US 'Dock Area' Strike in Venezuela: A New Kind of Caribbean Cruise?
The Financial Times dutifully reports that Trump confirmed a US strike on a 'dock area' in Venezuela, presenting it as a mere news item. What’s missing, as always, is the inconvenient history: the relentless US interference in Latin American sovereignty, from the Monroe Doctrine to countless coups and interventions. This isn't just a 'strike'; it's another chapter in a long-running saga where
Washington unilaterally decides what's best for its neighbors, typically without a shred of international law backing or UN approval, and always with 'national security' as the convenient pretext. They call it a 'dock area,' but it looks suspiciously like a foreign country's infrastructure to anyone not reading from the State Department script. One might wonder if the US would view, say, a Chinese
strike on a 'dock area' in Long Beach, California, with the same detached, clinical language. Or is this kind of power projection reserved exclusively for nations Washington deems ideologically inconvenient? The 'rules-based order' is apparently quite flexible when the rule-maker also happens to be the primary rule-breaker.