{"id":144410,"date":"2026-01-18T08:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T08:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=144410"},"modified":"2026-01-18T08:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T08:30:13","slug":"us-venezuela-raid-shows-geopolitics-is-now-a-contest-between-economic-blocs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=144410","title":{"rendered":"US\u2019 Venezuela raid shows geopolitics is now a contest between economic blocs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe latest developments in Venezuela are interpreted as part of a broader US strategy to secure access to major oil resources. They are much more than that: the US raid signals a transformation in the global economy wherein a country\u2019s power is increasingly determined not by its political actions, but by its capacity to embed resource wealth within a self-sustaining production system.<br \/>\nThese deeper processes did not begin today, but rather around 2008-2009 when, according to an integrated&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/world-opinion\/article\/3339789\/us-venezuela-raid-shows-geopolitics-now-contest-between-economic-blocs?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe latest developments in Venezuela are interpreted as part of a broader US strategy to secure access to major oil resources. They are much&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144410"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}