President Donald Trump billed strikes on Venezuela earlier this month as being about drugs, gangs invading the United States and law enforcement – i.e. arresting indicted leader Nicolás Maduro. But of late, he seems conspicuously preoccupied with the country’s oil wealth.
And the American people seem to have noticed. A CBS News poll last week showed many Americans thought the administration’s goals in Venezuela were about oil (59% saying the goals were “a lot” about access to oil) or about expanding US power (51%) – more so than drugs (38%), an invasion of gangs and terrorists (37%) or enforcing the law (31%).
That’s pretty stunning. It took years for the idea to take hold that George W. Bush’s administration invaded Iraq under false pretenses (about weapons of mass destruction); Americans are already largely there when it comes to Venezuela.
Now, could similar foreign action be happening for the second time in early 2026 – this time in Iran?
Trump has repeatedly in recent days floated a military intervention to, in his words, “rescue” Iranian protesters targeted and killed by the regime.
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