"We've known about the mendacity for years consider the 30,573 documented falsehoods from the president's first term, culminating in the big lie, his claim to have won the 2020 election but the examples of bracing candour are fresher. This week both began and ended with the US president speaking the shocking truth. At a press conference to celebrate his capture of the Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, Trump announced that from now on the US would run that country,"
"There was no pious talk of democracy, scant mention even of the drug trafficking that earlier served as a pretext for military action. Instead, Trump said out loud what had once been a slogan on leftist placards in protest at past US interventions, admitting that it really was all about the oil. It was as transparent a revelation of Trump's true motive as you could have asked for."
Donald Trump combines long-standing mendacity with occasional startling candour. He openly framed US action in Venezuela as control over the country and its oil, foregoing democratic rhetoric or drug-trafficking pretexts. He proclaimed that the US would run Venezuela and immediately focused on Venezuelan oil. He professed a wish for "Peace" while authorizing lethal force abroad and defending domestic violence by federal agents. Both foreign intervention and domestic repression use fear as a governing tool. The pattern of public falsehoods alongside blunt admissions reveals a governance style oriented toward resource capture, control and power consolidation.
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