Trump wanted Venezuela to ‘collapse’ so the US could take control of its oil
US President Donald Trump captured the Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores. But ahead of being abducted by Trump and his henchmen on early Saturday morning, Maduro’s government remained defiant and said the US attack was a “flagrant violation” of the UN Charter and alleged that the objective of the attack is specifically Venezuela’s “strategic reserves”, ie oil and minerals.
The Trump administration has always seen the leftist dictator Nicolas Maduro as its enemy due to the ideological polarity, and has been trying to frame a violent campaign of “war on drugs” as the pretext for the legitimisation project of the Venezuelan regime change and resource grab. This has been assisted by another neocolonial entity, the European Union, by awarding an usurper, Maria Corina Machado, the Nobel Prize to frame her as a flagbearer of Western democracy. At the same time benefit the oil corporations of the US and Europe. In 2002, Maria Corina Machado tried to usurp Hugo Chavez, using foreign funding, specifically United States and signed away all the democratic institutions in Venezuela in the Carmona Decree. In 2009, Hugo Chavez said in an interview with Larry King that White House wanted him dead, the same thing happened with Salvador Allende, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara; and they bombed in Panama, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic, that is the history of the region.
Trump openly claimed he wants Venezuelan oil
Eventhough the US tried to frame it as a “war on drugs”, Trump, on numerous occasions in his unhinged speeches, bragged about his plan to throw away the Venezuelan regime for an oil grab. In 2024, just months ahead of the election, Trump was seen bragging about his typical neo-colonial plunder project. “When I left, Venezuela was ready to collapse. We would have taken it up, and we would’ve gotten all that oil. It would have been right next door.”
Venezuela has the world’s largest oil reserve with 19.4 per cent, and Iran has the third largest oil reserve in the world with 13.3 per cent of the global oil reserve. So it is no secret why the European Union and the US don’t get along with Iran and Venezuela and actively campaign for regime change by cultivating and legitimising an opposition through soft power like the Nobel Prize and then abducting the President of a country when organisation like the United Nations remains a silent spectator waiting as the world descends into anarchy.
9 months before the 2024 election, Trump said he wanted Venezuela to collapse so he can take them over for oil, and now he's bombing Caracas on the first full moon of 2026. This was never about drugs. It was always about oil.pic.twitter.com/se7limfQDi
— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) January 3, 2026
