #allies, lambasted #Ukraine’s president, laid on #tariffs & framed ratified #treaties as conditional deals, the go-to play by #Europe was to placate—with #military #spending pledges, #trade concessions, disciplined summits, in language scrubbed of #morality or judgment.

For the last year, European friends-turned-frenemies of the #UnitedStates have delicately navigated one shock after another, hoping for the best as #Trump threatened to lay waste to the #GlobalOrder.
When Trump scolded #NATO #allies, lambasted #Ukraine’s president, laid on #tariffs & framed ratified #treaties as conditional deals, the go-to play by #Europe was to placate—with #military #spending pledges, #trade concessions, disciplined summits, in language scrubbed of #morality or judgment.

Rebecca Solnit lists five facets of the attack on Venezuela "by the rogue nation the US has become:

1. They are saying it baldly: this is an oil grab.

2. The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else.

#Trump #Maduro #Venezuela #oil #FossilFuels #RogueNation #GlobalOrder
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https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/five-facets-of-the-attack-on-venezuela-by-the-rogue-nation-the-us-has-become/

5. Peace means many things, and it exists or is sabotaged at many levels.

#Trump #Maduro #Venezuela #oil #FossilFuels #RogueNation #GlobalOrder
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Rebecca Solnit lists five facets of the attack on Venezuela "by the rogue nation the US has become:

1. They are saying it baldly: this is an oil grab.

2. The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else.

#Trump #Maduro #Venezuela #oil #FossilFuels #RogueNation #GlobalOrder
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https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/five-facets-of-the-attack-on-venezuela-by-the-rogue-nation-the-us-has-become/