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The nuance is that American policy since the end of the cold war has been to use soft power to promote democracy. Offer pro-democracy propaganda to oppressed people, and sanction human rights violators. There is no evidence of the US funding insurgents in South America, Ukraine, Russia, or the PRC post-Cold War.
In contrast, Trump ordered the CIA to return to cold-war era coups and just straight-up invade Venezuela.
The first one is admirable and how foreign policy should be conducted, the second one is dangerous and is how America is portrayed in Russian propaganda.
You've got to be kidding. Two Iraq wars and over a million dead is admirable soft powers to you?
Also, the entire coup in Ukraine is funding an insurgency against Russia. Venezuela's narco gang paid protestors both for Guaido and this year's opposition is insurgency funding. ISIS-K are US allies, FFS. takes a lot of money.
The democratic government of Ukraine is not an insurgency, and the US did not give them weapons until after their neighbor 10x bigger than them, invaded them in an act of pure imperialism in 2014. Are you saying the US should not fund anti-imperalism?
One of Trump's impeachment was based on a weapons gift for Ukraine, that eventually went through. Merkel/Zelensky faked their anti-nazi reforms of Minsk accords in order to give time for Ukraine to get armed in order to provoke the current war. Ukraine is absolutely a puppet insurgency to diminish Russia as part of US's pure imperialism. It is the saddest most extreme level of disinformation in history that anyone has an opposite impression of reality.