'Drooling Congresswoman just blurted real plot!' Russia reacts to pro-Trump saber rattling

Just a week after demanding the United States invade Venezuela to enrich American oil companies, Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL) is now saying that a U.S. invasion is imminent — and predicted American companies would be “in Venezuela for the next 100 years.”

“You heard it, it’s imminent in just days,” said a Fox & Friends host Sunday, recapping Salazar’s prediction that the Trump administration would soon take control of Venezuela’s vast oil reserves, the single-largest in the world.

Salazar insisted that the “Venezuelans are waiting for the Americans to come and help them be free again,” and praised President Donald Trump for having increased pressure on the South American nation — pressure that included a wave of targeted strikes on suspected drug-carrying sea vessels, the deployment of an aircraft carrier strike group, and the unlawful closure of Venezuelan air space.

“This is a historical moment for the Trump administration,” Salazar said. “Trump is not only demonstrating great political courage, he’s liberating the continent from China, from Iran, from Russia, from the drug dealers! This is going to send a very clear message to other countries, and we’re going to avoid a lot of problems in the future because of these actions that he’s taking right now.”

While the Trump administration has justified its increased hostilities toward Venezuela as an effort to combat drug trafficking, Salazar’s remarks about American companies gaining access to the “world’s largest oil reserves” led many critics to accuse her of revealing the administration’s true intentions.

“Drooling Congresswoman just blurted the real plot?” reads a social media post from RT, formally Russia Today, a Russian-controlled news network.

Others, like X user and influencer “Shadow of Ezra,” a political commentator who’s amassed more than 832,000 followers, criticized Salazar along similar lines.

“Rep. Maria Salazar admits the real aim is to take control of the world’s largest oil reserves in Venezuela and push the country into doing business with American oil companies,” they wrote in a social media post.

“Salazar says seizing those reserves would be an easy mission because most Venezuelans voted against Nicolás Maduro. She adds that American oil companies will be operating in Venezuela for the next 100 years.”