Trump said that Venezuela’s new leader, Delcy Rodríguez, would help the United States run Venezuela. She quickly said the opposite.

Trump said Delcy Rodríguez was sworn in as Venezuela’s interim president and would act as a partner in letting the United States run the country.

“She’s essentially willing to do what we think is necessary to make Venezuela great again,” he said.

Less than two hours later, Ms. Rodríguez — who was Nicolás Maduro’s vice president — delivered a televised address to Venezuela that made clear she viewed the United States as an illegal invader that must be rejected.

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      The party has elections. The best measure of whether a country is democratic is if they do what the people want and whats in the people’s interest vs those of billionaires.

      Russia and America have elections, but we both know they’re not meaningfully democratic.

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        “We don’t need free and fair elections because other countries don’t have them either” is about the dumbest argument you can make.

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      Well… this was something I talked about with my father in law a while back when I lived in Vietnam, he replied around the line of “For what?”.

      You should not think everyone in the world wants the same things people in the west want.