Thread by @venanalysis

If you have a proven war criminal with blood from several continents in his hands, what do you do with him?
a) Send him to jail and/or the ICC
b) At least make sure he's nowhere near public office again
c) Give him another high-ranking post
d) Give him a column on foreign policy

For people with minimum levels of decency and sanity, it'll be a combination of a) and b). But since we're talking about Washington DC, it's of course c) and d). Case in point this disgraceful human being that is Elliott Abrams and his column at @thehill
thehill.com/opinion/intern…

For those who don't recall, Trump dusted off Abrams to be his special Vzla envoy b/c war crimes needed committing. The Central America death squad veteran was a key figure in the (failed) coup efforts and murderous sanctions policy. He faced little to no backlash from the media

Then Trump, Abrams and co. were replaced by an imperialist troupe that gets an even friendlier corporate media treatment on Vzla. Was that the end of Abrams? Of course not! Now he's writing about how he's worried about "democracy" because irony was killed by imperialism long ago

The article is full of gems, and Abrams is as dull as you'd expect a war criminal to be. Funny that he calls the Guaidó band of idiots the "democratic opposition". You know, the guy who proclaimed himself president, appoints buddies to made-up jobs and refuses to run in elections

Abrams is despondent that Biden hasn't appointed special officials for Vzla. If someone wants to organize a coup, who do they talk to? It's a nightmare. Then the usual talking points about "political prisoners" and "free press". There aren't enough air-quotes for this b.s.

The former Trump appointee then insists that murderous sanctions need to stay in place until the empire can frame the negotiations as a victory, but is also preparing for "defeat" if the interim gov't disappears or the hardliners decide to run in elections

Turning massive defeats into victories is a DC specialty these days. Abrams tries to do that w/ the negotiations, claiming they mean Maduro recognizes that Guaidó exists. What about the nonsense of these morons being the govt, and calling Maduro "former president of Vzla"?

Abrams' column is like the love child of war crimes and American exceptionalism. The best of both worlds, really.

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