{"id":56602,"date":"2025-12-10T09:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T17:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=56602"},"modified":"2025-12-10T10:51:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T18:51:51","slug":"ron-paul-on-desperation-us-sends-fighters-deep-into-gulf-of-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/10\/ron-paul-on-desperation-us-sends-fighters-deep-into-gulf-of-venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul on Desperation? US Sends Fighters Deep Into Gulf of Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>On today\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@RonPaulLibertyReport\">Ron Paul Liberty Report<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The US military sent two US Navy F\/A-18 fighters deeper into Venezuela&#8217;s area of influence than ever before. They lingered near the coast for nearly an hour \u2013 tempting Venezuela to react and get the escalation? Meanwhile, US public support for military action is cratering and the Administration lacks the troops in the region for a ground invasion \u2013 even as President Trump ramps up the threats. What&#8217;s the endgame?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VRnaGD-X-fs?si=N__mNoYgPxyfOzjA\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\/\">The Ron Paul Institute for Peace &amp; Prosperity<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On today\u2019s Ron Paul Liberty Report: The US military sent two US Navy F\/A-18 fighters deeper into Venezuela&#8217;s area of influence than ever before. They lingered near the coast for nearly an hour \u2013 tempting Venezuela to react and get the escalation? Meanwhile, US public support for military action is cratering and the Administration lacks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[767],"class_list":["post-56602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"0","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56602"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56606,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56602\/revisions\/56606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56602"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=56602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}