Public opinion is largely critical of US actions regarding Venezuela, marked by skepticism towards the US government's motivations and portrayal of the situation. Many believe the US military presence is economically driven and a distraction from domestic issues, while also expressing support for Venezuela's sovereignty and the need for peaceful resolutions instead of military conflict.

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Trump is looking for a “short, victorious war.” History shows that this doesn’t usually work out so good. (For a recent example, see Russia vs. Ukraine.)

gibs71

Pretty sure that's why the Domino's Pentagon tracker has been so active lately

Gonna_do_this_again

So we are halting wind projects that are nearly done to go steal more oil?


This is a game is SIMS. 

slendermanismydad

Yea I’m not dying for some oil in South America

its_endogenous

But but but Trump was the peace candidate! No new wars, remember!?

cheongyanggochu-vibe

What would Smedley Butler have to say about this?

MySquidHasAFirstName

Friends, Romans, Countrymen, give me your ears! I don't think we need a federal government anymore. This is a poor joke, is 2025.

Majestic-Bowler-6184

Release the unredacted Epstein files. Send all pedos to jail. Don't let any conflict distract you.

Apprehensive_Pea7911

Aramedlig

Those files must be even worse then we ever could have imagined.

fastfood12

I think they'll do airstrikes, cruise missiles, and special operations missions which will have a high likelihood of failing and getting a buncha americans killed. After that point it'll be anyone's guess whether they just pretend it all didn't happen, like with Iran, or they double down and we send in tens of thousands of kids to die in another pointless war.

I made a video about this topic today https://www.instagram.com/reel/DORRtzXDEFl/?igsh=bjJsdWxiNW1yMm10

Trump, kegsbreath, theyre enamored with special operations and they believe all their own propaganda. Cause the vet bro SEAL guys permeate the same ecosystem that Trump, Kegsbreath exist in, so in their mind they probably think sending in devgru or ST6 to kill Maduro is the same as killing random HVTs in the middle east. And they've removed all the actual leaders so no one is going to tell them that sending in 12 guys venezuela means almost certain death for them no matter how fast they can clear a house.

Thehealthygamer

I think Trump wants a war for the history books. It’s very clear that he’s getting his idea of what a successful presidency looks like from the likes of McKinley.

As a reminder, William McKinley instituted the Spanish-American War — leading to acquisition of Spanish territories like Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines. This is why Trump has fantasized about Greenland and Canada annexations.

PolicyWonka

Such bullshit. MAGA said Trump was a president of peace. The full truth is Trump is the anti christ

pooinmypants1

I fear you may be right. And Trump likely got "permission'' to do so from his daddy while in Alaska...in exchange for Ukraine.

ThisIsIdaho

I thought Venezuela was holding prisoners on behalf of the administration. What happened?  They threatened to tell everyone they were killing them and now we have to go in and bury the evidence?

myladyelspeth

Epstien files...  Epstien files...  We still demand to see the Epstien files.

Chib_le_Beef

Man I hope they're not insane enough to kick this hornets nest

AnomalyNexus

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“So not we are going to war against Venezuela, Chicago, Portland and Canada. Oh, and we are going to take over Greenland and parts of Mexico. We love our Dear Leader.”

AdministrativeFly192

suddenvalleyfarms

To paraphrase Oversimplified:

"Now, if you find yourself the barely legitimate leader of a corrupt american country and you start getting into hot water, here's an advice that has been tried and tested throughout the centuries: start a war to distract everyone from their misery!"

Kernog

Just wondering... If Venezuela stuck US soil would they invoke article five of NATO? 


Trump has threatened allies and technically they're still part of NATO( as far as I know). With many European allies trying to support Ukraine they won't be keen to help the US. 


Canada went to the aid of the US in 2001/2002 and that was a twenty year thing. 
Not sure that Canada would want to help the US other than to ward off the threat reaching Canada. 


The USA is increasingly becoming friendless and Trump is playing war with individual American states and now whole countries. 

Basic_Ask8109

I feel like we're Fletcher Reed (Liar, Liar) shouting in the phone, "STOP ANTAGONIZING OTHER COUNTRUES, ASSHOLE!"

adarcone214

UncleCarolsBuds

Nothing never goes right when fighting for other countries freedoms.

ThunderClap300

But we are talking about the fact that [USA] had an election, which was a very strange election, to put it mildly,… Fixed it!

Dontbelievethehype24

Proud-Dust5046

What kind of drug smuggling fast boat contains 11 people? They contain 1 to 3 and the rest would be drugs. Think about it. This is total bullshit. It more than likely was 11 migrants getting the fuck outta dodge.

nofolo

The attack on the boat was to see if the US could get Venezuela to attack a US ship. Which would justify a land invasion, it’s no big secret Venezuela has more oil reserves than Saudi Arabia. Ground invasion of Venezuela would be Trump’s Iraq. To steal the oil.

brokeboipobre

I'm not generally one to call the outrageous things Trump does distractions, because they're all terrible things in their own right and to dismiss things as distractions from more critical matters risks downplaying their awfulness.

With that said, this feels very much like a tail wagging the dog situation. Nobody, except maybe among the fringe corners of the world, has been calling for an invasion of Venezuela. Surreptitious support for regime change, maybe, but direct war? No. 

Maybe they think the Maduro regime will implode under pressure and they can call it a quick victory. I doubt it. This was the story with Saddam Hussein too, and he was a much more brutal dictator than anything I've heard about Maduro. Attacking Venezuela will more like increase the grip of the Maduro regime, not loosen it. And if Trump and Hegseth think they can bomb Maduro into submission… unless they directly assassinate him, they will need boots on the ground to win, and that is not going to be popular at all among Americans. And this sort of thing tends to have a life of its own… once you start bombing and not achieving your goal, it's is very hard to avoid escalating your involvement to save face. 

Regime change is needed, but not just for Maduro.

matunos

Can’t wait to see another Iraq and Afghanistan. What are we planning on doing once we destabilize and fuck up the country? 

I’ve never seen any success once we decide to invade, destroy, then try and nation build. 

The pedophile is a fuckin moron and so is his fake ass defense secretary.

Material_Practice_83

No war but class war- Venezuela has the world’s largest proven oil reserves. That's what this is actually about.

APraxisPanda

We just got a “new department” so nah, it’s not looking good for us in terms of peace lmfaoo

Hamhockthegizzard

Venezuela is mainly tropical, according to the climate map I just looked at. If we did try to invade, we'd be fighting a guerilla war in the jungle...also, Caracas has a population of five million...you'd need a very large, long term force.

RedwoodsareAwesome

Thanks to all non voters and maga for this

mutualbuttsqueezin

It's another distraction from the Epstein files and his horrible economic policies. Trump is likely hoping someone fires on US military assets because it would really shift the news cycle.

Johnny-Unitas

Was there also not a factor (someone else pointed out here not me, trying to recall) about Venezuela contesting newly found oil reserves in Guanya? Some 11B barrels of oil that Venezuela has tried to / failed at claiming. 

The heat on Venezuela makes a lot more sense if the objective is securing Guanya’s oil reserves for the US.

OtheDreamer

This butt munch will do anything to distract from issues that actually matter. Like The Epstein Files (of which he was allegedly an FBI informant) and the abysmal job market or the rising prices due to tariffs. 

The Orange Imbecile is destroying our country. Pretty soon, we’ll be glad we actually prepped because of his dirty, shit-stained ass.

Devmoi

Individual-Engine401

We already take out middle Eastern leaders so why not just bring it closer to home so deployments are shorter /s

ThaCURSR

Russia tried this with Ukraine and way before that with Japan. Governments looking for swift easy victories as a way to bolster support from their people rarely ever work. In fact...that time with Japan went so poorly Russia became the Soviet union. 

windandgales

He’s literally just copying exactly what happened in 1989 with Operation Just Cause.

Airith0

Oh it’s going to happen soon:

https://thecradle.co/articles/us-war-department-to-shift-focus-from-china-to-threats-in-latin-america-report

My working theory is that the US, Russia, China, and NK have some kind of a deal.

The US invades South America, and occupies it, especially for the resources.

The US is going to split the land with Russia.


The whole thing recently with Hyundai’s factory in the US and SK workers with work visas being kidnapped by 🧊 has set off a chain reaction with the SK government, and they’re pissed. This will disconnect the US from SK, so NK can invade SK with the help of China and possibily Russia.

Link to info about this: https://www.instagram.com/p/DOQdeoDlBTT/

It seems like The US, Iznotreal, Russia, China, and NK are all working together to split up the world for resources and hate.

I also think that the whole reason for trump bringing that Taiwanese chip company here is because China is going to invade Taiwan soon, and it would allow the US to be a leader in the chip business.

What do you all think?

ForthrightGhost

This is a practice run for their future goals of invading Mexico. The cartels in Mexico have incredible influence in both are a very big security risk for insurgency. Venezuela has little influence/security risks and therefore is an easy target. Not to mention being an crude oil haven.

commandercacti

So anyone here know about the Island off the coast of Venezuela that hosts terrorist groups? I believe it's called Margarita....

biggron54

Bomb first and never question our dear leader -magats

KarasuKaras

This will do wonders for Anti-Americanism around the world

AffectionateElk3978

Anyone wondering if this also has something to do with the prisoner trade &amp; the illegally extradited folks may have info Trump doesn't want out or lawsuits sent.

L-J-

“Oh but he’s the president of peace!  He needs a Nobel peace prize!” 🙄

dieseljester

Vegetable-Egg-1646

I’d be curious to see if Brazil gets involved in some capacity. Relations between them and Venezuela have become incredibly strained over the past few years. Plus Brazilians really dislike the volatile authoritarian Maduro regime being so close to them

HughMungus77

I thought congress had to approve shit like this. How the fuck…

Bruticus_Heavy_T

I guess they will put the “Ministry of War” to work

Metal-Lifer

Didn't they come in saying they were the administration of peace?

rudefruit99

Should have started with Cuba
They run Venezuela.

WRungNumber

SelectiveScribbler06

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Location_Next

Its not like Venezuela has any chance against america's military.

Buschfan08

Razafraz11

certified_forklyfter

President of peace indeed. 
What is that stupid Nobel peace prize committee waiting for??!

switchquest

We all know that "Cartels" is just the excuse.

Mexico and Columbia is far more famous for cartels, and yet, US isn't doing anything. Oil is the reason for it.

The reason they blew up a boat was to force Venezuela to retaliate so that US has an excuse for starting a war.

All of that aside, don't let this distract you from the Epstein files.

hennabeak

maas348

Have you seen Wag the Dog? It makes more sense that way.

nomad2284

Unjust wars are the death throes of an empire.

00001000U

This is like Jake Paul boxing retired ufc fighters

anywhoImgoingtobed

Why are all these power house countries bullying smaller ones at an alarmingly similar fashion and rate?

sweatgod2020

*“You can also hear the drumbeat of war on Fox News…”*

Yeah, that, and they literally just renamed Department of *Defense* to **“Department of War”.**

GrumpyGaijin

Trump.please send missiles to spammers too. 

Amazing_bluishthing

savemoney_god

This invasion is illegal and it delegitimizes the federal government

PennyForPig

THIS IS ALL A HOAX TO DEFLECT AND DISTRACT FROM RELEASING THE EPSTEIN FILES!!!  DONT GIVE IN!  THE CRIMINAL RAPIST NEEDS TO FEEL THE PAIN OF HIS ACTIONS!!!

Matrix0007

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Saw this a while back also, what could cause a sudden surge of violence at the border that we need this.... Mmm I wonder

Quick_Astronomer4046

The last 50 years of Republican started wars has left nothing but millions dead, trillions of tax dollars wasted, a more unstable world, and the continued degradation of U.S. moral leadership and respect abroad.

But sure, this time will be different.

BallsOfStonk

Venezuelan here not 100% war yet but oh god I'm really wishing to throw some maverick to Maduro and his people or at least they can fuck enough the drug business for maybe they can just fled the country or kill each other.

nosocialisms

They are allies with some maker’s of drones.
They have been known to sink big ships.

Creative-Cow-5598

There are so many big beautiful oil wells waiting for us in Venezuela.

BatmanMeetsJoker

I swear this is another war started for oil just so they can fuel the energy requirements to prop up more data centers for AI slop...

applebag_dev

1.) Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world.

2.) Venezuela provides oil to Russia. 

3.) USA fucks with Russia through Venezuela.


If it were truly about drugs, we'd have invaded Mexico long ago.

N0SF3RATU

How many of the “illegals” were actually military and cia assets going in early?

Top_Blackberry9182

Hahaha enjoy getting drafted Gen Z. This is what you voted for

Oolongteabagger2233

Does anyone have more info on this Silvercorp PMC group. Couple years back on YouTube I got recomendend music videos called GoldCorp. 

AdMiserable6896


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Answer: no one outside the white house knows exactly what's going on. The United States has entered into certain agreements and arrangements with various Latin countries to engage in counter Narco activities. 

These actions are being put forward as though they're a part of that. We're going to or just outside of Venezuelan sovereign territorial waters in order to interdict cartel activity? That's what the White House says I think? 

But, there's talk that this is regime change. There's talk that technically Trump is telling the truth because Maduro is the head of a state-sponsored cartel. 

The most important thing you need to know about this is that this is just another day in the life for US foreign policy. The United States does this all the time where they will move forces and then remain strategically ambiguous about why they moved them. 

So this administration is either using the cartel fighting doctrine as cover for regime change or just pressuring the Maduro regime into certain actions. Or maybe they're really telling the truth and they just belligerently don't care if they piss off Venezuela and this really is cartel interdiction. That is really possible. Trump might really just be doing what he does and he might really just not give a shit about what Venezuela thinks. 


Hard to say. No one outside the White House likely knows exactly what they plan to do

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eFaQlyH6Z6o

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1LeuLjZ7Md8

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R6E40F87-kw

Quizzelbuck

Answer: The US has deployed their warships as part of a counter-narcotics mission, especially the Cartel del los soles. The US Government has even put a bounty on the president of Venezuela leading to his arrest, because of his ties to the cartel.

On the other hand, I somewhere heard Venezuela has pretty big oil and gold reserves soo...yeah

Edit: spelling

Lethaface51

Answer: it’s probably a show of force, the Venezuelan government/military high command is heavily involved in drug trafficking, with the “cartel of the suns” as it is known (Venezuelan Generals have suns on their epaulettes instead of stars) generating a lot of the revenue that allows the ruling party elite to insulate themselves from the average citizen’s struggles. Then again, very unlikely it escalates beyond this posturing.

tomas17r

Answer: Venezuela is very rich in oil, natural gas and minerals, notably bauxite which is necessary for aluminium production (=&gt; space, automotive, etc). Trump probably wants it not unlike Putin wanted the resources under Donbas, and is applying pressure to either incite a regime change with someone who he can control, or enabling a precedent to justify military intervention and subsequent taking of resources.

6gv5

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Answer: It’s another distraction from Trumps negative news cycles. There is absolutely NO legitimate reason for this. None at all. It’s purely to pull attention away from domestic issues, like Epstein and fascism.

Macho_Chad

Answer: Venezuela has huge amounts of oil. If you look at a chart of "proven reserves" (the oil we know that is present, and has not been pumped out of the ground yet), then Venezuela is at (or near) the top of that chart. 

Also, Venezuela talks socialist stuff and that's enough to get America to overthrow your country and replace your government with neo-Nazis who give "free helicopter rides" (thrown out of helicopers over the ocean so they drown) to dissidents.

Tangurena

Haunting_Meal296

Yes. Trump wants to put pressure on maduro. Not sure about invading Venezuela tho.


And our president has always been an open supporter of Chavez, but he shut the fuck up during elections, got elected, and now cannot even talk bad about maduro because well he hates the right wing, not the left wing dictators.

So he announced that the Cartel de los Soles does not exist, and that he will support Venezuela “or the great Colombia” in case US decided to invade. So he just deployed military in the frontier just to “mitigate” drug trafficking and that should be enough to tell the US “look we are fighting drug trafficking”

t6_macci

My guess is they're rushing to remove all the most direct proof they can of the direct collaboration between cartels and the Venezuelan military, and may be pretend they're actually fighting traffic, but they're not convincing anyone 

BOT_Negro

The US cannot invade Venezuela. Iraq required 295k  thousands of boots in the ground, Venezuela is more than twice that an there are only 4k Marines deployed in that flotilla.

You DON'T HOLD TERRITORY, YOU DON'T CHANGE REGIME. A fine example of that is Afghanistan.

What Colombia is doing in a very understated way is to close the Venezuelan border effectively, as Maduro's government will go guns blazing versus any internal dissent (and his opposition is stupid enough to do so). So Petro is trying to avoid another humanitarian crisis in his border while saving face.

Maduro also does not want people to leave the country, as he is forcibly recruiting population to his personal militia (got first hand reports of this happening in Oriente region).

NOW, I read somewhere that Russia is in talks for deploying military bases and ICMBs in Venezuela, THAT could be a shitshow and trigger a full fledged invasion and no country will support thm, not even the Russians.

EDIT: 160K troops

tokumotion

&gt; Can anyone in Colombia or Venezuela explain me what's really going on with the troops on their borders?

I can try

&gt; So, I'm trying to figure this out:

ok

&gt; The USA raises the useless bounty against Maduro and then moves in a flotilla too big to counter drug smuggling but too small to actually invade Venezuela

it’s effective for cargo ships and small vessels. which 90% of Venezuelan drugs are sent via sea because… duh and our main costumer for drugs is Europe, not the US. So, also unsure what the point is. 


&gt; Then Maduro, tries (and possibly fails) to raise a part-time militia and then, rather than make a show of his (admittedly inexistent) sea defenses, moves troops to the border with Colombia, even though he's threatened from the North. I presume the troops have orders to look like they are fighting drug smugglers even though they are protecting them and even though the USA moved to threaten Maduro and not drug dealers.

Not sure, but I am more confused at what a militia could do at all against a naval force. Different terrain; different war tactics and all

&gt; So Petro then moves even more troops to the same area, but as a gesture of friendship to Venezuela?

Petro is a bootlicker for guerrilla-like people. Pretty sure he is a joke even within socialist circles but yeah he prob did that 

&gt; Is everyone bluffing? Or do you guys around there have better insights?

The US is bluffing. Venezuela and Colombia are doing a friendly military gesture. 

But yeah it’s stupid.

LoooolGotcha

B34appy

It's a little long. But here I go. 

Colombia shares a long border with Venezuela, and specially in Santander-Táchira region operates no less than four distinct armed groups. EMC, farc, eln, clan del golfo, epl. They make money with drug trafficking, kidnapping and anything legal or illegal that makes money. They are at war with each other and with the Colombian army. 

Those groups moves between Venezuela and colombia, they don't combat the Venezuelan army and don't seem to do extortion and violent stuff in Venezuela (that I know of). Venezuela also  have their own criminal gangs in the area. 

The other aspect was "El cerco diplomático" where latam countries made some kind of blockade, no diplomatic relations or any relation for nine years, it only made the criminal groups stronger. The current government normalized diplomatic relations and wants to fight with those groups along with the Venezuelan army. The opposition wants for us to join in a war against Venezuela. 

There is a third group of mercenaries, right wing politicians and exiled Venezuelans who want to kill Maduro and are ready to take any opportunity, they tried with American mercenaries a few years ago but they caught them.

Today, with trump/rubio and the naval exercise this area needs to be strictly controlled, Venezuela sent 15k troops, Colombia already have 20k in the area but the irregular groups there are still in control they use drones and modern warfare, they took down an helicopter with a Drone just last week. 

for Venezuelans troops on the border are needed to avoid groups of mercenaries to enter Venezuela, colombia has troops to continue our war while avoiding misunderstandings false flags, attacks on civilians. 

We have currently a left leaning president but we also have a very extreme right wing that really wants to start a war with Maduro and are doing everything they can to avoid coordination between Colombia and Venezuela and create a crisis. United States senators also threaten Colombian president to put him in jail if there is any coordination. 

So the troops are there to protect the border and civilian population. in the scenario that Trump do ANYTHING we expect millions of Venezuelans who will cross the border and generate a humanitarian crisis. It will be a disaster.

Snoo_57113

1. Yea, everyone is bluffing.

2. This move is mostly to shift the attention away from internal problems. In the case of Colombia, the Venezuelan border is a place with a lot of influence from guerrillas (what is coincidence, isn't it? /s) so Petro's movement of sending more troops is likely a way to cover the fact that his attempt of peace with the armed groups was a failure and now violence in the region is the highest in the last 20 years; while licking Maduro's ass so he dosen't get mad at him for reinforcing the border

DG-MMII

maburro should take the room temperature challenge

Estrelleta44

Hey OP, Venezuelan ex-pat and OSINT analyst here! It's much more complicated than most people realize so bare with me and you're welcome to go down the rabbit hole on this one. 

Venezuela is in bed with Cuba, Iran, China, Russia, N. Korea, the socialist party in Spain, the guerrillas in Colombia, mostly FARC, the current Colombian president, the Sinaloa Cartel and Hezbollah, among others, and it has been allowing for the above players to infiltrate the western hemisphere and use Venezuela as a hotspot for money laundering, drug trafficking, arms trafficking, terrorist militias training camps, and over the years intel sources indicate that at one point or the other Chavez and Iran may have found uranium deposits in the Perijá pennynsula near the colombo-venezuelan border. Essentially Venezuela is being set up as a launching pad of potential insurgencies in America's backyard. This has been going on since Chavez became president in the late 90's. Now, in addition to all that, the Venezuelan regime runs its own cartel, El Cartel de Los Soles, Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, Diosdado Cabello, Padrino López, Tareck el Aissami, and other high ranking government and military officials are all known cartel bosses. Think of a 3rd world Caribbean paradise gone wild wild west in a matter of two and a half decades. 

Now, you have to understand the dynamics in Venezuela to get a better picture of why most Venezuelans are for the US cleaning house in Venezuela. When Chavez took over Venezuela was the 5th largest economy in the world, the largest oil resources known to men, gold, silver, diamond and gemstones in abundance as natural resources and the potential of becoming the Dubai of Latin American, where if things had been managed correctly, he really could have abolished poverty and hunger, but instead they stole everything, the allowed crime to go rampant to chase away the middle and higher class because they knew that's their biggest opposition, which essentially led to the first wave of immigration, mostly to the US and Europe, and as things got worse and the regional dynamics changed, the lower class started immigrating illegally to other countries across LatAm, sometimes walking as far as Argentina, and when the US opened its borders, many decent people from Venezuela also came into the US, but Venezuela's narco-regime decided to infiltrate the US with criminals and insurgents, they also gave many middle eastern nationals Venezuelan identities so they can pose as immigrants from none-muslim countries, and I have heard and met at least 4 'venezuelan' Muslims who barely speak Spanish and one who'd never even been there. Oh! Almost forgot! The entire military and intelligence apparatus in Venezuela is being ran and supervised by Cuba, Russia and China, and all three also have heavy military presence in Venezuelan territory as well. 

In addition to all that, the Maduro regime forcefully disappears people, incarcerates opposition figures, tortures students, judges, innocents. So many youth have been shot by his thugs point blank in the streets for wanting a change. It's sick. Maduro and his combo are POSs that deserve to rot, who should be forced to return every penny they stole from the people of Venezuela. Bunch of incompetent animals with the IQ of cockroaches. Do your homework please. Venezuela needs a change. Trump is doing the right thing, and I have nothing to gain by saying this because I don't live in the US and certainly don't vote in US elections. I have a brother and his kids there and I fear more for them under the regime than I do if the US takes action, he's also pointed out that the alleged militias Maduro is calling are a bunch of undisciplined street thugs with zero training, many are old or clueless and the second they see one US soldier they'll abandon ship.

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