Trump’s U.N. Ambassador Gives Sick Defense of Venezuela Invasion
After the United States kidnapped their president and bombed their capital, Ambassador to the U.N. Mike Waltz swears that “there is no war in Venezuela.”
“As Secretary Rubio has said, there is no war against Venezuela or its people. We are not occupying a country. This was a law enforcement operation in furtherance of lawful indictments that have existed for decades. The United States arrested a narco-trafficker who is now going to stand trial in the United States,” Waltz said at an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council on Monday.
If this was just a simple “law enforcement operation,” then why the bombs? Why would the Trump administration consult U.S. oil companies prior to the kidnapping of Maduro? Why would Trump say outright that the U.S. will be running Venezuela?
Waltz: There is no war against Venezuela. We are not occupying a country. This was a law enforcement operation pic.twitter.com/qAO9h6NwJX
— Acyn (@Acyn) January 5, 2026
The indictment Waltz refers to claims that Maduro allowed “cocaine-fueled corruption to flourish for his own benefit, for the benefit of members of his ruling regime, and for the benefit of his family members” and “provided Venezuelan diplomatic passports to drug traffickers and facilitated diplomatic cover for planes used by money launderers to repatriate drug proceeds from Mexico to Venezuela.” Venezuela does not play a major role in trafficking drugs to the United States—and the indictment says nothing about fentanyl, the primary cause of U.S. deaths by overdose.
In his speech, Waltz also emphasized oil, likely the real priority of the Trump administration in this escalation of aggression against Venezuela—not fighting for democracy or stopping drug trafficking.
“You cannot continue to have the largest energy reserves in the world under the control of adversaries of the United States.”
Waltz: This is the western hemisphere, this is where we live and we are not going to allow the western hemisphere used as a base of operation for adversaries and competitors and rivals of US
— Acyn (@Acyn) January 5, 2026
You cannot have the largest energy reserves the world under the control of adversaries pic.twitter.com/W2BkUecxC0