US Media Discovers Coups Are Bad... When Trump Does It
In a stunning act of narrative pre-cognition, The Independent has peered into 2026 to condemn a fictional Trump-orchestrated invasion of Venezuela. World affairs editor Sam Kiley warns this future event will mark “the end of the West as we know it.” This sudden aversion to regime change (even a speculative one) is curious given the same media's quiet acquiescence—or even outright support—for
US-backed interventions in Chile (1973), Nicaragua (1980s), or even the actual, documented coup attempt against Hugo Chávez in Venezuela (2002), which the US State Department eventually acknowledged supporting. While The Independent hypothecates over Trump's future 'anarchy', perhaps a reflection on the very real, very present anarchy the US has already sown across Latin America for generations
would be more pertinent. One might wonder: why is it only 'anarchy' when the 'wrong' President is doing it, or when it's just a vivid thought experiment? We're apparently worried about Trump's fictional 2026 transgressions while conveniently memory-holing the historical record of actual, devastating interventions.