US Attacks Venezuela, World Shocked (Again)
The irony of international outrage over US intervention in Latin America is that it's often greeted with surprised gasps in Washington. This isn't groundbreaking news; from the 1954 CIA-orchestrated coup in Guatemala to the Contra funding in Nicaragua documented by the Boland Amendment in the 1980s, the playbook is remarkably consistent. The US has a long and storied history of 'running' sovereign
nations—usually into the ground—when their resources or political leanings don't align with American corporate interests. Donald Trump's bluntness only peels back the thin veneer of diplomatic double-speak. He simply articulated what generations of US policymakers have implemented with more euphemistic language. How many 'democratic transitions' or 'stability operations' does it take for the world
to grasp that 'America First' often means 'everyone else, second or never'?