US Deploys Carrier Group to Caribbean; Neighbors Wonder If They Ordered It
Washington, always ready to project power, has dispatched an aircraft carrier group to the Caribbean. The Financial Times reports this as a response to 'tenth strike against alleged drug trafficking boats.' (Ten strikes? On alleged boats?) This humanitarian mission for 'drug interdiction' happens to coincide with increased diplomatic tensions with nearby Venezuela, a nation rich in oil and
inconveniently resistant to US hegemony. It's almost as if the 'war on drugs' becomes a convenient pretext for flexing military might in someone else's backyard. One might recall similar 'peacekeeping' deployments in history that somehow always ended with regime changes or enhanced corporate access to resources. How many 'drug interdiction' missions does it take before we acknowledge the smell of
gunboat diplomacy in the morning? Perhaps the citizens of Latin America, who have lived through the consequences of such 'interventions' for decades, are not as easily convinced by the stated motives as mainstream media hopes.