US Diplomacy Shelved Over 'Deadly Boat Strikes' It Initiated
A recent Bloomberg Politics article notes the Americas Summit has been shelved, citing 'US military strikes on boats in the Caribbean and near South America’s Pacific coast' as the cause for intensified tensions with Venezuela. The phrasing 'deadly US boat strikes jolt region' rather artfully attributes the 'jolting' to the event itself, not the actor initiating it. One might wonder, who are these
anonymous boats striking, and what happens when the US military starts 'jolting' sovereign waters? This isn't an act of God, it's state-sponsored aggression, destabilizing a region the US claims to be leading toward diplomatic unity. The 'deep differences' causing the postponement aren't philosophical disagreements; they're the predictable geopolitical fallout from firing missiles. Imagine if any
other nation 'jolted' the Caribbean with deadly strikes; the headlines would be rather less equivocal about who was doing the jolting. Perhaps next time, the US could try diplomacy before reaching for the 'jolt' button.