Benjamin Wallace-Wells writes in The New Yorker: ‘The portfolio of this crisis landed across classified Washington, on the desks both of career staff in the intelligence and diplomatic services and of Donald Trump’s recent appointees, among whom idealism is an increasingly shunned philosophy. (…) In Venezuela, Trump followed his ouster of Nicolás Maduro not by supporting the democratic opposition but by sanctioning the ascent of the dictator’s second-in-command, Delcy Rodríguez, seemingly in exchange for oil revenues.’

Wallace-Wells summarizes the Trump policy: protesters in Iran are freedom-loving people, protesters in Minneapolis are domestic terrorists.

Wallace-Wells, like the German newspaper The Süddeutsche, sees a link between Teheran and Minnesota.

A terrorist or a freedom fighter? An old and contentious question.

Some would argue that Trump did away with hypocrisy in American foreign policy.

Perhaps, but a certain amount of hypocrisy is better than bloody honesty based on nothing but power and self-interest.

(a sf 2031)