{"id":323120,"date":"2025-11-30T22:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T22:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/323120\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T22:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T22:54:08","slug":"what-is-driving-us-presidents-trumps-actions-against-venezuela-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/323120\/","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\">Presenter: Bernard Smith<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Guests:<\/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":323121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,12,3140,4379,3,18231,87347,6703,21,19,22,20,25,1209,24,18232],"class_list":["post-323120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-donald-trump","tag-latin-america","tag-military","tag-news","tag-nicolas-maduro","tag-show-types","tag-tv-shows","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-canada","tag-usa","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}