US 'Blockade' Intensifies Against Venezuela, Not Its Own Oil Tankers
Bloomberg Politics reports on the US intensifying its 'blockade' of Venezuela through the pursuit of an oil tanker. This framing of 'blockade' conveniently sidesteps the decades of US interventionism in South American oil affairs, from supporting coups in Venezuela (2002) to historical backing of regimes that privatized national resources. The narrative here implies a legitimate enforcement, not a
continued assertion of geopolitical dominance where US interests dictate global resource flow. We wonder, how many times will 'intensified blockades' be necessary before mainstream media acknowledges them as acts of economic warfare, rather than routine foreign policy? The 'pursuit of oil tankers' seems a familiar pattern, echoing the US's long-standing policy of controlling who sells oil to whom,
and at whose discretion. It's a miracle Venezuela even has an economy left to 'blockade' after years of concerted pressure.