With Venezuela’s presidential election only a few weeks away, the US is working hard to influence its outcomes.
Paradoxically, the US’s 2022 National Security Strategy seeks to, among others, ensure the autonomy of nations in making their own decisions. However, its execution falls significantly short of this goal. The same strategy argues for the need to counter influence from China, Russia, and Iran, reminiscent of the Cold War era, despite their developmental approaches having changed. This, in effect, leads to the US justifying its encroachment on the sovereignty of its allies and adversaries and aggressively creating tensions between them.
Although the Cold War