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Glenn Greenwald
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It's been obvious since mid-2016 that all the anger over "Russian meddling" never meant "meddling is bad." It always meant: "only *we* have the right to meddle - in any country we want, however severely" and "nobody has the right to meddle in our affairs, no matter how trivially"
This was one of the few (inadvertently) honest exchanges in the last two years in major media about what Americans really mean when they complain about "meddling":
Could you imagine how happy the Venezuelan government would be if the Trump administration's "meddling" in their country - fully supported by most Democrats - was confined to some Facebook ads, Twitter bots and phishing links?
Do the Democrats who support the Trump administration's regime change operations in Venezuela believe Trump, John Bolton & Elliott Abrams are benevolently motivated to bring freedom & democracy to the Venezuelan People, or that they'll end up helping them despite bad motives?
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