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December 9, 2025, 7:44 p.mDec 9, 2025, 8:07 p.m
US President Donald Trump is a recent Peace Prize winner. After the Nobel Peace Prize failed in October, FIFA created a new prize specifically to give to the 79-year-old weekend to hand over.
Trump claims to have ended seven to eight wars. Nevertheless, the largest US troop movement in decades recently took place in the Caribbean. 15,000 soldiers and almost a dozen warships were deployed off the coast of Venezuela to put pressure on the South American country. US media are now saying that the two countries are on the brink of war. The winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, Maria Machado, comes from Venezuela, of all places. She even dedicated the award to Trump after her award.
According to his own account, Trump started his election campaign as the “candidate of peace”. In addition, his “MAGA” voter base is not into “foreign interventions,” i.e. wars or political interference and influence abroad. So how does it all fit together? The US satirical program “The Daily Show” dared to classify it in Monday’s broadcast. Moderator Jon Stewart also noted striking parallels to another, past US war:
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Stewart uses clips to show that the rhetoric surrounding the Iraq War was exactly the same as the current looming war in Venezuela. The reasons (or pretexts) for war are now also taking on strikingly similar characteristics. The (supposed) Venezuelan drug boats are portrayed as “chemical weapons of mass destruction”. This is because the fentanyl on board would have the potency to kill millions of people. Explosive: Research According to him, the fentanyl the US is fighting with doesn’t come from Venezuela.
In Iraq, too, alleged chemical weapons of mass destruction were used as a pretext to start a war. An investigative commission subsequently determined that such weapons did not exist.
Another reason is also put forward that is already known from the Iraq War: terror. So the government of Venezuela would openly deal with Iran and even the terrorist organization Hezbollah work together.
Resources as a “nice side effect”
In reality, Venezuela’s natural resources may play a role. Unlike the Iraq War, MAGA voters no longer even make a secret of it. Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world – a gold mine for the US oil industry, report political analysts on Trump-affiliated channels such as Fox News. So they are actually advertising this “nice side effect” of this war, as Stewart puts it. When it came to the Iraq War, however, people vehemently claimed until the end that it had nothing to do with oil.
Venezuela has a lot of oil, but the extraction equipment is falling apart. Image: keystone
“America first” is also “America’s first”
But how does the MAGA leadership present the Venezuela case to voters? After all, this is a matter of foreign interference, and now there is even a threat of a foreign war. Exactly what Trump promised not to do. Of course, the spin doctors have a suitable answer for this too, as Jon Stewart shows:
“By redefining the word ‘foreign’.”
A key word seems to be “one’s own hemisphere”. You want to be dominant there. The intervention in Venezuela is therefore not “foreign” because it ultimately takes place in South America. And South America, according to Fox News host Jesse Watters, literally has America in its name.
Jon Stewart gives a sobering verdict. Apart from the fact that people are now being killed in a different time zone, it is exactly the same as in 2005 (in the Iraq War).
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