Thread by @venanalysis

When it comes to effortless imperialist cheerleading, no one can top the Wall Street Journal. The headline already says it all, as apparently China buying oil from Iran and Venezuela has something to do with Biden. American exceptionalism in a nutshell

wsj.com/articles/china…

The entire article is built around this premise. China buying oil from Iran and Venezuela kind of ruins US regime change plans. Or as the @WSJ puts it, it's a "challenge to two Biden administration foreign-policy priorities"

We won't go into all the falsehoods about Iran and the nuclear deal, since that's outside our jurisdiction. The Vzla bits are egregious enough: "the U.S. has been trying to use sanctions to pressure the Maduro regime into holding credible democratic elections." #SanctionsKill

The idea is repeated later on. Supposedly the US is killing tens of thousands of Venezuelans out of its love for democracy, not because it's a decadent empire trying to place a worthless puppet in power so Venezuela becomes a de facto colony once again

Then we have another edition of the corporate media's favored "he/she/they said" trick. "Chinese officials have long criticized U.S. policy in Iran and Venezuela [...] as unilateral and coercive." Well, it is unilateral and coercive by US officials' own admission...

"For the U.S.-China relationship, [...] Beijing’s crude trade with two of Washington’s top foes adds another major irritant."

Yes, how dare countries sell oil to China to feed their population knowing it is "an irritant" for the imperial overlords?

And finally, a US official gets to matter-of-factly vow to murder as many Vzlans as it takes to secure regime change. "We’re going to use our sanction tools to make sure that we’re eliminating those options [for the Maduro gov't]" #HandsOffVenezuela

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