Sorry if this is a stupid question, what doe MIC stand for?

Yeah the Imperialist machine has come to an impasse where the only real targets left are extremely daunting hard targets, but Venezuela is for sure the weakest. The Imperial apparatus wants Venezuela, Iran, Russia and the grand prize China. All of these will result in massive casualties and destabilization. Unfortunately though I think in Venezuela the mass casualties would mostly be Venezuelans. They’d just use iron fisted fascism to rule it.

The contradictions of the American Bourgeoisie are wild rn. I think it’s more complex than small holders vs big capital but that is part of it. You have heavy industry like oil & gas, mining, construction that often is very big money, in Coalition with the petit bourgeois small property holders against a liberal coalition of tech, finance, and urban PMC interests. It’s gotten to the point that they basically can’t peacefully coexist. One of them has to dominate the other.