President Biden’s Vile Venezuelan Rapprochement

Ever since Joe Biden fell out of favor with Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia because of the president’s insistence on holding the crown prince to account over the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the restless almost-octogenarian has been searching for a new source of fossil fuel to bring down gas prices without upsetting progressive climate hawks by doing what would actually bring down oil prices: unleashing American energy production. Now, Biden thinks he may have found a new friend in the Venezuelan autocrat, Nicolas Maduro.

Venezuela is one of the leading human-rights abusers and among our biggest adversaries in the Western Hemisphere, so to justify rapprochement, one must present a solid rationale. But the administration has not made an adequate case for détente.

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Bobby Miller is an ISI Fellow at National Review and a graduate student at Georgetown University.

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Ever since Joe Biden fell out of favor with Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia because of the president’s insistence on holding the crown prince to account over the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the restless almost-octogenarian has been searching for a new source of fossil fuel to bring down gas prices without upsetting progressive climate hawks by doing what would actually bring down oil prices: unleashing American energy production. Now, Biden thinks he may have found a new friend in the Venezuelan autocrat, Nicolas Maduro.

Venezuela is one of the leading human-rights abusers and among our biggest adversaries in the Western Hemisphere, so to justify rapprochement, one must present a solid rationale. But the administration has not made an adequate case for détente.