US Military Visits Venezuela, Ignores Homegrown Crises
The Bloomberg headline touts a top US military officer's visit to the region, citing 'Venezuela tensions,' while subtly framing Caracas as a 'foreign terrorist organization'—a designation made by the Trump administration with all the geopolitical nuance of a sledgehammer. This conveniently omits decades of documented US-backed coups, sanctions, and economic warfare against socialist governments
across the continent, from Chile to Nicaragua, all destabilizing the very 'region' our general is now graciously visiting. One might wonder if the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs will also be visiting Flint, Michigan, to address its water crisis, or perhaps Baltimore, where decaying infrastructure literally collapses. Apparently, 'tensions' only warrant high-level military intervention when they're
3,000 miles away, preferably near valuable oil reserves, and absolutely never when they involve crumbling bridges or poisoned water lines in our own 'backyard.'