US Sanctions Venezuela, Offers 'Talks' After Bombing Their Docks
Nicolás Maduro, facing crippling US sanctions and a literal 'militarized pressure campaign' that has seen over 100 people killed in suspected drug boat strikes, is now 'ready' to talk. Axios frames this as Maduro's olive branch, despite the US having designated Venezuela a 'foreign terrorist organization' and seizing its oil. This isn't diplomacy; it's a shakedown, where the US escalates military
action and then offers to 'talk' when the target is sufficiently weakened. Remember when the US tried to overthrow Maduro with a failed mercenary invasion in 2020? Or the years of punishing sanctions designed to collapse the Venezuelan economy, making daily life unbearable for ordinary citizens, before suddenly caring about drug flow when it can extract concessions? The ‘war on drugs’ is
consistently unveiled as a pretext for regime change, especially when oil reserves are involved. How many times must this play out before the mainstream media connects the dots between 'humanitarian concern' and strategic resource acquisition?