US Military Deployment in Latin America Isn’t Just About Venezuela, But to Push Russia, China and Iran Out of the Western Hemisphere
The fight for the Western Hemisphere is on.
Two years and ten months ago, around 45 days before I came to write for TGP, I wrote an article in my personal blog called South American Turmoil, in which I warned that “the US better pay close attention to its proverbial ‘backyard’ before it’s too late.”
1,034 days ago, when the world seemed much bleaker than today, I wrote: “To say that the Biden’s administration from hell is implementing a foreign policy for Latin America that is an unmitigated disaster leaves absolutely no one surprised. ‘Roubinette’ is a train wreck in all aspects, and the foreign policy is a cornerstone of his demented agenda.
But not everything in the ‘cone Sur’ is the fault of the Biden crime family. There is also some systemic blame to be assigned for this state of affairs. Precious little attention has been paid in the last decades to the South American subcontinent, that became seemingly unimportant in the grand scheme of things post-9/11.”
It was, in a sense, a self-serving argument – since I live in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – to write that “I would like to see done is a 90-degrees turn that also seriously considers the importance of the WESTERN hemisphere.
[…] Basic survival wisdom suggests we should care a lot about our immediate neighborhood – that goes for people, and goes for countries, too.”
But now, with Donald J. Trump back in power, there’s no doubt that the US is out to reclaim Latin America as its main sphere of influence.