Source: The American Conservative
by Jude Russo
“Let’s lay aside the somewhat dubious legal reasoning behind ‘determining’ that the U.S. is at ‘war’ with non-state actors, and the specious claim that such non-state actors are under the direct control of the Caracas regime, all of which seems like a clumsy and even embarrassing effort to get around Congress’s residual war powers. … Venezuelan aliens entering the country illegally have fallen to negligible numbers, so it seems unlikely that this is about the administration’s immigration policy, either. Chinese, Russian, and Iranian cooperation with Venezuela has been on the rocks these past few years, due to the Venezuelan regime being a terrible business partner on pretty much every metric …. So if it’s not about drugs, and it’s not about immigration, and it’s not about cooperation with American adversaries, what’s it about?” (10/07/25)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/what-does-the-u-s-want-in-venezuela/