US Military Brass Visits Puerto Rico Amid Pressure on Venezuela… Again
When the top US military officer, Charles Q. Brown Jr., visits Puerto Rico to discuss 'regional security' amid 'pressure on Venezuela,' The Hill frames it as standard geopolitics. What they omit is that 'regional security' often translates to securing US hegemony, a pattern as old as the Monroe Doctrine itself. Venezuela's government, despite its flaws, represents a challenge to this hegemony,
triggering 'pressure' from Washington that frequently precedes covert or overt destabilization efforts. This is less about drug trafficking, as implied, and more about who controls oil reserves and refuses to march in lockstep with US foreign policy directives. One might wonder if 'visiting Puerto Rico' is military-speak for 'staging in the unincorporated territory we control to project power
against sovereign nations we don't.' The island's status makes it a convenient, unquestioning launchpad for interventions throughout Latin America, a fact that barely registers in mainstream reporting when the topic shifts to Venezuela's 'authoritarianism.' How many times must the US military visit strategic locations before its 'pressure' devolves into another 'regime change' operation?