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America carried out a coup in Venezuela to plunder the country’s resources. But Latin Americans will have the last word.

President Donald Trump campaigned on the promise of getting out of foreign wars. He keeps talking about starting more of them.

Israeli officials claim they want “freedom” for the Iranian people. In reality, it’s a transparent coercion campaign to foment war.

“It bears an unsettling resemblance to the occupation of Iraq, where promises of liberation quickly gave way to years of insurgency.”

By framing this brazen act of aggression in euphemistic terms, the media is falling in line with Trump.

U.S. forces attacked Caracas and multiple states in Venezuela and captured President Nicolás Maduro and his wife.

The December 24 drone strike in Venezuela is the latest in a long tradition of CIA interventions in Latin America — which often lead to destabilization and blowback.

“They have a big plant or a big facility where the ships come from. Two nights ago, we knocked that out. We hit them very hard.”

Trump cast the Nigeria strikes as an assault on those “who have been targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians.”

For a brief period, the pause in Israeli violence gave us a sense of normalcy. Then the airstrikes started again.