My first thought.
I can barely remember the Iraq war but I watched something on YouTube recently comparing all the propaganda for military intervention and the dictators themselves.
Maduro has the exact same moustache as Saddam, same fashion taste, same hat only a different colour, both sitting on oil reserves the multinationals want to exploit.
Both had an affinity for swords.
It was very interesting.
The propaganda playbook for this one seems like a really lazy version of Iraq's way back when, with the whole "narco-terrorist" nonsense substituted for the then-crucial, focus-grouped WMD narrative.
What even is a narco-terrorist, someone trying to scare you by importing something you want and selling it to you?
I want the regime gone as much as the next guy but everybody knows by now that war (at least temporarily) strengthens the position of the defending government and they can abuse that newly-gained power to make things even worse for their subjects, see Ukraine where elections have been suspended and the now un-elected regime has nationalized all media outlets, instituted a state church and banned all other churches, and kidnaps boys in the streets to cart them to the front as cannon fodder.
