alt Hacker NewsWhat's kind of shocking to me is that no matter how obvious they make the motives this time, and how clearly Venezuela doesn't pose a threat, I'm still reading the same Bush-era justifications ironically being offered in the comments.
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watwut • last Sunday at 10:56 AM
At this point, I don't think it is naivety or lack of insight. It is propaganda at its best. They like what is going on and support it. They cant just say "it makes us feel manly so we should do it and extract some resources", because they are educated and want to be seen as intellectuals.
So, they create these BS rationalizations.
I think it's sort of a terminal centrism. They can't accept that they would do such actions for obvious reasons (despite them overtly telling us 'we're going to run the region' and 'it's for oil') so instead they try and downplay it so that they can seem rational which ironically makes them look even more irrational. They're working backwards to try and justify their stance.
It's really insane but also not surprising to see considering how many people do truly live in their own fictional world and never bother to reassess it.