The Trump administration’s push to seize and pursue sanctioned oil tankers connected to Venezuela is designed to cut off the money that sustains the Maduro government and its trafficking networks, not to grab oil, retired U.S. Navy Capt. Brent Sadler said Sunday on Newsmax.
“Well, the Democrats on that point are absolutely wrong,” Sadler told Newsmax’s “Sunday Agenda.” “It’s actually about going after the money and the support structure of this illegal regime, the Maduro regime in Venezuela, that’s just continued to drive that country into a socialist hell to go after the cartels.”
“It’s going to take more than just a few weeks or a few months,” he added.
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