On at least six occasions, the military has bombed boats off the coast of South America, and then reported the boats were drug cartel boats carrying drugs. These claims have not been substantiated with data, and the Venezuelan government denies that they were carrying any drugs at all, but were in fact, civilians. The US has killed 27 people in these attacks so far. Further, President Trump said this week that he is considering attacks on Venezuelan soil.
A bipartisan group of Senators has moved to block the president from going to war with Venezuela. This is still in progress and I'll add something about it as it develops.
In the United States Constitution, the power to declare ware is solely in the hands of Congress. But throughout history Congress has ceded some of that power to the President for short term acts of national defense. I believe it will be hard to claw that power back from any president, and impossible to do so from this particular president.
The United States is amassing a large military presence in the area, the largest since the 1980s. We now have a Department of Defense that calls itself the Department of War, and a deeply disturbed man, Pete Hegseth, at the helm, and a President with dementia, who before the dementia, was already also a deeply disturbed man, who is the Commander in Chief of the military.
I don't believe there is any way we get out of this without a war with—of all the places where there could be a war—Venezuela.
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/17/nx-s1-5577079/congress-venezuela-war-powers-trump
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c77z48lg2l5o
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