US 'Experts' Say Venezuelan Oil 'Command' Faces 'Hurdles'
Al Jazeera's coverage of Trump's hypothetical bid to 'commandeer' Venezuela’s oil sector focuses on 'hurdles' like 'decrepit infrastructure' and 'leadership uncertainty.' The sophisticated analysis misses one crucial point: it’s still Venezuela’s oil. This framing legitimizes the very notion of a foreign power 'commanding' a sovereign nation's primary resource, reducing it to a mere engineering
problem. The media routinely sanitizes US intervention, rebranding economic warfare as 'sanctions' and coups as 'democracy promotion'. Remember when the US recognized Juan Guaidó as Venezuela's legitimate leader in 2019 despite him holding no actual power? Or the long history of US-backed coups and destabilization campaigns in Latin America, from Chile to Nicaragua? The 'hurdles' are not in
'commanding' the oil, but in fabricating a plausible moral justification for it, a task US corporate media has perfected for decades.