{"id":88907,"date":"2026-01-03T10:02:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T10:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=88907"},"modified":"2026-01-03T10:07:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T10:07:21","slug":"venezuela-war-and-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/01\/03\/venezuela-war-and-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela, war, and Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

The USA is at war with Venezuela this morning.<\/a><\/p>\n

It is bombing Caracas.<\/p>\n

There are reports that the Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro has been abducted by US forces.<\/p>\n

Trump will no doubt claim that this is another war that he has ended, rather than one he has started. He will, of course, be lying.<\/p>\n

In reality, we need to look at just two reasons for what is happening<\/p>\n

The first is oil.<\/p>\n

The second is to provide a distraction from the Epstein files.<\/p>\n

There is nothing more to this than that.<\/p>\n

A madman who is absurdly powerful, driven by pleonexia and an ego utterly out of control, is seeking to distract the world from who he really is by waging war to capture yet more resources for exploitation by an increasingly tiny number of US billionaires.<\/p>\n

He has made my video, published this morning,<\/a> particularly relevant.<\/p>\n

My sympathies lie with all those who will suffer as a consequence of his actions, from wherever they come, because it is not just Venezuelans who will pay the price for this. The reverberations will be felt around the world.<\/p>\n

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