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I'd like to imagine a passage like that is a bit if civil disobedience by the journalist
They may be required to say Maduro's claims were without merit, due to fear of reprisal/lawsuits from the white house, so instead decided to put the the statements next to each other
Even a MAGA supported will notice the obvious contradiction this way
MAGA voters are after all, famous for not only their high level reading skills (some of them even graduated high school!), but also their critical thinking skills. I mean, who hasn't read one of their well crafted and well reasoned arguments that have been posted all over Fuckbook and X/Shitter for the last decade?
We all know what scholarly and level-headed individuals they are, and they definitely scour CNN articles with a fine-toothed comb to try to understand the motives behind the writing.
Yet 70% of American refineries are optimized for (Venezuelas) sour crude being able to have a higher profit margin as it's not attractive for other refineries and are able to buy at lower prices or even steal as we saw
And other fairy tales one tells gullible children going to bed, when we know that the MIC and security appratus got a fuckton of money at their disposal since then
A shift of focus doesn't mean they're absent. Your "mostly pulled back" underplays it hard considering the resources at washington's disposal. CIA had a few coup attempts in Venezuela https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_coups_d'%C3%A9tat
Yet you fail to understand a shift of focus doesn't mean it's absence.
Based
Yet they got money from the NED also known as the overt arm of the CIA.
The CIA having more resources available than entire nation states, being involved in major historical events, but libs sure like to pretend like they're irrelevant
How did this right wing bullshit end up here?