Venezuela - US Conflict: News, Updates

[safriz]

Shukar hai , Pakistan doesn't have oil. Or democracy had arrived on an aircraft carrier.

 

[Aryan_B]

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[vasanthm]

No, US sanctions ruined the economy and security. Doesn't matter if the government is capitalist/islamist/democracy/communist etc, under US sanction then blockade, no country can prosper.

So the real problem was leadership that couldn’t read the geopolitical room or play the game properly, even with one of the world’s largest oil reserves?

 

[PakFactor]

Agreed 100%. The sad reality is that US people decided that such a small person was fit for the highest office in the land over the absolutely abysmal crap foisted on them by the Democrats. It is going to be a long time till 2028 indeed.

Those three years will feel like eternity for some.

 

[ziaulislam]

No, US sanctions ruined the economy and security. Doesn't matter if the government is capitalist/islamist/democracy/communist etc, under US sanction then blockade, no country can prosper.

No, lack of building alliances and using money to build a military did

Point these dictators have no interest in nation building they just want to laundr money overseas

 

[Pak-Warrior]

So the real problem was leadership that couldn’t read the geopolitical room or play the game properly, even with one of the world’s largest oil reserves?

Not the leadership overall but just that how much obedient leader you are in front of the US.

Maduro could have been 100 times more brutal and corrupt then what he was actually but still a darling of the United States as long as he'd be giving extortion money / shares to the Oil profits to the United States. US is a hegemonic and evil state, it do not tolerate anyone with riches not giving extortion money to them.


An unprovoked attack on a nearby sovereign state to steal their wealth and walking off with their leader in chains is how blunt the world was in Bronze Age. United States did it with Iraq. Massacred Iraqis and looted their resources and now doing with Venezuela. Its a criminal state just like Israel. Western hegemony & criminal mindset is reflected throughout their history, colonial era which is still continuing in one form or another.

So in the end, its not about how good a leader is for their own people. Its about how much extortion money the nation can offer to the US for their protection out of their profits.

 

[fitpOsitive]

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"President Trump has been very clear and consistent. He is prepared to use every instrument of American power to stop drugs from flooding our country and to bring those responsible to justice. The Maduro regime is not the legitimate government of Venezuela. It is a narco-terrorism cartel," Leavitt stated.

Last month, the U.S. Department of Justice announced a $25 million reward for information leading to the arrest or conviction of Nicolás Maduro. After the announcement, the reward was doubled to $50 million. The Trump administration accuses Maduro of leading the so-called Los Soles Cartel, which Trump has classified as an international terrorist organization.

List of the largest oil reserve in the world, of the 5 largest, only 2 of them do not have American troops, Iran and Venezuela (It is the world's largest oil reserve with 303 billion barrels ) :

Think of the situation where some Chinese official issuing same statements regarding fallen and apprehend Taiwanese regime.
Also, I think Zelensky will now be killed by Russia ( if Russia wants to kill him).

 

[hnn]

Trump is obsessed with oil though. I don’t know why.

Great Orange Shitstain

@hnn post on the core model and periphery in the other thread applies to an extent

Trump (even USA) isn't obsessed with oil in a traditional economic sense, it's more Strategic Denial to BRICS. Venezuela, under Maduro, had become a diplomatic threat to the Western Hemisphere's Lithium Triangle (Chile, Argentina, Bolivia) - what began around 2022 was China/Russia slowly pushing an agenda of "Lithium OPEC" of sorts and Argentina, Bolivia, and Venezuela were party of it while Chile remained largely neutral. Argentina (in 2023) and Bolivia (in 2025) were successfully politically flipped back to Team US, while Venezuela couldn't be flipped politically because of Maduro's hold.

Venezuela isn't a country within the Lithium Triangle, but it was included in the "Lithium OPEC" agenda because of its Oil Reserves - so the 4 country could become an anti-imperialist "Resource Bloc" in Western Hemisphere for China/Russia. The largest buyer of Venezuelan oil is China, and Venezuela has been arming itself with the forex earned from it. Venezuela was to become a military shield in the region overtime which triggered US's fallback to Monroe Doctrine.

And, yes, though we can scale and apply the Core-periphery model to an extent but that model can only explain the "felt need" for multi-polarity of the global power bloc and not the geo-politico-military mechanics at play.

I have been working on a "gamified" model to understand and to an extent even predict (the possible next moves) the geo-politico-military mechanics but I am not sure where to post that on the forum. Perhaps a thread of its own? (Is it allowed to start a thread based on a theory developed in-house?) - it's a working model as of now and I think input from other members will help refine it greatly.

 

[claudiasam337]

Venezuela and USA Complete Militry Comparison.... https://www.theurduclub.com/2026/01/venezuelan-air-force-history-aircraft-air-defence-inventory.html

 

[Fatman17]

Shukar hai , Pakistan doesn't have oil. Or democracy had arrived on an aircraft carrier.

 

[Master Chief]

His plan appears to be for Venezuela to remain under the day-to-day rule of Nicolás Maduro’s handpicked vice-president, with its democratically elected leaders excluded and its wealth controlled by American corporations https://econ.st/495Mkxp

Yes. 100%. Hand picked by the Trump administration.

All the "mobilisations" and talk of "resistance" are the actual illusion, the deception.

The VP and a cabal of elites have been paid off long ago. They are putting on a simple show of "faux resistance to imperialism" as part of the deal.

"Mr Trump, pay me and let me gesticulate a little so my subjects believe my lies, and in return you will have clandestine control which will be conveniently disguised as me being oh so fearful of kidnap. Everyone wins in Cabalistan."

 

[Bilal]

Perhaps a thread of its own? (Is it allowed to start a thread based on a theory developed in-house?) - it's a working model as of now and I think input from other members will help refine it greatly.

Absolutely. I don’t think the forum rules prevent that as long as the title and intro explains the purpose of the thread.

 

[Master Chief]

So the real problem was leadership that couldn’t read the geopolitical room or play the game properly, even with one of the world’s largest oil reserves?

I would argue that he neglected the need to become a fully militarised state and to ensure he had loyalists in said military. Venezuela needed to be a North Korea type police state to even stand a chance. The threat of "fire all missiles!" is what keeps PyongYang safe.

 

[AViet]

Russia's decision to invade Ukraine also screams strategic desperation. Venezuela went down a similar road by nationalizing foreign assets and doubling down on policies that looked increasingly desperate both at home and abroad. If we're talking longevity, I don't see either one outlasting the US. What do you think?

Kidnapping the legitimate leader of another nation's leader is a gangsterist or terrorist action. very different to making a war. regardless how meaningless a war can be. It is not what a nation should do. Same as what the US did to the former Panamaian president Noriega. But time has changed. 2025 is not 1989. Such careless actions will only weaken the world order created by the US and the West after 1945.

China can easily kidnap or assassinate its dissidents, like Li Hongzhi, who are living in the West, Why didn't they do that?

Vietnam can easily assassinate or kidnap its dissidents like Le Trung Khoa or Nguyen Van Dai who are living in Germany. Why didn't Vietnamese authority do that?

Tào Phi (Cao Pi) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cao_Pi) can easily dethrone or kill Hán Hiến Đế (Emperor Xian), the last emperor of Han dynasty. Why did he ask Emperor Xian to declare three times (and Cao Pi pretended to decline three times) that he was willing to step down and yield the throne to Cao Pi.

The US, and the West in general, lacks the capability to think long term.

 

[hasssanali8998]

Think of the situation where some Chinese official issuing same statements regarding fallen and apprehend Taiwanese regime.
Also, I think Zelensky will now be killed by Russia ( if Russia wants to kill him).

yes this is the biggest problem with this , now anyone can kidnap a president and accuse him of being a drug runner / terrorist etc etc