Venezuela is heating up after the Trump administration seized a tanker off the coast of the South American country. Now Vladimir Putin has reached out to the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, to express his unwavering support toward his regime’s “growing external pressure.”
There’s a reason people keep comparing Venezuela to George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq. Maduro is a controversial leader, but the Trump administration has made it abundantly clear they’re more interested in the country’s oil reserves than delivering “freedom” or ending terror or drug trafficking.
