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In the middle of the night on January 2nd, 2026, U.S. forces struck the capital city of Venezuela. There in Caracas, at least seven blasts lit up the sky. U.S. forces targeted military bases and so-called strategic targets in a precision raid that sewed chaos and destruction throughout the Venezuelan city and its surroundings. As the smoke cleared, Venezuelan military personnel and innocent civilians lay dead. The toll of the injured and dead is unclear at this moment. But it seems that under cover of that bombing campaign, another mission was carried out. The U.S. Delta
Force captured the President of Venezuela, Nicholas Maduro, and his wife, and quickly flew them out of the country. By 9:00 a.m. Eastern time, the Southern District court of New York indicted Maduro and his wife, First Lady Cilia Flores. They were charged with narco-terrorism and conspiracy to possess destructive devices against the U.S. among other counts. But the real question is why? Why did Trump viciously attack Venezuela and kidnap its President? Is it really all just in the name of the war on drugs or, perhaps there's a larger force at play?
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Changing Climate on patreon with the link in the description. Literally pledging the cost of a coffee a month from just 200 viewers would be huge for the channel and to be honest, me. To understand the January 2nd attacks, we need to pull back to the sharp buildup of forces and probing attacks that have occurred over the last year. When seen in their totality, the U.S. straight-up capturing another country's president and flat out bombing them unprovoked makes a lot more sense. Starting on August 19th 2025, the U.S. started amassing what would soon become the
largest force mobilized in the Caribbean since the Cuban Missile Crisis. And just a few days later, on September 2nd, those forces started probing. The U.S. fired a missile at an alleged drug trafficking boat. 11 people are killed. In a twisted moment of gloating, Trump posts the video of the destruction on social media. Soon, a cascade of unprompted, illegal strikes rained down on shipping vessels off the coast of Venezuela. By the end of December, U.S. forces destroyed 34 boats, killing 115 people. But in that barrage lay an important anomaly. On December 10th and 20th,
the U.S. seized, not destroyed, two Venezuelan oil tankers, claiming that the. This hints at something larger at play. The U.S. and Trump, perhaps wasn't just interested in this perceived threat of drugs, but instead in securing the rich oil deposits underneath Venezuelan oil. Many forces are driving this attack like The perceived threat of a socialist government. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio's crusade against South American leftists, and of course, the spectre of drug traffic. But what often gets left out of this swirling mess of imperialist forces is the simple fact that Venezuela has oil. And not just some oil,
Venezuela is home to the largest proven oil reserves in the world. And thanks to the full nationalization of the oil industry by socialist leader Hugo Chavez in 1998, and the subsequent sanctions by the U.S. across the first two decades of the 2000s, very little of that oil has been exported into the insatiable, oil-thirsty maw of the United States. Ultimately, this large-scale attack on Caracas, the kidnapping of Maduro, should be seen as an extension of Trump's "American Energy Dominance" proto-fossil fascist regime,
and indeed, it's yet another instance of the U.S.'s insatiable appetite for fossil fuels turning into violent conflict. From siding with Iraq in the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s to protect oil shipments out of the Gulf, to Operation Desert Storm in 1991, to stabilize and protect oil interests in the Gulf, to the Iraq War in 2003, the U.S. has used everything from spreading democracy to drugs as an excuse to maintain the flow of oil to its multinationals. With Maduro out of the way, the U.S. can, as they have long done, prop up a puppet that is
amenable to big oil plundering Venezuela's natural resources to line the pocketbooks of U.S. backed corporations like ExxonMobil and Chevron. This is fossil imperialism. Clear as day, and it reveals that the abolition of fossil fuels is not just a matter of mitigating climate change, but instead one of battling against imperialist intervention and destruction.
