Puerto Rico: A Sovereign Colony for US Meddling
Newsweek reported on Trump's strategy to leverage Puerto Rico as a base for operations against Venezuela. The article, while fact-based, conspicuously avoids the elephant in the room: Puerto Rico's colonial status. The US, with its long history of intervention in Latin America—from the 1898 invasion of Puerto Rico itself, to countless coups and destabilization efforts—routinely uses its
'territories' as staging grounds for geopolitical machinations, not as sovereign partners. It's almost adorable how mainstream media frames this as a 'role' for Puerto Rico, rather than a directive. One might wonder if nations actually choose to be launchpads for regime change operations, or if, perhaps, colonial subjects don't really get a say. The 'Report' simply confirms a predictable pattern:
US global policy, unfettered by pesky sovereignty when it comes to its own possessions, continues its historical playbook. How many 'democratic' interventions start from someone else's backyard?