The American military's actions against Venezuela, driven by oil interests and anti-American sentiment, have escalated tensions and raised concerns about international law and regional stability.On 3rd January of the 2026, the world peace has been settled by sound of huge explosion and loud sound of American helicopters over the sky of Caracas, the capital of Venezuela. Again set out the world peace.We all know that Venezuela is a Latin American country. Venezuela may not be a football superpower like that of Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay or even Colombia, but Venezuela has the world highest oil reserve. I am telling you that Venezuela has the world highest oil reserve. It has more oil reserve than any Middle Eastern state.That's why Venezuela is a state of global interest and global geopolitics. So Venezuela always has a key rule in world geopolitics, not because of its being a Latin American state, but being the world highest oil reserve that the Venezuelan state possess. Naturally, the America, the United States of America, the world military and economic superpower always desire that the Venezuela, a Latin American state should be in the American camp. We all know that the American continent was discovered by Christopher Columbus and European. Thereafter the European powers colonized the empire continent, the world longest continent. The Western European powers, mainly US, Britain and France colonized the northern parts of the North America, which later became Canada and United States of America. The Central America was colonized by Spain and Latin America was divided into two major powers. Two major powers were Portuguese and Spanish. So Brazil happened to be a Portuguese colony and other states were Spanish colony.So Venezuela is primarily inhabited by European immigrants, Mestizos and red Indians. So Venezuela is a Spanish speaking state and most Venezuelans are followers of Catholic Christianity. But in recent time, the Venezuela became the battle of United States of America. Especially when Venezuela was ruled by President Hugo Chavez, the Venezuela became the America's prime target.Hugo Chavez happened to be an anti-American leader.He openly said in a meeting of General Assembly of UNO where he addressed the American president, then American president George Bush as a monster. So President Hugo Chavez died and now Venezuela is again ruled by another anti-American president. Now Venezuela is a democracy or not? This is a debatable point, so I will not discuss.Tensions between the United States and Venezuela rose sharply in the late 2025 after the American Navy carried out a series of lethal missile strikes or torpedo strikes on boat in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, where the American official said that those boats were carrying drugs, narcotic drugs. So Latin America has has been the epic center of drugs mafias and the Americans allege that the Venezuelan state has been deliberately supplying drugs to United States to people its young generation. So many of these strikes were carried out along the Venezuelan coast.The operations publicly announced by American officials have resulted in the death of at least 95 persons and it triggered a harsh criticism from foreign governments.Even UNO criticized it.But today's strike have coincided with a broader United States military build up in the region, including large naval deployment in the Southern Caribbeans. When the Donald Trump became the president of India, the American naval assets were sent to the Southern Caribbeans to encircle the Venezuela and those boats impose quarantine against Venezuela. Donald Trump has been warning the Venezuelan president that American would strike and that exactly happened today. In early December, the American forces also seized a Venezuelan drink oil tankers of the country coast, an operation that further inflame tensions and drew sharp condemnation from Caracas, the capital of Venezuela. In this respect, I am also telling you that Venezuela is an anti-American state, but at the same time Venezuela happens to be a closest ally of Russia. So that is a big concern for America that the Russians are at the backyards of America. Since the days of Hugo Chavez, Russians have been supplying arms, ammunition, missile boats and other modern weapons or other military hardware to the Venezuelan state.After that tanker seizure, the situation intensified when on December 16, President Trump ordered a blockade of sanction oil tankers entering or departing Venezuela. So that meant the American Navy imposed a blockade to prevent any oil tankers either leaving Venezuela or entering into Venezuela. That almost amounts to the declaration of war.Now big question is why are tensions escalating between the two countries? Has the relationship between America and Venezuela always been a rocky? What has been Venezuela's response? Although the tensions between US and Venezuela have dramatically intensified after Donald Trump became the president of America for second times, the relationship has been strained for more than two decades, disputes over oil, the imposition of American sanction and increasingly authoritarian nature of Venezuela's political leadership.So from this observation, I can say you that Venezuela is not a democratic state.Rather Venezuela has been ruled by some president who might have been elected, but they act like dictators.And the Venezuelan dictators targets are always the USA. President Hugo Chavez was the main example of it. The President Chavez strengthened Venezuela's tie with American enemies.The American enemy states like Russia, Iran, Cuba at that time were his main allies.Under his successor, Nicholas Madurno, relationship worsen as Venezuela slipped into a prolonged political and economic crisis marked by hyperinflation, collapsing oil production, mass immigration and widespread human rights abuse.The American response has varied over time, but has generally included only sanctions or diplomatic isolation.In 2019, Donald Trump administration recognized opposition leader as Venezuela's interim president, a move that then Venezuelan president denounced as an attempted coup.Against this backdrop, the American administration renewed a hard line strategy for Venezuela and its political leadership.President Trump has repeatedly accused Maduru and senior official in his government of playing control, I mean playing central rules in large scale drug trafficking operation.This policy move directly correlated to the American military escalation that unfolded in 2025 as the American Navy American state expanded its military presence in Caribbean, deploying its sophisticated naval assets, bomber, worship and marine units in what official described as an intensified counter narcotic campaign to combat what is called narco terrorism.On November 29, 2025, President Trump declared Venezuela airspace closed in a post on his social media platform. President Trump wrote to all airlines, pilots, drugs dealers and human trafficers, please consider the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela to be closed in its entirety.Venezuela condemned that declaration.In October 2025, following the series of boat strikes by the American Navy, the Madurno government requested an emergency meeting of United Nations Security Council in response to what it described as mounting threats from the American state. In the request which was made in a letter Russian ambassador to the UNO and the Security Council President. That letter was addressed to the Russian ambassador and to the Security Council president. Venezuela accused the Trump administration of seeking to overthrow Madurno and of engineering peace, security, stability regionally and internationally. The Venezuelan government also warned of possibility of an armed attack by USA against Venezuela in the near future. The United Nations responded to the American sanction by stating, these actions violate the fundamental international obligation not to intervene in the domestic affairs or threaten to use armed forces against another country. These moves are an extremely dangerous escalation with graves implication for peace and security in the Caribbean region. In addition to the series of boat strikes by the American military on December 10, 2025, a notable incident occurred in which members of the US Coast Guard and special operation unit intercepted an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela.The vessel called Skipper was a 20 years old ship that had deported a Venezuelan port shortly before being seized. American attorney general released the footage of the raid on the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, showing armed personnel reappelling onto the ship's decks from a helicopter. The American attorney general said that the United States executed a seizure warrant on the vessel and that the tanker has been used to transport sanction oil from Venezuela and Iran. The following day White House press secretary told reporters that the vessel was undergoing for feature process and it would be sent to the US port. In response the Venezuelan government issued a statement condemning the seizure. Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest American armada that ever assembled in the history of South America. That was the declaration of Donald Trump.He wrote on December 16, 2025 on a social media platform.That means the Venezuela was completely encircled by American Navy and the American Navy was waiting for his green signal to launch a surprise attack.He continued, it will only get bigger, bigger and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before.No doubt the United States of America is the only military power in the world that can strike at any place, anywhere at its whim. That is a true fact.Trump declared that he would seek to designate the Madurno government as foreign terrorist organization for what he described as the theft of American assets. Now the big question is what will be the next? Few hours ago, the American president declared that American forces entered into the Venezuelan capital and the president was detained and he was captured and the American forces captured him and he was thrown to a undisclosed location. That is the biggest escalation.A president was detained by the army of a foreign state. That to when the president was residing in his official palace. That also confirms that the Venezuela army, armed forces are no match before this blitz creek attack launched by the America. Of course, the American attack flagrantly violate the United Nations charter and international law and amounts to a clear act of aggression. The United naval attacks expanded into the Eastern Pacific Ocean in the late 25. President Trump began openly raising the possibility of using military forces on Venezuelan territory.So unlike Ukraine where at least there are other major states that happen to be the allies of Ukraine, like Germany, Britain, France, Poland, Greece, these states are at least friends of Venezuela. These states are at least the friend of Ukraine and they are supporting Ukrainian.Venezuela has no friends. In the entire Latin American region, no states will come to help or support Venezuela.That is the also reality.Neither Russia would come nor Iran would come to help Venezuela because these two states are militarily not in a position to provide any direct assistance to Venezuela.So now Venezuelan state fate is hanging on balance.The official version is that the America has captured Venezuela's president Nicholas Madurno and his wife and launched a large scale strike against the country. President Trump said Madurno has been flown out of the country, though details remains scarce.Venezuelan government demand immediate proof of life for Madurno and his wife. Earlier Venezuela announced a state of national emergency and said it reject and denounce the military aggression. The latest video footage shows the huge plumes of smoke as the fire rage.That means Americans has launched a full flesh invasion like what the world had seen in Baghdad in 2003. So my belief is that the Americans are attacking the Caracas with drones and Tomahawk cruise missiles.Probably President Maduru would be tried in USA and the American policy would be to install a puppet government in Venezuela that would be a pro-American government.Even before the Venezuelan crisis, the world had seen the Cuban missile crisis in 1962 November.Cuba happened to be a communist state, a frontline state of USSR and USSR secretly installed nuclear missile sites in Cuba to target American cities.But somehow because of diplomacy and good senses that war was averted. Because at that time USSR was directly involved.Now here Venezuela remains the soul state.No major powers would come to assist Venezuela.So we have been told that the delta force, a highly trained force of American Navy that was sent into the heart of Venezuelan capital and extracted the sitting president alone with his wife.It is unlike anything we have seen before.Last time that happened in the capture of the leader Manuel Noriega, the leader of Panama.So he was also captured by Americans.Both men had recently claimed victory in disputed election.Both have been accused by the American government that they were drugs peddlers, they were involved in drug trafficking.So let us see and what would happen. I only wish that the war would not escalate to the another level because that would cause a humanity and crisis in Venezuela.

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