By the time the second or third boat was bombed to smithereens, certain questions became very obvious. Why have these alleged smugglers not put covers on the boats.
The boats all look the same. All have between two and five men on them. We assume they have not seen any news regarding the fates of their fellow alleged smugglers or heard through the grapevine what was happening.
What is the tipping point, in terms of the destruction of alleged shipments of fentanyl, to the U.S., that the bosses of the operation, would consider as the time to alter their smuggling methods?
Is it ten shipments destroyed, or twenty or thirty? Possibly they just like being on the evening news so much, that they are willing to send millions of dollars of drugs to the bottom of the sea ad infinitum.
The government assertion that these boats were a threat to U.S. national security has come under massive refutation. It is widely asserted that Venezuela has not been a major player in the fentanyl trade. It is further more asserted that drugs coming out of Venezuela, were in fact cocaine headed for Europe.
Not being an expert on maritime shipping, I would still have to question the durability of these motorboats to make it across the Atlantic to Europe. So the counter argument that these boats were headed to Europe, rather than the U. S. would also have to be questioned.
These repeated attempts to smuggle drugs into the U.S. were the reasons given to establish an embargo on Venezuela. followed by the seizing of oil tankers of various registry.
Next came a large attack on a Cuban police encampment in Venezuela, with a simultaneous carefully planned mission to remove Maduro and his wife from the country and bring them back to the U. S for trial.
It has since come to light that the CIA and U. S. military had been preparing for this strike for months, even so detailed as to construct an exact replica of Maduro’s compound.
in November of 2025, Juan Orlando Hernandez, the former president of Honduras, was given a pardon by President Trump.
This former president was serving a 45 year sentence in a U.S. prison, for smuggling 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S..
The administration has ping ponged back and forth between regime change, establishing the Trump Corollary for the the western hemisphere, and making the people of Venzuela rich.
The commandeering of the oil fields of Venezuela is emerging as the next chapter in this ongoing implementation of power politics. The placement of the Vice President of Venezuela to head the government, as long as she carries out U.S. policies, is not seen as the answer to what happens in Venezuela now.
Maria Corina Machado, the opposition leader, currently in exile, has even offered to give her Nobel Peace Prize to Trump, for removing Maduro from power. The Nobel Commitee has said she can’t do that. Recently her top aid was released from a Venezuelan prison.
In a meeting with oil execs, the CEO of Exxon, Darren Woods, says that Venezuela is uninvestable. President Trump has answered CEO Woods and declared that Exxon will be excluded from the party.
There are so many moving pieces to this story that have yet to see the light of day.
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