So on what stage of deflection are the “Trump and Biden/Harris are exactly the same” locals at this point? Anybody keeping track?
You really think Harris wouldn’t have done this? Because AmeriKKKa is uniparty in terms of foreign policy.
America is potentially a democracy when it comes to internal affairs but it is absolutely an autocracy from a foreign affairs standpoint since there are only two national level political parties and they have the same foreign policy.
They demonstrably do not, on account of one of the two just having, and I can’t believe I have to keep typing this out, just kidnapped the president of Venezuela and his wife.
I am pretty sure that’s not some bipartisan policy. That’s the ending of a Metal Gear sequel.
That’s the lesson, isn’t it? People just say things online, and the things need to get entirely dissociated from basic reality before it starts showing that they’re just things people say on the Internet.
Screw under-16s. Social media should be banned altogether.
The de facto outcome is the same. A coup would have been staged regardless. The Republicans add a kidnapping for flair / to look good in the eyes of their supporters. In the end the outcome is neocolonialism / American corporate access to resources regardless. The overall geopolitical strategy remains indistinguishable.
I fully believe that you can write fan fiction for evil dems that will take you to whatever arbitrary ending this situation happens to have.
It’s a prodigious stretch to argue that “the outcome is the same” at this point, though. Especially since there is every justification for a solution without Maduro in power that isn’t an illegitimate coup. Because… you know, Maduro did not have legitimacy in the first pace, arguably.
But hey, who cares about details like what was actually happening or what people actually said or did, right? If you squint hard enough it all blurs together sufficiently to keep posting simplistic crap online.
Let’s not get lost in the weeds here. Trump has said that the US is “going to run” Venezuela until a safe proper and judicious transition can occur. Who will power be transferred to? Almost certainly Machado who has already verbalized her willingness to be a Trump/US vassal. This outcome would have happened under a democratic government also, +/- capturing Maduro. It’s not like the US has not captured heads of state to install their puppets before (Panama, as one of many examples).
Venezuela has 20% of global oil and has been selling 65 to 80% of its supply to China over the past several years. It nationalized its oil reserves decades ago which is typically considered a grave sin from the Western perspective (as Iran learned in the 50s). If we’re honestly reflecting on how America handles a situation like this, especially when it’s happened in their own hemisphere, it’s obvious that the elected political party has little impact on this geopolitical outcome.
See, unlike people willing to retroactively support their preferred choices I am making zero assumptions about what’s going to happen.
What Trump says is going to happen and what happens don’t necessarily line up, and there is zero indication that under a different US regime the outcome would be anywhere close to Maduro being deposed. That ship seemed to have very thoroughly sailed at the time of the election.
And certainly, CERTAINLY not this way. Not by kidnapping Maduro by force and hoping that somehow the internal opposition groups are spooked enough to put forward zero resistance to an opposition government as a US puppet. Even if that is nominally implemented at any point, that’s a whole bunch of new ships that need sailing.
So no, not at all the same, not at all an outcome you would have expected from a dem government and not at all something consistent with US geopolitical stances in the past what? thirty, forty years?
The one thing I’ve learned today is that cosplay online leftists will say pretty much anything and that I’m pretty sure any even vaguely left of center leader in the Americas is currently re-reading their emergency protocols. Including those in Canada. And certainly in Greenland.
