Im certain the nobel commitee is currently scrambling how to not give him an award without triggering an international incident.

And the actions surrounding Venzuela kinda prove that Trump is willing to go to war to receive his peace price.

You're not wrong. But what is missing is all the cult building that he did since them. He built his entire political career on mentioning things other politicians refused to mention and then gaining loyalty for it. While, at the same time, literally doing nothing about any of the popular ideas he mentioned.

Remember when he was against running for president and even joining the political scene entirely?

Didn't they also heavily develop a lithium extraction industry in the last decade or so?

Does the Swiss based Nestle want the water for their plastic bottles?

i think they have 2nd highest amount of oil/gas deposit outside of the ME.

If the prediction markets weren't all owned by Trump and his cronies I would bet that boots go on the ground whatever day they are supposed to turn over the files.

he using nixons method, go to war with drugs/vietnam, in order distract from his political problems, its a time honored tradition amongst conservatives.

Because it was never about drugs.

I'm sure you'll figure it out when they start 'finding drugs' on their domestic enemies.

Agreed. And why not just intercept the boats too? More proof that it wasn’t about the drugs.

They're trying to put all the fish in one barrel. They're doing a similar tactic with trans people in the US by fucking with passports

Precursor to an invasion. It’s basically a warning to the rest of the world: all flights going to, from, or through Venezuelan air space would do well to divert around it because soon that air space is going to be a war zone.

Why wouldn’t they just intercept them at the runway

Gotta justify $850 billion military budget somehow, plus Donny and Petey get a hate boner blowing up brown people

He's showing he's trying to be a real threat. Now they're sending in the military to scare Venezuela into a good deal for resources or else.
It won't work. Internally, Congress is already calling out the illegality of attacking the boats. Congress won't allow a war and has already figured this out enough to tell the military to not follow illegal orders. It's still a sticky situation, but Venezuela's best move is to warn people and wait it out.

They have answered that question and they said that "the drugs" in those planes is still in transit between other countries. So the planes and boats are not directly going to the US but indirectly.

Allegedly.

Mrs. Nobel peace prize is inviting him in with open arms, so he might as well get the next one

Sooo.. Venezuela might be the 51st state in the USA soon?

They write a sternly worded letter.

Wouldn't 'Imperialist' be more accurate than 'Colonist' though?

I don't think Trump wants a new American Colony in Venezuela, he just wants their resources and (unpaid) labor.

They have oil. That's the reason.

War = Peace

And every single liberal should be protesting this in all the ways they've been saying Russian civilians ought to.