The United States and Venezuela have always had an interesting relationship. Donald Trump finds himself in the middle of that controversy, at a time of a major climax in the conflict. For decades the United States has tried to combat Venezuelan influence and the potential attempt of conflict that would result in harm to American people.
The United States and Venezuela have always had an interesting relationship. Donald Trump finds himself in the middle of that controversy, at a time of a major climax in the conflict. For decades the United States has tried to combat Venezuelan influence and the potential attempt of conflict that would result in harm to American people.
However, this current ongoing “war” between the United States and Venezuela prompted new opinions that I have about Mr. Trump. His main point of view might have been to realize most drug traffickers are Venezuelan, but he must have “cut the seatbelt” and jumped straight to the host nation rather than just tackling the problem head on in his own country first. Shouldn’t a political leader not want to have a full-scale military operation going on that he has to fight. If that is the case then why would trump just stay in the US and address the Venezuelans committing crimes in the US, and why would he go straight into Venezuela to cause an international crisis?
Now, he might have been trying to help provide a sense of order in Venezuela due to the ongoing protests amid a government transition, but some of his actions concern me. He began to deploy even more military forces to areas like the Caribbean just to try to find and arrest the Venezuelan president and has been dying to secure a lot of Venezuela’s oil reserves, and to possibly just.
Venezuela has had a long history of siding with anti-US countries, like China and Russia. With longstanding tension between the two for decades, the conflict escalated with the US accusation of Venezuela owned drug trafficking in the United States, an issue president trump has attempted to combat heavily during his time in office. The US reflected this when it started military actions against presumed Venezuelan drug boats in the Caribbean. This military conflict made major headlines in the late weeks of 2025 and effectively seized Venezuelan oil tankers and government. The US put Maduro out of power, claiming a sigh of relief of US citizens after effectively putting many Venezuelans in a critical position. There is two sides to this conflict, but both are equally bad. The “crisis” continues to be a massive geopolitical problem that the US in involved in, and one of the many that Donald Trump has to deal with.
