What would Donald Trump have to do for the U.S. media to frame what he is doing in Venezuela as an act of war?
This isn’t a rhetorical question. It’s an actual inquiry, the pursuit of which can reveal a lot about how U.S. media’s default posture is state subservience and stenography. In the past few months, President Trump has committed several clear acts of war against Venezuela, including: murdering — in cold blood — scores of its citizens, hijacking its ships, stealing its resources, issuing a naval blockade, and attacking its ports.
Then in a stunning escalation on early Saturday morning, the administration invaded Venezuela’s sovereign territory, bombing several buildings, killing at least 40 more of its citizens, kidnapping Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife from their bed, and announcing they will, henceforth, “run” the country.
And yet none of these acts of brazen aggression, violence, and violations of international law have, in any sustained or meaningful way, been referred to as acts of war, a coup, or invasion in U.S. mainstream media reporting.
I love how centrists expect everyone to just agree with them that “the second worst genocide party” is “good.”
You’re the centrist for claiming both parties are bad. You literally claim that you can’t choose between mass death and exodus versus a withholding of arms, though I suspect in private you would choose the death and exodus for pallestine because it justifies your petty and shallow political identity.
Withholding of arms wasn’t on the table.
No, I don’t hold your views in private, either.
BIDEN LITERALLY DID THAT
AND TRUMP BRAGGED ABOUT SHIPPING THE WITHHELD ARMS
You’re trying to convince me that selling arms is identical to withholding them. Because you will never admit that biden was wrong to sell arms for genocide.
Are you saying that Trump lied TO PROTECT BIDEN?
From whom? Biden had dropped out long before then and the election was over. I’m saying that trump takes credit for biden’s accomplishments.
EDIT: It bears repeating because you didn’t address it: you will never admit that biden was wrong to sell arms for genocide.
Biden was wrong, he should have heavily restricted Israel in every way possible and agreed to more lenient UN Ceasefire terms, but he was advocating for peace and ceasefire unlike the Trump Admin’s official stance, quoting Pete Hegseth “Death or Exodus”.
And now that you’ve said the stuff you don’t mean, here comes the “but”
he was advocating for whatever netanyahu wanted.
Which is all netanyahu would have accepted. And biden was unwilling to say no to netnayhahu.