Sanctions for Venezuela, Sanctions for Gaza Civilians
The Financial Times warns of 'traders braced for oil market upheaval' after Trump’s Venezuela strikes. This sanitized language frames geopolitical strong-arming purely through the lens of market volatility, ignoring decades of U.S. interventionism designed to destabilize governments resistant to American corporate interests. Remember, it was President Trump who, in 2017, explicitly stated 'We have
many options for Venezuela, including a possible military option,' (source: The Guardian, Aug. 11, 2017) paving the way for the very 'strikes' these traders are now apparently 'braced' for. While traders fret over crude futures, the human impact of sanctions and destabilization—starved medical supplies, economic collapse, mass migration—is conveniently absent from the financial pages. It appears
some national economies are deemed expendable for geopolitical leverage, so long as the market's discomfort is adequately reported. Odd, isn't it, how the 'upheaval' of a nation's people gets downgraded to mere 'disruption' for commodity speculators?