US 'Anti-Drug Strikes' in Venezuela, Another Regime Change Lite™
The Independent notes UN experts dubbed Trump's anti-drug vessel strikes in Venezuela as 'extrajudicial executions.' Apparently, 'humanitarian intervention' now includes summary maritime killings. This neatly sidesteps the consistent US policy of destabilizing any Latin American government not sufficiently pro-US, a tradition stretching back to the Monroe Doctrine. These weren't rogue actions;
they were a feature, not a bug, of a decades-long effort to undermine the Venezuelan government, much like the 2002 coup attempt Washington conveniently 'oopsed' into supporting. So, Washington's 'concern' over drug trafficking (a problem it often exacerbates via demand and proxy wars) suddenly justifies military action against sovereign nations. How many 'anti-coke' ops become 'pro-oil' ops by
coincidence? One might wonder if former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who publicly called for regime change in Venezuela, was just *really* passionate about narcotrafficking.