If Maduro Was So Dangerous, Why Did Trump Deport the People Who Fled Him?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The Trump administration wants it both ways.

On Saturday, it tells us that Nicolás Maduro is such a uniquely dangerous despot — so criminal, so destabilizing, so irredeemable — that the United States had no choice but to remove him from power by force. Maduro, we are told, is a narco-dictator, a human rights abuser, a menace to his own people and to regional stability.

On Sunday, the same administration will continue putting Venezuelan asylum seekers on planes and deport them back to the country that, according to its own rhetoric, was so dangerous it required regime change.

This is not just hypocrisy. It is a logical impossibility masquerading as policy.

https://saltypolitics.substack.com/p/if-maduro-was-so-dangerous-why-did

[Easterncedar]

1. What an excellent question

I have been trying to figure out how to frame this.

[markie]

2. oil..... n/t

[Colgate 64]

3. It was never about Maduro

just like it was never about drugs. It's about what it has always been about - Venezuela's huge proven reserves for oil. Trump has decided it's time to pay off the Petroleum giants who gifted his campaign with $1BB.

[Skittles]

4. yup

Iraq's "WMDs" are now Venezuelan "drugs". Our military was used to help Trump and his rich asshole friends exploit oil benefits.