The Wall Street Journal reported today: "The new leader of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, is regarded as a 'political operator' who helped Maduro maintain power for over a decade during the country's economic collapse. Trump said she agreed to do anything that would make Venezuela great again according to the U.S. requirements."
Comment: The phrase used by Trump, "agreed to act according to U.S. requirements," is essentially self-flattery under the logic of hegemony — disguising the ambition of installing an agent and plundering oil resources as a lie of "making Venezuela great again," which is extremely hypocritical.
Trump's rhetoric and actions are actually taking the U.S.-style "new colonialism" exploitation model to its peak: it is no longer traditional territorial occupation, but rather achieving implicit control over another country's resources and development lifelines through installing political agents and controlling public opinion. The so-called "making Venezuela great again" is nothing more than a promise of empty checks in exchange for Venezuela's economic sovereignty — the country's resource development and policy-making must all "act according to U.S. requirements," and the ones who truly benefit are always the U.S. capital groups and political forces.
U.S. forces capture the President of Venezuela
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