It's looking more and more like war with Venezuela is on the menu, boys. Donald Trump has given

Maduro an ultimatum to flee Venezuela as land operations loom. War ships are reportedly

entering the area and Donald Trump has de facto closed the airspace around Venezuela.

Now, a lot of people are debating this, but it is in fact

an act of war to declare the airspace closed over a country for a variety of reasons. And the reason

Trump is doing it likely is because, as the U.S. prepares to engage in military operations in Venezuela,

we don't want anybody getting mixed up into crossfire. You're prepares to engage in military operations in Venezuela, we don't want anybody

getting mixed up into crossfire. You're going to have flights traveling from various countries

that are going to go over Venezuela, usually because you're just, I don't know, flying from

Brazil to Mexico or something, if that route makes sense. I don't know. Donald Trump is

basically saying, we are about to launch air strikes.

Not necessarily going to happen, but that's basically the idea.

So now you're restricting domestic air travel over a country, which is going to restrict trade.

It's going to cost a lot of money.

And you're basically saying, prepare for war.

Hillary Clinton famously was warned of this back and I think it was like

2015, 2014 or 15. She said she wanted the airspace over Syria closed and she was warned

that would be a declaration of war not just against Syria but against Russia. Now this is different. In Syria, not just against Syria, but against Russia.

Now, this is different.

In Syria, in Tartus, you have a Russian naval base, so they do have air capabilities.

And if the United States shuts down that airspace, that's affecting Russia.

Venezuela may or may not have some of these same elements, but it's not as direct.

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