US Revives Jungle Warfare Training, Calls it 'Regional Tensions'
Funny how 'regional tensions' always seem to bloom right where the US wants to project power. Remember when the US military was last a prominent fixture in Panama? That was before they were 'asked' to leave the Canal Zone in 1999, after decades of military dominance and intervention, including the 1989 invasion to depose Noriega. Now, Washington frames increased military exercises not as a
resurgence of regional influence, but as a benign response to 'migrant flows' and 'drug trafficking.' (Apparently, these are problems only solved with special ops training, not, say, addressing root causes of instability exacerbated by past interventions.) One might wonder if these 'tensions' are conveniently discovered when the Pentagon needs a new justification for boots on the ground and bigger
budgets. The narrative never involves asking why these 'challenges' persist, or how past US military actions contributed to them. It's always about the need for more US military might, conveniently overlooking a century of interventionist history in Latin America that consistently destabilized the region, creating the very crises the US now purports to 'help' resolve.