Source: Antiwar.com
by Ted Snider
“While couched in the language of fighting drug trafficking into the United States, the Trump administration has made no secret of its desire for regime change in Venezuela. Under the leadership of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, with the support of CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Trump’s chief domestic policy advisor, Stephen Miller, Trump’s team has pushed for the removal of Maduro from power. A Trump administration official familiar with policy discussions on the approach to Venezuela told Axios that, though the military build up is ‘about narco-terrorism … if Maduro winds up no longer in power, no one will be crying.’ Another, by comparing it to the American operation against Panama’s Manuel Noriega in 1989, implied that a coup was higher on the agenda.” (10/17/25)
https://original.antiwar.com/ted_snider/2025/10/16/president-trump-goes-to-war/