https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/10/18/trump-venezuela-war-maduro/86731362007/ WASHINGTON – The Trump administration is poised to massively raise the stakes in its feud with the regime of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who it accuses of supporting narcotrafficking and collusion with drug cartels.
President Donald Trump's startling Oct. 15 announcement that on-land strikes against Venezuela could come soon, which follows six strikes on Venezuelan boats that have killed more than two dozen people, raises questions as to what caused Trump's sudden aggression and where it will lead.
Maduro has already offered Venezuela's natural resources, Trump said Oct. 17. "You know why? Because he doesn't want to f--- around with the United States," he added.
The CIA also has received the green light from Trump to carry out secret operations inside Venezuela, the president confirmed in the same press conference.
"I authorized for two reasons really," Trump told reporters. "Number one, they have emptied their prisons into the United States of America...they came in through the border. The other thing are drugs."
News broke on Oct. 16 that Adm. Alvin Holsey, commander U.S. military forces in Latin and South America, will retire after just a year on the job.
Holsey has not said publicly why he is leaving. According to news reports, he had raised concerns with the ongoing strikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea.
Trump and some of his allies have long harbored antipathy towards Venezuela's communist government, and fantasized about overthrowing it. But it is unclear whether that is Trump's goal in initiating military conflict with the oil-rich South American nation.
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Who is Nicolas Maduro and why does Trump hate him?
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Trump blames Maduro for cartel collusion
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Deadly attacks and military buildup against Venezuela
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Maduro tries diplomatic letter, asks UN for help
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>>1449027 Trump made it so that it's classified top secret when he uses drone strikes but I have feeling we've been droning them for months now.
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>>1449027 You know, I wish always had this level of government skeptical news reporting. Espcially back when we were killing Iraqis for WMD that didn't exist, and bulldozing the ME for over decade for....
Trump likes 'em young too
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War what's it's good for, absolutely ...... Who is this Epstein guy?
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>>1449027 >A hearing on the purported evidence tied to Los Angeles and Venezuela will be held next month however none of the accusations are mentioned in the superseding indictment signed by Jason Reding Quinones, the new Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida. >Smartmatic was founded more than two decades ago by a group of Venezuelans who found early success running elections while the late Hugo Chavez, a devotee of electronic voting, was in power. The company later expanded globally, providing voting machines and other technology to help carry out elections in 25 countries, from Argentina to Zambia. https://apnews.com/article/smartmatic-bribery-charges-philippines-97a1c66eaedf769ad0e64a52166be90b you think these are related?
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Gonna be funny when the USA gets smoked by a 3rd world nation. Like the bully getting stabbed in the neck by the baby he is trying to rape. Bleed, bitch, bleed.
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>>1449198 >Gonna be funny when the USA gets smoked by a 3rd world nation wtf you think Venezuela is gonna do? bomb Miami?
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>>1449207 >wtf you think Venezuela is gonna do He has no idea, he's delirious on copium and lack of fentanyl
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No one as would say a word of he gave 20 billion to Ukraine
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>>1449213 I bet Britain thought the same at first back in 1773.
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>>1449218 >gave 20 billion to Ukraine I think people don't realize Ukraine is buying those weapons and not being "given" anything.
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>>1449219 This nigga has to go back 300 years for the last American military victory lmfaoooo
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>>1449267 >All the thirdie shills ITT The actual truth of the matter is that this is going to be an American world for another thousand years. Everyone who's not on the pro-America train is going to get their shit kicked in, everyone who is is going to continue to profit at the expense of browns everywhere.
What's actually changing is that the experiment of liberalism and republic are ending. We're in our transition from Republic to Empire, under which all said browns will be treated as slave labor and wealth extraction colonies after being (rightly) deported back to their shitholes. People will no longer have a choice in the matter.
Its funny that there are people out there that actually think this is the beginning of the multipolar world or the brownoid/chinkoid century though. Century of death and famine perhaps, but not of rulership.
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>>1449275 Ok ok lets get you back to your larp.
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>>1449027 Its not a war, Anon, we're just crushing Venezuela for not properly remembering that they're a thirdie brown shithole and are failing to remain in their containment zone. In order for it to be a war, the place you're fighting has to be an actual country.
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>>1449275 >words words words You couldn't beat goat herders with Soviet era guns. Go run a lap and clear your head.
