What? Thats just blatantly false, Guyana’s top trade partners are 1.7 billion with the US, 700m to Singapore, and 250m to the UAE. The UK is in fourth place with only 6 percent of the market trade share. How is that “most of the trade still goes to the UK?” They trade with dozens of countries.
Also yes… Guyana was a British colony that utilized plantation slavery. Same as in a lot of British colonies. Its a shame that the indigenous leadership that arose afterwards nationalized all of those assets and tore down the plantation system.
Why lie? Really? “They aren’t a sovereign nation?” If this was any other western country encroaching their neighbor for resources you would be frothing at the mouth in defense, but because its Venezuela you’re perfectly alright with resource annexation?
If you’re going to try and defend this, at least try to not make random facts up.
My bad, let’s switch BP with Exxon Mobil. As is, The country is dominated by imperial powers. I genuinely do not care what Venezuela is doing there because I am aware that the US and Britain have been meddling there in a far greater capacity. I also live in the west, so my countries leader probably has diplomatic ties to England or the US and is currently sanctioning Venezuela. I’d say my voice would go a lot further discussing the west ties to these nation rather than a nation like Venezuela where the only course left for the west is military engagement. It’s almost like you are rooting for western military intervention, and that comes across as an odd place to be on an anti imperialist forum.
(Yea They Nationalized things but we’re then overthrown in well documented election interference campaigns to elect neoliberal. Look at a map and see who is drilling for these resources, it’s Exxon Mobil.)
What? Thats just blatantly false, Guyana’s top trade partners are 1.7 billion with the US, 700m to Singapore, and 250m to the UAE. The UK is in fourth place with only 6 percent of the market trade share. How is that “most of the trade still goes to the UK?” They trade with dozens of countries.
https://wits.worldbank.org/CountrySnapshot/en/GUY/textview#:~:text=Guyana exports to United States,partner share of 6.90 percent.
Also yes… Guyana was a British colony that utilized plantation slavery. Same as in a lot of British colonies. Its a shame that the indigenous leadership that arose afterwards nationalized all of those assets and tore down the plantation system.
Why lie? Really? “They aren’t a sovereign nation?” If this was any other western country encroaching their neighbor for resources you would be frothing at the mouth in defense, but because its Venezuela you’re perfectly alright with resource annexation?
If you’re going to try and defend this, at least try to not make random facts up.
My bad, let’s switch BP with Exxon Mobil. As is, The country is dominated by imperial powers. I genuinely do not care what Venezuela is doing there because I am aware that the US and Britain have been meddling there in a far greater capacity. I also live in the west, so my countries leader probably has diplomatic ties to England or the US and is currently sanctioning Venezuela. I’d say my voice would go a lot further discussing the west ties to these nation rather than a nation like Venezuela where the only course left for the west is military engagement. It’s almost like you are rooting for western military intervention, and that comes across as an odd place to be on an anti imperialist forum.
(Yea They Nationalized things but we’re then overthrown in well documented election interference campaigns to elect neoliberal. Look at a map and see who is drilling for these resources, it’s Exxon Mobil.)