{"id":11939,"date":"2024-08-07T09:36:59","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T07:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/?p=11939"},"modified":"2024-08-07T09:37:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T07:37:00","slug":"venezvuela-america-first-ukraine-mate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/latest\/venezvuela-america-first-ukraine-mate\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Mat\u00e9 on U.S. Involvement in Venezuela and Ukraine and &#8220;America First&#8221; Contradictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\" data-sal=\"slide-up\" data-sal-easing=\"ease-in-out\" data-sal-delay=\"200\"><div class=\"row justify-content-md-center pb-3\"><div class=\"cnt_col\">\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\" data-sal=\"slide-up\" data-sal-easing=\"ease-in-out\" data-sal-delay=\"200\"><div class=\"row justify-content-md-center pb-3\"><div class=\"cnt_col\">\n<p class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">We are transitioning away from YouTube. 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In addition, Mat\u00e9 and Tracy discuss in detail the role of former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who, according to recent revelations, played a key role in undermining possible diplomatic solutions to the Ukraine war.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\" data-sal=\"slide-up\" data-sal-easing=\"ease-in-out\" data-sal-delay=\"200\"><div class=\"row justify-content-md-center pb-3\"><div class=\"cnt_col\">\n<p>This video was produced by System Update and published on YouTube on the 30th of July, 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\" data-sal=\"slide-up\" data-sal-easing=\"ease-in-out\" data-sal-delay=\"200\"><div class=\"row justify-content-md-center pb-3\"><div class=\"cnt_col\">\n<p class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">To read the transcript of the interview: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Aaron-Mate-on-U.S.-Involvement-in-Venezuela-and-Ukraine-and-_America-First_-Contradictions.docx.pdf\">Aaron Mat\u00e9 on U.S. Involvement in Venezuela and Ukraine and &#8220;America First&#8221; Contradictions<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\" data-sal=\"slide-up\" data-sal-easing=\"ease-in-out\" data-sal-delay=\"200\"><div class=\"row justify-content-md-center pb-3\"><div class=\"cnt_col\">\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\" data-sal=\"slide-up\" data-sal-easing=\"ease-in-out\" data-sal-delay=\"200\"><div class=\"row justify-content-md-center pb-3\"><div class=\"cnt_col\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">VIDEO: <strong><strong>Aaron Mat\u00e9 on U.S. Involvement in Venezuela and Ukraine and &#8220;America First&#8221; Contradictions<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\" data-sal=\"slide-up\" data-sal-easing=\"ease-in-out\" data-sal-delay=\"200\"><div class=\"row justify-content-md-center pb-3\"><div class=\"cnt_col\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GFliptMxsTQ\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\" data-sal=\"slide-up\" data-sal-easing=\"ease-in-out\" data-sal-delay=\"200\"><div class=\"row justify-content-md-center pb-3\"><div class=\"cnt_col\">\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\" data-sal=\"slide-up\" data-sal-easing=\"ease-in-out\" data-sal-delay=\"200\"><div class=\"row justify-content-md-center pb-3\"><div class=\"cnt_col\">\n<p class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">About our import program: In this program, we publish content from external authors, activists and journalists. 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He has reported and produced for The Nation, Democracy Now!, Vice and Al Jazeera, and written for the Toronto Star, The Intercept and Le Monde Diplomatique.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\" data-sal=\"slide-up\" data-sal-easing=\"ease-in-out\" data-sal-delay=\"200\"><div class=\"row justify-content-md-center pb-3\"><div class=\"cnt_col\">\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Mat\u00e9 on U.S. Involvement in Venezuela and Ukraine and &#8220;America First&#8221; Contradictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21133,22482,22484,1512,400,404,21743,21295,21352,22481,1360,260,21721,21566,194,22479,22480,395,208,209,413,22483,206,21296,80,322,21242],"channel":[20955],"class_list":["post-11939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","tag-aaron-mate","tag-america-first","tag-biden-ukraine","tag-boris-johnson","tag-donald-trump","tag-gaza","tag-gaza-strip","tag-gazastreifen","tag-hamas","tag-hugo-chavez","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-israel-krieg","tag-michael-tracey","tag-nato","tag-nicholas-maduro","tag-nicolas-maduro","tag-palaestina","tag-russia","tag-russland","tag-trump","tag-trump-ukraine","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-krieg","tag-united-states","tag-usa","tag-venezuela","channel-import"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true}}},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>US-Intervention in Venezuela und der Ukraine und die Widerspr\u00fcche von Trumps &quot;America First&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/latest\/venezvuela-america-first-ukraine-mate\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Aaron Mat\u00e9 on U.S. Involvement in Venezuela and Ukraine and &quot;America First&quot; Contradictions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In this video, journalist Michael Tracey interviews\u00a0 Aaron Mat\u00e9 about the US involvement in Venezuela and Ukraine, and the role of former US President Donald Trump, as well as the little substantive difference between the Ukraine policies of Trump and Biden, with both parties supporting the use of Ukraine as a proxy to wage a war against Russia. 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