American tax payers funded the cost of the military intervention, to the tune of billions of dollars, while the President is the only one who benefits, to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. The money doesn't go to the treasury, but to his own personal pocket. This level of corruption, the scale and brazenness, is unique in the world.
It's already been established that there won't be a return for the investment for American consumers, or even American oil companies, because the Trump administration didn't establish a secure political order in Venezuela, and the cost of repairing the decrepit oil infrastructure is north of USD100b, which is beyond the means of the oil companies expected to pay it, which they will obviously not want to do with the commies still in power and perched to just nationalize everything once the Americans are done refurbishing it.
In order to immunize oneself to psyops, one has to learn to not fall prey to thought termination trigger words (like "left", or "right"), and to identify and resist emotive language. One has to learn to check factual claims made against hard data and historical records, and verify whether the source one uses has been accurate in the past, to ensure one isn't conned by fake news purveyors like the White House, which just put out a timeline of January 6th that is riddled with factual errors (regardless of what side you emotionally want to support, facts are facts).
If one develops the habit of doing this, one gradually removes lying conmen from their news feed and identifies reliable sources of information, which allow one to not need to verify every single piece of information all the time, and see patterns in communication habits that indicate that someone is a liar, which can then be quickly verified by sampling a number of factual claims they made.
Russian psyops rely on emotive language, thought terminating trigger words, and lies, as does MAGA. Their achievements are fabricated, their methods cannot produce the outcomes they claim, so their actions are not in line with their stated goals, which means they are either incompetent, or they actually have other goals. If you observe them more, you can differentiate between those two.
Starting point: If all your knowledge about a topic comes from one side, and that side's representation of the other side, you are virtually guaranteed to be deceived. This applies to the EU, Russia, MAGA, the Holocaust, climate change, vaccinations, etc.
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