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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

Donald Trump’s Warnings Put Pressure on Venezuela

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

Society & Culture, News

42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump ratchets up the pressure on Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro to resign and effectively closes Venezuelan airspace. Plus, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth denies giving an order to fire a second missile to kill survivors of an initial attack on a boat supposedly carrying drugs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

0:41.6

It is the United States on the cusp of war with Venezuela? It sure seems like that might be the case as Donald Trump ratchets up the pressure

0:48.4

on Venezuelan dictator Nicholas Maduro to resign and go into exile. Plus, defense secretary Pete Hegseth

0:57.0

denies giving an order to fire a second missile to kill survivors of an initial attack on a boat

1:04.8

supposedly carrying drugs to the U.S. But members of Congress want to investigate after a story in the Washington Post said

1:13.2

Hegis did give that order. Is such an order, if it were given, legal under the laws of war?

1:21.1

Welcome to Potomac Watch, the Daily Podcast of Wall Street Journal Opinion. I'm Paul as you go

1:26.1

here with my colleagues, Kate

1:28.4

Batchelder O'Dell and William McGurne. Let's discuss Venezuela first, not getting as much attention

1:35.5

as Ukraine and Russia, but big story with enormous stakes for the United States. The Miami Herald

1:42.4

reporting that Donald Trump gave an ultimatum

1:46.2

to Maduro in a phone call, said, get out if you want to protect your life and your family and do

1:53.2

it soon. On the weekend, Donald Trump also announced that he was effectively closing

1:58.5

Venezuelan airspace saying commercial traffic should stay away.

2:02.5

He has an enormous naval flotilla assembled in the Caribbean with a great number of warships,

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