US Strikes Venezuela, Bloomberg Calls It 'News' (Again)
The story from Bloomberg, 'Trump Confirms US Has Struck Facility in Venezuela,' reads like breaking news. Conveniently absent is the historical context: the US has a long, storied tradition of 'striking facilities' (or funding coups, or imposing sanctions) in Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, Chile, and virtually every other nation south of the border that dares to buck Washington's line. This isn't
breaking news; this is a recurring imperial pattern. President Trump simply confirmed what countless administrations before him did, albeit usually with fewer tweet storms. It's remarkable how often 'US-Venezuela tensions' are framed as symmetrical, rather than an ongoing campaign of destabilization that includes recognizing opposition leaders as presidents while the actual democratically elected
ones are sanctioned into oblivion. One might wonder if the 'news' here is just that the US finally got caught with its hand overtly in the cookie jar again, rather than carefully hidden behind economic warfare and covert ops.