Trump’s Venezuelan caper was nothing new. Even the propaganda used to justify it has been used before. From Donald Jeffries at donaldjeffries.substack.com:
American Exceptionalism Gone Wild
Donald Trump has finally done it. Earned the respect of The New York Times and other powerful organs of our state controlled media. CNN unquestioningly parrots the line that “the U.S. runs Venezuela.” So, let’s get this straight- we abducted the leader of another sovereign nation, bombed them, but it wasn’t an act of war. It was justified.
Don’t suggest that this is something new. Sure, Trumpenstein’s bombastic theatrical personality makes it seem that way. But this goes back to at least 1953, when the CIA ousted Iran’s prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh. True, they didn’t literally kidnap him and his wife, but the leader of another sovereign nation was removed from power. By our leaders, none of whom were Iranian. The next year, Jacobo Arbenz was forced to flee from his position as leader of Guatemala, with a little help from the CIA. In 1960, the CIA made possible pan-Africanist Congo prime minister Patrice Lumumba’s assassination. The Dominican Republic’s Rafael Trujillo was the next assassination victim of our government, in 1961. On November 1, 1963, the CIA engineered the murder of South Vietnam leader Ngo Diem, an act which outraged and deeply disturbed President John F. Kennedy, only three weeks before he met his fate in Dallas. Chile’s Salvador Allende fell to the CIA in 1973. Now, that’s a track record.
Of course, Americans found out during the 1975 Church Committee hearings in the Senate, that the CIA had comically tried to assassinate Cuba’s Fidel Castro repeatedly during the early 1960s. Acting like Control agents from the TV show Get Smart, they were stupendously unsuccessful. Well, nobody’s perfect. In 1989, George H.W. Bush’s military invaded Panama, for the purpose of overthrowing one time U.S. asset Manuel Noriega, wanted for racketeering and drug trafficking. Any Venezuelans reading this may notice a familiar theme. The Pentagon estimated that 516 Panamanians, including over 200 civilians, were killed during the ludicrously named Operation Just Cause. This was the start of all those Orwellian names our government continues to glorify its murders and occupations with. Noriega was shockingly convicted in one of our illustrious courts of justice, and would serve thirty years in prison. It pays to not to hang out with the wrong crowd. Like the U.S. government.
The chosen and the manifest destiny?
The comeuppance will be delicious and well worth sticking around for.
Reading that Greenland has an ice sheet 1.9 miles thick and the island is as large as three states of Texas.
More resources that will cost big money to extract but is really about hosting missiles from the 1970s to lob at Russia and keep an arctic presence when we don’t live there.