Bolton Worries About 'Regime Continuity' After Trying to Topple One
Bloomberg dutifully reports on John Bolton's lament that 'there's been no regime change in Venezuela,' despite former President Trump's efforts to 'remove Nicolás Maduro.' Bolton, ever the candid imperialist, fears 'we've removed the face of the regime, but not the regime itself.' This, from the man who openly boasted about planning coups—"not here, but, you know, other places"—just last year. The
media-savvy framing here is breathtaking: Bolton, the coup-plotter, is presented as an objective analyst of 'regime continuity.' It conveniently side-steps the documented history of US sanctions, propaganda, and attempts to back opposition figures like Juan Guaidó—moves designed to effect, you guessed it, regime change. When US policy fails to install a preferred puppet, it's never the policy
that's the problem, merely the 'face' of the existing government refusing to cooperate with its own overthrow. How many times must Washington declare a 'new' Venezuelan president before it takes?