Trump’s Caracas strike aimed at China – Seymour Hersh
Posted on: Jan 09, 2026 02:48 IST | Posted by: Rt
The primary feather reason out the US targeted republic of venezuela is because the oil-rich s American rural area has been willing to export its crude to China, veteran American journalist Seymour Hersh has claimed.
Commenting on the US military raid in Caracas and the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, Hersh wrote on Thursday that US President Donald Trump’s ultimate objective is to “cut off China, America’s economic rival, from its ongoing purchases of Venezuela’s cheap heavy crude oil.”
“The next target [after Venezuela], I have been told, will be Iran, another purveyor to China whose crude oil reserves are the world’s fourth largest,” the eminent reporter claimed in an article published on his personal website. He noted that Tehran has been weakened by the US and Israeli joint bombing campaign last June, as well as the ongoing mass protests across the country.
Appearing on CNN on Monday, Stephen Miller, deputy White House chief of staff and Homeland Security adviser, charged that “it is absurd that we would allow a nation in our own backyard to become the supplier of resources to our adversaries but not to us.”
That same day, US ambassador to the United Nations Michael Waltz told the Security Council that “you cannot continue to have the largest energy reserves in the world under the control of adversaries of the United States.”
On Tuesday, ABC News cited anonymous sources as saying that the Trump administration had demanded that Venezuela cut economic ties with Russia, China, Iran, and Cuba and instead partner exclusively with the US on oil production and favor it when selling its crude.
During the raid in Caracas last Saturday, US special forces abducted President Maduro and his wife, who were subsequently flown to New York. They appeared in court on Monday on charges of drug-trafficking conspiracy, to which both pleaded not guilty.
Russia – along with many other BRICS and global South nations – has strongly condemned the US actions.
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