> But I just don't see how a nation can withstand US power in the long run without dirty tactics or becoming some outpost of another superpower. Robespierre al

> But I just don't see how a nation can withstand US power in the long run without dirty tactics or becoming some outpost of another superpower. Robespierre also defended the Reign of Terror as being required to defeat the enemies of the Revolution. And either way, you can see in Egypt the reaction that occurs when people perceive the U.S. to be backing whoever is in power. So at least in nations that are already predisposed to oppose the U.S. it doesn't seem like there's really that much to fear of U.S. involvement. Maduro got elected, after all. So did Morsi before him, and Correa before him. If the U.S. is really omnipotent then they are a piss-poor excuse for an omnipotent superpower.