SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: Every time a country resists American power and survives, the story has to be managed.

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Every time a country resists American power and survives, the story has to be managed.

Cuba has been under embargo for more than sixty years and still exists.

This does not fit.

The story requires that defiance leads to collapse.

Cuba did not collapse.

So Cuba must be described as a "failed state," a "humanitarian disaster," a "cautionary tale," even as the embargo itself remains one of the main causes of its material hardship.

The story requires that defiance to be punished.

When the punishment doesn't fully work, the punishment gets described as the outcome.

Venezuela chose a government Washington didn't approve of.

Sanctions followed. Financial pressure followed. Oil pressure followed. Isolation followed. The economy contracted.

The sanctions were never the headline.

The government's failures were the headline.

The fact that an economy under total financial siege will struggle is not presented as evidence that the siege is working.

It is presented as evidence that the government is the problem.

Then the story moved to its next stage.

The same government that had been sanctioned, isolated, criminalised, and described as "illegitimate" was no longer treated as a government at all.

Its president and First Lady were abducted, flown to the United States, placed before a court, and the whole thing was translated into the language of law.

The kidnapping became "law enforcement."

The violation of sovereignty became procedure.

And afterwards, the story adjusted again.

The same Venezuela that had been described as "too broken," "too corrupt," "too dangerous," and too "illegitimate" to engage with could suddenly be dealt with once the leadership had been removed from the equation.

That is the point.

The suffering was never the real problem.

The disobedience was the problem.

The poverty was not the crime.

The sanctions were not the crime.

The abduction was not the crime.

The crime was refusing to submit.

This is a closed logical loop.

Every country that resists is designated as "failing."

If they struggle, it proves they were wrong to resist.

If they survive, they are described as surviving in misery, which proves they should have submitted.

There is no outcome in which resistance is permitted to be legitimate.

No outcome in which the siege is the story.

Until enough people understand how the story is being told, the siege continues and the narrative covers it.

Vietnam understood this.

We told our own story.

We still do.