It is not the same thing.
Two headlines.
QuoteMexican president says no evidence of fraud in Venezuela elections
QuoteVenezuela's Dictator Can't Even Lie Well
It is not hard to tell which one is the lie. The second was written by Anne Applebaum. I know who she is. She is a total tool of the State Department. A cheerleader propagandist for empire. She has pissed me off more than once. She pisses me off every time she opens her
The pain in Venezuela is a direct result of American Aggression. Collapse from rich American white privilege is a different kind of collapse than the kind of collapse we general concern ourselves with here.
* As I typed I heard the first ripping thunder of the fucking Blue Angels. Top Gun is back in town as it is every year for seafair. Will spectators be thinking about proxy wars? If they did, they would hide with the dogs.
But perhaps the spectators think. My genocide, right or wrong.