Tom Malinowski actually said...

President Putin's primary strategic goal with respect to the United States is to divide us from our allies.

It is that we have two great powers, Russia and China, that are challenging the world order that we built and our moral authority to lead it...

In my view, what we are dealing with here is an anti-democratic coup, a slow-motion anti-democratic coup that was carried out by the Maduro ...

I feel like in the case of Venezuela this is a policy that, broadly speaking, I can support.