{"id":1493,"date":"2025-12-18T02:36:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T02:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matabeletoday.com\/?p=1493"},"modified":"2025-12-18T02:36:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T02:36:51","slug":"global-outrage-as-us-threatens-unprovoked-war-on-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matabeletoday.com\/?p=1493","title":{"rendered":"Global outrage as US threatens unprovoked war on Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

NEW YORK<\/strong> \u2013 THE world, particularly across the Global South, has erupted in fierce condemnation of what many describe as an imperialistic and unprovoked United States drive toward war with Venezuela, a campaign critics say is motivated not by security concerns but by a naked desire to seize the country\u2019s vast oil and gas reserves.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Governments, journalists, activists, and political leaders have denounced Washington\u2019s posture as reckless warmongering that threatens regional and global stability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tensions escalated sharply after U.S. President Donald Trump declared on his Truth Social platform that Venezuela had been encircled by overwhelming American naval power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cVenezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled in the history of South America,\u201d Trump wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before \u2014 until such time as they return to the United States of America all of the oil, land, and other assets that they previously stole from us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He added bluntly, \u201cThey took our oil rights. We had a lot of oil there. They threw our companies out. And we want it back.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those remarks drew outrage worldwide. Veteran African journalist Hopewell Chin\u2019ono condemned the threats as a brazen admission of imperial plunder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is sickening, going to war in order to steal a country\u2019s oil,\u201d Chin\u2019ono said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He argued that Trump\u2019s hostility toward Caracas was never about narcotics or security. \u201cAs I have argued for months, Donald Trump\u2019s hostility towards Venezuela was never about drugs. It was always about oil that belongs to Venezuela,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chin\u2019ono pointed to what he called a glaring contradiction. \u201cYou cannot claim to be fighting drugs while pardoning one of the most notorious drug-linked leaders in the region,\u201d he said, referring to Trump\u2019s pardon of former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hern\u00e1ndez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNow Trump has dropped the pretence and is openly telling the truth. He wants Venezuela\u2019s oil.\u201d He added that the rhetoric \u201cstrips away every remaining illusion. This is not about law enforcement, democracy, or security. It is about plunder, entitlement, and an empire that believes the resources of other nations exist for its taking.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Venezuelan leaders responded defiantly. President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro declared, \u201cVenezuela will never surrender its sovereignty or its natural wealth to foreign threats. Our oil belongs to the Venezuelan people, not to any empire.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino L\u00f3pez warned that the country\u2019s armed forces were prepared to defend national territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAny act of aggression will be met with firm resistance,\u201d he said. \u201cWe seek peace, but we will defend our homeland.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Opposition to war has also emerged within the United States. Veteran U.S. journalist Tucker Carlson said Trump was preparing to announce military action, a prospect that alarmed anti-war activists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnother war for oil will only bring death and instability,\u201d said one U.S.-based peace organizer. \u201cWorking people pay the price while corporations profit.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International voices echoed those concerns. Leaders from Africa, Latin America, and Asia warned that attacking Venezuela would violate international law and undermine global peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One Global South leader said, \u201cSovereignty is not optional. If Venezuela can be attacked for its resources, no nation is safe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Former Zimbabwean information minister Professor Jonathan Moyo noted the hypocrisy of Western rhetoric.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTrump pretends to be making peace in Ukraine while ironically making war in Venezuela,\u201d he said, adding that Western governments loudly defend sovereignty in Europe while remaining \u201chypocritically silent\u201d on Venezuela.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Commentator Vusi Sillah suggested the escalation served domestic distractions, while activist Kels Swazikels asked, \u201cFor how long will the world just watch America ruin other nations over engineered false claims just so they can loot minerals and resources?\u201d The growing chorus is clear: war on Venezuela is widely seen not as defense, but as theft, and the world is watching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– CAJ News<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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