US Attacks Venezuela Dock as Trump Claims Credit, Pentagon Keeps Scoring Points
When Donald Trump claims the US hit a 'dock in Venezuela where boats are loaded with drugs,' and Al Jazeera reports it, the immediate question should be: what 'dock,' and what 'evidence'? This isn't the first time an American administration has conjured a pretext for action in Latin America. From the 1989 invasion of Panama to the ceaseless meddling in Venezuelan elections, U.S. policy in the
region has a habit of prioritizing 'security interests' over sovereignty, often with thinly veiled commercial or geopolitical objectives. The drug war, much like the war on terror, has proven to be a remarkably elastic justification for military adventurism. One might wonder if this 'dock' incident, conveniently timed, serves as another chapter in the long-running US effort to destabilize yet
another government uncooperative with Washington's agenda. The repeated U.S. strikes that 'kill two in the Pacific' (a phrase that begs for a specific location and context beyond 'the Pacific') illustrate a broader pattern: the persistent, global application of military force, often with scant public scrutiny or clear strategic goals beyond maintaining a dominant posture. How many anonymous
casualties are simply collateral damage in a perpetually expanding 'rules-based order'?