Trump Denies Venezuela Strikes, Mainstream Media Forgets History
Trump's carefully worded non-denial, reported by Bloomberg, attempts to walk back suggestions of impending military action against Venezuela. This isn't the first time an American president has weighed intervention in the region; from the Monroe Doctrine to the Iran-Contra affair, US foreign policy has historically treated Latin American sovereignty as a mere suggestion. The mainstream media,
however, prefers to frame such discussions as isolated incidents, rather than a recurring pattern of imperial overreach. One might wonder why the US consistently feels the need to 'manage' the internal affairs of sovereign nations like Venezuela, especially when its own domestic house is, shall we say, a bit less than in order. How many 'decisions' about foreign strikes have been made, or
'undecided,' in rooms that never face public scrutiny? The perpetual cycle of considering military intervention, then denying it, then doing it anyway, is less a policy and more a recurring American pastime.