Venezuela’s Foreign Minister: “Washington Hijacked Guaidó”

Obviously to be taken with a significant grain of salt--the grain of salt entirely missing from US media's treatment of Guaido, which itself should be telling, if hardly surprising.

The general belief among US elites, in and out of government and the media, is the usual narcissistic glorification of the Holy State, the blessed United States of Wonderfulness, which has done naught but spread peace, joy, love, and democracy, lo, these many years since, say, 1945. Or 1900, for that matter.

Since the unquestionable assumption is that the US is an unambiguous force for good, and the unavoidable pre-existing condition among its Adults (those that can sit in the Room, or are allowed to gaze through a window from the peanut gallery, if they behave) is to introject themselves into the Holy State (and vice versa), the coverage is pretty much always like this.

Until after the disastrous intervention; then you have to say, "No one could possibly have predicted what all the left-wing and/or true conservative fools were saying about this intervention. We must look forward."

Legitimation crisis avoided; we're all set for the next iteration, the next waste of $3tn. Oh, and there's no money for anything else, by the way, including a Green New Deal which might just save civilization were it to go global. No money at all.

And the Adults in the Room nod vigorously while clutching their flags and Obama t-shirts--or MAGA hats.