This whole Venezuela thing is really confusing. You know I really can't wait for grown men to slobber all over Trump's grave crying crocodile tears "Myeeh his family lost a father!" But it's fucking astounding how quickly literally everyone has forgotten Nicholas Maduro's actions over the past 20 years like what the fuck? Dude was a top eight worst world leader just maybe a step or two down from leaders who genocided cooked and ate their own people. He didn't rule Venezuela with some iron fist or something but he did not do one single thing right and even did a great many things with the antithesis of helping his people in mind.
Unfortunately, like most discourse today, partisan allegiance often takes precedence, and rationalization follows. Given US attempts at regime change over the past few decades, I think it's perfectly reasonable to be skeptical here, but by no means are Trump's actions wildly out of step with a lot of political theorists when it comes to Venezuela; the liberals I listen to, like Fukuyama or Yascha Mounk, agree that the Maduro admin is wildly corrupt and fraudulently declared himself the winner of the last election, and something needed to be done about it. There are just disagreements about how exactly to kick him and his corrupt government out of power.
What's the thing?
This post was edited by Jupe on Jan 3 2026 05:42am