Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s resurfaced X post from seven years ago denounces possible military action in Venezuela
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has gone viral on social media after an X post from seven years ago denouncing possible military action in Venezuela resurfaced.
Gabbard’s resurfaced post follows the arrest of former Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. The couple will face U.S. charges of participating in a narco-terrorism conspiracy.
“The United States needs to stay out of Venezuela. Let the Venezuelan people determine their future,” she wrote in 2019. “We don’t want other countries to choose our leaders— so we have to stop trying to choose theirs.”
In another post, the former Congresswoman noted U.S. history of successfully ousting authoritarian leaders, but struggling to build long-lasting democracy.
“Throughout history, every time the U.S. topples a foreign country’s dictator/government, the outcome has been disastrous,” Gabbard wrote. “Civil war/military intervention in Venezuela will wreak death and destruction to Venezuelan people, and increase tensions that threaten our national security.”
In that post, Gabbard also added a clip of an interview with Fox News in which she criticized the first Trump administration for what she considered “an increased saber rattling and tensions” pushing the U.S. to send in the military to “wage yet another wasteful counterproductive regime change war… under the guise of humanitarianism.”
Gabbard, at the time, was a Democratic representative from Hawaii. As a veteran of the Iraq war, the now-DNI has long opposed U.S. intervention in foreign countries. Gabbard made those comments during Venezuela’s humanitarian crisis in 2019, as U.S.-backed opposition leader Juan Guaido was on the brink of toppling Maduro’s regime.
Following the arrest of Maduro and Flores, Gabbard’s post has regained notoriety, leading users to deem it “didn’t age well.”
“Thanks for speaking out. I’m sure the U.S. will take your point and stay out of Venezuela,” one user commented ironically.
“Any update on this one?” another one said.
“I thought this was just posted and almost gained a ton of respect for her,” a third one said.
Maduro and his wife arrived in New York City on Saturday afternoon. He will be held at the Metropolitan Detention Center, an infamous facility known for previously housing other high-profile inmates, including Luigi Mangione, Sean “Diddy” Combs, Jeffrey Epstein, and others.
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