{"id":314143,"date":"2025-08-23T04:04:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T04:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=314143"},"modified":"2025-08-24T06:35:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T06:35:36","slug":"lets-talk-aboutlooming-war-in-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=314143","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s talk about\u2026looming war in Venezuela?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Off-Guardian \u2013 Aug 21, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?attachment_id=182661\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-182661\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wpa-warning wpa-image-missing-alt aligncenter wp-image-182661 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/maduro.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"708\" height=\"472\" data-warning=\"Missing alt text\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/maduro.jpg 708w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/maduro-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 708px) 100vw, 708px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The US Navy is sending <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20250820-us-sends-three-warships-near-venezuela-coast\">at least three destroyers<\/a> and various other craft to the Caribbean coast of Venezuela, allegedly on a mission to combat drug cartel activity.<\/p>\n<p>In response, Maduro has mobilized 4 million members of the national militia. Trump \u201chasn\u2019t ruled out\u201d boots on the ground, but in fairness, he can hardly say anything else when asked.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>Only <a href=\"https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/international\/2025-08-21\/threat-of-military-intervention-against-drug-trafficking-escalates-tensions-between-the-us-and-venezuela.html\">a few weeks ago<\/a>, Maduro\u2019s government renewed its oil license with Chevron and agreed to an exchange of political prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>Then, suddenly, the Trump administration <a href=\"https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/international\/2025-08-08\/the-us-raises-reward-for-venezuelas-maduro-to-50-million.html\">issued a statement<\/a> increasing the reward for Maduro\u2019s arrest and accused the Venezuelan President of leading the Cartel of the Suns.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Thanks <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PressSec?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PressSec<\/a> for laying out EXACTLY why we\u2019re offering $50 million for information on Maduro and his heinous crimes against Americans. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/E8jIEwcK2u\">https:\/\/t.co\/E8jIEwcK2u<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Mq494m9CO3\">pic.twitter.com\/Mq494m9CO3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 US Dept of State INL (@StateINL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StateINL\/status\/1957894834867376602?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 19, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Venezuela has responded by accusing the US of kidnapping 66 Venezuelan children during recent deportations.<\/p>\n<p>Why the escalation? What changed?<\/p>\n<p>The discussion amongst what you could call the old-fashioned anti-war crowd is already focusing on Venezuela\u2019s oil reserves, the biggest in the world, but is that vintage cliche still applicable?<\/p>\n<p>Just like other conflicts, anything that erupts between Venezuela and the US needs to be seen in the post-Covid context.<\/p>\n<p>Venezuela took full part in the Covid lie. Testing, lockdowns, masks and vaccines. All of it. Alongside that, Maduro\u2019s government used the \u201cemergency\u201d to reverse Chavez\u2019s rejection of the IMF and take out a $5billion \u201cemergency\u201d loan.<\/p>\n<p>They are compromised, part of the international government cooperation, and therefore any conflict is likely just as real as Covid was.<\/p>\n<p>So, what\u2019s going on?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is it really about drug cartels?<\/li>\n<li>Will there be any conflict, or is it a phony war?<\/li>\n<li>Will there be \u201cboots on the ground\u201d?<\/li>\n<li>Why is this happening now? Is it a distraction from something else?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Support Off-Gusrdian:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/offguardian\">Ko-fi<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.subscribestar.com\/offguardian\">Subscribestar<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=CKFB3MH8CGB9U\">Paypal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/off-guardian.org\/2025\/08\/21\/lets-talk-about-looming-war-in-venezuela\/\">Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With at least three US Navy destroyers steaming toward Venezuela and President Maduro having mobilized 4 million members of the national militia, you might think a military clash was looming. However, when seen in a post-Covid context, things look very different<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=314143"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314172,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314143\/revisions\/314172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=314143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=314143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=314143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}