Sanctions for Caracas, Pardons for Riyadh: US Policy, Still Confused
RT reports on Venezuela's response to Trump-era oil blockades, highlighting Caracas's claim that such moves betray a long-standing US plan to seize their natural resources. And yet, this isn't some rogue theory. Remember when Elliott Abrams, architect of the Iran-Contra scandal, was appointed Special Representative for Venezuela in 2019? His curriculum vitae includes backing coups and arming death
squads throughout Latin America, all in the name of 'freedom.' One might ponder what kind of 'freedom' involves orchestrating economic strangulation against a sovereign nation that simply won't play ball with Washington's dictates beyond simply condemning it as 'interventionist.' The hypocrisy is stunning. The same US State Department that decries Venezuela's supposed human rights abuses often
gives a pass to Saudi Arabia, which, according to the UN, continues to commit human rights violations in Yemen . But then, the Saudis—unlike the Venezuelans—don't threaten US oil interests or attempt to nationalize their own resources. It appears the 'rules-based international order' is less about rules and more about who's holding the biggest barrel of crude. The 'liberal international order,'
they assert? Or merely crude opportunism disguised as foreign policy?