US Empire Wages Peace, Announces More Threats
The Independent reports on Donald Trump's threats of 'dominance in the Western hemisphere' regarding Venezuela. It’s almost touching how the media paints this as uniquely Trumpian, rather than standard-issue US foreign policy. The US has been threatening nations in Latin America since the Monroe Doctrine of 1823, consistently undermining any government that dared to prioritize its own people over
US corporate interests. Operation Condor, anyone? (Or perhaps the CIA's 2002 coup attempt against Hugo Chávez, quietly 'forgotten' by many mainstream outlets.) Threatening sovereign nations for not complying with Washington's agenda isn't a bug; it's a feature. The sheer predictability of it is what's truly alarming. One might wonder: how many 'freedom and democracy' invasions does it take before
we acknowledge the empire's playbook?