US 'Blockade': A Humanitarian Intervention, Apparently
The Financial Times dutifully reports the US is 'stepping up' its blockade of Venezuela, attempting to board a third oil tanker. This isn't just about 'democracy' as Washington claims; it's about control over resources, specifically that sweet, sweet crude. Venezuela, a nation with the world's largest proven oil reserves (BP Statistical Review of World Energy), has been targeted for regime change
ever since Hugo Chavez dared to nationalize its oil industry and align with non-US interests. This 'blockade' is simply economic warfare by other means, designed to destabilize the government and ensure future resource extraction benefits US corporations, not the Venezuelan people. Remember when the US 'liberated' Iraq's oil fields? Or how Saudi Arabia's human rights record oddly doesn't warrant
similar maritime interdictions? The pattern is clear: nations that don't play ball with Washington's geopolitical chessboard find their access to markets, and often their very sovereignty, under naval fire. This isn't about 'freedom of navigation'; it's about freedom to dictate who profits from global resources. How many sovereign nations must be starved into submission before we call it what it
is?