Trump plans UN General Assembly meeting with Venezuela’s Delcy Rodriguez
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The Facts
- Trump is scheduled to address the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday.
- Trump plans to meet Venezuela’s interim leader, Delcy Rodriguez, during the U.N. gathering.
- The Trump-Rodriguez meeting is expected to be a pull-aside meeting.
- It would be Trump and Rodriguez’s first meeting since Nicolas Maduro was captured in a U.S. operation.
- Trump said the United States and Venezuela reached an oil-reserves agreement weeks before the U.N. meeting.
- Waltz said Trump’s U.N. address would discuss sovereignty and peace agreements.
Context
Why is the meeting with Rodriguez notable?
It would be Trump’s first face-to-face meeting with Rodriguez since a U.S. operation captured former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro earlier this year. Aol ABC News
What other issues is Trump expected to raise at the U.N.?
Waltz said Trump plans to discuss sovereignty, peace agreements, Iran’s nuclear program, artificial intelligence and government regulation of AI. Report İnformasiya … Аргументы и… Azeri - Press Infor… Azeri - Press Infor… Azeri - Press Infor…
Where Left and Right agree, and where they split
- Where Left and Right agree
- Both frame the oil-reserves agreement as the substantive core of the relationship and treat what 'sovereignty' means in this context as genuinely unsettled, not a settled given.
- Where Left and Right split
- Extraction standing in for the self-determination Venezuelans were promised, or disciplined, mutual-interest dealmaking replacing American ownership of other countries.
- Why they won’t converge
- The disagreement is a values dispute over what sovereignty means after a regime is removed by force, not a factual one, so no new detail about the deal's terms will settle it.
How left and right read it
The danger here is that an oil-reserves deal, struck weeks before this meeting, becomes the whole content of the relationship — extraction standing in for the self-determination Venezuelans were promised. Trump plans to speak on sovereignty and peace agreements, yet he comes to that podium having removed Maduro by U.S. operation, so the word sovereignty has to mean something beyond a hastily arranged pull-aside. Second acts come cheap now. Who does this agreement actually serve?
“Many people have had second, third or 15th lives in the era of Trump.” — POLITICO
American power is best spent closing deals, not owning other people's countries. The oil-reserves agreement Trump announced weeks ahead of this gathering is exactly the right kind of arrangement — mutual interest, defined terms — and a pull-aside with Rodriguez fits that scale rather than inflating it. Maduro's capture was an operation, not an inheritance. So let the address on sovereignty and peace agreements mean what it says, and let the administration say plainly that the deal is the objective.
“While Waltz offered a small preview of the president's goals for the U.N. visit to that outlet, he painted a much clearer picture on the Breitbart News Saturday radio show with host Matthew Boyle.” — Breitbart
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