No other governments are coming to aid Venezuela because the “axis of authoritarianism” is nonsense promoted by lazy Western analysts:
Russia, China, Cuba, Iran and other anti-American powers are offering little more than words of support for Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro as he faces a U.S. military buildup that President Trump has said is aimed at forcing his ouster. Like Iran when it came under military attack from Israel and the U.S., Venezuela is finding its authoritarian allies on the sidelines of conflict.
It isn’t surprising that these other states aren’t doing anything to protect Venezuela because none of these countries is allied with any of the others. Hawks have been trying to will an “axis of authoritarianism” into existence for at least twenty years so that they can use it to stoke fear and exaggerate foreign threats. For the most part, the authoritarian states haven’t obliged by creating any alliances among them. The “axis of authoritarianism” isn’t real and it never was.
These states aren’t lifting a finger to help Venezuela because they have no reason and no obligation to do so. The “allies” are on the sidelines because they were never allies. Describing them as allies was a lazy, inaccurate shorthand that many analysts and politicians have been using to make all these states appear more threatening than they are.
Venezuela obviously poses no threat to the U.S. on its own. That is why interventionists have been going out of their way to hype the connections with great power rivals. The trouble for the fearmongers is that the connections are much more tenuous and much less significant than they have claimed.
