President Donald Trump suggested Thursday that the United States is preparing to take new action against alleged drug trafficking networks in Venezuela, telling service members during a Thanksgiving call that efforts for strikes on land will be starting “very soon.”
“In recent weeks, you’ve been working to deter Venezuelan drug traffickers, of which there are many. Of course, there aren’t too many coming in by sea anymore,” Trump told service members in the call.
“You probably noticed that people aren’t wanting to be delivering by sea, and we’ll be starting to stop them by land also,” the president continued. “The land is easier, but that’s going to start very soon.
“We warn them: Stop sending poison to our country,” Trump added.
Trump comments suggest he has made up his mind on a course of action in Venezuela following multiple high-level briefings and a mounting US show of force in the region earlier this month.
Trump designated Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his government allies as members of a foreign terrorist organization earlier this week.
The designation of “Cartel de los Soles,” a phrase that experts say is more a description of allegedly corrupt government officials than an organized crime group, as a foreign terrorist organization will authorize Trump to impose fresh sanctions targeting Maduro’s assets and infrastructure. It doesn’t, however, explicitly authorize the use of lethal force, according to legal experts.
Yeah but then Putin would release the video.
Also the last time I checked, his base isn’t quite hot on sending more money or getting involved militarily in Ukraine. He’d get popular with Democrats. But they won’t thank him for it at the voting booth. 😅
His base that actually are US citizens are only against supporting Ukraine because of conservative propaganda networks. If they switched to supporting Ukraine his base would switch in an instant just like with every other thing he has flip flopped on.
All those supporters are based in russia and other asian countries so obviously Ukraine is a problem
There is no more voting for Donald Trump. He is at the 2-term limit…i
There’s the midterms. But yeah. :D
So what? What is he afraid of? Just say it’s AI. Whatever Putin’s leverage was it evaporated the moment Trump won his second term. Trump just doesn’t want to tank the week of chaos and embarrassment that it would cause because he’s incredibly weak.