The American Blitzkrieg on Venezuela

After five months – really two-and-a-half decades – of ever-escalating preparations by increasing diplomatic, economic, and clandestine warfare, the US has finally executed a full regime-change invasion in Venezuela.

The final attack, focused on kidnapping the Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores from the capital Caracas, was short. But the campaign has certainly not been bloodless.

While we know little about what exactly happened on the ground, Washington’s perfectly criminal strikes on alleged smuggling boats at sea which served as the core of the attack’s preparatory propaganda barrage, have already killed over 100 victims, not to speak of the overlooked victims of ongoing warlike sanctions.

Then, what American officials have called a large-scale strike against Venezuela in the early hours of January 3 targeted not only Caracas but several locations throughout the country.

For whatever reason, resistance to this dark and deadly (in President Donald Trump’s words) operation, seems to have been minimal.

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In view of the long and very visible military buildup, as well as psychological warfare campaign that preceded these night raids, it is hard to believe that they came as a surprise. Betrayal, subversion, and secret, nasty deals may well have played a role.

While such things will probably remain murky for a while – or forever – other, more important aspects of the US invasion of Venezuela are unambiguously clear:

It is absolutely, irredeemably illegal, a massive and open breach of the UN Charter’s prohibition of wars of aggression.

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Even some of America’s most loyal ‘Atlanticist’ vassals in Europe have to admit that much, for instance, a recent op-ed in Germany’s ultra-mainstream Die Zeit newspaper.

Washington’s pretexts are, as so often, flimsy insults to everyone with half a brain.

Venezuela and Maduro are not contributing anything significant – if anything at all – to America’s very own and never-ending drug problems, neither with regard to cocaine nor fentanyl. And Maduro’s election in 2024 may have been fair or not.

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The decisive, conclusive point is that such issues must be dealt with inside a sovereign country and can never justify military intervention from outside.

Or who is going to be next? Germany for the extremely dubious way (polite expression) its mainstream parties have locked the New-Left BSW out of parliament in what may well amount to a cold coup?

Bizarre ramblings, also heard recently, about Iran and Venezuela, are pretexts as well. But indirectly they do point to some actual truths.

Maduro has been punished for daring to openly stand up for the Palestinian victims of the genocide that Israel and the US are currently committing together.

And Israeli politicians, always the absolute bullies, have already taken the opportunity of Trump’s attack on Venezuela to threaten Iran with similar violence.

Trump, meanwhile, has made a point of putting his assault in the context of the assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and the equally criminal assault on Iran during “Operation Midnight Hammer.

It’s not hard to understand the real reasons for the American onslaught on Venezuela, partly because American officials, including Trump himself, have spoken openly about them.

Venezuela has the single greatest national oil reserves in the world and, in addition, significant deposits of gold, rare earths, and other raw materials.

Trump has claimed that many of these riches somehow really belong to the USA and its companies (same thing for him anyhow) and promised to reconquer them, which he is doing now.

Greed, plain and simple, is a main driver of this dirty Blitzkrieg against a militarily de facto helpless victim. As Trump himself has admitted, this is about “a tremendous amount of wealth.”

Cuban government sources have confirmed that 32 Cuban Armed Forces personnel were killed in action when engaged by U.S. forces in Venezuela on January 3.

This followed confirmation from Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Lopez that most of President Nicholas Maduro’s security detail was killed during the operation by U.S. Army Delta Force special forces to abduct him, although the full number of casualties was not specified.

Unconfirmed reports indicate that many of the Cuban personnel killed in action were part of the president’s security detail, although U.S. forces inflicted casualties across multiple military facilities and key infrastructure sites across the capital Caracas.

A possibility also remains that Cuban personnel may have been manning medium and long range air defense systems which were targeted by U.S. forces.

Heavy gunfire was reported outside the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas on Monday, just days after President Nicolas Maduro was abducted during a US Special Forces raid.

RT. com / ABC Flash Point News 2026.