The United States appears to be on a full-scale collision course toward military conflict with Venezuela. Anyone who has been paying attention to the Trump administration's actions and increasingly hostile rhetoric over the past several months can see a clear shift toward imperial aggression against Venezuela. 

Of course anyone familiar with the tactics of the military industrial complex can see the reality plain as day for what it really is — blatant expansionism in line with the age-old domination doctrine.

The daily escalations have become so numerous that it is almost difficult to keep up. The most prominent development in this recent series of actions has been the military buildup in the Caribbean. In recent weeks, the United States has deployed several B-1 and B-52 bombers to conduct provocative fly-by missions near the Venezuelan coast. Additionally, the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Gravely was deployed to Trinidad and Tobago for joint exercises near Venezuela's shoreline. Meanwhile, on October 24, a War Department spokesperson also announced that the U.S. would deploy its largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, along with its strike group, to the region.

The escalations follow a series of extrajudicial killings in which the United States has carried out more than a dozen strikes against boats off the Venezuelan coast, resulting in the deaths of at least 57 people. The Trump administration has claimed—without evidence or due process—that the victims were drug traffickers.

These actions come amid the administration's purported crackdown on "narco-terrorism," in which officials have alleged, again without substantiation, that Venezuela—and specifically President Nicolás Maduro—is aiding and abetting cartels and drug traffickers smuggling narcotics, particularly fentanyl, into the United States.

However, official data directly contradicts these claims. According to the Drug Enforcement Administration's 2025 National Drug Threat Assessment, Venezuela is not listed as a producer of fentanyl. The same is true of a separate analysis released by the U.S. State Department in September, which identifies Venezuela's primary drug export as cocaine bound for the European market, not the United States.

Furthermore, earlier this week, Caracas announced the arrest of mercenaries with alleged links to the CIA, who were reportedly in the planning stages of what officials described as a false flag attack. The arrest of these paramilitaries comes only weeks after the Trump administration reportedly authorized the Central Intelligence Agency to initiate subversive operations within Venezuela.