By Hedelberto López Blanch on November 23, 2025
Throughout its history, the United States has a long list of false flags to attack or invade countries that are not aligned with it or to take over their wealth.
It is currently carrying out one such operation against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, for which it has created a marathon of false information accusing the leaders of that nation of being drug traffickers, while at the same time filling the Caribbean Sea off Caracas with numerous warships, including an atomic submarine and the world’s largest aircraft carrier.
When the United States is going to intervene in a country, the first thing it does is “create” a mendacious justification with a veneer of false “reality” so that the media will go along with it and thus try to convince its people and the international community that its planned intervention is absolutely necessary.
The main basis is to show the country, where they already plan to launch the eagle’s claws, as if there were only death and destruction there and that with the arrival of the US military forces, “peace and democracy” would be restored.
There are many operations launched by the United States against various nations around the world, and it would take a long time to list them all, but I will mention some of the most relevant ones that give an idea of the aggressiveness shown by Washington to achieve its objectives.
On February 15, 1898, the US battleship Maine, which was in Havana Bay, exploded under the pretext of making a “friendly visit” to one of the two colonies that Spain maintained in the Caribbean Sea: Cuba and Puerto Rico.
Two hundred and sixty-six sailors died, and the US media immediately accused Spain, without any evidence, of having blown up the ship with an underwater mine. Two months later, in April, this event served as a pretext for starting the Spanish-American War.
The nascent American empire defeated the Spanish forces and, as a result, Madrid lost not only Cuba but also Puerto Rico, as well as the Philippines and Guam.
The Cuban mambisa forces were on the verge of defeating the Spanish colonialists after decades of bitter fighting.
Subsequently, under the pretext of the “Manifest Destiny” doctrine, which emerged during the 19th century and cemented US expansionist policy, the White House intervened militarily in Haiti, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic.
By fabricating the Gulf of Tonkin incident on August 4, 1964, in which Washington accused the Vietnamese People’s Liberation Army of attacking U.S. ships, another false flag operation was unleashed, giving the Lyndon B. Johnson administration grounds to launch destructive attacks against that Asian nation.
Documents declassified in 2005 by the US National Security Agency determined that the reports had been deliberately misrepresented and that the agents in charge of these operations were very likely aware that it was a manipulation. With that disastrous war, Washington wanted to prevent the influence of the Soviet Union and China in the Asian region.
Years later, in order to seize Iraq’s rich oil fields (as former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan stated in his 2007 memoir) and extend its power throughout the Middle East, where there are extensive hydrocarbon reserves, the White House created a large-scale false flag operation.
The US empire and the hegemonic Western media launched a campaign accusing Baghdad of possessing weapons of mass destruction that would be used against neighboring countries and the Iraqi people themselves.
Under the cover of this false flag, in 2003 the United States and a coalition of the United Kingdom and other NATO countries bombed and invaded the Arab country to remove President Saddam Hussein. Even today, in 2025, Iraq is still suffering the consequences of that devastating war.
As the United States’ thirst for oil is insatiable, Barack Obama’s administration demonized Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in order to overthrow him. In March 2011, under the pretext of alleged massacres in Benghazi, US and NATO forces, with the approval of the UN, 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 United Kingdom, 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, who was identified as the perpetrator of the attacks on the Twin Towers in New York, which many analysts and experts still believe were organized by the US government itself and the Israeli intelligence services.
That is why the countless wars, coups, and destabilizing actions directed against countries that are not aligned with the US give a measure of the danger currently looming over Venezuela, as the US has been creating false flag information for years to demonize constitutional president Nicolás Maduro Moros and the Bolivarian leadership, although, as is well known, the real objective is to take over the South American nation’s reserves of oil, gold, and other minerals.
It is becoming increasingly necessary to stop this enormous military threat from Washington against Caracas, which would also destabilize the entire Caribbean and South America, with effects that could reach the United States itself.
Hedelberto López Blanch, Cuban journalist, writer, and researcher, specialist in international politics.