Die USA greifen Venezuela nicht wegen Drogen an, sondern wegen Mineralien
https://thehill.com/opinion/international/5642398-venezuela-minerals-us-strategy/
Die USA greifen Venezuela nicht wegen Drogen an, sondern wegen Mineralien
https://thehill.com/opinion/international/5642398-venezuela-minerals-us-strategy/
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I was surprised like many people, that the Trump administration suddenly started targeting Venezuela. If drugs were the biggest problem facing America, then Trump would not have [pardoned the former president of Honduras, who was at the center of one of the largest and most violent drug-trafficking conspiracies in the world](https://www.npr.org/2025/12/02/nx-s1-5628382/trump-pardons-honduran-ex-president-juan-orlando-hernandez). But also, I think he would have gone after China, who has long been known to supply fentanyl ingredients to Mexico, from where it comes into the US.
Something seems off. Maybe it is because Trump is somehow corrupted/compromised by China and doesn’t want to go after them, which is what avoiding the TikTok ban and having low tariffs on China suggests – maybe his family has business deals happening in China. Or maybe he thinks there is no way to win a conflict with China when the American economy depends on them. But it could also be simply that he wants to steal what resources Venezuela has, like with Greenland.
I thought this was about oil because Venezuela has the world’s largest oil reserves, but this article mentions that Venezuela has big deposits of bauxite, coltan, gold and rare-earth minerals, which are now central to national security and global supply chains. So maybe this is actually an alternative to Greenland, since Trump realizes his “diplomacy” around Greenland has failed. But I am surprised the world could let this happen. Maduro is illegitimate in my opinion, but seizing tankers like a pirate and threatening a country like a colonial imperialist is not appropriate.
What do others think? Are minerals the real motivation around the Trump administration’s bizarre turn towards a war with Venezuela?
If they knew the boats had drugs on them why not just wait until they arrived to arrest them.
Bombing them was the worst way to go about it, did they even know for sure if there was any or where they were headed? And what kind of boats? Fishing boats?
It really may border on war crimes, especially if it’s about petty disputes between oil and minerals.
Oil, the answer is oil.
People/bots are going to parrot oil and resources as the main reason but they are either wrong or being purposefully misleading. What is happening is ordinance expenditure to empty the militaries store of missiles against worthless targets while providing a demonstration so our adversaries can train their AI against our missiles.
It’s also a distraction from the Epstein files.
You know Trumps best friend the child rapist?
It’s a solid play. We depose a dictator and get a good trade deal stamped out.
Just commenting to point out that Trump pardoning the Honduras ex president that was jailed on drug charges, was most likely left in freedom because he snitched on Maduro and gave them plenty of intel that was useful.