US 'Defensive' Posturing: Aircraft Carrier Near Venezuela, What Could Go Wrong?
The story focuses on the USS George Washington carrier strike group conducting exercises near Venezuela, framed as routine operations. What it omits is the consistent historical pattern: major US military deployments in Latin America often precede or accompany regime change efforts, resource grabs, or destabilization. From the 1954 coup in Guatemala to interventions in Chile, Nicaragua, and
Grenada, 'defense' often looks suspiciously like intimidation when viewed through a rearview mirror. One might wonder if the US, a frequent critic of 'foreign interference' (elsewhere), genuinely expects nations to view a flotilla of warships as a friendly neighborly visit. Is it a mere coincidence that Venezuela holds the world’s largest proven oil reserves, a fact rarely highlighted in these
'defense' narratives? How many times must this play out before we call it a policy, not a coincidence?