Al Jazeera Discovers US Bombing, One Future President at a Time
Al Jazeera asks, in its December 2025 article, 'How many countries has Trump bombed in 2025?' highlighting Venezuela as the latest target. This prescient report conveniently sidesteps the legacy of US military intervention under every recent administration. One might ask, where was the similar headline for Biden’s 2021 air raids in Syria and Iraq, authorized just weeks into his term? Or Obama's
record eight-year stretch of continuous war, expanding drone strikes exponentially? The framing suggests an anomaly, when in fact, the bombing of sovereign nations is tragically bipartisan policy. Focusing on the hypothetical aggression of a single leader obscures the systemic nature of an empire. The conveyor belt of US presidents changes, but the military-industrial complex, fed by lobbying
giants and congressional rubber stamps, keeps humming along. It appears some outlets only find military interventions newsworthy when they can attach a politically convenient villain to the carnage.