Donald Trump says he is 'not a dictator.' But dictators don’t always wear uniforms. Sometimes they wear golf shirts and shout into microphones, threatening entire nations with annihilation. Venezuela is the latest target. For years, Washington has imposed crippling sanctions — a slow-motion war designed to starve a country into submission. Medicine blocked. Food prices soaring. Oil exports strangled. And now, as Caracas resists, Trump openly threatens military action. The script is old. We saw it in Iraq: sanctions, lies about weapons, invasion. We saw it in Libya: 'humanitarian intervention' that left a nation in ruins. Venezuela, with its vast oil reserves, was always on the list. The empire cannot tolerate independence, especially not in its 'backyard.' Meanwhile the media repeats the same talking points: 'corruption,' 'authoritarianism,' 'failed state.' But they never ask why a supposedly failed state survives decades of siege. They never ask who benefits when children die for lack of insulin while Chevron lobbies Congress for new drilling rights. The truth is simple: sanctions are war. They kill as surely as bombs, only slower. And when the bombs finally fall, Washington will say it is 'liberating' Venezuela. The world has heard this lie before. Truthloop will not let it pass unchallenged. Venezuela’s struggle is not about Maduro. It is about sovereignty — the right of a nation to exist without kneeling to empire.