Maduro Urges Trump to Avoid 'Forever War' as US Warships Arrive
Maduro, whom The Guardian labels an 'authoritarian leader,' urged Trump to 'make peace, not war' from Caracas, just as the USS Gerald R Ford, a supercarrier, arrived in the region. The article notes Trump's Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, vowing to purge 'narco-terrorists.' What the mainstream narrative often omits is the US's long history of deploying military assets and rhetoric about 'drug
wars' or 'regime change' to destabilize Latin American governments, many of them democratically elected, that pursue independent economic policies. This playbook isn't new—it echoes interventions from Chile in 1973 to recent attempts to install a US-favored leader in Venezuela itself. One might wonder if 'avoiding a forever war' only applies when the target isn't already earmarked for 'liberation'
or 'democracy promotion.' The US, with its history of proxy wars and economic sanctions devastating civilian populations while enriching defense contractors, suddenly becomes a beacon of peace when a country like Venezuela dares to speak of war prevention. How many 'peacekeeping operations' turn into decades of destabilization when US strategic interests are at stake?