U.S. media, citing flight data, that two U.S. Air Force B-1B "gun cavalry" bombers approached Venezuela on the same day.
A small Venezuela is now being surrounded by American military forces. In fact, the military forces deployed by the United States around Venezuela are enough to launch a full-scale armed attack on Venezuela.
Against a small country like Venezuela, where the Trump administration is so aggressively deploying huge military forces, it is clearly impossible, as Trump says, to engage in what is called a counter-drog spread or anti-immigration operation.
Because such a large-scale deployment of military force can’t always last! and generally speaking, large-scale military operations mean solving some critical issues in a shorter period of time.
So now the Trump administration has not explained what kind of people are called drug dealers, nor has it said to what extent it wants to crack down on so-called drug trafficking, but has just put a lot of military strength here.
So what the Trump administration now expresses is clearly meant to mask the outcome with action, and the greatest purpose is to return those who support him with such action, showing a way I have done anyway.
Real intentions revealed.
Thus, the fundamental purpose of Trump’s action is to cut off the oil trade routes between Venezuela and other countries, and indirectly support the opposition within Venezuela.
The conflict between Venezuela and the United States has not been a matter for years, and since the end of internal unrest in Venezuela in the 1990s, the new government has been in bad relations with the United States.
Because Venezuela's new government has regained control of domestic oil resources, many foreign companies investing in Venezuela have suffered heavy losses, including many energy companies in the United States.
The new Venezuelan government did not intend to continue its cooperation with the United States after it came to power, but instead nationalized these resources, and the equipment and assets that American companies invested in Venezuela were also collected by Venezuela.
Since then, the U.S. government has launched several military operations against Venezuela and several destructive operations, which have caused chaos in Venezuela's domestic economy, leaving a small country with huge oil resources to live.
The current situation in Venezuela is very complicated, but the reasons are simple: first, it has oil, second, it is too close to the United States, and third, it is not a close partner of the United States.
Domestic political considerations
The situation in Venezuela is not one day or two, why did Trump suddenly propose to intensify the struggle against Venezuela?
In fact, it is still related to the domestic policy situation in the United States. Trump has always claimed that he wants to crack down on illegal immigration and drug abuse. In fact, Trump knows that the largest drug manufacturer in the United States is not outside but in the United States.
A large number of U.S. pharmaceutical groups legally sell drugs on the one hand, and otherwise smuggle highly addictive psychotic drugs in the U.S. underground market through other channels.
If Trump really starts fighting these namely legitimate pharmaceutical giants, it’s definitely going to damage the fundamental interests of these pharmaceutical giants, and disrupting money is equivalent to doing nothing to say.
Soon, these drug giants will clearly start opposing Trump, spending large amounts of money to support U.S. Democratic lawmakers, and entering the U.S. Congress at the mid-term elections in 2026 to order Trump’s later rule.
So Trump can only take two paths, that is, to use the so-called fentanyl issue to implement so-called tariff control on some countries, including China, and to find other ways to give the United States a placebo injection as if it were taking action.
In fact, everyone knows that the interests of smuggling drugs outside the United States are mostly located in Colombia, but Trump is also unlikely to do so due to the close government ties between Colombia and the United States.
It is only possible to find this constant knife in the backyard of the United States and the country of Venezuela, which the United States has not dealt with.
Details of military operations
The U.S. military force around Venezuela can be said to be quite huge. Three Burke-class destroyers alone have been gathered, as well as an American amphibious assault ship, a Ticonderoga-class missile cruiser, and an attack underwater nuclear submarine.
The U.S. Defense Ministry also ordered that the Ford aircraft carrier battle group be deployed near Venezuela, according to paper parameters, these forces have been enough to defeat Venezuela.
And Trump just let these U.S. forces' sharp naval forces attack a few small vessels of Venezuelan nationality, precisely because Trump also knows that the U.S. military now can only do the appearance to scare people, once fighting once there is a loss Trump is more unclear.
What Trump most wanted to see now is that under the siege of his armed forces, the opposition in Venezuela could be greatly encouraged to cause massive unrest in Venezuela and then take power.
Of course, those Venezuelan oppositionists must be backed by countries like the United States, so that the United States can control Venezuela’s energy trade.
The China Strategy
On the other hand, what the United States wants to do is to target China. After facing the restrictions imposed by the United States on high-tech chips and software services, China tightened drug control as a counterattack, which really made Americans panic.
When the tariff suppression is ineffective, the Trump administration can only think of cutting off China's access to energy from foreign countries a little bit. Perhaps in Trump's consciousness, he simply thinks that the United States is short of rare earths and China is short of oil.
Now that the United States can’t import rare earth, China can import oil, which is why China has no fear, if it can cut off the energy trade route between Venezuela and China, will it be able to show tension in energy.
If Trump is the idea as the primary motive for action, it can only be said that Trump, as a politician, has a deviant understanding of the world.
China has always emphasized the diversification of energy sources, even if it doesn’t really import oil from Venezuela, it doesn’t have much impact.
A slight increase in import quotas from Russia, Iran or Saudi Arabia could fully alleviate the crisis of the lack of energy imports from Venezuela as a source.
And now Venezuela has gradually overcome the tense period of the initial U.S. military siege, from the initial panic to slowly gradually getting orderly.
Even if the public sentiment in Venezuela gets out of control, there is a high probability that the Venezuelan people will blame the current situation on those opposition parties who create instability.
If, with the support of the Venezuelans, the Venezuelan government started liquidating the opposition at home, it would be extremely disastrous for the U.S. layout in South America for years.
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