Moscow Cries 'Banditry' on Venezuela, Forgetting US History
RT highlights Moscow's claim that US seizures of Venezuelan assets are 'banditry' and a 'harbinger of chaos.' While Russia conveniently forgets its own geopolitical 'contributions' to chaos, the US record in Latin America is hardly spotless. From funding coups in Chile to supporting contra forces in Nicaragua, the US has a long, documented history of destabilizing sovereign nations, often for
resource control or ideological alignment. The seizure of Venezuelan oil company Citgo's US assets by creditors, backed by US courts, is merely the latest chapter in a century-long saga of economic coercion and interventionism. Moscow's 'concern' over international law here is as thin as the news cycle itself. It's not 'banditry' that's new; it's just the latest state to point it out (when it's
convenient). One might wonder if they're more upset about the method of asset seizure, or the fact that they're not the ones doing it this time. The hypocrisy isn't in pointing out US overreach; it's in the 'neutral' observer pretending they don't have blood on their own hands.