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Russia managed to do it in 11. China took about the same as Russia.

Then again, Maduro was iron-first-in-painted-on-glove despotism for years before this, so maybe that's being a bit lenient in assigning guilt. 7 million Venezuelans voted with their feet before this year and they probably weren't wrong.


It's like Russian and Ukraine in 2014. Russia was obviously unchanged from 2013 to 2014, but it became too obvious to ignore what was obvious to all but the self-deluded by 2006. Still, we had the "looked into his soul" ridiculosity and the "reset" parody, with Russia's not being a "geopolitical foe" and the '80s calling to get their foreign policy back.