After President Donald Trump ratcheted up the pressure on Venezuela’s Maduro regime through drone strikes on drug boats, Venezuela has responded with vows to “protect” their interests from U.S. aggression. Now, the President is pushing both nations towards the brink of war, declaring the Maduro regime a terrorist organization and ordering all oil tankers seized.
Trump alerted Americans through Truth Social, “I am ordering A TOTAL AND COMPLETE BLOCKADE OF ALL SANCTIONED OIL TANKERS going into, and out of, Venezuela. (They are) completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled in the History of South America. It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the United States of America all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us.”
The Maduro regime has responded by promising to protect their oil tankers with their own Navy. Trump has also placed a $50 million bounty on Maduro’s head. Maduro is alleged to have offered to resign on condition he remain in control of the military, but that offer, if it happened, was refused. The reason for Trump’s incursion into Venezuela may have more to do with China than anything else. A future MIA might delve into that possibility.
President Donald Trump announced the escalation of U.S. efforts against the regime in Venezuela after a series of military strikes on alleged narco-terrorist drug boats.
The president said he was designating the regime a foreign terrorist organization and ordered a blockade against oil tankers.