This guy's pattern recognition for analyzing the Venezuela
situation is kind of fascinating. It’s another Substack video, but with a transcript (see below) I would say he does a good job with his analysis. A little difficult to follow, but DU’ers can handle it.
https://open.substack.com/pub/defiance13/p/venezuela-as-exit-positioning
Transcript is there too, here is the beginning:
Removing a dictator is not what anyone is upset about.
That needs to be said plainly, because a large share of the reaction to Venezuela has been intentionally flattened into a dishonest binary. Nicolás Maduro is not a misunderstood figure. He is not a noble anti-imperialist hero crushed by Western paranoia. He presided over a state hollowed out by corruption, repression, and economic collapse. You do not have to defend him, excuse him, or mourn his fall to ask serious questions about how the United States acted, what legal justifications were constructed after the fact, and what power arrangements are being assembled in his absence.
Reducing criticism of U.S. actions to “support for Maduro” is not analysis … it’s a rhetorical escape hatch. It avoids engaging with how power actually works. Opposition to a method is not allegiance to a man. In global politics, the how matters as much as the who, because methods set precedent, and precedent outlives villains.
The real question is not whether Maduro deserved to fall.
The real question is what is being built in the vacuum his removal creates.
Because this does not look like liberation.
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