US Interventionism In Venezuela

Right now, the US government is actively and openly endorsing interventionism in Venezuela.

I know many people are going to claim this is only Trump but have you heard “The Resistance” oppose this? At what point have you heard any organized faction of our government or media oppose the illegal invasion or attack of any country in our history? Ever? I’d be really interested if anyone can name one single time that has happened which they can recall.

First of all, I am going to address Trump supporters on this. Trump campaigned on and has promised a policy of no interventionism or regime change. Yet here he and his administration is, endorsing some guy to replace the democratically elected president Maduro. The endorsed replacement is some guy whose name has been basically never heard in corporate or independent media until this week. So now Trump supporters have to face the fact that Trump is no better than Hillary or Obama, because this is a move they would have performed. Exactly, to the letter.

Trumpbama. In fact, Obama was the one who got the ball rolling on Venezuela. Assisted, of course, by then SoS Hillary Clinton.

While Trump and the neoliberal media (who completely support Trump on this) rage about the conditions in Venezuela, they fully neglect to mention that the problems the country is facing have been caused by US sanctions on Venezuela. Those sanctions began with Obama/Hillary, before Maduro ever took office. Those sanctions have continued under Obama and made worse…