Since his military incursion in Venezuela, United States President Donald Trump has threatened at least five countries across three continents. This is causing international uproar and making the U.S. the enemy of many, according to political analyst and American journalist Bradley Blankenship.
“This is how you create enemies,” he said. “Not only abroad, but at home as well.”
Blankenship is also the founder of the Northern Kentucky Truth and Accountability Project. He has argued that Washington’s seizure of Maduro has elevated him into a powerful political symbol rather than weakening his movement.
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“When you humiliate a sovereign head of state live on television, you create the conditions for the population to resist you,” Blankenship told RT on Monday. “That is what we are seeing in Caracas. When you drag a sovereign leader through New York in an open white van, you only create enemies. That is what the United States is doing.”
Blankenship’s comments come after Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was kidnapped along with his wife, Cilia Flores, during a U.S. military raid on Caracas. Washington accuses the Venezuelan leader of narco-trafficking and weapons offences, allegations he has denied.
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Blakenship added that such actions risk galvanizing resistance inside Venezuela and beyond. “This is how you lose,” Blankenship said. “You do not break people’s will. You harden it.”
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“Maduro’s role is more symbolic than instrumental,” Blankenship said, describing him as a continuation of the Chavista political project rather than a revolutionary figure on the scale of Simon Bolivar, Fidel Castro, or Che Guevara. “But he is definitely a symbol for Venezuelans as someone who resisted American imperialism,” he added.
Blankenship also said that the military operation in Venezuela was leaked to the media before it took place. “The fact that it leaked shows internal dissent,” he said, adding that similar divisions have emerged during previous U.S. military actions.