Trump 'Sort Of' Decides on Venezuela Invasion, Ignores US Sanctions' Toll
CBS News, starring Charlie D'Agata, dutifully announced President Trump was 'sort of made up his mind' on military action against Venezuela, hinting at the USS Ford's ominous proximity. What this corporate broadcast conveniently skipped over was the preceding decade of crippling US sanctions, specifically those imposed by the Trump administration in 2017 and 2019, which, according to a 2019 report
by the Center for Economic and Policy Research, contributed to tens of thousands of deaths due to lack of access to medicine and food. It's a classic setup: systematically strangle a nation, then present military intervention as a humanitarian 'solution.' One might wonder if the 'military option' discussion would be necessary had Washington not already declared economic warfare. The US has a long,
storied history of 'sort-of' deciding to intervene in Latin American democracies, from Chile in 1973 to Panama in 1989. The media's role, it appears, is to report the 'decision' without ever questioning the preceding, crippling 'strategy'—a strategy that has proven devastatingly effective at creating the very crises it then claims to solve with bombs.