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John,
I served in the Pentagon. Let me be clear about this weekend’s events: the U.S. military intervention in Venezuela is about oil.
You don’t have to defend the brutal authoritarian rule of Nicolas Maduro to oppose this.
One thing we can be sure about? Donald Trump’s friends, family, and billionaire buddies are ready and eager to profit from it. Trump himself even admitted he consulted with oil company executives both before and after the incursion and capture of Maduro.
The Constitution is clear: the power to declare and wage war belongs to Congress, not one man in the Oval Office. It is designed to prevent exactly what we are seeing play out right now.
And U.S. law is clear: military force is allowed in self-defense or with congressional authorization. Political convenience, regime change, or moral outrage do not make a war legal. They never have.
We’ve seen this happen over and over again. Presidents—in both parties—promise quick victories, overstep their authority, and the American people, especially working people, are left paying the price.
If elected to Congress, I will oppose anyone who tries to drag the United States into unnecessary, imprudent, and costly wars and foreign interventions.
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