US Warns Venezuela Against 'Violent' Self-Defense
When a US foreign policy move is called an 'act of war' by a regional power, one might expect a historical acknowledgment of, say, previous US acts of war in Latin America. The mainstream media, however, prefers to frame any resistance to US hegemony as destabilizing, rather than the US itself being the primary destabilizer. This is not some novel Trumpian adventurism; it's a direct continuation
of the Monroe Doctrine, re-packaged for the 21st century after decades of coups, sanctions, and economic strangulation. Perhaps Lula's adviser fears a 'Vietnam-style' conflict because the US has a rather extensive and bloody portfolio of creating them, from Chile in '73 to Nicaragua in the '80s. How many times must Washington 'nudge' a sovereign nation the 'right' way before we question the hand
doing the nudging, rather than the country that simply wants to keep its resources?