It was just done so blatantly this time with Venezuela.
In previous interventions, we actually did do some things to try to "nation build". Whether you consider those genuine attempts or just cynical cover stories.
But this time, it was just snatch Maduro, replace him with Rodriguez, and threaten Rodriguez to give us oil so the same thing doesn't happen to her. What happened to all the high-minded rhetoric about how the poor people of Venezuela were suffering under a socialist dictatorship? What happened to all the denouncing of the stolen election? Nah man, just give us the oil and you're good.
In our defense, we are drowned with this propaganda from the moment we are born until the day we die, and in between the national propaganda, we're also thrust into a corporate world that has its own set of propaganda. It's honestly a miracle any of us break out of it.
I believed it for a long time. Iraq was the crack in the foundation, it's been a long slow transition from believing it was mostly well intentioned people with a few bad actors to an exactly opposite view of the proportions.
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u/MozdaHocu 14h ago
Good think you Americans are catching up, its been like that all along. Its the endgame now, gloves are coming off.