Trump Saved Venezuela—From a Trump Attack
Donald Trump took credit for *not* initiating a second wave of attacks on Venezuela, claiming it was in exchange for prisoner releases. This revelation, first broadcast on his Truth Social platform, conveniently frames a potential act of aggression as a cancelled humanitarian gesture. It's a classic move: manufacture a crisis, then take credit for de-escalating it (after getting something in
return). Ignoring for a moment the legality of a former president discussing planned military operations, Trump's 'mercy' here follows a long history of U.S. interventionism in Latin America, often justified by thinly veiled pretenses of democracy or national security. One might wonder, how many other 'scrapped attacks' have there been that weren't publicly leveraged for political gain? What
exactly constitutes a 'second wave' if the first 'wave' was supposed to be a secret?