As someone who grew up in the Iraq war era, there’s some striking differences here, but disturbing similarities.
The biggest difference is, although I see the cult of all ages still slurping on Trump’s pedophile cream, I see most Gen X to Zoomed fascists I know of being against the war in Venezuela. We didn’t have 9/11 to convince the population this was necessary. Just Trump’s bullshit lies about drugs.
Here’s where things are disturbingly the same: The same old fucks who vehemently supported the Iraq war for years and decades after it came to light Bush and Cheney lied about WMDs, are now all still cheering on the war in Venezuela. Every old fuck I’ve observed online is acting exactly as they did during the Iraq war. These pieces of shit never learned. They never wanted to learn. They are perpetually mentally stuck in the 1950’s image of America that was programmed in their minds irreparably.
The overall dynamics are fundamentally comparable.
Framing Iraq and Saddam as stockpiling weapons and being linked to Al Queda is exactly analogous to framing Venezuela and Maduro as linked to Americans struggling with drug addiction. Further, both invasions are blood for oil. The mechanics of imperialism remains broadly consistent.
As someone who grew up in the Iraq war era, there’s some striking differences here, but disturbing similarities.
The biggest difference is, although I see the cult of all ages still slurping on Trump’s pedophile cream, I see most Gen X to Zoomed fascists I know of being against the war in Venezuela. We didn’t have 9/11 to convince the population this was necessary. Just Trump’s bullshit lies about drugs.
Here’s where things are disturbingly the same: The same old fucks who vehemently supported the Iraq war for years and decades after it came to light Bush and Cheney lied about WMDs, are now all still cheering on the war in Venezuela. Every old fuck I’ve observed online is acting exactly as they did during the Iraq war. These pieces of shit never learned. They never wanted to learn. They are perpetually mentally stuck in the 1950’s image of America that was programmed in their minds irreparably.
The overall dynamics are fundamentally comparable.
Framing Iraq and Saddam as stockpiling weapons and being linked to Al Queda is exactly analogous to framing Venezuela and Maduro as linked to Americans struggling with drug addiction. Further, both invasions are blood for oil. The mechanics of imperialism remains broadly consistent.