To see how terrible the western media is, just follow its Venezuela coverage.
In a Washington Post op-ed, David Ignatius wrote
“Delay would also allow Maduro’s supporters more time to organize militias to sustain the leftist movement organized by Venezuela’s volcanic dictator Hugo Chávez, who died in 2013.”
Ignatius lies causally and extravagantly about the past while also fully demonizing the Chavista base to facilitate (no doubt hoped for) widespread repression in future. The international media already looks the other way when chavistas are assassinated and has for many years. If a free press existed in the USA and other western countries pundits as ignorant or dishonest as Ignatius would be immediately discredited, but they aren’t which is a key reason why the United States and its allies are so dangerous.
Ignatius writes in the same op-ed
The challenge for the United States, from Syria to the South China Sea, is mobilizing regional partners so that America doesn’t go it alone in maintaining stability.
Think of a Mafia Don who convinces himself and others that he is a good Samaritan.
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