Trump Warns Venezuela of 'Second Strike,' Media Forgets First
Al Jazeera reports Donald Trump's warning of a 'second strike' on Venezuela if its government doesn’t cooperate. The narrative here is a clean, surgical threat, stripped of any historical context. The 'first strike,' which Trump implies (or America's foreign policy Blob implies) was a single past military action, is actually decades of destabilization: sanctions, coup attempts, and proxy funding.
Remember the 2002 coup attempt against Hugo Chávez, openly backed by the US State Department and then-US Ambassador Charles Shapiro, as detailed by the National Security Archive ? Or the ongoing, crippling sanctions that have devastated Venezuela's economy, as documented by the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) ? So, when a US president warns of a 'second strike,' perhaps it’s time
for the media to report on the continuous, unrelenting 'first strike' that never really ended. One might wonder, how many generations of 'cooperation' are required before a sovereign nation is free from Washington's 'goodwill'?