As a US regime change operation in Venezuela looks likely, Caitlin Johnstone refers to a pithy tweet from prior to the Iraq war relating to how a media blitz of war propaganda can bend one's mind:

[https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/ah-good-old-war-propaganda]

Reminds me of an old tweet by a man named Malcolm Price:

“I remember in the run-up to the Iraq War a friend I had known all my life suddenly said to me, ‘We must do something about this monster in Iraq.’ I said, ‘When did you first think that?’ He answered honestly, ‘A month ago’.”

When it's about justifying going to war, the MSM will always help to whip up another monster to destroy.

The Dissident also points out some obvious flop-flopping over Venezuela by Tulsi Gabbard:

[https://the307.substack.com/p/dni-tulsi-gabbard-used-to-oppose]

With Trump moving towards war with Venezuela, his Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, is going along with the operation, even firing two National Intelligence Council officials because they found no evidence for Trump’s claim that Nicolás Maduro ran the Tren de Aragua gang.

But when Tulsi Gabbard ran for president in 2019, she strongly opposed U.S. intervention in Venezuela and even said repeatedly that it was a plot to take the country’s oil.

In 2019, she tweeted, “The United States needs to stay out of Venezuela. Let the Venezuelan people determine their future. We don’t want other countries to choose our leaders--so we have to stop trying to choose theirs”.

This is what happens when you are close to the borders of a more powerful country - and not even on the border like Ukraine is with Russia - your territorial integrity and sovereignty mean nothing.

Especially if you have lots of oil.