Ever since Hugo Chávez came to power in 1998, the USA has attempted to overthrow the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela. They have tried everything short of a full-scale military invasion:
Like a military coup, selecting a substitute president, cutting off access to the global financial system, imposing layers of sanctions, sabotaging the electricity grid, sending in mercenaries, and attempting to assassinate its leaders.
If you can think of a method to overthrow a government, the USA has likely tried it against Venezuela. However, in 2025, the escalation became unmistakable.
The USA sent its warships to patrol Venezuela’s coast, began sinking small boats and killing those on board as they left the South American mainland, and seized an oil tanker bound for Cuba.
The quantity of attacks on Venezuela has increased, suggesting the quality of the threats has now reached a different magnitude. It feels as if the USA is preparing for a full-blown invasion of the country.
Donald Trump came to office saying that he was opposed to military interventions that did not further US interests, which is why he called the illegal US war on Iraq a waste of blood and treasure.
This does not mean Trump is against the use of the US military – he deployed it in Afghanistan (remember the “Mother of all Bombs”) and Yemen, and has fully backed the US/Israeli genocide against the Palestinians.
His formula is not for or against war categorically, but about what the US would gain from it. With Iraq, he stated that the problem was not the war itself, but the failure to seize Iraqi oil.
Had the USA taken Iraq’s oil, Trump would likely have been in Baghdad, ready to build – with Iraqi treasure – a Trump hotel on one of the former presidential properties.
Naturally, the US military buildup in the Caribbean is about Venezuelan oil – the largest known reserves in the world.
The US-backed politician, Maria Corina Machado, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize just this week after supporting the Israeli genocide and calling for a US invasion of her own country, is on record promising to open up her country’s resources to foreign capital.
Dutch Navy Helicopter from Curacao helps escape María Corina Machado from Venezuela
She would welcome the extraction of Venezuela’s wealth rather than allow its social wealth to better the lives of its own people, as is the goal of the Bolivarian Revolution started by Hugo Chávez.
A hypothetical puppet President Machado would immediately surrender any claim to the Essequibo region and grant ExxonMobil full command of Venezuela’s oil reserves. This is certainly the prize.
But it is not the immediate spur. A close reading of the 2025 National Security Strategy of the United States shows that there is a renewed emphasis on the Western Hemisphere.
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The Trump Corollary to the 1823 Monroe Doctrine is clear: the Western Hemisphere must be under US control, and the United States will do what it takes to ensure that only pro-US politicians hold power. It is worth reading that section of the National Security Strategy:
After years of neglect, the United States will reassert and enforce the Monroe Doctrine to restore American pre-eminence in the Western Hemisphere, and to protect our homeland and our access to key geographies throughout the region.
We will deny non-Hemispheric competitors the ability to position forces or other threatening capabilities, or to own or control strategically vital assets, in our Hemisphere.
This ‘Trump Corollary’ to the Monroe Doctrine is a common-sense and potent restoration of American power and priorities, consistent with American security interests.
When Argentina faced local elections, Trump warned that the USA would cut off external financing if candidates opposing pro-US President Javier Milei lost.
In Honduras, Trump intervened directly to oppose the Libre Party, even offering to release a convicted drug trafficker (and former President).
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The United States is moving aggressively because it has accurately assessed the weakness of the Pink Tide and the strength of a new, far-right “Angry Tide”.
The emergence of right-wing governments across South America, Central America, and the Caribbean has emboldened the US to squeeze Venezuela and thereby weaken Cuba – the two major poles of the Latin American left.
Overturning these revolutionary processes would allow a full-scale Monroe Doctrine domination of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Since the 1990s, the United States began to speak of Latin America as a partner for shared prosperity, emphasizing globalization over direct control. Now, the language has changed. As the Trump Corollary asserts:
We want a Hemisphere that remains free of hostile foreign incursion or ownership of key assets and that supports critical supply chains…We want to ensure our continued access to key strategic locations.
Latin America is seen as a battlefield for geopolitical competition against China and a source of threats like immigration and drug trafficking.
The attack on Venezuela and Cuba is not merely an assault on these two countries; it is the opening salvo of direct US intervention on behalf of the Angry Tide.
This will not deliver better lives for the population, but greater wealth for US corporations and the oligarchies of Latin America.
US Navy sending Aircraft Carrier from Mediterranean Sea to Venezuela
Trump is ready to revive the belief that any problem can be solved by military force, even when other tools exist.
The Trump Corollary promises to use its military system superior to any country in the world to steal the hemisphere’s resources.
The aggression against Venezuela is not a war against Venezuela alone. It is a war against all of Latin America.
Venezuela Analysis / ABC Flash Point News 2025.
First the motive was Venezuelan election fraud, followed by sanctions, accusations of being a drugs regime, or stealing US oil, blocking and confiscating oil tankers, a never ending blurry of fantasy combined with atrocity?
It’s so obvious he wants their oil reserves. Trump could care less about sending Marines and Sailors into harms way. Most combat veterans end up homeless or in prison in America.
We’re just dumb stupid animals used as pawns for foreign policy. I found out the hard way. Anyway, all wars are banker wars. Trumps’ a Zionist puppet fulfilling their agenda.