Former national security adviser John Bolton's statement about his involvement with regime change drew reactions from whom he called 'snowflakes' because they don't understand it.
Bolton used to work under former President Donald Trump for about 17 months before getting sacked and served as the director of the Project for a New American Century, which advocates for the US to have a strong foreign policy.
The US' Effort to Change What It Doesn't Like
Bolton responded to the backlash against him on Wednesday by labeling individuals who disapproved of his most recent remarks regarding US-staged coups as 'snowflakes,' reported Sputnik News.
In an on-air interview with CNN's Jake Tapper on Tuesday, Bolton casually acknowledged that he had participated in the plotting of a coup d'état. His comments on Wednesday followed that exchange.
The two were discussing the most recent information from the Capitol riot public hearings at that moment, noted CNN.
But on Wednesday, in response to his detractors, Bolton said in an interview with the conservative news source Newsmax that people who disagree with him do not understand what is required to protect the 'Land of the Brave.'
During the CNN interview, Bolton did not specify whose nation he attempted to overthrow, but he did note that he wrote about Venezuela in his memoirs.
The former NSA adviser slightly retracted what he had said previously by claiming that the US had no significant involvement in regime change. He mentioned having first-hand experience watching the opposition removing a legally elected leader but utterly failed.
One of the ways, according to him, is that a coup is what the US president does to keep the US safe, even though it is illegal, as said in the Newsmax interview. Backing Juan Guaidó, an alleged US puppet to allow access to Venezuelan oil.
In the Trump era, the US supported the Venezuelan opposition candidate Juan Guaidó. He is supposed to be the real winner of the election, attempting to wrest power illegally by eliminating Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and putting the opposition leader in the palace. Operation Gideon employed mercenaries of the private military firm Silvercorp USA, who would arrest Maduro.
Instead, it was a failure as the alleged 'US puppet' Guaidó never got to sit in office; due to the stamping of the attempted coup. Several fighters from the opposition were killed, and Maduro forces caught former special ops forces.
Due to the fallout from the failed power grab of the US, the State Department denied it was caught in the conspiration to replace duly elected government. State Department continues to recognize Guaidó as Venezuela's temporary president, even though Maduro still holds a majority of the country's levers of power.
US Seeks Other Oil Supply
The Biden administration maintains that the conflict between it and President Maduro is reducing, yet, little has changed despite efforts to appease the Venezuelan leader.
Dropping sanctions to permit a US oil company, Chevron, to conduct business with the government is part of the bait, even Venezuelans revile Guaidó. The State Department failed to unseat former Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez in 2002. As the US crashes from an energy crisis, Venezuela holds oil resources that Washington wants to get.
