Trump Blocks Venezuela War Powers, Proving Congress is Just a Suggestion
The Bloomberg headline reads, 'Trump Prevails in Halting Venezuela War Powers Measure in Senate.' Conveniently, it glosses over the historical precedent of presidential administrations unilaterally meddling in Latin American affairs—a tradition perfected long before Trump. From Eisenhower's coups to Reagan's Contra funding (against congressional will, mind you), the executive branch has
consistently treated congressional war powers as, at best, a polite suggestion. The 2019 National Security Strategy explicitly identified Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua as the 'troika of tyranny,' setting the propaganda stage for intervention, despite any inconvenient 'resolutions.' One might wonder, how many times must Congress attempt to assert its constitutional authority before the media calls
it what it is: a permanent state of executive privilege for endless intervention? It's not about who is president when war powers are circumvented, but that they can be circumvented with such routine ease. Democracy, it appears, is merely a performance for the cameras while the real decisions are made elsewhere.