They’re Lying About Venezuela While Moving War Machinery Into Place
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IS THE US military–industrial complex at it again?We believe that it’s already heavily involved in stirring up trouble in Europe (via the Russia/Ukraine conflict) and the Middle East (via the Israel/Palestine conflict). However, it now seems to have set its sights on South American – again.For National Liberals, it doesn’t really matter if the Democrats or Republicans run the US. They’re pretty much the same. Capitalism rules the roost. And to function, capitalism requires three elements – cheap labour, an ever-expanding market & raw materials.That’s where the US military–industrial complex comes into play. It supplies the ‘muscle’ – in the form of imperialism – to satisfy capitalism.(To be fair, we feel that Trump is probably one of the more honest presidents that the US has had. Whilst others would ‘dress up’ US imperialism using fancy words, he is notoriously blunt. Trump is a National Capitalist & everything is about making money. War is a money-making scam. The US military–industrial complex makes a small fortune supplying weapons to blow ‘troublesome’ sovereign nations to smithereens. They make an even bigger fortune rebuilding what they’ve just destroyed.)The UK – under both Tory & Labour rule – has an unenviable record of backing the US in its imperialist adventures. Therefore, we wouldn’t be at all surprised if the UK gets involved in this latest South American adventure.However, we’d warn against supporting such an adventure. We’re opposed to imperialism, jingoism & petty nationalism. And we certainly have no interest in resurrecting the ‘good old days’ of the British Empire.The UK has more than enough social & economic problems without helping to destabilase other nations – in this case Venezuela – and then wondering why many of its displaced population ends up on our shores.With the above in mind, we’d encourage everyone to read Caitlin Johnstone’s article (below) which first appeared on 31st August. You can read the original here: https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/08/31/theyre-lying- about-venezuela-while-moving- war-machinery-into-place/ It goes without saying that there are no links between the National Liberal Party & the independent journalist Caitlin Johnstone. However, and as we’ve previously noted, we do regard her as a ‘point of reference’ in that she has said things that we find of interest. We particularly admire her independent spirit, non-conformist outlook & quirky style of writing.
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AS IF WE didn’t have enough ugliness in the world right now, Trump has deployed warships (1) near Venezuela’s coast, prompting Caracas to ready drone and naval patrols for conflict.
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In an article titled Inside Trump’s gunboat diplomacy with Venezuela (2), Axios’ Marc Caputo writes that ‘The U.S. has never been closer to armed conflict with Venezuela, with a fully loaded U.S. flotilla sitting off its coast and dictator Nicolás Maduro living under a $50 million bounty.’
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‘President Trump ordered seven warships carrying 4,500 personnel — including three guided-missile destroyers and at least one attack submarine — to the waters off Venezuela,’ Caputo writes. ‘Officially, they’re there to combat drug trafficking. But Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt leaned into the ambiguity of the mission on Thursday, noting that the U.S. considers Maduro the ‘fugitive head of [a] drug cartel’ and not Venezuela’s legitimate president.’
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The US personnel reportedly include some 2,200 Marines.
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“This could be Noriega part 2,” an unnamed official in the Trump administration told Axios, saying that “Maduro should be shitting bricks.”
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So they’re not even disguising the fact that Trump is at least contemplating some kind of direct military strike on Caracas. Drugs are the official-official reason for the deployment, but the unofficial-official reason that’s being freely leaked to the press is to remove the leader of a sovereign state.
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It’s probably worth noting that Trump-aligned pundits like Alex Jones have been busy manufacturing consent for regime change intervention in Venezuela.
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“I don’t like any of these wars,” Jones said recently (3) on whatever his show is called now. “But if you look at US doctrine and wars that we fought that were right, it’s in Latin America, this is our sandbox. And Venezuela is a communist dictatorship with the biggest oil reserves per square foot in the world, their people are absolute slaves, and I don’t like regime change, but they’re manipulating our elections, they’re flooding us with Fentanyl, and if there were surgical strikes to take out the communists there would be an uprising and they could have elections, and it would be a good thing.”
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Jones could have stopped at “communist” and “oil reserves”. Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserves (4) of any country on the planet, and is not aligned with the capitalist western empire that is loosely centralized around Washington DC. Any reasons given for US regime change intervention beyond this should be read as excuses.
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Whenever the US war machine moves its crosshairs to a different target I always get people telling me “No no Caitlin, THIS time the Evil Bad Guy really DOES need to be regime changed! THIS time our government and media are telling us the TRUTH!”
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And it’s always so stupid, because it’s just the same rehashed lies over and over again. The empire takes whatever actions will help it to dominate our planet and its resources to a greater extent than it already does, and then it makes up justifications for those actions.
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They’ll say they’re doing it for humanitarian reasons while ignoring the humanitarian abuses (4) of empire-aligned nations. They’ll say they’re doing it to stop drug abuse while ignoring (5) all the evidence (6) regarding the actual causes of drug abuse (7), even as Maduro sends 15.000 troops (8) to the Colombian border to help fight drug trafficking. They’ll say they’re doing it to stop interference in US affairs while letting US-aligned nations like Israel interfere in US politics (9) at will.
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They’re just lying. The US empire lies (10) about all its acts of war (11). Trump tried to orchestrate a regime change (12) in Venezuela the last time he was in office, and he’s doing it again for the exact same reasons. It’s an oil-rich nation that refuses to bow to the dictates of Washington, and all the worst warmongers in the imperial swamp are eagerly pushing to absorb it into the folds of the empire.
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That’s all we are looking at here, and anyone who says otherwise is lying.
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Date: September 3, 2025
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