The only time American foreign policy ever approached moral was back in the 1800s. Since then, it’s been brutally amoral, always driven by considerations of power. So, too, has every other nations’. Trump drops some of the hypocrisy. From el gato malo at boriquagato.substack.com:
the lessons of international order for domestic systems
the US mission to venezuela, snatching maduro and his wife from their very home, shattering what was alleged to be a next gen chinese air defense without a single loss of aircraft, and decapitating a (to many minds) illegitimate and certainly (to any reasonable mind) an oppressive government is a controversial act with widespread geopolitical ramifications that go beyond just monroe doctrine, energy, and intelligence community/NGO meddling (though it contains all these things).
i shall perhaps dig into that in a later stack, but for the purposes of this one i’d like to speak of the tribal and systemic response to the operation in which all the predictable people are saying the predictable things
you hardly have to be a frontier LLM to guess how the sentences of virtually every speaker here end and there can be little doubt that team donkey would be trying to gear up for “impeachment 3.0: the lawfare continues” were they in power in congress.
(from this story)
and, of course, the endlessly agitated “protestariariat” is out again claiming to stand for the venezuelan people who themselves are in the streets cheering for this. you kind of cannot make this up.
Saw a comment about at least be open about empire.
The editorial said it was about preserving the petro shekel.
That shining beacon on a hill fairytale is for children.