Off-Guardian – Aug 21, 2025
The US Navy is sending at least three destroyers and various other craft to the Caribbean coast of Venezuela, allegedly on a mission to combat drug cartel activity.
In response, Maduro has mobilized 4 million members of the national militia. Trump “hasn’t ruled out” boots on the ground, but in fairness, he can hardly say anything else when asked.
It’s all come out of nowhere, considering it was only a few days ago Trump was eagerly pursuing his Nobel Peace Prize with the Putin summit in Alaska followed by the Zelenskey et al. meeting at the White House.
Only a few weeks ago, Maduro’s government renewed its oil license with Chevron and agreed to an exchange of political prisoners.
Then, suddenly, the Trump administration issued a statement increasing the reward for Maduro’s arrest and accused the Venezuelan President of leading the Cartel of the Suns.
Thanks @PressSec for laying out EXACTLY why we’re offering $50 million for information on Maduro and his heinous crimes against Americans. https://t.co/E8jIEwcK2u pic.twitter.com/Mq494m9CO3
— US Dept of State INL (@StateINL) August 19, 2025
Venezuela has responded by accusing the US of kidnapping 66 Venezuelan children during recent deportations.
Why the escalation? What changed?
The discussion amongst what you could call the old-fashioned anti-war crowd is already focusing on Venezuela’s oil reserves, the biggest in the world, but is that vintage cliche still applicable?
Just like other conflicts, anything that erupts between Venezuela and the US needs to be seen in the post-Covid context.
Venezuela took full part in the Covid lie. Testing, lockdowns, masks and vaccines. All of it. Alongside that, Maduro’s government used the “emergency” to reverse Chavez’s rejection of the IMF and take out a $5billion “emergency” loan.
They are compromised, part of the international government cooperation, and therefore any conflict is likely just as real as Covid was.
So, what’s going on?
- Is it really about drug cartels?
- Will there be any conflict, or is it a phony war?
- Will there be “boots on the ground”?
- Why is this happening now? Is it a distraction from something else?
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Support Off-Gusrdian:
It has nothing to do with drugs (which trade the CIA controls anyway). It’s about oil, of which Venezuela has vast quantities.
Likely a distraction from the slaughter in Occupied Palestine by the kikes.
Whatever Trump is trying to do isn’t working because I keep getting subliminal messages. I suspect he’s hoping [Epstein!] to deflect from other problems [Epstein!] which he can’t put the lid on back at home. [Epstein!] I haven’t figured it out yet [Epstein!] but I will.
Maduro has nothing todo with drugtrade,
same did not Noriega of Panama . Bush
just had to apprehend him because he knew
too much about BushsCIA drug deals + Mena
Clinton +Barry+ the boys .
Of course this is a distraction for many reasons. Yes, the countries that were members of the WHO, UN had to comply with the plandemic. And if they could not afford to buy the bioweapons they were made borrow from the criminal IMF. And if the country is unable to pay back IMF demands the borrowing countries assets – yes, done by design. Clearly, dumpt wants the oil, and to generate more money for the military industrial criminal complex and its investors. The fentanyl accusations is a colossal lie for TEVA pharma in America which is israehell owned is the culprit. Just ask Helena Glass.
What does Off Guardian want in the way of answers “from us” – more idle speculation to answer their questions? Any inside information would end up like Covid with revealing the diverse but not mutually exclusive interests of various megalomaniac stakeholders behind the operation. But is that not what most of our major wars and social engineering psyops really come down to? Multiple but compatible stakeholder interests of powerful evil people and organisations, walking over the faces of all of those beneath them or in their way?
Nevertheless, We learn some 20 years after the war in Iraq that it was not just for alleged Israeli expansion but mainly for Western interests to own and control their vast oil reserves based on the contention that “we” in the browning West will need them in the future to support our feverous materialism, which incidentally seems to be snuffing us out faster than any of the toxins Bill Gates and Zionists can muster.
Here is an answer to the Off Guardian questions from the AI site “chatgbd”:
“What is the real reason for US warships going to Venezuela?
Is it really about drug cartels?
Will there be any conflict, or is it a phony war?
Will there be “boots on the ground”?
Why is this happening now? Is it a distraction from something else?
ChatGPT said:
Thought for 33s
Short version:
Official reason: counter-narcotics—Washington says three Navy destroyers (USS Gravely, Jason Dunham, Sampson) are deploying to interdict “narco-terrorist” networks using routes near Venezuela. The White House has recently framed several Latin American cartels (incl. Venezuela-linked Tren de Aragua) as terrorist threats, which legally underpins a more military posture.
Wall Street Journal
The White House
Reuters
What’s likely the real mix of motives?
Signaling & pressure on Maduro, not just drug busts—analysts describe this as coercive show-of-force more than prep for invasion.
Wall Street Journal
Domestic politics—a hard-line stance on cartels and Venezuela plays well with key voter blocs. (News coverage explicitly notes the political framing alongside the deployments.)
Wall Street Journal
Leverage around oil & sanctions—this is happening exactly as Washington lets Chevron resume limited Venezuelan oil exports and weighs who else (if anyone) gets access. Pressure at sea + narrow economic openings = leverage.
Reuters
+1
Bloomberg.com
Will there be conflict—or is this a “phony war”?
Expect armed standoff + interdictions, not a declared war. The ships’ mission is stated as maritime patrol/interdiction and intelligence; reporters and defense outlets characterize it as signaling. That still carries risk of incidents (e.g., a tense boarding or close encounter), but a deliberate shooting war is unlikely unless there’s a major provocation.
Wall Street Journal
Military.com
“Boots on the ground”?
Large-scale landing: very unlikely. Some Marines/sailors are typically embarked for VBSS (visit-board-search-seizure) and force protection; Reuters also reported an amphibious squadron moving into the broader Caribbean, which increases capacity—but that is still consistent with contingency signaling, not a planned invasion.
Reuters
Military.com
Why now—distraction?
There’s no single proven “distraction,” but the timing aligns with:
• a new terrorist/cartel designation policy that enables military tools;
• fresh oil licensing decisions (Chevron allowed to move barrels again, while non-U.S. firms face limits);
• and a desire to reassert pressure after a brief thaw (prisoner swap, limited licenses).
Read together, this looks like coercive leverage + domestic politics, not a preannounced war plan.”
Apart from AI answers, the bottom line is most likely the same as with Iraq, Libya, and Syria – When it comes to oil and gas resources, unless the US, the UK and EU interests can own them and get rid of all foreign governments in any nation which have the view that the people of their nations actually own the resources in their own nations, such governments have to be removed. If that cannot be done through bribes, blackmail, and debt-rigging, then in come the sanctions and the NGO’s to destabilize the nation plus the CIA, MI6, Mossad, and special forces jackals to assassinate their leaders and influential people. Then if all of that fails they start a so-called “civil war” by landing and supporting insurgency organizations to overthrow the government just like they did in Iraq and Syria.
Remember the Hugo Chavez speech in 2006?????
“PRES. HUGO CHAVEZ, VENEZUELA (through translator): We have the enemy tag on us to justify later anything they want, misleading the American people. We are friends of yours. And you are our friends. Let’s not let us be misled or manipulated. We are enemies of imperialism, just as I am sure that you are enemies of imperialism”.
https://archive.org/details/chavez-nyc-speech