USA angriper Venezuela

Trump’s comment throws in energy secondly. He does not mention drugs. Most of the drugs come in through Mexico. As I have said, China is the #1 client of Venezuela. This all depends on the takover of those oil assets by the American oil companies and do they cut off China. That may not be in the cards just yet because Venezuela owes a lot of monet to China. However, overlooked here is the connection to Russia. That is the real issue nobody is taking about and this has been a goal of Rubio for a very long time.

Russian lawmaker Alexei Zhuravlyov told Gazeta.ru on November 1st, 2025 that Russia MAY supply Venezuela with its new Oreshnik and Kalibr missiles, stating “I see no obstacles to providing our friendly nation with new systems such as the Oreshnik or the well-proven Kalibr missiles.” This wasn’t merely hypothetical posturing but a direct response to U.S. military buildup in the Caribbean. This threat was taken seriously. The Oreshnik, with a reported maximum range of about 3,400 miles, could theoretically threaten much of the continental United States as well as Puerto Rico. The Kalibr is thought to have a range of between 930 and 1,550 miles, which could possibly threaten the southern continental U.S., as well as facilities throughout the Caribbean.

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The relationship between Venezuela and Russia and China represented one of the most significant geopolitical realignments of the 21st century, built on anti-American sentiment, oil-for-loans arrangements, and mutual opposition to U.S. hegemony. This trilateral dynamic evolved from modest beginnings under Hugo Chávez into a comprehensive strategic partnership that has sustained the Maduro regime through economic collapse and international isolation.

The relationship between China and Venezuela took formal shape in 2006, under President Hugo Chávez, with Caracas signing several trade agreements with Beijing and describing China as a “Great Wall” against US influence. Chávez, seeking to diversify Venezuela’s oil exports away from the United States and counter American regional dominance, found in China an eager partner with rapidly growing energy needs and no political conditions attached to its financing.

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Russia’s engagement with Venezuela followed different patterns than China’s, emphasizing military cooperation alongside energy sector involvement since Russia did not need their oil. Where China provided infrastructure loans, Russia sold weapons systems. From 2005, Venezuela purchased more than $4 billion worth of arms from Russia. These sales included fighter aircraft, helicopters, armored vehicles, and air defense systems, transforming Venezuela’s military from American-equipped forces to Russian-supplied ones.

www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/china/why-did-trump-really-take-venezuela-it-wasnt-just-oil/

the rule of law has two purposes. 

One is of course to provide predictability to the environment so that people can carry on business in a normal manner pretty sure of what is and what is not going to happen. 

But more importantly, it protects the weak against the strong. And the strongest country in the world now, the United States, has just repudiated all consideration of the rights of everyone else. And this is an effect of a sort of tyranny over the globe. 

I think frankly we've seen with the case of Gaza that words of age accomplish nothing. If this is not, if the United States is basically not subjected to sanctions by the global majority pays price particularly in for its business elite. I think what we're looking at is a horror.

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Venezuela is a country of 30 million people. Of course, many abroad have fled the misery that our 25 years of sanctions have imposed. This isn't the first time we've [the US] kidnapped a Venezuelan president. We did that to Hugo Chaves Frius in 2002 and installed a puppet government in Caracas, which the Venezuelan military then overthrew and Chaves came back. He died of disease in 2013, I think. Maduro was a bad, you know not a very competent and probably fairly brutal dictator in his country. There's nobody much who has a kind word to say for him. But a man who is totally illegitimate does not arm four and a half million people with rifles.

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It's 130 years of intervention. The United States spent spent the first 100 years of our independence proclaiming that we would never behave like the British and invade everybody. And then we did.

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These interventions did not solve any problems. They did not create democracies, better societies, richer societies.

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the Vienna Convention gives absolute immunity to a head of state or government. So, this is completely illegal under international law. But this is taking place in the southern district of New York which is the most corrupt judicial system in the entire United States. And it will be very interesting to see the trial because if you read the indictment it's basically a political speech with a lot of ideological baloney. Yeah. I don't think there's much legal in there and I don't know whether as corrupt as that jurisdiction is they can get a conviction.

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the worst offenders at the moment at least are the United States and Russian Federation. Both of which have acted entirely outside any legal framework.

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The recent United States record with respect to Venezuela is clear.

In April 2002, the United States knew of and approved an attempted coup against the Venezuelan government.

In the 2010s, the United States funded civil society groups actively engaged in anti-government  protests , notably in 2014. When the government cracked down on the protests, the US followed with a series of  sanctions . In 2015, President Barrack Obama declared Venezuela to be “an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.”

In 2017, at a dinner with Latin American leaders on the margins of the UN General Assembly, President Trump openly discussed the option of the US invading Venezuela to overthrow the government.

During 2017 to 2020, the US imposed sweeping sanctions on the state  oil  company. Oil production fell by 75 percent from 2016 to 2020, and real GDP per capita (PPP) declined by 62 percent.

The UN General Assembly has repeatedly voted overwhelmingly against such unilateral coercive measures. Under  international law , only the Security Council has the authority to impose such sanctions.

On 23 January 2019, the United States unilaterally recognized Juan Guaidó as “interim president” of Venezuela and on 28 January 2019 froze approximately $7 billion of Venezuelan sovereign assets held abroad and gave Guaidó authority over certain assets.

These actions form part of a continuous United States regime-change effort spanning more than two decades.

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