With The Capture Of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, Trump Is Making Imperialism Great Again

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One thing you can almost appreciate about President Donald Trump is that, arguably, no other administration in modern history has done more to lay bare what America has always made some effort to mask: that it’s a white supremacist, imperialist nation that specializes in assuming authority across the globe, destabilizing the governments of foreign nations full of Black and brown people, plundering their resources, and doing it all under the guise of protecting America.