Venezuela, December 2025: The Quarantine, the Blockade Word Game, and the Resource Prize

The U.S. escalation around Venezuela in December 2025 is not a single event. It is a coercion stack: maritime interdictions, sanctions enforcement by force, airspace signaling, Congressional war-powers friction, internal administration messaging conflict, and a resource prize sitting underneath it all. This report maps the timeline, actors, legal thresholds, and the “stable point” the system keeps snapping back to.