Are you posting this question in order to get people to say chav so you have an excuse to spread the word about “chav” being inappropriate?

Douches?

I actually originally heard it as something Ronan Farrow said about Frank Sinatra

Look, we all MIGHT have been accidentally conceived in an affair with Freddie Mercury

Yes - anyone could be

The best case scenario is that Trump really was such a moron as to believe Putin wanted peace and now feels betrayed and does a 180 on Ukraine policy. Much more likely he will stay the course on screwing Ukraine.

Tbh everything I said above could be applied to Mao as well. He had the genius insight that the path to power in China lay in a military struggle mobilizing the peasantry when everyone else in party leadership thought that was crazy and un-Marxist, but then when that insight translated into running China he did not do a good job and should have listened to his fellow party members.

Lenin is such a tragic figure. So brilliant at taking and holding power, so bad at communist theory.

I don’t think they should have barred Machado from running, but I also don’t think the US should sanction them over it. American meddling never improves this sort of situation, especially when in the form of hurting a country’s economy.