It waxes and wanes. Sometimes they get much further with a cooperative attitude, sometimes their focus is elsewhere. They’re building up a bigger push right now and getting some real wins in elections (with liberal use of election theft, of course!). Latin America is the frontline of imperialist struggle in the global right now, imo.
Not even, they tried to coup Chavez in 2002 and Venezuela expelled a US naval commander in 2006, who was likely gathering intel for Plan Balboa. That was during the height of the GWOT under Bush. Obama ratcheted up sanctions in 2014 and declared Venezuela a national security threat in 2015, which Trump is now using to justify the war.
There’s basically this through-line of aggression against Venezuela going back to the moment they elected a socialist. Even when distracted they never took their eyes off the prize.
When isn’t it?
It waxes and wanes. Sometimes they get much further with a cooperative attitude, sometimes their focus is elsewhere. They’re building up a bigger push right now and getting some real wins in elections (with liberal use of election theft, of course!). Latin America is the frontline of imperialist struggle in the global right now, imo.
When the US government gets distracted by wars on other non-America continents, or engages in what Republicans would call “non-isolationism”.
Not even, they tried to coup Chavez in 2002 and Venezuela expelled a US naval commander in 2006, who was likely gathering intel for Plan Balboa. That was during the height of the GWOT under Bush. Obama ratcheted up sanctions in 2014 and declared Venezuela a national security threat in 2015, which Trump is now using to justify the war.
There’s basically this through-line of aggression against Venezuela going back to the moment they elected a socialist. Even when distracted they never took their eyes off the prize.