Trump ordered blockades on Venezuelan oil tankers, an act of war, but he doesn't usually follow through. His Secretary of State, however, could be an issue

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By: Gwynne Dyer

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U.S. President Donald Trump’s ordered “total and complete” blockade of all ‘sanctioned’ oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuelan ports is technically an act of war.

How seriously should we take this?

Trump has threatened war with Venezuela in the past. Former U.S. National Security advisor John Bolton reports that Trump said during his first presidential term (2017-20) that invading Venezuela would be “cool” because it is “really part of the United States.”

Andrew McCabe, former deputy director of the FBI, says that Trump told him in 2019 that Venezuela was “the country we should be going to war with. They have all that oil and they’re right on our back door.”

Gustavo Petro, the current president of Colombia, says that his predecessor, Iván Duque, was approached by Trump in........

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