Instead of making policy decisions in the best interests of the United States and the people of Venezuela, our government caters to the obsessions of unrepresentative hardliners and exiles.
What's frustrating is that Biden had a clear mandate to undo practically anything Trump did, in the US' relations with Iran, Russia, China, and Venezuela in particular, and he's changed absolutely nothing.
All of this assumes that the United States cares about ordinary Venezuelans or their lives or suffering. The United States most manifestly does not.
If anything, it actively desires that these people suffer, in that the United States derives no discernable benefit from these people's sufferings other than the fact of their suffering, of punishing those perceived to be "enemies" simply because it is able to do so, and that is benefit enough.
TL:DR: the United States as imperial hegemon is not merely clueless. It is actively malevolent.
Guaidó has been a complete joke from the beginning. It is absolutely pathetic that we carry on the charade of his "presidency." Unrelated (sort of), is it only me, or does Zelensky look more like Fidel Castro with every passing day? Will Ukraine become our next Cuban revolution? I suppose not, but one almost has to hope he turns on his American supporters sooner rather than later when he's tired of be told what to do and say.
What's frustrating is that Biden had a clear mandate to undo practically anything Trump did, in the US' relations with Iran, Russia, China, and Venezuela in particular, and he's changed absolutely nothing.
All of this assumes that the United States cares about ordinary Venezuelans or their lives or suffering. The United States most manifestly does not.
If anything, it actively desires that these people suffer, in that the United States derives no discernable benefit from these people's sufferings other than the fact of their suffering, of punishing those perceived to be "enemies" simply because it is able to do so, and that is benefit enough.
TL:DR: the United States as imperial hegemon is not merely clueless. It is actively malevolent.
Guaidó has been a complete joke from the beginning. It is absolutely pathetic that we carry on the charade of his "presidency." Unrelated (sort of), is it only me, or does Zelensky look more like Fidel Castro with every passing day? Will Ukraine become our next Cuban revolution? I suppose not, but one almost has to hope he turns on his American supporters sooner rather than later when he's tired of be told what to do and say.