The few versus the many

From Venezuela to Pakistan, foreign interference continues to undermine the true will of the people

I was reading the NYT when I came across a very astonishing phrase. It was about the future government of Venezuela. The headline was: "House Foreign Affairs Members Call for Machado to Govern Venezuela". And the article was talking about how the members of the said house of the United States government wanted to place Maria Corina Machado as the next leader of the country, whose sitting leader was kidnapped by the United States a few weeks ago.

Last time I checked, the members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee of the US government were not citizens of Venezuela. But somehow, not only do they decide who the leader of Venezuela should be, but also, somehow, deep down, we have come to terms with this foreign interference-driven global politics.

It seems as though the nations of the world all agree that democracy is the best form of government, yet that is also the most common grudge any given nation holds against the other.

The United States is angry with the Iranian regime for listening to its people instead of being what it calls a pro-business regime, which is a code word for a regime that would be controlled by the US and which would allow US oil corporations to go into Iran and extract the oil for the benefit of the few powerful elites instead of the millions of the Iranian people. Mosaddegh had committed that sin in the 1950s by wanting his country's oil to benefit his people, for which he was dearly punished. Iran wasn't bashed or punished by the US when it had a regime that listened to the Washington, D.C. masters instead of the Iranian people. The qualms started when the people started having a say after 1979.

Israel is upset with America, where the citizenry is no longer overwhelmingly pro-Israel. That is the main reason why the control of TikTok was wrested from China. The younger generation is not buying the nonsense of Palestinian land being promised to the Jews 2000 years ago. Israel has been actively buying up politicians in America for decades now in order to ensure that the American people are not listened to when it comes to the US foreign policy toward the Middle East. All this while, the American politicians have been cherishing an American and Israeli relationship based on shared values of democracy and human rights, which in reality qualifies to be a sick joke because America has been suppressing democracies globally, in many cases for the sake of Israel, and Israel has been using American money to suppress American democracy.

Pakistan was always in the American mainstream news, portrayed as a very, very bad country. Notice that that was also the time that the country was making noise about thousands of Pakistanis being killed in the war on terror and the Do-More madness. America has always wanted Pakistan to listen to America instead of its own citizens so as to protect the interests of the American Military Industrial Complex.

Hamas has been elevated to a different level of villainhood today, but in 2006, they were a party that had embraced the ballot and were overwhelmingly elected by the Palestinian people in the election. When the Palestinian people voted the way the US and Israel did not want, punishment was unleashed upon the Palestinian people. Americans wanted the election to result in what they wanted it to, not what the Palestinians voted for. Once again, an alien wanted to suppress the democracy of an alien state.

Various nations around the world and American corporations pay a handsome amount of money through American lobbies in order to influence the American government's decision-making so that it can be tilted toward favouring the interests of that certain nation or corporation, thereby ignoring what the American people voted for.

The world pays lip service to democracy, but the real ambition is to suppress it using any means necessary. Money, murder, kidnapping, sex tapes, to name a few. Anything goes.