Financial Times Discovers Trump 'Owns' Venezuela, Not Decades of US Intervention
According to the Financial Times, Donald Trump's 'growing appetite for military adventure' is the primary driver of US policy towards Venezuela. This framing conveniently sidesteps decades of documented US interference, including funding opposition movements (as the New York Times reported regarding the 2002 coup attempt ) and severe sanctions (like those imposed in 2017 targeting the oil sector)
that pre-date and extend beyond any single administration. To attribute a nation's fate to one man's 'ownership' is less analysis, more convenient blame-shifting. One might wonder if the esteemed Financial Times has forgotten the Monroe Doctrine exists, or the countless (and often bipartisan) US interventions across Latin America. Perhaps complex geopolitical realities are just too inconvenient
when a catchy headline is needed to frame decades of policy as one politician's personal hobby.