Trump ‘Sleepwalking Us into a War’ with Venezuela

"Trump, in an interview released Tuesday, did not dismiss the possibility of sending American troops to Venezuela.

"I don't comment on that. I wouldn't say that one way or the other," the president told Politico's Dasha Burns when questioned if U.S. troops could end up on the ground in Venezuela in the future.

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"Colombian President Gustavo Petro said in an interview published late last month that oil was central to the Trump administration's pressure campaign in Venezuela instead of a battle against drugs.

"[Oil] is at the heart of the matter," Petro said in the interview with CNN."

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Oil is likely a lot cheaper when you steal it. Unless of course you count the billions you spent on bullying a smaller country into giving it away.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-10 03:10 PM | Reply

... Move is major escalation of US pressure campaign against South American country's dictator, Nicols Maduro.

US forces have seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, in a major escalation of Donald Trump's four-month pressure campaign against the South American country's dictator, Nicols Maduro.

The US president confirmed the operation on Wednesday, telling reporters: "We've just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela - a large tanker, very large, the largest one ever seized actually. And other things are happening so you will be seeing that later and you will be talking about that later with other people."

Two US officials told Reuters the operation was led by the US Coast Guard, but did not name the tanker or say specifically where the interception happened. A senior Trump administration official told Bloomberg that the US had conducted a "judicial enforcement action on a stateless vessel" that was last docked in Venezuela. ...

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-10 03:28 PM | Reply

Well, the US just seized an oil tanker off Venezuela: "US seizes oil tanker off coast of Venezuela, officials say" at www.reuters.com

#3 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-12-10 03:28 PM | Reply

More info about the flyover ...

In defiant flyover, US F-18 fighter jets enter Venezuelan airspace for 40 minutes
www.stripes.com

... Two U.S. F-18 fighter jets flying in tandem entered Venezuelan airspace around noon Tuesday, circling over the Gulf of Venezuela in the latest show of force against the regime of Nicols Maduro.

The flyover -- carried out despite the Venezuelan regime's possession of a number of Russian-made anti-aircraft batteries -- took place less than 100 miles northeast of Maracaibo, Venezuela's second-largest city. Thousands of Venezuelans tracked the aircraft online through specialized tracking websites, watching as the jets traced a bow-tie-shaped pattern over the gulf.

The fighters remained inside Venezuelan airspace for at least 40 minutes at an altitude of roughly 25,000 feet before heading north and leaving the area.

The U.S. fighter jets flew between two key regions for Venezuela's energy sector, Zulia and Falcon states. Lake Maracaibo, whose 5,000 square miles make it of the largest fresh bodies of water on the continent, is the cradle of reserves of some 150 billion barrels of crude oil. ...

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-10 03:30 PM | Reply

With Christmas only two weeks away, the sniveling draft-dodging silver-spooned good-for-nothing senile sexual predator sitting in a half-demolished White House is lurching America towards this:

#5 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-10 03:45 PM | Reply

He seized a Venezuelan oil tanker ffs

#6 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-12-10 03:55 PM | Reply