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To: Les H who wrote (49700)	12/21/2025 10:19:40 AM
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Trump faces narrowing options on Venezuela action Story by Karen DeYoung The day after President Donald Trump declared he had ended 94 percent of all seaborne drug trafficking to the United States and reduced illegal migrant border crossings to “zero,” he announced an entirely new rationale for his escalating campaign against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Venezuela had stolen “Oil, Land and other Assets” from the United States to finance those criminal activities, Trump said Tuesday in a social media post, an apparent reference to decades-old expropriations and the breaking of contracts with U.S. oil companies when Caracas began nationalizing the industry. Unless what he alleged was U.S. property was returned “IMMEDIATELY,” Trump said, the military juggernaut he has assembled in the Caribbean to blow up alleged traffickers and seize tankers transporting Venezuelan oil “will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before.” As Trump continues the boat strikes — now numbering 28, with at least 104 killed — and with the declaration of a “blockade” of all sanctioned vessels transporting Venezuelan oil, he has all but abandoned the public pretense that his goal is simply stopping migrants and drugs, rather than Maduro’s removal. more... Trump faces narrowing options on Venezuela action He's looking for a provocation to justify an invasion. He may have to manufacture a civil war only to have the mercenaries captured earlier this year and in the past. That's been the main avenue for making it appear the US ventured into the middle of a conflict rather than admit to being an instigator.