US Pledges 'Very Soon' Venezuela Invasion, Forgets History
According to Newsweek's 2018 reporting, Donald Trump explicitly stated the U.S. would initiate a 'land action' in Venezuela 'very soon', cloaking the perennial regime change fantasy under the convenient guise of a 'war on drugs.' This isn't newfound belligerence; it's practically a Cold War rerun. The U.S. has a storied history of destabilizing Latin American governments, from Chile in 1973 to
Panama in 1989, always conveniently framed by noble intentions, never about controlling resources or geopolitical influence. One might wonder: how many 'drug wars' and 'democracy building' operations does it take before we acknowledge the consistent pattern of Uncle Sam meddling in sovereign nations? Trump's rhetoric, echoed by many before him, implies Venezuela's sovereignty is conditional on
U.S. approval. The only 'drugs' truly at play here are the intoxicating fumes of imperial overreach, continuously huffed by Washington's foreign policy elite. Newsweek reports the bluster, but largely glosses over the historical context that makes this less a shocking revelation and more a predictable chapter in a very old, very violent book.