How should west respond to potential (likely) U.S. invasion of Venezuela?

[SLD]

So tRump is apparently looking to start a war. I mean what better way to boost your sagging poll numbers?

Maduro vows to declare a 'republic in arms' if US forces in the Caribbean attack Venezuela

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro says he would declare a "republic in arms" if the U.S. attacks Venezuela.

apnews.com

He has sent the Navy down there to deal with the drug cartels. But he’s also called Maduro a drug lord. Now he’s sending an entire amphibious readiness group, an ARG, to joining other surface combatants right off the coast.

A good way to kill two birds with one stone. He can use the war to crack down on dissent and maybe even nullify or ”postpone” elections.

Maduro has vowed to fight back.

This could really happen.

 

[SLD]

And so it starts

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/02/navy-strike-drug-vessel-venezuela-00540325?cid=apn

 

[laughing dog]

Trump is really trying to rally his base. He must be worried about the midterms. Taking a page out Reagan’s playbook.

 

[Harry Bosch]

Trump is really trying to rally his base. He must be worried about the midterms. Taking a page out Reagan’s playbook.

Yep. He's also getting ready to invade Chicago for the same reason.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

They took out a boat! That means no more drugs in the US. The thing that sucks is that they took out one boat and they use it as a PR piece to "scare" the cartels, instead of targeting lots of boats in a broad sweep and not saying anything, making the cartels wonder, 'Dude WTF?!'

 

[SLD]

They took out a boat! That means no more drugs in the US. The thing that sucks is that they took out one boat and they use it as a PR piece to "scare" the cartels, instead of targeting lots of boats in a broad sweep and not saying anything, making the cartels wonder, 'Dude WTF?!'

He's got an entire ARG coming their way. A few thousand marines are going to invade the entirety of Venezuela?

 

[Elixir]

Trump is really trying to rally his base. He must be worried about the midterms. Taking a page out Reagan’s playbook.

Venezuela has oil. Trump see, Trump want.
Period. War is coming. Venezuela will be pushed to retaliate.

 

[Tigers!]

And so the insanity continues.

If we stopped doing drugs that would really hurt the cartels in their hip pockets.

 

[bilby]

And so the insanity continues.

If we stopped doing drugs that would really hurt the cartels in their hip pockets.

I already did. And I recommend that you do too.

 

[ZiprHead]

Why would a small boat shipping drugs require 11 people aboard? More likely they were transporting migrants.

 

[Derec]

While the bus driver's regime is horrible, starting a war against the Tehran regime would make more sense because of the still present danger of them developing nuclear weapons.

 

[bilby]

the bus driver's regime is horrible

I was not aware that I even had a regime.

I did refuse to carry someone yesterday because he was rude to me; I am not sure that counts, even if I made him late for work.

 

[crazyfingers]

Why would a small boat shipping drugs require 11 people aboard? More likely they were transporting migrants.

That observation and just this administration's habit of lying lying lying leaves me unconvinced that it was actually a drug boat.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

I don't see there's a lot the west can do.

Pray for coup.

 

[robnisch]

WAR on DRUGS.
This is just another "Squirrell". To distract us from all the other ways tRump is changing the system.
Supply and Demand.
If we really want to reduce the drug trade, work on the demand side.
But that's too hard and boring.
It's more fun to have the big bad Navy blow small boats up.

 

[bilby]

WAR on DRUGS.
This is just another "Squirrell". To distract us from all the other ways tRump is changing the system. Epstein.

FTFY

 

[bilby]

If we really want to reduce the drug trade, work on the demand side.

If you want to reduce the drug trade, there is already a successful pilot program to simply follow.

The USA had a massive problem with gangs, organised crime, and high levels of substance abuse (including a criminal drug use culture that pervaded much of society), around a single drug that they put vast resources into trying (and utterly failing) to eradicate.

Then they stopped banging their heads against a brick wall, and legalised, regulated and taxed alcohol sales. Crime plummeted, alcohol abuse rates fell, and the world notably failed to end.

There seems to be some effort (driven by state level action in defiance of federal government) to go the same way with marajiuana; It should, very obviously, be extended to ALL drugs.

Legalise, regulate, tax. Spend some of the tax revenue on assistance for addicts who want help to break their addiction, and on PSAs warning people of the dangers of both addiction and impairment.

It's not only both simple and self-funding; It's also known to be effective.

 

[BH]

But Bilby your plan is wisdom and common sense, somethings that a lot of Americans lack right now.

 

[Derec]

the bus driver's regime is horrible

I was not aware that I even had a regime.
I did refuse to carry someone yesterday because he was rude to me; I am not sure that counts, even if I made him late for work.

A different bus driver.

 

[Shadowy Man]

WAR on DRUGS.
This is just another "Squirrell". To distract us from all the other ways tRump is changing the system. Epstein.

FTFY

Why is Epstein an issue? Ghislane Maxwell said that she had never seen Trump do anything inappropriate with the underage girls that Epstein stole from the Maralago massage parlor. Who else would know those kinds of details than a convicted sex trafficker??