No War with, No Occupation of Venezuela

We could not maintain our opposition to Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine and also support the Trump’s illegal invasion of Venezuela, a country that has not attacked the United States. Trump’s claims that Venezuelan boats, which were nowhere near the United States, were transporting Fentanyl is laughable and only served as cover for today’s invasion. Ending the Drug War and ensuring that people receive the medical and social support they need to deal with their addiction are better, humane policies. I reproduce this statement from the United States Pirate Party as it is is consistent with our platform, values and past statements.

January 3rd – In the middle of the night, while most U.S. citizens were sleeping and unable to be outraged, the United States invaded Venezuela and claims now to have captured Nicolás Maduro, President of Venezuela.

After promising peace, the Epstein files & fear mongering that their political opponents will start wars, they have taken upon themselves to invade Venezuela in the middle of the night without Congress’s permission, putting American lives on the line for oil & to distract you from the files.

This is what this administration thinks of you.

We have it in our platform explicitly that the U.S. must be a good neighbor and how we need to shift the dynamic in the New World from “a paradigm of United States dominance to genuine collaboration and friendship is essential. A more united American Continent will help each country become stronger and create a stronger bond between every American, from Greenland to Patagonia.”

Pan-American is essential to the Pirate foreign policy objectives. Our platform says we must “advocate for ending the Cuban embargo and lifting sanctions on Nicaragua and Venezuela.”

Not starting a new war with them.

Even if the administration sought permission to carry out such attacks, we (the United States) can not and should not be attacking our neighbor. This is ultimately another “blood-for-oil” scheme that will lead to countless deaths, billions spent and hard feelings developed by neighbors who already had a hard time trusting us.

For any U.S. citizen that is thinking “Oh but they were sending drugs into the United States, something something nacroterrorists”, I counter with this: Trump pardoned Juan Orlando Hernández, the convicted drug trafficking former President of Honduras.

This has little to do with drugs and everything to do with oil and a distraction from the Epstein files. This has to do with a government unfriendly to U.S. hegemony that the U.S. has tried like hell for years to be rid of, only to lead to this, the most brazen and obvious attempt.

The United States Pirate Party condemns these actions. Secretary Hegseth said Maduro “fucked around and found out”, but empires fall. When we no longer hold dominance over the New World, a fact which most certainly will one day come, our neighbors will remember how we treated them as the most powerful nation in the world. This is just one of many things I believe the United States, not Maduro, will have fucked around and for which they will find out. Not via immediate retaliation, not via the refugee crisis this will certainly exacerbate, but through the lingering memories of the world and especially our neighbors, we will find out.

No war with Venezuela. Ending war is possible.