I write with a heavy sense of déjà vu. Over my lifetime, I’ve watched the United States march again and again into foreign crises wrapped in the language of “moral urgency,” only for those interventions to collapse into mass death, chaos, and then quiet abandonment. From Central America to the Middle East, the pattern has been painfully consistent. We are sold a noble mission; ordinary people pay the price.
That’s why the growing drumbeat around Venezuela feels so familiar — and so alarming. Yes, the suffering inside the country is real. But I’ve lived long enough to recognize when humanitarian concern is being repackaged to justify pressure, destabilization, or outright regime-change fantasies. And I can’t ignore the uncomfortable possibility that some of this sudden urgency serves as a convenient distraction from the Epstein scandal and the powerful figures desperate to keep its rot out of public view.
Most troubling of all is the obvious question no one in Washington seems willing to say out loud: Could this push for intervention also have something to do with Venezuela’s vast oil reserves? We’ve seen that temptation before — and we’ve seen where it leads.
I fear we are once again standing on the edge of a catastrophe of our own making. We must not repeat America’s disastrous mistakes.
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