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WHAT WOULD DONALD Trump have to do for the U.S. media to frame what he is doing in Venezuela as an act of war?

This isn’t a rhetorical question. It’s an actual inquiry, the pursuit of which can reveal a lot about how U.S. media’s default posture is state subservience and stenography. In the past few months, President Trump has committed several clear acts of war against Venezuela, including: murdering — in cold blood — scores of its citizens, hijacking its ships, stealing its resources, issuing a naval blockade, and attacking its ports. Then in a stunning escalation on early Saturday morning, the administration invaded Venezuela’s sovereign territory, bombing several buildings, killing at least 40 more of its citizens, kidnapping Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife from their bed, and announcing they will, henceforth, “run” the country.

This episode seems to indicate that the president can do almost anything in the context of foreign policy, and the media will still overwhelmingly adopt language that is flattering and sanitizing to the administration when describing what has unfolded. This dynamic reached a new low Saturday morning, when the U.S. media rushed to frame the administration’s unprovoked attack as, at worst, a “ratcheted up” (CBS News) “pressure campaign” (Wall Street Journal) and, as was more often the case, some type of limited narcotics police “operation” (CNN).

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[–] xenomor@lemmy.world 178 points 4 days ago (7 children)

If China decided that trump had violated some domestic law of theirs, and sent their military into Florida, dragged him and his third wife out of their beds, flew them back to their territory, and put them in prison, would these assholes consider that an act of war?

[–] velindora@lemmy.cafe 70 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 29 points 4 days ago

Stop, I can only get so erect.

[–] aarch0x40@piefed.social 48 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] JLock17@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

50% chub, and rising.

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 23 points 4 days ago (1 children)

MAGA would be screaming about it until the end of time if that happened. Because it's different. Somehow.

[–] amorangi@lemmy.nz 20 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It's called American Exceptionalism, and it's much older than MAGA.

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 1 points 3 days ago

Me? you want Me to pay tax? To Revolution!”

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Valid point. MAGA is just the latest iteration.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 30 points 4 days ago

Don't promise me a good time

[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

They'd say "interesting that you'd use China as an example you commie"

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 3 points 4 days ago

They could've said any European country and everyone would have just laughed.

No no no, you've got it backwards. It's .ml users who'd get mad at you for comparing China and the US. "It's a false equivalency!"

Like I had happen to me just the other day when I compared the US regime's invasion to the invasion of Ukraine and the lack of any real response from world leaders.

[–] tooLikeTheNope@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

Now, that would definitely feel like one of those ultimately rare and rarer "Nature is healing" moments, and everyone would live happily ever after.