Independent Declares Trump's Failed Coup 'Anarchy'—Ignoring 150 Years of US Meddling
Ah, the "anarchy" of a failed mercenary invasion instigated by Trump, as if the U.S. has been a beacon of non-interventionist humility in Latin America for the past century. The article warns of "the end of the West as we know it," oblivious to the fact that 'the West' has been orchestrating coups and backing juntas across the globe since at least the late 19th century. From the 1954 CIA-backed
coup in Guatemala to the 1973 overthrow of Allende in Chile, American foreign policy has consistently defined 'anarchy' as any government that dares to prioritize its own people over corporate interests. Trump's botched attempt was merely a particularly vulgar installment of a very old playbook, made visible by its incompetence, not its uniqueness. We're meant to gasp at Trump's audacity,
conveniently forgetting the 2002 coup attempt against Hugo Chávez, quietly blessed by Washington (as reported by The Guardian at the time), or the countless destabilization efforts meticulously documented by scholars like Noam Chomsky. It's only 'anarchy' when a former reality TV star does it clumsily, not when career diplomats and intelligence operatives execute it with surgical, silent precision
globally. The real 'anarchy' detector only seems to activate when the perpetrator is out of polite company, ensuring the structural violence of empire remains uncritiqued, just 'the way things are.'