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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Corporate Media Parrot Dubious
Claims Used To Justify War On Venezuela</h1>
<div class="gmail-credits gmail-reader-credits">By Ricardo
Vaz, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting.</div>
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<p>Since August, the US has been amassing military
assets in the Caribbean. Warships, bombers and
thousands of <a
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/world/americas/us-venezuela-military-maduro-trump.html"
moz-do-not-send="true">troops</a> have been joined
by the USS <i>Gerald R. Ford</i>, the world\u2019s largest
aircraft carrier, in the <a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/11/navy-carrier-trump-drugs-caribbean-latin-america"
moz-do-not-send="true">largest</a> regional <a
href="https://www.armyrecognition.com/news/army-news/2025/current-overview-of-u-s-forces-in-caribbean-sea-deployment-targeting-venezuela-linked-drug-networks"
moz-do-not-send="true">deployment</a> in decades.
Extrajudicial strikes against small vessels, which UN
experts have <a
href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/10/un-experts-condemn-coercive-intervention-venezuela-united-states"
moz-do-not-send="true">decried</a> as violations of
international law, have killed at least 80 civilians (<b>CNN</b>,
<a
href="https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/13/politics/20th-strike-us-military-boats-caribbean"
moz-do-not-send="true">11/14/25</a>).</p>
<p>Many foreign policy analysts believe that regime
change in Venezuela is the ultimate goal (<b>Al
Jazeera</b>, <a
href="https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/10/24/the-us-warships-off-venezuela-arent-there-to-fight-drugs"
moz-do-not-send="true">10/24/25</a>; <b>Left
Chapter</b>, <a
href="https://www.theleftchapter.com/post/from-baghdad-to-caracas-a-washington-manual-on-sanctions-and-war"
moz-do-not-send="true">10/21/25</a>), but the Trump
administration instead claims it is fighting
\u201cnarcoterrorism,\u201d accusing Caracas of flooding the US
with drugs via the Cartel of the Suns and Tren de
Aragua, both designated as foreign terrorist
organizations.</p>
<p>Over the years, Western media have endorsed
Washington\u2019s Venezuela regime-change efforts at every
turn, from cheerleading coup attempts to whitewashing
deadly sanctions (<b>FAIR.org</b>, <a
href="https://fair.org/home/calibrated-dishonesty-western-media-coverage-of-venezuela-sanctions/"
moz-do-not-send="true">6/13/22</a>, <a
href="https://fair.org/home/us-sanctions-against-venezuela-cause-shortages-in-diesel/"
moz-do-not-send="true">6/4/21</a>, <a
href="https://fair.org/home/how-western-left-media-helped-legitimate-us-regime-change-in-venezuela/"
moz-do-not-send="true">1/22/20</a>). Now, with a
possible military operation that could have disastrous
consequences, corporate outlets are making little
effort to hold the US government accountable. Rather,
they are unsurprisingly ceding the floor to the
warmongers.</p>
<h3>Fabricating \u2018Tensions\u2019</h3>
<p>Despite Washington ominously amassing naval assets
and issuing overt threats against Caracas, Western
journalists often talk of \u201ctensions\u201d between the two
countries (<strong>Fox</strong>, <a
href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/us-troops-venezuela-trump-hints-major-moves-possible-tensions-soar"
moz-do-not-send="true">11/17/25</a>; <strong>ABC</strong>,
<a
href="https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/News/video/tensions-rise-us-venezuela-127623336"
moz-do-not-send="true">11/18/25</a>), or even a
\u201cshowdown\u201d (<b>Wall Street Journal</b>, <a
href="https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/venezuelas-strongman-is-tryingand-failingto-appease-trump-8e9c020d"
moz-do-not-send="true">10/9/25</a>; <b>Washington
Post</b>, <a
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/10/24/trump-venezuela-maduro-cartels-war-terror/"
moz-do-not-send="true">10/25/25</a>). This is
conceptually similar to the framing of Israel\u2019s
genocide in Gaza as a \u201cconflict\u201d with Hamas (<b>FAIR.org</b>,
<a
href="https://fair.org/home/israel-hamas-war-label-obscures-israels-war-on-palestinians/"
moz-do-not-send="true">12/8/23</a>), except in this
case the media does not have an equivalent of October
7 to rationalize all the atrocities by the US and its
allies.</p>
<p>Though the Trump administration has largely abandoned
the traditional US <a
href="https://mediadiversified.org/2016/07/10/the-left-the-right-and-american-exceptionalism/"
moz-do-not-send="true">exceptionalist</a> discourse
of promoting \u201cfreedom\u201d and \u201cdemocracy,\u201d that has not
stopped corporate journalists from relentlessly
demonizing the Venezuelan government.</p>
<p>Journalists are quick to label Venezuelan President
Nicolás Maduro, currently facing hundreds of Tomahawk
missiles pointed at his country, an \u201cauthoritarian\u201d (<b>Guardian</b>,
<a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/14/venezuela-maduro-urges-trump-to-avoid-afghanistan-style-forever-war"
moz-do-not-send="true">11/14/25</a>; <b>New York
Times</b>, <a
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/us/politics/trump-covert-cia-action-venezuela.html"
moz-do-not-send="true">10/15/25</a>\U0001f609 or an
\u201cautocrat\u201d (<b>Wall Street Journal</b>, <a
href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/trump-expresses-reservations-over-strikes-in-venezuela-to-top-aides-0bf17d5c"
moz-do-not-send="true">11/5/25</a>; <b>Washington
Post</b>, <a
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/10/24/trump-venezuela-maduro-cartels-war-terror/"
moz-do-not-send="true">10/24/25</a>). In contrast,
the same pieces place no labels on the Trump
administration despite its authoritarianism both at
home and abroad (<b>Guardian</b>, <a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/16/trump-authoritarianism-warning"
moz-do-not-send="true">10/16/25</a>; <b>CNN</b>, <a
href="https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/13/politics/authoritarian-moves-trump-analysis"
moz-do-not-send="true">8/13/25</a>).</p>
<p>Articles in the <b>Guardian</b> (<a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/06/venezuela-panama-invasion-trump"
moz-do-not-send="true">11/6/25</a>, <a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/22/us-night-stalkers-caribbean-fears-regime-change-venezuela-nicolas-maduro"
moz-do-not-send="true">10/22/25</a>) describe US
operations in Grenada (1983) and Panama (1989) as
success stories, fawning over special operations
forces while ignoring the deadly impact. The Panama
City neighborhood of <a
href="https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2016/1/31/the-truth-behind-us-operation-just-cause-in-panama"
moz-do-not-send="true">El Chorrillo</a> became known
as \u201cLittle Hiroshima\u201d after <a
href="https://www.projectcensored.org/6-what-really-happened-to-panama-is-a-different-story/"
moz-do-not-send="true">civilians were massacred</a>
there during the US invasion.</p>
<p>Very few outlets recall more recent US interventions,
such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria, which
according to Brown University\u2019s <a
href="https://costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/costs/human"
moz-do-not-send="true">Costs of War project</a> have
killed an estimated 4.5\u20134.7 million people over the
past two decades. Such \u201c<a
href="https://lpeproject.org/events/the-accumulation-of-waste-a-political-economy-of-genocide-and-imperialismwith-ali-kadri-and-max-ajl/"
moz-do-not-send="true">accumulation by waste</a>\u201d
has seen <a
href="https://costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/costs/economic"
moz-do-not-send="true">$8 trillion</a> transferred
to the military-industrial complex, Wall Street and
Silicon Valley.</p>
<h3>Hiding The Evidence</h3>
<p>Washington\u2019s steady escalation in the Caribbean has
evoked memories of the buildup to the Iraq War, when
Washington also counted on crucial support from the
media establishment to manufacture consent for
imperialist war (<b>FAIR.org</b>, <a
href="https://fair.org/home/where-are-they-now-the-reporters-who-got-iraq-so-wrong/"
moz-do-not-send="true">2/5/13</a>, <a
href="https://fair.org/home/20-years-later-nyt-still-cant-face-its-iraq-war-shame/"
moz-do-not-send="true">3/22/23</a>).</p>
<p>At that time, corporate media parroted White House
claims about Iraq\u2019s hidden arsenal, despite evidence
that Iraq had destroyed its banned weapons arsenal, in
contradiction to the White House\u2019s case for war (<b>FAIR.org</b>,
<a
href="https://fair.org/home/star-witness-on-iraq-said-weapons-were-destroyed/"
moz-do-not-send="true">2/27/03</a>). Fast forward
more than 20 years, and once more there is ample
information undermining the administration narrative,
this time about \u201cnarcoterrorism.\u201d</p>
<p><a
href="https://www.unodc.org/unodc/data-and-analysis/world-drug-report-2025.html"
moz-do-not-send="true">Reports</a> from the United
Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) have
consistently found Venezuela\u2019s Eastern Caribbean
corridor to be a marginal route for US-bound cocaine
trafficking, with former UNODC director Pino Arlacchi
estimating that only around 5% of Colombian-sourced
drugs flow through Venezuela (<b>L\u2019Antidiplomatico</b>,
<a
href="https://www.lantidiplomatico.it/dettnews-pino_arlacchi__la_grande_bufala_contro_il_venezuela_la_geopolitica_del_petrolio_travestita_da_lotta_alla_droga/5871_62413/"
moz-do-not-send="true">8/27/25</a>).</p>
<p>These findings have been corroborated by the DEA
itself. For instance, the agency\u2019s 2024 National Drug
Threat Assessment <a
href="https://www.dea.gov/documents/2024/2024-05/2024-05-24/national-drug-threat-assessment-2024"
moz-do-not-send="true">report</a> does not even
include the word \u201cVenezuela.\u201d The 2025 <a
href="https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2025-07/2025NationalDrugThreatAssessment.pdf"
moz-do-not-send="true">report</a> only has a small
section on the gang Tren de Aragua, which dismisses
any ties to the Venezuelan government and places its
drug trafficking activities \u201cmainly at the street
level.\u201d</p>
<p>Yet these glaring flaws in the Trump administration\u2019s
casus belli are often overlooked by Western media.
Several outlets reporting on potentially imminent US
strikes mention the White House\u2019s declared
anti-narcotics mission but conveniently omit the fact
that, even according to US agencies, fewer drugs flow
through this region than many others (<b>Guardian</b>,
<a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/11/navy-carrier-trump-drugs-caribbean-latin-america"
moz-do-not-send="true">11/11/25</a>; <b>Washington
Post</b>, <a
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/11/14/trump-venezuela-maduro-strikes/"
moz-do-not-send="true">11/14/25</a>; <b>Bloomberg</b>,
<a
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-15/trump-says-he-s-made-progress-on-stopping-drugs-from-venezuela"
moz-do-not-send="true">11/14/25</a>; <b>New York
Times</b>, <a
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/us/politics/trump-pressure-venezuela.html"
moz-do-not-send="true">11/14/25</a>).</p>
<p>Former UNODC director Arlacchi <a
href="https://www.lantidiplomatico.it/dettnews-pino_arlacchi__la_grande_bufala_contro_il_venezuela_la_geopolitica_del_petrolio_travestita_da_lotta_alla_droga/5871_62413/"
moz-do-not-send="true">pointed out</a> that
\u201cGuatemala is a drug corridor seven times more
important than the Bolivarian \u2018narco-state\u2019 allegedly
is.\u201d He accused Washington of hypocritically driving
the anti-Venezuela narrative due to interest in its
massive oil reserves.</p>
<h3>\u2018Maduro Denies\u2019</h3>
<p>With the \u201cnarcoterrorism\u201d accusations against Maduro
and associates, Western journalists absolve US
officials of the burden of proof (<b>New York Times</b>,
<a
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/us/politics/trump-weighs-attacks-venezuela.html"
moz-do-not-send="true">11/4/25</a>; <b>Financial
Times</b>, <a
href="https://www.ft.com/content/56462284-c282-47df-a037-024b4dad15b9?accessToken=zwAGQJR5lhuQkc9WRiKEwoJH39OgNwJLTa0VuQ.MEYCIQCJcIwxeM1Hj08jf_xck6cJrfYb7f7JinJ6JHV_GNLrtQIhAN8kEqFT5xPikO1Ha9vPdVArUq7mZHdsi2pWocZuG6CT&sharetype=gift&token=5e6a12f1-13eb-45c5-ac95-0ccb3f2852c8"
moz-do-not-send="true">10/6/25</a>; <b>Wall Street
Journal</b>, <a
href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/trump-expresses-reservations-over-strikes-in-venezuela-to-top-aides-0bf17d5c"
moz-do-not-send="true">11/5/25</a>). There has never
been any public evidence about Maduro, or other
high-ranking Venezuelan officials indicted by the US,
being involved in drug trafficking via the Cartel of
the Suns, while a <a
href="https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/SOCM-2025-11374_Redacted.pdf"
moz-do-not-send="true">leaked US intelligence memo</a>
rejected the notion of government ties to Tren de
Aragua.</p>
<p>The Cartel of the Suns\u2019 very existence is far from
established, with subject experts contending that,
while drug trafficking may be entwined with corruption
in Venezuela\u2019s military, there is no evidence of a
centralized structure going all the way up to the
president (<b>InSight Crime</b>, <a
href="https://insightcrime.org/news/why-is-us-attacking-cartels-that-dont-exist/"
moz-do-not-send="true">11/3/25</a>, <a
href="https://insightcrime.org/news/us-sanctions-mischaracterize-cartel-of-the-suns-venezuela/"
moz-do-not-send="true">8/1/25</a>; <b>AFP</b>, <a
href="https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250828-us-targets-venezuela-over-soles-cartel-does-it-exist"
moz-do-not-send="true">8/29/25</a>).</p>
<p>Instead of exposing the unfounded accusations and
providing data from experts and specialized agencies,
Western outlets either let Trump\u2019s case for war go
unchallenged, or merely present a dissenting opinion
from Maduro, whom they have systematically demonized (<b>New
York Times</b>, <a
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/us/politics/trump-venezuela-maduro.html"
moz-do-not-send="true">10/06/25</a>; <b>DW</b>, <a
href="https://www.dw.com/en/us-announces-military-operation-against-narco-terrorists/a-74737957"
moz-do-not-send="true">11/14/25</a>; <b>NPR</b>, <a
href="https://www.npr.org/2025/11/12/nx-s1-5604895/trump-venezuela-drug-boat-strikes"
moz-do-not-send="true">11/12/25</a>; <b>CBS</b>, <a
href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/venezuela-military-exercises-after-us-military-strikes-boat-caribbean/"
moz-do-not-send="true">10/15/25</a>; <b>CNN</b>, <a
href="https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/14/americas/venezuela-maduro-noriega-panama-latam-intl"
moz-do-not-send="true">11/14/25</a>).</p>
<p>This behavior is certainly not new, as Western
outlets have consistently pushed the unfounded
\u201cnarcoterrorism\u201d narrative, going back to the first
Trump administration (<b>FAIR.org</b>, <a
href="https://fair.org/home/media-continue-to-push-misinformation-about-venezuela-and-drug-trafficking/"
moz-do-not-send="true">9/24/19</a>). Similar
unfounded accusations of drug trafficking were made
against Nicaragua in the 1980s (<b>Extra!</b>, <a
href="https://fair.org/extra/lie-nicaraguan-government-leaders-are-involved-in-drug-trafficking/"
moz-do-not-send="true">10\u201311/87</a>, <a
href="https://fair.org/extra/nicaraguas-drug-connection-exposed-as-hoax/"
moz-do-not-send="true">7\u20138/88</a>; <b>FAIR.org</b>,
<a
href="https://fair.org/home/american-made-a-largely-true-story-with-some-not-so-fun-lies/"
moz-do-not-send="true">10/10/17</a>), which served
to justify US attempts to overthrow the Sandinista
government through the CIA-backed Contras.</p>
<h3>Warmongers To The Stage</h3>
<p>In his typical style, Trump has sent mixed signals
over whether he wants to strike targets inside
Venezuela, with contradictory on-record and unofficial
statements going back and forth. When asked if the
White House is seeking regime change in Venezuela,
Trump has been noncommittal (<b>Wall Street Journal</b>,
<a
href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/trump-expresses-reservations-over-strikes-in-venezuela-to-top-aides-0bf17d5c"
moz-do-not-send="true">11/4/25</a>). It is worth
recalling that in June, Trump similarly sent all sorts
of <a
href="https://www.npr.org/2025/06/17/nx-s1-5436819/trump-iran-israel"
moz-do-not-send="true">inconsistent</a> <a
href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-17/donald-trump-g7-israel-iran-statement/105424942"
moz-do-not-send="true">messages</a> before
ultimately attacking Iran\u2019s nuclear facilities.</p>
<p>True to form (<b>FAIR.org</b>, <a
href="https://fair.org/home/nyt-unlike-russian-wars-us-wars-promote-freedom-and-democracy/"
moz-do-not-send="true">2/9/17</a>, <a
href="https://fair.org/home/few-to-no-anti-bombing-voices-as-trump-prepares-to-escalate-syria-war/"
moz-do-not-send="true">4/13/18</a>, <a
href="https://fair.org/home/in-the-name-of-anti-trumpism-media-elevate-a-lying-warmonger/"
moz-do-not-send="true">7/3/20</a>), many liberal
establishment outlets have been more bellicose than
the US president they have occasionally chided for
murdering scores of civilians in the Caribbean (<b>The
Hill</b>, <a
href="https://thehill.com/opinion/international/5579175-venezuela-maduro-terrorism-threat/"
moz-do-not-send="true">10/30/25</a>; <b>Foreign
Policy</b>, <a
href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/07/trump-maduro-venezuela-democracy-intervention/"
moz-do-not-send="true">11/7/25</a>). The <b>New
York Times</b>\u2019 Bret Stephens (<a
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/opinion/maduro-venezuela-trump.html"
moz-do-not-send="true">1/14/25</a>, <a
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/opinion/nobel-peace-prize-machado-maduro-venezuela.html"
moz-do-not-send="true">10/10/25</a>, <a
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/opinion/venezuela-trump-maduro.html"
moz-do-not-send="true">11/17/25</a>) has advocated
for a regime-changing military intervention for months
(<b>FAIR.org</b>, <a
href="https://fair.org/home/nyt-advises-trump-to-kill-more-venezuelans/"
moz-do-not-send="true">2/12/25</a>). Quite
tellingly, Stephens does not regret supporting the
Iraq War (<b>New York Times</b>, <a
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/21/opinion/20-years-on-i-dont-regret-supporting-the-iraq-war.html"
moz-do-not-send="true">3/21/23</a>).</p>
<p>The <b>Washington Post</b> published an editorial (<a
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/10/10/venezuela-maduro-trump-machado-war-peaceprize/"
moz-do-not-send="true">10/10/25</a>) after the
recent Nobel Peace Prize award to far-right Venezuelan
leader María Corina Machado, arguing that US interests
would be \u201cbetter served\u201d by someone like Machado, a
firm endorser of US-led regime-change (<b>FAIR.org</b>,
<a
href="https://fair.org/home/western-media-use-peace-prize-to-fuel-war-propaganda/"
moz-do-not-send="true">10/23/25</a>). But with the
war drums beating louder, the Jeff Bezos\u2013owned paper
granted a column (<a
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/11/12/venezuela-maduro-trump-john-bolton/"
moz-do-not-send="true">11/12/25</a>) to <a
href="https://fair.org/home/in-the-name-of-anti-trumpism-media-elevate-a-lying-warmonger/"
moz-do-not-send="true">John Bolton</a>, a former
Trump adviser whose main criticism was that the
administration is not being efficient enough in
overthrowing Maduro.</p>
<p>Bolton, an architect of the Iraq War, and of the
\u201cmaximum pressure\u201d campaign against Venezuela during
Trump\u2019s first term, bemoaned the White House\u2019s
\u201cinadequate\u201d explanations about the ongoing lethal
boat strikes and international quarrels as damaging
the \u201claudable goal\u201d of throwing Venezuela into chaos.</p>
<p>Bolton went on to urge the administration to create a
better \u201cstrategy,\u201d which includes \u201cgreater efforts to
strangle Caracas economically.\u201d The <b>Washington
Post</b> is happy to platform a call for escalating
measures that have already caused tens of thousands of
deaths (CEPR, <a
href="https://cepr.net/report/economic-sanctions-as-collective-punishment-the-case-of-venezuela/"
moz-do-not-send="true">4/25/19</a>).</p>
<p>Finally, the former Trump official says that \u201cwe owe
it to ourselves and Venezuela\u2019s people\u201d to violently
oust the Maduro government, despite opinion polls
showing that such a military intervention is widely
rejected both in the <a
href="https://today.yougov.com/international/articles/53298-the-us-navy-deployment-near-venezuela-has-become-even-less-popular?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email"
moz-do-not-send="true">US</a> and in <a
href="https://www.globovision.com/nacional/44527/93-de-los-venezolanos-rechaza-una-intervencion-militar-extranjera"
moz-do-not-send="true">Venezuela</a>.</p>
<p><b>Bloomberg</b> columnist Javier Blas (<a
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-11-05/venezuela-military-action-regime-change-may-open-oil-s-floodgates"
moz-do-not-send="true">11/4/25</a>) went one step
further by saying the quiet part out loud: \u201cVenezuelan
Regime Change May Open Oil\u2019s Floodgates.\u201d Blas
rejoiced at the prospect of a \u201cUS-enforced change of
ideology\u201d that would install a \u201cpro-Western and
pro-business government,\u201d which would do wonders for
energy markets in the long run.</p>
<p>Unfazed by the human cost of a military intervention,
the corporate pundit was only concerned about the
possible impact of Venezuela\u2019s current 1 million daily
barrels of oil being wiped out. Who cares about
millions of Venezuelans when a \u201cbrief military
campaign\u201d could drive oil prices down and secure a
steady supply in the 2030s?</p>
<h3>Complicity With War</h3>
<p>The White House\u2019s military build-up and illegal
strikes have drawn widespread condemnation and
opposition, even from within the US political
establishment (<b>NPR</b>, <a
href="https://www.npr.org/2025/11/05/g-s1-96661/rubio-hegseth-venezuela-congress"
moz-do-not-send="true">11/5/25</a>; <b>Intercept</b>,
<a
href="https://theintercept.com/2025/10/31/trump-venezuela-boat-strikes-unprivileged-belligerants/"
moz-do-not-send="true">10/31/25</a>). US politicians
have also raised alarm bells about a potential
military intervention in Venezuela without
congressional approval (<b>New York Times</b>, <a
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/us/politics/house-democrats-press-for-vote-to-bar-military-action-in-venezuela.html"
moz-do-not-send="true">11/18/25</a>; <b>Politico</b>,
<a
href="https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/11/06/congress/senate-venezuela-vote-00640088"
moz-do-not-send="true">11/6/25</a>), but these
voices feature much less prominently than the
administration\u2019s.</p>
<p>There is hope that a combination of Venezuelan
defense deterrence with domestic and international
pressure, coupled with Trump\u2019s own unpredictability,
might ultimately avoid yet another US regime-change
military assault.</p>
<p>But should the worst come to pass, the media
establishment will have once again done nothing to
stop yet another deadly US foreign invasion. Over
weeks of military buildup and threats, corporate
outlets elected to ignore the evidence disproving
Trump\u2019s claims and to platform warmongers. They will
not wash the Venezuelan people\u2019s blood off their
hands.</p>
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