By Hedelberto López Blanch
Throughout its history, the United States has a long list of false flag operations used to attack or invade countries that are not aligned with it or to seize their resources.
Currently, it is carrying out one of these operations against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, for which it has created a barrage of disinformation accusing Venezuelan leaders of being drug traffickers, while simultaneously filling the Caribbean Sea off the coast of Caracas with numerous warships, including a nuclear submarine and the world’s largest aircraft carrier.
When the United States is about to intervene in a country, the first thing it does is create a mendacious justification, disguised as a false “reality,” to enlist the media’s support and thus try to convince its own people and the international community that its planned intervention is absolutely necessary.
The main strategy is to portray the country, where they plan to unleash their full force, as if only death and destruction exist there, and that the arrival of US military forces will restore “peace and democracy.”
The United States has launched numerous operations against various nations around the world, and listing them all would take a long time, but I will cite some of the most relevant ones that illustrate the level of aggression demonstrated by Washington in achieving its objectives.
On February 15, 1898, the American battleship Maine exploded in Havana harbor, ostensibly to pay a “friendly visit” to one of Spain’s two Caribbean colonies: Cuba and Puerto Rico.
266 sailors died, and the American media immediately accused Spain, without any evidence, of having sunk the ship with a submarine mine. Two months later, in April, this event served as a pretext for the start of the Spanish-American War.
The nascent American empire defeated the Spanish forces, and as a consequence, Madrid lost not only Cuba but also Puerto Rico, in addition to the Philippines and Guam.
The Cuban Mambí forces were practically on the verge of defeating the Spanish colonialists after decades of bitter fighting.
Subsequently, under the pretext of the doctrine of “Manifest Destiny,” which emerged during the 19th century and underpinned American expansionist policy, the White House intervened militarily in Haiti, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic.
Through the fabrication of the Gulf of Tonkin incident on August 4, 1964, in which Washington accused the Vietnamese People’s Liberation Army of attacking American ships, another false flag operation was unleashed, providing the Lyndon B. Johnson administration with a pretext to launch destructive attacks against that Asian nation.
Documents declassified in 2005 by the U.S. National Security Agency determined that the reports had been deliberately misrepresented and that the agents in charge of these operations very likely knew it was a fabrication. With this disastrous war, Washington sought to prevent the influence of the Soviet Union and China in the Asian region.
Years later, with the aim of seizing Iraq’s rich oil fields (as former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan stated in his 2007 memoirs) and extending its power throughout the Middle East, where vast hydrocarbon reserves exist, the White House orchestrated a massive false flag operation.
The American empire and the Western hegemonic media launched a campaign to accuse Baghdad of possessing weapons of mass destruction that would be used against neighboring countries and Iraqis themselves.
Under the guise of this false flag, in 2003 the United States and a coalition comprised of the United Kingdom and other NATO countries bombed and invaded the Arab country to eliminate President Saddam Hussein. Even today, in 2025, Iraq suffers the consequences of that devastating war.
Because the United States’ thirst for oil is insatiable, the Barack Obama administration demonized Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in order to overthrow him. In March 2011, under the pretext of massacres in Benghazi, US and NATO forces, with UN approval, launched violent attacks against the Arab country.
The invasion killed thousands of Libyans, including Gaddafi, who was tortured and murdered by Islamic fundamentalists recruited, trained, and armed by the Pentagon, the CIA, the UK, and France. The real reason was that Gaddafi wanted to create a currency among Arab nations to replace the dominance of the dollar.
In Afghanistan, the pretext for the invasion was the elimination of Osama Bin Laden, identified as the perpetrator of the attacks on the Twin Towers in New York, an attack that many analysts and experts still believe was orchestrated by the US government and Israeli intelligence services.
Therefore, the countless wars, coups, and destabilizing actions directed against countries that are not aligned with the US demonstrate the danger currently looming over Venezuela. For years, the United States has been fabricating false flag operations to demonize the constitutional president, Nicolás Maduro Moros, and the Bolivarian leadership, although, as is well known, the true objective is to seize the oil, gold, and other mineral reserves of the South American nation.
It is increasingly necessary to stop this enormous military threat from Washington against Caracas, as it would destabilize the entire Caribbean and South America, and its effects could even reach the United States itself.
[ SOURCE: CUBA EN RESUMEN LATINOAMERICANO Y DEL TERCER MUNDO ]
Special thanks to the author, Hedelberto López Blanch
Gracias al autor, Hedelberto López Blanch
