By Caitlin Johnstone
CaitlinJohnstone.com
December 4, 2025
President Trump has been holding talks with top advisors this week regarding potential US attacks on Venezuela in order to bring about regime change in yet another oil-rich nation.
As the western political/media class frames Venezuela's President Maduro as a "dictator" who must urgently be removed from power, it is worth noting that any US military operation to remove him would be taking place directly against the will of the American public. A recent CBS News poll found that seventy percent of Americans "would oppose" the US taking military action against Venezuela.
So here we have the president of a nation which calls itself a democracy, holding meetings to plan military operations which are completely and unambiguously against the wishes of the electorate, in the name of removing a dictator and spreading freedom and democracy.
Interesting.
Trump Holds Talks With Top Advisers on Venezuela Amid Push Toward Regime Change War
The president reportedly told Maduro he must relinquish power during a recent phone call #Venezuela #Trump #Maduro t.co- Antiwar.com (@Antiwarcom) December 2, 2025
Whenever I see the US empire saying they plan to remove the latest Official Bad Guy from power in order to liberate a nation from tyranny, I always want to ask, what is tyranny?
Is it tyranny to constantly topple foreign governments by force if their leaders disobey you?
Is it tyranny to circle the planet with hundreds of military bases in order to dominate all of humanity?
Is it tyranny to continuously be inflicting mass military slaughter, backing genocides, staging foreign coups, fomenting unrest and uprisings in foreign nations, meddling in foreign elections, funding proxy conflicts, imposing blockades and starvation sanctions on civilian populations, and engaging in nuclear brinkmanship in order to rule the world?
Is it tyranny to treat the entire global south as your personal piggy bank from which to extract limitless labor and resources and murder anyone who tries to inhibit these practices through any movement toward national sovereignty?
Because if it is, it's a bit silly for the US to claim to be liberating any nation from tyranny.
Kinda like a morbidly obese man coming up to you and saying he'll train you to shed those extra pounds.
It's like Nick Fuentes offering cultural sensitivity training workshops.
It's like the Green River Killer publishing a book on the the importance of combating toxic masculinity.
The US empire is the most tyrannical power structure on earth, by an extremely massive margin. There is no close second place in contention. Nobody else is brutalizing and terrorizing the entire planet into compliance with its dictates. No other power is constantly assaulting any government or population anywhere on earth that doesn't bow to its demands. Only the US empire can be said to be guilty of this.
Even if Maduro really was the worst dictator on earth (he's not), and even if this push for regime change really had anything to do with liberating the Venezuelan people (it doesn't), and even if you could make a convincing argument that regime change interventionism would probably make things better for Venezuelans (you can't), the US would be the last government on earth with any business doing so. The world's most tyrannical power structure has no business trying to liberate anyone from tyranny.
If the US empire wants to make the world less tyrannical, its first and only move should be to dismantle itself.
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