'How Rubio's political fate is entangled with Maduro's'

[Joinfortmill]

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/22/rubios-political-future-could-hinge-on-venezuela-campaign-00665419

My words: This whole goddamn thing is about POLITICS. They're killing innocent fisherman in an effort to remove Maduro.

'Secretary of State Marco Rubio is hoping the Trump administration’s pressure campaign against Venezuela breaks strongman Nicolás Maduro’s will to stay in power.

Rubio, who also serves as acting national security adviser, is a main architect of the administration’s Venezuela strategy, which includes a massive U.S. military build-up in the Caribbean and deadly airstrikes on boats alleged to be ferrying drugs.

The stated goal of the campaign is to battle drug cartels, but U.S. officials and people close to the administration say Rubio and aides hope the effort will lead to Maduro’s fall from power.

President Donald Trump’s willingness to place so much pressure on Maduro is in some ways ideal for Rubio and other hawkish Floridians who have long loathed left-wing Latin American autocrats."...

[Walleye]

1. Yes, and also Trump just likes killing people. Biggest compliment his father could pay him was "killer"

It’s not like he understands nuance or anything

[Ocelot II]

2. Iraq 2.0. Maduro is Saddam Hussein - a couple of bad actors, no doubt; drug trafficking is WMDs,

mythical things in both cases, but convenient pretexts for regime change to establish US hegemony in the region and access to those countries' oil reserves. We saw how Iraq turned out.