Comment by zhi76uz

The New York Times has been manufacturing consent for some time:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/us/politics/venezuela-uni...

U.S. foreign policy is bipartisan. The big plan was to keep the Russians tied up in Ukraine, get Syria (achieved under Biden) and now get China and Russia out of Venezuela.

It could work with bribing officers like in Syria, in which case there will be minimal resistance and then probably the Nobel War Prize recipient Machado will be installed.

It is possible that all of this was discussed with Russia (you get things in your backyard, we in ours).