V Prashad is one of my favourite persons but he is tilting at straw men here. No leftist claim that Trump is worse than the others. Some do claim he is more candid, and to that extent a bit better. He leaves the MSM no space for hypocrisy

I thought the 1823 Monroe doctrine was the US warning Europe to stay out of the Americas in return for which the US would stay out of Europe. Teddy Roosevelt amended it, claiming the US had the positive right to police South America. Trump could claim to his base that he has stopped interfering in Europe because he has persuaded the Europeans to bear the. cost of an unwinnable war. His Maga supporters might support the Donroe doctrine in their hemisphere but only up to the point it costs them tax payers money

Still unclear how the Venezualans in Venezualans are reacting to the outrage. The BBCs bimbo stringer, a Venezualan, explained that there was no dancing in the street at the removal of Madura because the Madura regime had made them too frightend to demonstrate. Cdntmakeitup

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