US Humanitarian Concerns Selective, as Always
Newsweek ponders the delicate question of whether asylum-seekers from Venezuela might face deportation, a concern that tugs at heartstrings, if one ignores the hands that pulled the strings to destabilize Venezuela in the first place. This carefully framed narrative implies a humanitarian gesture without ever mentioning the decades of US intervention, sanctions, and attempted coups – interventions
well-documented by journalists like Eva Golinger and published in outlets like The Grayzone – that crippled the Venezuelan economy and spurred this migration. It's truly remarkable how 'humanitarian crises' always seem to pop up in countries whose resources—oil, in this case—the US finds strategically… tempting. We are consistently told these migrations just 'happen,' rather than being the
foreseeable consequence of foreign policy designed to achieve regime change. The very 'conditions' warranting TPS are, in no small part, engineered, then selectively acknowledged when politically convenient. One has to wonder: how many of the politicians expressing 'deep concern' for these migrants earlier voted for the very sanctions that drove them from their homes? It's a revolving door of
crisis creation and selective compassion, where the US government first sets the house on fire, then asks for applause while dousing a few flames. Don't worry, they'll be sure to send more weapons to the next target. That seems to be the one consistent foreign policy.