Public sentiment is overwhelmingly negative and critical of U.S. military operations near Venezuela, with a strong perception that these actions are driven more by oil interests than by genuine attempts to address drug trafficking or support democracy. While some commenters express a desire for decisive action against the Maduro regime, many others voice skepticism about the legality and morality of these interventions, fearing further military entanglement and drawing parallels to past U.S. interventions that ended poorly.

U.S. Government

Maduro Regime

Bold of you to assume the public's opinion will matter moving forward. If public opinion mattered mike the cuck johnson would have opened the govt or called them back to the congress, swore in the AZ Congresswoman or not slashed healthcare premiums and Medicare funding. 

They quite honestly do not care about public opinion and they're making moves to consolidate power in the executive and do away with free and fair elections. 

If public opinion mattered the Supreme court would not be entertaining the deletion of the Voting Rights Act. 

I could go on for days with just the last 9 months of shit they've done. Bottom line is, they do not care and will continue doing whatever they want unimpeded.

47_for_18_USC_2381

They've already set the stage so that any such blowback or protest is deemed an act of terrorism, or tacit support thereof. So, cool. They engage in unpopular actions abroad, and it gives them the pretext to act violently at home when people dissent. Venezuela is a low cost foreign target perfectly situated to instigate the sort of dissent at home that they are frothing at the mouth to liquidate. Flood the zone with shit and use it to then identity the people you can just fucking kill/drop down into some bottomless hole of penal administrative purgatory that they have no way of escaping. Read Solzhenitsyn. It's here. Am I paranoid?

Special_Pause5746

I don't think one plane would do it. But I do agree that tolerance for casualties may be very low. We sustained thousands of casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan over a period of years, but in those cases we had a much stronger impression that those countries were a direct threat to the USA. Venezuela just isn't the same in that regard.

Rovinpiper

For some reason Trump has just announced [he authorized CIA action inside Venezuela](https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1o7tfh0/trump_confirms_he_authorised_cia_action_inside/)

I'm sure the CIA, a Covert Agency,  who will be sent there are so excited about their announced arrival by the President who, at this point, has no brains left in his head at all. What are your Republican friends saying about these dangerous dickheads that are running America?

IAmNumberFourI

Worst part is they want a regime change. It'll be another Iraq, just having to stay there until things are stable. Except we'll probably end up uniting all the Drug Cartels, and other South American nations that might see this as an escalation.

Dry_Support3290

This is Iraq/WMD all over again. Venezuela is sitting on huge oil reserves and has, in recent years, began to align more with China. The whole idea that the illegal drug trade is originating from Venezuela is a lie.

BrownLabJane

What will USA bomb though? Do they expect people of Venesuela to cheer collateral victims? Opposition leader coming out with "this was necessary"? Or will they carpet-bomb Caracas into submission, along with a bunch of tourists? This is a recipe for civil war in Venesuela, turning it into Haiti #2.

SanDiedo

War is a racket.  This shit for sure has more to do with the vast resource reserves under Venezuela than any strategic interests, drug trafficking or  humanitarian issues they trying to sell us.

Bywater

Iraq isn't that long ago. USA doesn't need another forever war and Venezuela isn't some helpless nation. Not as strong as America of course but its fucking stupid to think they don't have the means to cause some real damage. So no I see America failing as what is even victory? Nuking the entire nation into dirt? Its just pure evil to go to war

Neither-Room7838

This will be trump's Iraq. Maximum distraction away from the Epstein files.

BrtFrkwr

More war crimes for America.The reputation of the military will be destroyed.

howardzen12

Oh good, because our track record with invading other countries has been soooo stellar in the last 80 years.

No_Worldliness643

https://preview.redd.it/6n2w8jnpy7tf1.png?width=1080&amp;format=png&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=03fc9314a2666e4e30bcd730fbdab11f6574b73c

Any_Caramel_9814

https://preview.redd.it/dljgao3nz7tf1.jpeg?width=1125&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=a661d4724107e5a9bda3ffe0bb5bd9fbb6d4a998

Look at #1.  Draw your own conclusion.

Indiana-Irishman

https://preview.redd.it/l1d1n0rh48tf1.jpeg?width=960&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=25758582032394a87cc2a30d8ae6c39dd60549b5

Stunning-Hunter-5804

"Venezuela has the world's largest proven oil reserves, estimated at around 303 billion barrels, according to the US Energy Information Administration."

bsproutsy

Is Venezuela part of his Nobel Peace Prize scheme?

floofnstuff

"They have narcotics of mass destruction"

I_Stay_Home

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gbot1234

Its giving our adversaries a great proxy on our back door.

BrutusMcGillicudy

They don’t have to worry, it’s actually a staging ground to invade the US.

Das-Noob

Maybe sufficient to seize, but hanging on to them is a whole different story.

9millibros

Maliseet13

Well there you have it. Hitting the ships with missiles was a precursor to war.  And if the US does this, and Russia does it in Ukraine… what stops China from taking Taiwan?

128-NotePolyVA

We need to all stop working and occupy Washington

Trick_Judgment2639

Here is a starting point for those who dont know where to start. 


Call your reps.
[find your us reps here](https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative)



Sign petitions.

[petition to release epstein files](https://share.google/EGwoWTIfLAbpU7Oc1)

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Get involved with protests or marches.
[protest against trump ](https://share.google/uj4KErIRgmG7nEDbk)

[And more info here](https://www.nokings.org)


[protest law tracker ](https://www.icnl.org/usprotestlawtracker/)


[know your rights aclu ](https://www.aclunc.org/our-work/know-your-rights/know-your-rights-free-speech-protests-demonstrations#:~:text=While%20regulations%20vary%2C%20here%20are,and%20place%20and%20manner%20restrictions.)


If you do go to a protest, please look up the laws for your area and be safe. Bring only what you need, just in case, i.e., id, car key, and wallet. and if the rest of the group starts to get violent, then leave and make it know you are not being violent. If you feel you need to protect yourself, please try to bring non-lethal protection, i.e.,mace, tazer, or something equivalent, and do not use it on police. Please be peaceful and civil.

twitchish

I hope their neighbors rally to their aid, but I doubt they will. 
Also hope the world will sanction America if they do invade.

retrobob69

potatoears

https://preview.redd.it/y9wlrt5rilrf1.jpeg?width=576&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=7937bb5bfe4b097f808eb05e2ce52137d88c028f

This is not out of the realm of possibility

Ka-Is-A-Wheelie

Remember gents, look for the Addams apple and big hands when selecting your hookers…

No adams apple and no big hands…. Tell ‘em to kick rocks

You want a real lady

Jodies-9-inch-leg

Librarian-Putrid

Is this what the general staff meeting was for? I saw scuttlebutt about it being about standards or something, but preparation for a military narco operation seems more believable

maybeitsundead

Well, you guys will get all the thick latinas yall want down there happy hunting. Ask and you shall receive.

lastofthefinest

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CANDIDATE DONALD TRUMP: “In this future, we are also going to keep our country out of the endless wars that have defined Hillary Clinton’s career.” ( [NPR ](https://www.npr.org/2016/09/15/493915412/inside-donald-trumps-stump-speech-annotated), 09/15/16)

He said during one camapaign that “Great nations do not fight endless wars.”

Waste-Time-2440

Yep. And a guy who dodged Vietnam is going to send our kids to a land war in a jungle because no one learned anything at all.

black_flag_4ever

MagicBingo

Its been a couple of years since America has started a pointless war they ultimately lose.

Fantastic-Ad-2856

It didn't start already, with Trump just blowing Venezuelan boats out of the water??

If any other country started bombing boats coming out of the US, I feel like that would be considered some kind of aggressive attack, no?

Booklet-of-Wisdom

Greenland is rich in rare earth elements.  Canada, rich in numerous natural resources.  Venezuela, the largest known reserve of oil in the world.  Even more than Saudi Arabia.  Sorry, in general we, especially Republican Administrations, are still imperialists if we don't check the corporate greed.

nikkothirty

Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserves in the world, estimated at around 303 billion barrels, which is more than five times that of the United States. That’s all you need to know.

telos2020

BREAKING: Draft Dodger starts pointless war with Venezuela

2HDFloppyDisk

disasterbot

Check out how much oil is under Venezuela and see the U.S. move away from renewable/"green" energy sources. 

It's pretty easy.

Han_Yerry

Sounds like something someone trying to distract from a failing economy, a shuttered government, the impending release of the Epstein files, and the largest protest in US history would do. So most likely, yes.

Koutagami2

alabasterskim

Part of the calculus is obviously that a "War Time President" tends to get a boost in popularity which helps in elections like the midterms. But...the thing is, both the Right and the Left and the middle are now HISTORICALLY anti-war/military interventionism in the world. To the point that longstanding allies like Israel, whose support was almost never universally criticized, is considered on the chopping block for most Americans for the first time in a generation.

TheBalzy

"So, about those Epstein files....", "VENEZUELA!!!"

Astro-Logic83

If you believe the narrative of the White House, and it is a doozy, so hold onto your Confederate hat here, but...

They have designated various gangs foreign terror organizations, and claim Madura in Venezuela is the leader of narco gangs, as they declare a new department by tweet called War, and then release unsubstantiated videos of them bombing so-called drug boats claiming they killed terrorists who they are at war with.

I personally doubt the veracity of the original boat bomb videos, and do not submit to the administration's view of nearly anything, however, in their world, they are at war and have attacked their enemy.

The level of cognitive dissonance surrounding the situation is extreme, though.

Because, fundamentally, South America is a proxy for resource entanglements between the Western world and new alliances of China, Russia, and others, given Venezuela has the world's largest known oil reserves. It is unacceptable to the energy sector of American business, that anywhere in the world should have a natural advantage in production, so they bomb Iran for punishment and threaten Venezuela or other regimes which have the audacity to resist U.S. monopoly.

JPMorgansStache

The legal basis for this is dubious, at best. Any declaration of war would need to be ratified by Congress. They will try to claim this is part of the “War on Terror” under that authorization, but it is clearly not. 

However, this would need to go to SCOTUS if Congress doesn’t ratify. But here’s the thing- the President can ignore SCOTUS since this is an “offical act” and he is immune. In order to do so, he would just need to preemptively pardon everyone in the chain of command who follows his orders and they cannot be touched. This is why the SCOTUS finding on “official acts” was so dangerous 

mapoftasmania

As a Colombian American person, this really scares me. About the reverberation effect and possible destabilization of the country of my birth for being a neighboring country. While many are upset that the president is leftist, and a lot of problems haven’t gone away, it’s still in a relatively stable position but super delicate. Some thing this catastrophic can make things go south fast.

mateusjay954

The Trump Administration would love to raid Venezuela's natural resources. The United States would be interested in Venezuela's resources, including its crude oil. 

The US is Venezuela's trading partner, so I wonder why the Trump Administration is so keen to start a war.

Pattihere

Donald Dublyah Trump desperately wants his own Iraq.

jediporcupine

yes.yes they will. 

desperatly trying to provoke any kind of action to be able to claim a real "reason" to do so. 

at this point the current US administration is at, they might as well just do it without any reason.

psykikk_streams

Proxy wars are like franchises. They pop up with little or no notice. The US hasn't done super good in uh forested terrain, as our primary punch is air support. Distractions!!! Go!

bootnab

Is the media mentioning that this happened during Trump’s first term?

Russia sends 2 nuclear-capable bombers to Venezuela

https://www.militarytimes.com/flashpoints/2018/12/10/russia-sends-2-nuclear-capable-bombers-to-venezuela/

Verum_Orbis

Haven't we already? I don't understand. We fired on Venezuelan civilians with no proof they were drug smugglers, which means according to our own constitution, they weren't.

calgeorge

TBH Trump is looking to start some sort of war so he can use it as an excuse to override democracy.

THX450

Assume the stupidest thing you can imagine is going to happen.

Then make it unnecessarily cruel and a plan to funnel billions of tax dollars to GOP members and donors.

Add a crypto coin and you've got boots on the ground in Venezuela.

Independent_Tie_4984

Of course, they have vast oil reserves that are just sitting in the ground waiting to be freed by the USA. 

dopeless42day

Trump is picking out a uniform as we speak. It will be 20% lycra to accommodate his expanding girth.

invalidpassword

America has a history of attacking Latin America. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change_in_Latin_America

People should stop pretending that this is something unusual. It is actually pretty normal.

xibeno9261

TheConcreteCaucus

Has the US been attacking Venezuela, yes.

Laves_

Yeah regime change in Venezuela had been Rubio’s fixation for a while now.

Beastw1ck

I'm sure there's other reasons they'll make up to try to justify this, but my first reaction was that Trump is just throwing a temper tantrum because a Venezuelan woman got the Nobel prize and he didn't

Dapper_Cantaloupe_34

Frankie6Strings

No_Friend4042

The attacking started weeks ago.  What are we doing here?

KamKorn

Much like Canada,Mexico, Greenland and Panama.Distraction.Release the Epstein files.

Unable_Technology935

If this happens I don’t want to hear any more about Trump being a peacetime president. That’s a claim that is dubious at best.

circusbass

Why not we just bought Argentina for 40 billion

Dweidmann

Whatever it takes to distract and deflect from Pedo Island.

SJMCubs16

Funk4Five

Duh. US is already baselessly and illegally attacking them.

AerieWorth4747

Probably. We already fucked up the western end of Asia. Why not fuck up South America again

SorryToPopYourBubble

snackingsnek

Anything to draw attention away from the FILES

dd113456

He really wants that peace prize, and he's willing to use lethal force to get it.

rapax

MasChingonNoHay

Newsflash you already have, and you Americans just accept it as not even the third worst thing Trump has done this year alone

SoulMann131

Trump could start 3 wars tomorrow and MAGA would cheer.

HiImDIZZ

Oil. China is buying 90% of it and investing. And they have refineries to make it into useable diesel for their shipping fleet.

l0stInwrds

He desperately wants us to be in a war, but one we can win easily...

weveran

Why attack when you can just murder them and manufacture a coup from the comfort of your gold plated mansion?

issafly

If THIS doesn’t convince the government of Norway to award Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, nothing will.

jfshay

Release the fully unredacted Epstein files.

Thaufas

Sea-Barracuda4252

Step 1: Does Venezuela have lots of oil reserves?

✅

Step 2: Find any excuse to make war.

RipCityGringo

Yes. Objective: “Giant Military Epstein Distraction” masquerading as “Make Venezuela Great Again Then Take Their oil”

Benefits the Donvict and the Gas &amp; Oil Party.

Ok-Abbreviations543

screenrecycler

Had a shower thought this morning. Is it possible that Trump is essentially trying to manufacture a war with Venezuela? A national emergency that would be the basis of his suspending elections in 2026? 2028? He no doubt believes that it would be an easily winnable war, but could still provide the justification he uses to suspend elections and even the Constitution. 

Am I being paranoid? Or does this make sense?

CB_Chuckles

Will the US CONTINUE to attack Venezuela?

Fixed it for ya.

Defiant_Regular3738

werewolfshadow

Another whimsical war brought to you by the United States of America. Boy, Trump sure is good at evading the Jeffrey Epstein Underage Sex Trafficking accusations. It seems the American people are pathetic and useless in standing up to this tyrant.

Jerk182

If there is *any* appropriate military action to take by the Armed Forces of the United States it’s to support Ukraine and defend civilians from the unconstitutional actions of this presidency

ForestOfMirrors

The U.S. Air Force has deployed B-52 bombers and increased military presence near Venezuela as part of a strategy to pressure President Nicolás Maduro amid ongoing drug trafficking concerns.

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