US officials have told The New York Times that the real goal of the US military buildup in the Caribbean, and the bombing of boats in the region, is regime change in Venezuela.
The policy is being largely driven by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who has long wanted to remove Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro from power. Back in 2019, when the first Trump administration attempted to back a coup against Maduro, Rubio posted a photo on Twitter of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in the moment he was being brutally murdered in an apparent threat to the Venezuelan leader.
The Trump administration, through the National Endowment for the Humanities, is giving the largest grant in the agency’s history — over $10 million — to the Jewish-American neoconservative Tikvah Fund to counter “the pathology of anti-Semitism” and teach the Talmud. 
House Speaker Mike Johnson held a “private meeting” with AIPAC and Jewish leaders on Wednesday on Capitol Hill wherein he reportedly pledged to screen out “isolationist” (see: anti-Israel) GOP candidates “to prevent that wing of the party from growing larger in the House.” 
President Trump fumed in private after Israel struck Qatar that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is “f**king” him, yet he has continued to give the Jewish leader free rein to call the shots in the Middle East, the Wall Street Journal reports. 
