US could move on Venezuela to curb Russian and Chinese influence – whistleblower

Geostrategic interests are more important to Washington than control over Caracas’ vast oil reserves, Jordan Goudreau has told RT

Washington might be planning to invade Venezuela to secure its strategic interests in the region and deny Moscow and Beijing a potential beachhead in the Western hemisphere, Jordan Goudreau, an ex-Green Beret and whistleblower, has told RT.

Goudreau previously admitted to playing a major role in a failed 2020 coup attempt, known as Operation Gideon, against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

The US has repeatedly accused Venezuela of aiding “narcoterrorists” and has put sweeping sanctions on the country. The American military has also struck at least five surface vessels since September, claiming they were being used for drug-smuggling by Venezuela-based cartels. Washington also built up forces and authorized the CIA to carry out lethal covert operations in the region.

According to Goudreau, “there’s … a rush to try to deny white space … to Russia [and] China in Venezuela,” which he called “the big initiative” of President Donald Trump’s administration.

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All the “larger nations” are trying to “secure white space for… large wars in the future,” the former Green Beret claimed, referring to strategic locations the sides could use as beachheads in a potential conflict.

According to Goudreau, geostrategic interests are more important to Washington than control over Venezuela’s vast oil reserves. He also admitted that this was the reasoning behind the 2020 coup attempt that he helped orchestrate.

At the time, his group was trying to “flip the Venezuelan generals” to make them capture or “deal” with Maduro and some other top officials, the whistleblower claimed, adding that the CIA allegedly “sabotaged the operation with the help of the Venezuelan opposition” because of its disagreements with Trump during his first term.

After the attempt failed, Goudreau, who runs the Florida-based security firm Silvercorp USA that prepared the operation, came out as its organizer and also published a contract his company had signed with the US-backed politician Juan Guaido, who claimed to be the rightful Venezuelan president, to conduct the incursion and topple the government. Guaido called the document false. Goudreau currently faces charges both in the US and Venezuela.