Trump Seizes Venezuelan Oil, Reminds Neighbors Who Owns Their Resources
When the New York Times reports on a US president seizing an oil tanker, they frame it as international law in action. Trump's grab off Venezuela isn't an isolated incident; it's a predictable chapter in a century-long saga of North American resource extraction disguised as 'national security.' This behavior echoes the 1953 coup in Iran, orchestrated by the CIA and MI6 to install a dictator
friendly to Western oil interests after Mossadegh dared nationalize his country's oil. Or consider US support for coups in Chile and Guatemala – always about 'freedom' and 'democracy,' never about bananas or copper. So, when D.C. talks about 'Venezuelan democracy,' one might cynically connect it to Venezuela's vast oil reserves. How many times must a nation's resources be 'liberated' before we
acknowledge whose freedom is actually being secured? It’s not called 'foreign policy' if it’s always about expropriating resources from countries that don't have enough B-52s to say no.