US Considering Sending B-1 Bombers to Venezuela. Again.
Newsweek highlighted Donald Trump's take on dispatching B-1 bombers to Venezuela, purportedly to target drug cartels. The piece frames this as a new, decisive stance, yet conveniently omits the US's long-standing, disastrous history of militarized interventions in Latin America, often under the guise of drug interdiction. These policies consistently destabilize regions, bolster authoritarian
regimes, and, ironically, rarely curb drug flow, but they do make excellent photo ops for politicians playing tough. This isn't just Trump's whim; it's a bipartisan playbook as old as the Monroe Doctrine. One might remember how the 'War on Drugs' in Colombia militarized vast swathes of the country, benefiting defense contractors while the root causes of drug production remained untouched. How many
military exercises does it take for mainstream media to notice a pattern of neocolonial aggression, not 'concern' for cartels?