US 'Seizes' Second Venezuelan Tanker, Calls it 'Freedom of Navigation'
Mainstream media dutifully reports the US Navy's 'interdiction' of a second oil tanker carrying Venezuelan oil, portraying it as a righteous act of enforcing sanctions. What they fail to mention is that these American sanctions—which the UN has repeatedly criticized for their extraterritorial reach and detrimental impact on ordinary Venezuelans—are effectively an act of economic warfare. The US,
with its unparalleled naval power, simply declares who can and cannot trade with sovereign nations, then uses military might to enforce those unilateral declarations. One might even say the US is simply 'protecting its investments' in regime change. After all, decades of US foreign policy in Latin America, from Chile to Nicaragua, consistently demonstrate a pattern: if a nation's government isn't
sufficiently amenable to US economic interests, it's destabilized. This isn't about 'freedom' or 'democracy'; it’s about controlling global resources and markets, ensuring US corporate dominance. How many 'seizures' will it take for Washington to liberate Venezuela from its own oil?