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They’re Lying About Venezuela. What Happens Next? – Second Thought
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Citations and Further Reading:

War with Venezuela
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/52s-fly-off-coast-venezuela-show-force-trump/story?id=126589822
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/us/politics/trump-covert-cia-action-venezuela.html

War polls
https://today.yougov.com/international/articles/53298-the-us-navy-deployment-near-venezuela-has-become-even-less-popular

The Venezuelan “Cartel”
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/24/politics/venezuela-terrorist-designation-maduro#:~:text=his%20government%20has%20repeatedly%20denied%20the%20existence%20of%20the%20alleged%20cartel%2C%20which%20some%20experts%20suggest%20technically%20doesn%E2%80%99t%20exist%20in%20a%20conventional%20sense

María Corina Machado

https://rumble.com/v6pnsc0-breaking-news-my-father-revokes-biden-maduro-oil-license-live-with-maria-co.html

Chevron
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/us/politics/trump-weighs-attacks-venezuela.html#:~:text=Chevron%20would%20be%20best%20positioned%20for%20what%20the%20Trump%20administration%20believes%20would%20be%20a%20boom%20in%20investment%20in%20the%20country%E2%80%99s%20huge%20oil%20reserves

US foreign interventions

US launched 251 military interventions since 1991, and 469 since 1798

The end of unipolarity https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/stagnant-order-michael-beckley
https://www.ft.com/content/3ae78a93-231b-4006-8739-5738cc367cac
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/opinion/trump-brazil-india-tariffs.html
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/trump-american-century-diplomacy
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/usaid-donald-trump-elon-musk

Sanctions as Civilizational Warfare

Global military spending
https://www.sipri.org/sites/default/files/2025-04/2504_fs_milex_2024.pdf

GDP
https://www.imf.org/en/publications/weo/weo-database/2024/october/weo-report?c=924,111&s=PPPGDP&sy=2024&ey=2026&ssm=0&scsm=1&ssd=1&scc=1&ssc=1&sic=0&sort=country&ds=.&br=0

US UN diplomacy
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-fails-make-big-dent-un-vote-calling-end-cuba-embargo-2025-10-29

US reputation

Ranked: Countries With the Best Reputations in 2025

LatAm trading partners
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/trump-american-century-diplomacy/

Hakim USAID vid

USAID funding cuts deaths
https://www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?view=table&sort=title&order=asc
https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/07/01/nx-s1-5452513/trump-usaid-foreign-aid-deaths

US LatAm strategy
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-National-Security-Strategy.pdf#page=19.29

Sacrifices made for multipolarity

Trumping Hegemonic Stability Theory

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