Venezuela Archive
10 Dec 2025
Why seizing Venezuelan tankers tells us more about Iran than Venezuela
TLDRUPFront: A deep-dive analysis on the history and evolution of Iranian sanctions, why they are hitting exceptionally hard right now, and what that has to do with the US seizure of a Venezuelan oil tanker bound for Iran.
24 Feb 2014
Historical Mullet: From Arab Spring to Maidan Revolution to…Caracas Venezuela?
TLDRUpFront: Tactics pioneered in the Arab Spring transplanted to Kiev are now showing up in Caracas. And the 'civil revolution' in Ukraine is starting to struggle as moderates and militants split and concerns of fascism within the revolutionary movement grow and may risk Russian intervention.
05 Mar 2009
Historical Mullet: The Atlas Shrugged Scenario Being Played Out
A post using the Venezuelan crisis to illustrate an "Atlas-Shrugged" effect, predictions of how it might play out and considerations for our own economy. Also an early visible struggle with trying to express dynamic feedback in written forms.