Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes

It is definitely not Russia unprovokenly and illegibly attacking its neighbor, so why even care?

last unredacted copy of epstein files /s

after Iran and now venezuela

Iran, I totally understand that if they want to acquire nuclear weapon but Venezuela ????

what are they want to do in Venezuela ????? Oil ??

> They didn't even try very hard to manufacture consent

Chomsky was smart and influential. But he was a linguist. Not a political scientist. The manufacturing-consent hypothesis sort of worked under mass media. But even then, it wasn't a testable hypothesis, more a story of history.

In today's world, unless you're willing to dilute the term to just persuasion in general, I'm not sure it applies.

Instead, the dominant force here is apathy. Most Americans historically haven't (and probably won't) risk life, liberty or material wealthy on a foreign-policy position. Not unless there is a draft. (I'm saying Americans, but this is true in most democracies.)

I think it will be regarded as a poor move long term to so boldly put the us stamp on what will undoubtedly become a chaotic situation over the next decade or two

I'm admittedly somewhat ignorant of all the details but I don't see what the real benefit is

my only guess is that it's to disincentivize the Russians and Chinese from being more involved in South America but it feels like it could do the opposite and act as an annoying wedge