When it comes to negotiators, they can do anything to achieve their goal.

For the United States of America, as stated in their official public strategy, there is an interest in restoring economic relations with the Russian Federation.

They think about their own country. They are not obliged to think about other countries. They must think first and foremost about America.

Russians must think first and foremost about Russia. And we must think about Ukraine.

You would be surprised if you knew how many unmanned aerial vehicles we currently have in our warehouses, including kamikaze drones and others.

We are buying and we will continue to buy.

Soon—by the end of March, or at the latest the beginning of April—I expect the opening of the first large drone factory in our country.

Miller explicitly argued that if the United States were formally at war with Venezuela, the administration could again invoke the law to rapidly deport hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans whose temporary protected status had been revoked.

One former official said Miller viewed war as a way to “remove legal obstacles that courts had put in place.”

He told officials the law could be revived if the U.S. entered an actual war with Venezuela, effectively reframing migration enforcement as a wartime power rather than a civilian legal process.

Source: NYT

In early 2025, Cuban American Republicans urged President Trump to revoke Chevron’s license to operate in Venezuela, arguing it helped sustain Maduro.

Trump resisted, viewing Chevron as the last U.S. foothold in Venezuela’s oil sector and a check on China. But in May 2025, as he pushed his “One Big Beautiful Bill” through Congress, lawmakers threatened to block it unless the license expired.

On May 27, Trump let Chevron’s waiver lapse. The move weakened U.S. leverage in Venezuela and intensified the administration’s shift toward harsher ways of confronting Caracas in the weeks that followed.

Source: NYT