So... because mainstream media is terrible and I stopped reading fancy magazines with an international worldview like The Economist, I have barely heard anything about the Venezuela situation since like.... six months ago or whatever so on a lark, I decided to google for any news on Venezuela... plus with the mention in the State of the Union of Juan Guaido, I figured... maybe I can get an update.
Unfortunately two of the top recent articles were from the New York Times and the title of one piqued my curiosity.
Okay... Trump's Shout-Out at the SOTU masks a bleak outlook for Guaido… okay... I'm curious. Read on...
That's right... Mr. Trump (as opposed to President Trump but whatever) is taking up the cause of Venezuela so explicitly that they are making Venezuela a geopolitical pawn... just like Ukraine and other former Soviet states. But a pawn in what you may ask?
Oh... wait... what?
So according to the New York Times, President Trump is using Ukraine... and Venezuela... as pawns... in his new Cold War with Russia?
I was unaware that... Trump was so... favorable to Ukraine and antagonistic to Russia. My impression from media like the New York Times was clearly... contrary to what I'm reading now.
Clearly a complicated world. [/quote]
Unfortunately two of the top recent articles were from the New York Times and the title of one piqued my curiosity.
Opinion | Trump’s Shout-Out Masks a Bleak Outlook for Venezuela’s Guaidó (Published 2020)
The U.S. president has made the troubled South American nation a political pawn in the new cold war with Russia.
www.nytimes.com
Okay... Trump's Shout-Out at the SOTU masks a bleak outlook for Guaido… okay... I'm curious. Read on...
New York Times said:Mr. Trump did emphasize United States leadership with respect to Venezuela, and that is where the problem is. The administration taking up the cause so explicitly a year ago effectively made Venezuela a geopolitical pawn. It is no coincidence that Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, will travel to Venezuela on Friday. The trip not only follows Mr. Trump’s State of the Union address, it comes a week after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s visit to Ukraine and other former Soviet states.
That's right... Mr. Trump (as opposed to President Trump but whatever) is taking up the cause of Venezuela so explicitly that they are making Venezuela a geopolitical pawn... just like Ukraine and other former Soviet states. But a pawn in what you may ask?
New York Times said:The U.S. president has made the troubled South American nation a political pawn in the new cold war with Russia.
Oh... wait... what?
So according to the New York Times, President Trump is using Ukraine... and Venezuela... as pawns... in his new Cold War with Russia?
I was unaware that... Trump was so... favorable to Ukraine and antagonistic to Russia. My impression from media like the New York Times was clearly... contrary to what I'm reading now.
Clearly a complicated world. [/quote]
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