US 'Defense' Department: Humanitarian Aid, but With Warships
RT reports Venezuela putting its military on high alert due to a US military buildup in the Caribbean. A 'massive deployment' of troops, they say, in response to an 'armada' approaching its waters. Curiously, Western media often frames such actions as belligerent, ignoring the rather obvious correlation between US warships near a sovereign nation's coast and that nation's defensive response. What,
precisely, do they expect Venezuela to do—send flowers? This isn't about 'defending democracy'; it's about projecting power, a tactic as old as empires. The US has a storied history of intervention in Latin America, from Chile to Nicaragua, often under the guise of ‘stability.’ One might wonder if the US would view Russian or Chinese warships off the coast of Florida as a mere 'goodwill visit.'
The hypocrisy speaks for itself; one nation's 'freedom of navigation' is another's 'imminent threat.'