"Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard told a crowd in October that the counterproductive and endless cycle of regime change or nation-building was over a little over a month before President Donald Trump's military actions in Venezuela. After news broke on Saturday of the Trump administration's capture Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, social media was quick to unearth Gabbard's previous warnings against Venezuelan intervention."
"The old Washington way of thinking is something we hope is in the rear-view mirror and something that has held us back for too long, said Gabbard. For decades, our foreign policy has been trapped in a counterproductive and endless cycle of regime change or nation-building. It was a one-size-fits-all approach of toppling regimes, trying to impose our system of governance on others, intervening in conflicts that were barely understood, and walking away with more enemies than allies."
Tulsi Gabbard, as Director of National Intelligence, told a crowd in October that the counterproductive and endless cycle of regime change or nation-building was over, a statement delivered slightly more than a month before President Donald Trump's military actions in Venezuela. After reports of the Trump administration's capture of Nicolás Maduro, social media circulated Gabbard's earlier warnings against Venezuelan intervention. As a 2019 Democratic presidential candidate, Gabbard criticized the first Trump administration's saber-rattling and warned that pushing for civil war or military force would cause suffering and disaster for Venezuelans. At a Bahrain conference on Oct. 31, Gabbard praised Trump's diplomacy and framed traditional Washington interventionism as outdated. Videos of the Bahrain speech resurfaced after Maduro's arrest and suggested instances where Gabbard appeared out of the loop on administration action.
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