Politics & Power Quote by Bianca Jagger

“I think” is doing quiet, strategic work here. Bianca Jagger isn’t claiming access to classified cables; she’s staking out a moral interpretation while keeping one foot in plausible deniability. That hedged opening also mirrors the way U.S. foreign policy was often sold to the public in the late Cold War: as reasonable concern, not raw power. Her sentence flips that script. The Sandinistas aren’t framed as a “communist menace” so much as a political irritant to an established regional order.

The key phrase is “threat to their dominance.” Jagger is naming the unspoken engine beneath the official rationale: hegemony. It’s a blunt word that drags the conversation from ideology into control - who gets to set terms for Latin America’s economies, governments, and alliances. In one stroke, she collapses the Reagan-era vocabulary of “freedom fighters” and “containment” into something closer to empire maintenance. The subtext is accusatory but not melodramatic: the problem wasn’t that Nicaragua was uniquely dangerous; it was that Nicaragua proved you could step outside Washington’s preferred lane.

Context matters because Jagger is a celebrity saying this, not a policy analyst. That’s part of the charge. A public figure leveraging visibility to puncture official narratives signals a moment when human rights advocacy and media celebrity began to overlap in international politics. Her intent isn’t to litigate Sandinista virtue; it’s to reframe the debate away from moral panic and toward power - which is exactly why the line lands.