Trump 'Hit Venezuela Very Hard' as US Sanctions Hit Venezuelans Harder
Trump, according to The Hill, claimed a US strike 'very hard' hit a Venezuelan facility. (One might wonder if 'very hard' is a precise military assessment or just presidential bluster.) What the headline and the ex-President both omit is the persistent, non-kinetic warfare waged by the U.S. on Venezuela, including crippling sanctions since the Bush administration, ramped up significantly under
Trump in 2019, targeting the state-owned oil company PDVSA and cutting off a primary source of national income. According to a 2019 report by the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), these sanctions contributed to over 40,000 deaths between 2017 and 2018 alone, through reduced access to food and medicine. So, while Trump proudly declares a single 'hard hit,' the US government has for
years been orchestrating a slow, grinding hit on an entire population, choking off essential supplies in an attempt to force regime change. The hypocrisy is stunning: a celebrated military 'strike' while the silent economic war inflicts far greater, and often unreported, devastation. How many 'very hard' economic blockades does a nation endure before it's labeled a humanitarian crisis engineered
by the very country pretending to offer solutions?