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In its escalating campaign against Venezuela,
the Trump administration has gone from shooting down drug boats to now trying to seize multiple oil tankers in the Caribbean Sea.
Today,
my colleague Anatoly Kermanayev explains why President Trump is shifting his tactics on Venezuela and what that might tell us about his true end game.
It's Wednesday, December 24th.
Anatoly, Merry Christmas.
Thanks for joining us today.
Thank you for having me.
So the last time we talked to you was when the US military was ramping up these strikes on boats in Latin America that they claimed were running drugs to the US.
We are coming back to you now because over the past few weeks,