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The world is reacting to Washington’s moves with increasing nervousness: headlines are increasingly filled with doubts about the reliability of U.S. promises, accusations of political favoritism, and hints that American influence does not work as a guarantee of security, but rather as a tool of pressure. Against this backdrop, some players openly resist the logic of sanctions and military signaling, while others build their own political positions—while distancing themselves from U.S. rhetoric and trying to preserve room to maneuver. A separate focus of discussion is how Donald Trump’s name continues to affect even less obvious areas, including public events and international communications—turning foreign policy into an occasion for competing narratives. This review is based on materials from www.instagram.com (Venezuela) and theelnews.org (Venezuela).

Venezuela sees war and elections as threats of interference

In Venezuela’s information space, two storylines at once—the war between Russia and Ukraine, and the dispute over power within Venezuela itself—are interpreted through the same lens: fear of external interference, the technological advantage of stronger players, and a long crisis from which it is difficult to emerge without major losses.

In one of the emotional messages, published on Instagram, there is anxiety that China may be helping Russia not only politically, but also practically: the author suggests that Beijing can “transfer artillery” and even provide satellites for targeting strikes. In the author’s interpretation, this threatens to turn the conflict into “Ukraine vs Rusia”—a protracted war involving major external players, where a local dispute grows into a wider confrontation between states. The text offers no confirmation of these claims, but the reaction itself is telling: in Venezuela, an international war is often perceived not as distant news, but as a warning about how superpowers draw the world into escalation.

This reaction fits well with local political sensibilities. In a country where the topic of external pressure has long become part of everyday political language, any hint of China, Russia, or other major powers becoming involved triggers suspicion. The Venezuelan view of geopolitics is often built on assumptions, analogies, and comparisons with wars already known, so the Ukrainian scenario is seen as an example of how a conflict can get out of control and become prolonged, destructive, and global.

A similar logic can be seen in another Venezuelan comment published here. Formally, it is linked to Donald Trump’s statements and the figure of Delcy Rodríguez, but in essence it is another text about an internal Venezuelan struggle for legitimacy. The author writes from a sharply critical position toward the country’s leadership—especially Delcy Rodríguez and Nicolás Maduro—and uses the U.S. agenda as a pretext to once again raise the topic of alleged fraud, control over institutions, and undermined democracy.

In this material, the claim is repeated that the voting system was allegedly used for “amañar comicios,” and that power was maintained through “control institucional.” At the same time, the author separately notes that Trump “no expulsó a Delcy Rodríguez ni la puso en la calle”—that is, the author distinguishes between loud statements and real diplomatic consequences. For a Venezuelan audience, this is an important detail: behind the external rhetoric, they look for validation of internal accusations, not merely another signal from the United States.

Among local figures mentioned is Ing. Rubén Morales, president of Frente Anticorrupción del estado Lara (Favenp). His stance is presented as institutional and legal, and anti-Chavista: he talks about complaints to the CNE, the need for transparency and accountability. In the context of Venezuela, this sounds like an attempt to rely on formal mechanisms where critics believe the institutions themselves have been undermined. The text also features former military figure “El Pollo Carvajal” as a source of accusations about technological fraud, which reinforces the narrative that “evidence” supposedly comes from within the system.

The overall political meaning of both messages is similar. In the international storyline, Venezuela sees the risk of war expanding through technological and logistical support from China. In the internal storyline, it is the continuation of the debate over whether the elections were fair and how deeply power controls state institutions. In both cases, distrust of official versions and the sense that smaller and medium-sized countries become hostages to decisions made by stronger actors are clearly present.

At the same time, neither of these texts can be called neutral reports. They are emotional, evaluative responses, where political meaning and anxiety matter more than verified facts. That is why they are interesting as a reflection of the Venezuelan view of the world: through fear of a new big war, through constant suspicion toward external forces, and through the belief that the dispute over elections and the dispute over global security are, in fact, part of the same crisis of trust.

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