The Orange Don is certainly not the first U.S. President to abuse the power of the nation to impose its political will on a sovereign nation. He’s not even the first president to kidnap a sovereign leader. Indeed, current U.S. actions in this South American nation is…pretty much the standard operating procedure.
Yes, it’s likely this is a Wag the Dog situation. Again, nothing new. It is certainly a blatant and violent intervention by the United States in the interests of American Corporations. Gen. Smedley Butler talked about that in the thirty when he described it as a “racket.”
As far as Venezuela is concerned, Situation Normal…All Fucked Up!
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