{"id":604179,"date":"2025-11-30T22:52:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T22:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/604179\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T22:52:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T22:52:14","slug":"what-is-driving-us-presidents-trumps-actions-against-venezuela-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/604179\/","title":{"rendered":"What is driving US President\u2019s Trump\u2019s actions against Venezuela? | Military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump declared Venezuela\u2019s airspace \u2018closed\u2019 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Venezuela has accused Washington of a \u201ccolonial threat\u201d against its sovereignty after US President Donald Trump said he was shutting down the country\u2019s airspace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Latin American nation is on high alert after United States attacks on boats nearby and a major military deployment in the Caribbean that includes the world\u2019s largest aircraft carrier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Trump says he is fighting drug trafficking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">But is that the real reason?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Bernard Smith<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Mark Pfeifle \u2013 US Republican strategist and a former White House deputy national security adviser<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Paul Dobson \u2013 Independent journalist and political analyst in Venezuela<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Christopher Sabatini \u2013 Senior research fellow for Latin America at Chatham House<\/p>\n<p>Published On 30 Nov 202530 Nov 2025<\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share2<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump declared Venezuela\u2019s airspace \u2018closed\u2019 on Saturday. Venezuela has accused Washington of a \u201ccolonial threat\u201d against its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[32,3274,2597,37887,10471,10472,49,978,286,659,8518],"class_list":{"0":"post-604179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-latin-america","10":"tag-military","11":"tag-nicolas-maduro","12":"tag-show-types","13":"tag-tv-shows","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-us-canada","17":"tag-usa","18":"tag-venezuela"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115641105980553507","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}