""the U.S. is \"running Venezuela\" and that \"we live in a world ... that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world that have existed since the beginning of time.""
""That's Stephen Miller, the most powerful policy voice in the White House, saying that we live in a world where might makes right and whoever can beat up somebody else is going to get their way," Buttigieg said after the clip ended. "This flies in the face of the whole point of what we have learned as a country and as a species, especially in the 20 th century." "One of America's greatest accomplishments was leading humanity out of that into a world where values and rules matter at least as much as brute force," he continued. "And dragging us into the past with that kind of ideological bullshit will make Americans less safe.""
Stephen Miller characterized the U.S. role in Venezuela as an expression of global rules governed by strength, force, and power, calling them "iron laws." Pete Buttigieg condemned that framing as endorsing a world where might makes right and warned that reverting to such logic would make Americans less safe. Buttigieg argued that a key American achievement was building a system where values and rules constrain brute force, and he posted the exchange on Bluesky to press the issue. Buttigieg previously served as U.S. Transportation secretary, was the first openly gay Cabinet member confirmed by the Senate, and ran in the 2020 Democratic primary.
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