I think you answered your own question. There are no nukes in Venezuela. There is a lot of oil though and Trump just siezed an oil tanker. We don't have to guess about the real motive. He just showed up.
So you offer to show your papers when they confront you. They refuse to look at them, take you into custody and then transfer you to a federal building several miles away. Then when they finally look at your "papers" and discover you're a US...
The story is that it was a Guyana-flagged Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC).
It had covertly loaded 1.1 million barrels of oil in mid-November and was suspected of heading toward Cuba before being stopped offshore Venezuela.
U.S. officials stated...