Posted on 11/02/2025 8:44:43 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
The U.S. national intelligence director told officials Friday in the Mideast that America’s former strategy of “regime change or nation building” had ended under President Donald Trump.
Tulsi Gabbard ’s comments before the Manama Dialogue, an annual security summit in Bahrain put on by the International Institute for Security Studies, underlines remarks Trump offered on a trip earlier this year to the Middle East.
In Trump’s second term, previous American goals of fostering human rights and democracy promotion in the region have been replaced by an emphasis on economic prosperity and regional stability. That includes securing a ceasefire that has halted the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip, as well as forcing an end to Israel’s 12-day war on Iran after sending American bombers to attack Iranian nuclear sites.
“For decades, our foreign policy has been trapped in a counterproductive and endless cycle of regime change or nation building,” said Gabbard, a former Congresswoman from Hawaii and U.S. Army National Guard veteran.
“It was a one-size-fits-all approach, of toppling regimes, trying to impose our system of governance on others, intervene in conflicts that were barely understood and walk away with more enemies than allies.”
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And Venezuela?
I worry about Venezuela. It feels like regime change and nation building. Hopefully we are smart enough to avoid both — or at least the nation building.
An Associated Press journalist [ notice: unnamed ] had been accredited and issued a visa to cover the summit, but the Bahraini government late Wednesday said it had been rescinded as it was conducting a “post-approval review” of that permission. The government did not elaborate on why the visa was revoked. Earlier that day, the AP published a story on long-detained activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja beginning an 'open-ended' hunger strike in Bahrain over his internationally criticized imprisonment."That could have been a story on its own, by Gambrell/AP chose to append it to this. Reminded me of the press walkout after Secretary Hegseth required more stringent rules, or another in which some "press" were reportedly trying to listen in on a private conversation, and were shunted out of the building. With so much and often refreshing alternative media and with the AP now begging for donations via pop-ads, it seems the legacy media is finding it problematic to deal with a world in which individual "journalists" are no longer so revered.
With the notable exception of our own, of course.
My first thought was Venezuela, too. Somebody needs to tell the President we’re going to call regime change by a new name.
Did you know that AIPAC has “opened shop” in Taiwan?
Because American-Israeli Public Affairs now includes Taiwan?
If the people are ripe enough for a change there’s no reason why Trump can’t fan the flames. Scaring them with the military is part of it. Killing their drug dealers on the open sea is another. Maduro leaving won’t guarantee anything as the country has a history of banana republic stuff. With the other nations catching on it may bode well for the future.
A lotta gang-bangers need to be sent back. It won’t help them adjust but it’s not our problem.
Mana mana beep beep be beep beep.
The U.S. and many other democratic nations do not recognize Maduro as the legitimate president but rather as an illegitimate leader who stole the election.
Maduro has waged war on the U.S. administration seeking regime change here. What the President is doing, is defending the United States of America.
Was that a statement from Tulsi?
I respect her quite a bit, but I wish she or whoever had not issued that statement, well, because it’s not really true.
Perhaps that is the long range goal.
Not that I object to the president putting the heat on places like Venezuela, so long as America is prepared for unexpected outcomes.
Oligarchs must defenestrate Putin for regime change. Just do it! To save the planet.
Trump will not put boots on the ground in Venezuela.
But he can/will use all other levers of power to attempt to overthrow Maduro and the corrupt socialists there.
Trump has revived the Monroe Doctrine.
Maduro so relieved!
Putin’s cheerleaders will be along saying “BUT BUT VENEZUELA”.
Venezuela will cheer Trump if Maduro is dumped.
And no one ever will cheer a Russian terrorist.
Trump is saber rattling to establish leverage and a bargaining position.
Not good strategy to ever say “never”!
What is it with the SAME people here, always attempting to interject their spin on Putin, Russia, Tucker Carlson and now, Thomas Massie, to every single issue/discussion, even when no one else has even brought them up?
Truth hurts doesn’t it? LOL
I all for not having endless wars, but I care not for the U.S. being “allies” with many dictatorship style countries. Rewarding them with “U.S friendship” rewards their political systems as well, which never serves U.S. long term interests. No we do not need to conduct “regime change” all over the world. But we do need to pick our true friends and allies and do so at the expense of nations we cannot say are our friend or our ally.
If they have a dictator like Franco, we should trade with them.
It is not our business to preach "human rights".
If we do, we will be in the position of "lecturing" them. That is something the Democrats would do.
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