Local time is October 28, a huge explosion in the eastern Pacific waters, originally, the U.S. military launched a violent airstrike on four Venezuelan ships, four ships directly sank, 14 people died on the spot, only one jumped to the sea.
Mexican authorities said they had launched a rescue at sea in the hope of finding the only survivor.
This is not the first time the U.S. military has taken action against Venezuela, with a month ago the U.S. military striking Venezuela 13 times, killing more than 50 people.
The real purpose of the United States is three.
The operations of the U.S. military are confusing: while raising the ethical flag of “fighting drug traffickers”, bombing Venezuelan ships without distinction, declaring “not seeking ground war” and deploying heavy troops to the Caribbean.
Since late August, a complete naval expedition strike group has entered the Caribbean Sea, including destroyers of the Berk class, Ticondroga class cruisers, Yellow Bee class "Sulphur Island" bipartisan assault ships, in addition to submerged nuclear submarines, gathered almost all the sophisticated equipment except the aircraft carrier. "Sulphur Island" boasts 30 fighter aircraft and 2,200 marines, and the San Antonio class transport ship is full of armored vehicles and supplies, the total force of more than 10,000, scale straight after the military operation of invading Grenada in 1983.
The air force’s deterrence was even more oppressive, with two B-1B strategic bomber jets taking off from a base in Texas on Oct. 23, rotating straight to the Venezuelan coast. In addition, 10 F-35 stealth aircraft, MQ-9 "Reaper" drones and B-52 bombers took turns to carry out "demonstration bombings", flying over Venezuelan islands at ultra-low altitudes, and transmitting war signals with roar.
Even more alarming is the fact that U.S. military operations have long gone beyond the level of military deterrence. On October 28, Venezuelan Vice President Delsie Rodriguez publicly announced that the authorities had successfully seized a group of CIA agents hired by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.
The author believes that the real purpose of the US military is three: The first is to force the Maduro government to compromise through military pressure; the second is to demonstrate absolute control in the Latin American region; the third is to use the opportunity to clear the alien regime and pave the way for the subsequent geolocation.
Life and Death Game between Hegemony and Resistance
U.S. pressure on Venezuela has already begun.
In 1922, when the first industrial well was erupted on Lake Malacave, black oil instantly changed the destiny of the country. With the world's largest oil reserves (more than 300 billion barrels), Venezuela reached its peak in 1950, with per capita GDP ranked in the world's top four, with the capital, Caracas, standing in the woods, known as South America's "Venice".
In 1999, Chavez lifted the "Bolivarian Revolution" flag to the power, promoted the oil nationalization policy, recovered all of the oil fields in the hands of Western companies, and promoted free medical care, education and poverty alleviation projects with oil revenues. This move completely touched the core interests of the United States and laid the groundwork for future conflicts.
Since 2017, the Trump administration has been the first to freeze Venezuelan overseas assets, ban U.S. enterprises from importing oil, and in 2025 to increase secondary tariffs, specifically targeting major buyers of Venezuelan oil such as China and Russia. Under multiple sanctions, Venezuelan oil output is less than 500,000 barrels, GDP has shrunk by three-quarters, inflation has risen to a million times, the price of a bag of rice can replace a building, and 65% of the population has fallen into the poverty line.
Following the failure of supporting the coup in 2019, mercenaries were again sent to launch a "Swine Bay" raid in 2020, which was easily defeated by the Venezuelan military.The means to overthrow the regime were successively failed, and Trump simply ripped off his disguise and put Maduro on the "drug terrorism" hat.
This hegemonic logic of "supporting me, defending me" has penetrated the centennial conflict between the United States and Venezuela.Venezuela's tragedy proves that having more resources, without the strength of defending resources, will only become a "payout machine" of the hegemonic country.
The paper tiger.
In the Middle East, the United States invaded Iraq under the pretext of "weapons of mass destruction" and left a power vacuum after the overthrow of the Saddam regime, terrorism spread and the United States eventually had to withdraw its troops, leaving a mess of hundreds of thousands of civilian casualties. In Afghanistan, the U.S. military fought a 20-year war against terrorism, spending $2 trillion, but eventually evacuated in the Taliban counterattack, the so-called “democratic reform” completely bankrupt.
Even in weaker Syria, the U.S. intervention failed as it wanted. The army stationed in northern Syria under the name of "fighting ISIS" practically controlled the local oil resources, with robbed oil revenues of up to hundreds of millions of dollars a year. But this robberies act was condemned by the international community, the Syrian government gradually recovered the lost ground with Russian support, and the U.S. influence continued to shrink.
These cases have repeatedly proved that military hegemony can win a temporary battlefield victory, but it can never win the hearts and minds of the people, let alone solve fundamental problems.
On the one hand, the Venezuelan people showed a strong sense of resistance, and after Maduro launched the recruitment operation, civil servants, housewives, and retirees ran into the militia to defend national sovereignty with practical actions. On the other hand, the international community's opposition voice grew stronger. At the 80th UN General Assembly, Brazil's President Lula said directly "violation of sovereignty and harsh sanctions are unacceptable", and Bolivia's President Alzheimer referred to the United States "in the name of the prohibition of drugs to control Latin America and plunder resources."
Chairman Mao said his elderly good, together reactionaries are paper tigers, used in the United States in no way. the United States can blow down ships, make casualties, but never take a country's sovereign will.