US Blockades Venezuelan Oil, Demands Respect for 'Sovereignty'
The mainstream reports this as a decisive move against a 'sanctioned regime.' What they won't dwell on is the why . Venezuela holds the world’s largest proven oil reserves. The US has imposed sanctions on Venezuela since 2005, with crippling measures escalating in 2017, leading to a 99% drop in oil exports by 2020. This blockade is economic warfare, plain and simple, designed to collapse a
government that dared to nationalize its resources rather than handing them to ExxonMobil. Washington's 'concern' for human rights conveniently aligns with its energy interests. We saw this playbook in Cuba for over 60 years, in Iran since 1979, and certainly in Iraq before the 2003 invasion, where sanctions killed hundreds of thousands. How many 'freedom' operations must destabilize a region
before we call it what it is: maintaining hegemony at any cost? One might wonder how many blockades the US would tolerate off its own coast before it recognized the act as an 'act of war.'