USA ready to invade Venezuela with Trump as President

The re-election of Donald Trump to the presidency of the USA has many in Venezuela extremely concerned. From assassinations, terror campaigns, sanctions and coups, the first Trump administration tried everything short of a full-scale invasion of the country.

With a cabinet full of hawks, MintPress assesses the potential for a future U.S. intervention in Venezuela, with the island of Curacao serving as operational headquarters.

According to insiders such as Defense Secretary Mark Esper and National Security Advisor John Bolton, Trump was one of the loudest voices in the White House pushing for military intervention in the Caribbean nation.

The president said that it would be cool to invade, as the country was really part of the USA. Pointing at the largest proven oil reserves, but also leading the gold recovery movement formerly controlled by Canada.

[The possibility of] military action can’t be discarded, Steve Ellner, a retired professor who taught political science at the Universidad de Oriente in Venezuela for 40 years.

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Biden’s foreign policy in general and his policy toward Venezuela in particular were terrible. But I believe Trump’s policy toward Venezuela is going to be even worse.

Trump’s choice of no one other than Marco Rubio as Secretary of State should dispel any illusion about Trump being better on foreign policy toward Venezuela than Biden.

Rubio, a Cuban-American conservative, has, for decades, been one of the leaders of the regime change lobby in Washington.

In 2019, during a U.S.-backed coup attempt, he went so far as to tweet images of the capture, death and bloody assassination of Libyan leader Muammar Ghaddafi at President Nicolás Maduro.

With the appointment of Marco Rubio to the post of Secretary of State, the Zionist US Administration has elevated one of the most pro-war extremists ever to serve in the cabinet of the United States of America.

MintPress highlights Rubio’s history as one of the most reliable warmongering voices in Washington DC, an individual who has led or supported many of America’s most aggressive foreign policy decisions, including military interventions, coups, and sanctions.

A second figure advising Trump is mercenary leader Erik Prince. In September, Prince released a video supporting armed anti-government Venezuelan forces and not-so-subtly hinting that American forces would be in the country in the near future.

Your friends from the North, though we are not with you today, although we are coming soon. We will support you to the end.

When asked directly by MintPress about Prince’s comments, Venezuelan government minister William Castillo Bollé brushed them off. Erik Prince is a clown, noting that his words were part of a psychological intimidation operation against the country.

President Maduro, for his part, has taken a conciliatory approach, congratulating Trump on his victory and claiming that it could mean a new start in the USA-Venezuela relationship.

Yet, towards the end of his previous term, Trump oversaw an attempted invasion of the Latin American state.

An assault team led by Green Berets landed in Venezuela with the intention of shooting their way to the presidential palace and installing U.S.-backed politician Juan Guaidó as dictator.

The plan was extremely detailed, well-funded, and was directed and green-lit by White House officials. Washington DC even worked with Spanish bank Banco Santander to distribute preloaded debit cards across the country en masse, in effect, buying off the population.

However, the operation was executed with January 6 levels of incompetence.

The Venezuelan military failed to rebel, and the heavily armed mercenaries were overpowered by lobster-men from the House of Socialist Fishermen collective, equipped with little more than old revolvers and fishing knives.

What was code-named Operation Gideon by its planners came to be known worldwide as Trump’s Bay of Piglets disaster. According to Colombian President Gustavo Petro, Donald Trump also sought permission from his country to invade Venezuela from there.

Another hare-brained scheme the Trump administration launched was the construction and recognition of a parallel government in Venezuela led by Guaidó, a previously largely unknown character, even inside Venezuela.

Intelligence agencies in Washington DC had been grooming Guaidó since his days as a student leader, flying him around the world for training and meetings with top Western officials.

To the surprise of almost everybody in Venezuela, Guaidó proclaimed himself the rightful president of the country despite never even standing for the position.

And while the United States and a number of right-wing Latin American nations quickly recognized him, he was never able to build a popular support base inside the country.

Indeed, Guaidó was so unpopular that he could not go out in public without being accosted or harassed by ordinary citizens.

In Washington, however, he was met with a hero’s welcome, receiving a standing ovation as Trump’s guest of honor at his State of the Union speech. In public, Trump described him as a freedom fighter and the true and legitimate president of Venezuela.

Behind closed doors, however, the 45th president considered Guaidó a weak and incompetent politician and took to calling him the Beto O’Rourke of Venezuela.

In contrast, he saw Maduro as a strong leader who had the backing of the military, and while Guaidó visited the Oval Office to plead with Trump to launch an invasion, Trump ignored him and seemed more interested in flirting with Guaidó’s wife.

Mint Press / ABC Flash Point News 2024.