Your citation from the Brumaire moved me to another famous quote from the same text: "Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past." Leaving aside what Trump has said about the Venezualan operation, what has been done may possibly give the US some leverage to weaken, degrade, the ties that have developed with Russia, China, and Iran. That is, if the US really does confine itself to forcing a change in policy and give time for internal domestic changes to take root. I know very little about Latin America, but I am focused on what is transpiring in the Middle East now with Iran. Relatively limited [in duration] military action [ by US] combined with enormoud economic pressure has certainly undermined the regime whose fall may take awhile, but right now seems highly likely.
The juxtaposition with GW Bush's Iraq disaster lends just the right comparative lens to project via the rest of your lucid analysis just how close to the brink of disaster we are. And how dicey are the chances of avoiding a really bad scenario. Don't the Republicans in congress have a realistic survival instinct rather than a fantasy one that thinks Tump could primary them? Can't they see that voters--everyone but die-hard MAGAites--are fleeing him? and even the Maga supporters may rethink things when they can't get health care and their rural hospitals close and there are not enough farm, building, or factory workers to keep the economy moving because ICE has penned them up: legals, illegals, and even American citizens.
Juste, comme toujours.
Your citation from the Brumaire moved me to another famous quote from the same text: "Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past." Leaving aside what Trump has said about the Venezualan operation, what has been done may possibly give the US some leverage to weaken, degrade, the ties that have developed with Russia, China, and Iran. That is, if the US really does confine itself to forcing a change in policy and give time for internal domestic changes to take root. I know very little about Latin America, but I am focused on what is transpiring in the Middle East now with Iran. Relatively limited [in duration] military action [ by US] combined with enormoud economic pressure has certainly undermined the regime whose fall may take awhile, but right now seems highly likely.
The juxtaposition with GW Bush's Iraq disaster lends just the right comparative lens to project via the rest of your lucid analysis just how close to the brink of disaster we are. And how dicey are the chances of avoiding a really bad scenario. Don't the Republicans in congress have a realistic survival instinct rather than a fantasy one that thinks Tump could primary them? Can't they see that voters--everyone but die-hard MAGAites--are fleeing him? and even the Maga supporters may rethink things when they can't get health care and their rural hospitals close and there are not enough farm, building, or factory workers to keep the economy moving because ICE has penned them up: legals, illegals, and even American citizens.
Completely agree. I am frustrated by our helplessness at the face of it all.