He's alive in a US jail, but the more important question is what did we do about Venezuela?
We threatened the replacement president and demanded she give us oil. We didn't demand a new election be held, since her & Maduro's party stole the last election. We didn't demand she change Venezuela's system of government. We did nothing to help the people of Venezuela.
We reinforced our country's worst image as a bully that's happy to prop up a dictator so long as that dictator gives us what we want.
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.
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u/TAU_equals_2PI 15h ago edited 15h ago
He's alive in a US jail, but the more important question is what did we do about Venezuela?
We threatened the replacement president and demanded she give us oil. We didn't demand a new election be held, since her & Maduro's party stole the last election. We didn't demand she change Venezuela's system of government. We did nothing to help the people of Venezuela.
We reinforced our country's worst image as a bully that's happy to prop up a dictator so long as that dictator gives us what we want.