At the end of September 2025, the Caribbean Sea was in turmoil, with a bunch of U.S. Navy warships hanging there, and Maduro in Venezuela directly mobilized 4.5 million militiamen to prepare for war. NBC News broke the news a few days ago that the Pentagon was already figuring out how to use drones and air strikes to smash the so-called drug dens in Venezuela, and it would be done within a few weeks at the earliest. The White House didn't say it explicitly, but it didn't deny it, so it just threw "it depends". This sounds familiar. More than 20 years ago, in Iraq, Powell started drying with a test tube powder. Now it's "cracking down on drug dealers". Trump directly named Maduro as "the number one drug dealer in the world". The script is the same old, but times have changed. Venezuela is holding Chinese goods in its hands, and the whole world is staring at it. This time, Chinese equipment can withstand the stealth fighters and cruise missiles of the US military.
Venezuela's oil reserves are the world's first, heavy oil resources are a fat bulk for the U.S. carrier fuel strategy. After Trump came to power, domestic economic pressure was high, support rate shake, several countries left, the U.S. backyard unstable, he urgently needed a diplomatic military show to highlight the situation in the Caribbean since the end of August, the U.S. Army at least eight warships, more than 4,000 soldiers gathered, F-35B and B-2 bombers dropped to Puerto Rico, destroyer "Jason Dunham" with a warhead missile approached the coast 50 kilometers.
Defense Minister Hagesese boarded the amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima and publicly claimed that this was a real battle, not a drill. On September 2, the US military took the lead and killed a suspected drug trafficking ship with missiles, killing all 11 people on board. Then on September 9 and 16, two more ships were bombed in a row, killing a total of 17 people. The United States said it was a drug ship targeted by intelligence, but the Venezuelan Ministry of Foreign Affairs jumped and said there was no evidence and it was all provocation. International observers went to the scene and picked up the fragments. There was no sign of drugs, but there was a smell of oil residue.
Trump called more than 800 senior U.S. military generals back home for a meeting, which was speculated to be a pre-war mobilization. The President of Colombia criticized the United States at the United Nations General Assembly. He also called for the formation of a United Nations army to go to Palestine, and publicly advised the US military not to listen to Trump's orders. Trump couldn't hide his face when the backyard caught fire. Venezuela is not Iraq. In 2003, the U.S. military cut off Iraq's GPS as soon as the war started, and the Iraqi army's radar and missiles were all blind. Now Venezuela uses the Beidou system, which is as stable as an old dog.
Defence upgrades rely entirely on Chinese goods: JY-27A anti-subsurface radar, detection 500 km, F-35B want to hide? no door. Red Flag-9B anti-aircraft missiles cover coastal land, C-802A anti-subsurface missiles direct to the U.S. ships. Electronic warfare equipment can be directed to disturb GPS. In June the shipment of eight shipping-8 aircraft, plus the VN-18 anti-subsurface car and VN-1 infantry car, woven into a defence net. Early months, the military used anti-subsurface radar lock F-35 trajectory, the U.S. anti-subsurface ship withdrew 100 km, the U.S. pushed to hide the typhoon, who believed!
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning bluntly stated that the deployment of U.S. military forces seriously undermines peace in Latin America and opposes any pretext to interfere in Venezuela's internal affairs. China has invested tens of billions in Latin America, and Venezuela owes China 7 billion loans, mostly tied to oil projects. Maduro showed off his mobile phone, saying it was sent by China and used to connect directly to Beijing. Chinese Ambassador Lan Hu emphasized that China and Venezuela join hands to protect the rights and interests of developing countries. Russia and Iran also took sides, and Putin's Foreign Minister Zakharova criticized the United States for "gunboat diplomacy".
The F-35 was shot down, even one, the allied system broke. European media has published questions about intervention, the Latin American summit shrugged hands in the sky, many countries left. U.S. military industrial capabilities can not follow, Lockheed Martin acknowledged the shortage of rare land, the F-35 upgraded version is not produced. The Middle East Ukraine battlefield eats too much inventory, the U.S. itself is not useful. If Venezuela turns the long war, the refugee tide straight into the U.S. mainland, internationally is the bigger. Trump is most afraid of not escaping, repeating Afghanistan's Iraqi dungeon. If China has more arms supply, Iran's Russia follows, the U.S. military has a wave of opportunity.
The United States wants oil control, and Venezuelan heavy oil is key to its future energy strategy. Shifting domestic contradictions, Trump has no brilliant achievements for half a year, and military victory can boost the support rate. Shock Latin America, kill chickens and monkeys, and prevent more countries from being pro-China and Russia. Someone in the post X said that this is like a replica of the Opium War, and the United States uses the pretext of anti-drug to smash other people's doors. On China's side, Venezuela bought dozens of J-10C fighter jets, and the relationship warmed up. The video shows the Venezuelan army unloading Chinese equipment, the forklift buzzing and the fuselage flashing. Beidou replaces GPS, the signal chain of the console is stable, the anti-stealth radar antenna rotates, and the beam sweeps the sea. The Hongqi-9B convoy hides in the jungle, and the sights are calibrated. The C-802 guide rails are polished, the electronic warfare cables are connected, and the beep is activated.
If the United States really attacks, it will quickly hit the air defense node of the command center. However, when the Chinese Internet blocked it, one F-35 dropped, symbolically frying pan. The trust of U.S. allies has collapsed, and the world has reassessed its sides. Venezuelan militia mobilized, Maduro signed security authorization, and the country was on alert. Russia and Iran are not soft in aid and armaments come in a steady stream. The U.S. military's production capacity is weak, rare earths are stuck and cannot be used for a long time. Zhang Zhaozhong predicted in 2018 that the decline of the United States would be a mistake, but now it seems to have come true.