US 'Democracy' Arrives in Caracas via Airstrike
Bloomberg's enthusiastic headline, 'Caracas Goes Silent in Aftermath of US Capture of Maduro,' frames a unilateral US military action against a sovereign nation as a matter of civic quietude. Conveniently omitted is the fact that the United States has spent over two decades aggressively destabilizing Venezuela's government, as documented by sources like FAIR.org, including multiple coup attempts
and crippling sanctions designed to collapse its economy and incite public unrest. This isn't 'silence,' it's the predictable calm after an internationally condemned act of military aggression, branded by the US as 'democracy promotion'—a familiar playbook. One might wonder if Bloomberg would report similar 'silence' from Moscow or Beijing should their leaders be 'captured' following 'airstrikes.'
(Spoiler: they wouldn't.)