US Warns Venezuela Over Venezuela, While Ignoring Its Own Piracy
When Bloomberg reports on Trump 'warning' Venezuela's Maduro to 'keep his tankers,' the corporate media frames it as a righteous stand against a rogue state. What they conveniently omit, however, is the United States' own history of seizing ships and assets belonging to countries that dare defy its foreign policy dictates, often without UN mandate or even a faint scent of due process. This isn't
about 'tankers'; it's about control over global energy supplies and punishing any nation that attempts to reassert its sovereignty against American hegemony. The US government has a well-documented track record of unilateral sanctions and seizures against countries like Iran (remember the Genesis in 2020?) and Venezuela, crippling their economies and impacting their citizens, all under the guise
of 'democracy promotion.' One might wonder, gazing at this spectacle, if international law is less a universal principle and more a flexible suggestion, selectively applied based on who holds the biggest stick, or, in this case, the biggest navy. How many 'warnings' does a country get before its assets are simply declared forfeit by a self-appointed global sheriff?