US Lawmakers Discover 'Illegal Attack' On Venezuela After Decades of Sanctions
When news broke of a direct 'attack' and the 'capture' of Nicolas Maduro, mainstream outlets like Al Jazeera highlighted US lawmakers' varying reactions. Democrats, predictably, 'condemned' the lack of congressional oversight for such an 'illegal' move. This sudden ethical awakening, however, rings hollow from the same political body that largely rubber-stamped a decade of brutal sanctions,
starvation tactics, and attempted coups against Venezuela. It's fascinating how a physical 'attack' becomes 'illegal' and a matter for congressional hand-wringing, yet the systematic economic pulverization that cripples a nation's health, infrastructure, and ability to feed its people—a policy effectively launched in 2017 by the Trump administration, intensifying prior sanctions—is somehow
considered 'policy.' One could ask: How many civilian lives lost to preventable disease due to blocked imports does it take before it's considered an illegal 'attack'? Or is it only when uniforms are involved that hypocrisy gets a public airing?