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.
Great yea idiots destabilize yet another Latin American country and make the migrant crisis you’re always crying about way worse. These people are so dumb and so corrupt. Wtf?
Sweet sweet oil money.
US oil refineries were created to use cheap Venezuelian oil, it can’t use an other source, so now US petro oligarchy wants to secure its monopoly.
just like nixon, truncation of internal scandals, ie epstein files, to war with a random country.
Hey congress, he’s explicitly stating his intent to fight a war without your declaration against a county that would be within their rights to kill a bunch of us in response without your declaration. You have the ability to make him not do that. Not doing that makes you complicit in his war crimes and liable for Americans who die because of it.
I am sure various congresspeople will write some stern letters. We might get an opt-ed in a major main stream paper!! They will be very concerned. Not enough to do anything but the concern will be there.
I CANNOT WAIT FOR MY COUNTRY TO SPEND ANOTHER $1,000,000,000,000 ON A REGIME CHANGE.
This is what that “dont follow illegal orders” video was targeted at. Obviously this kind of thing gets loose lips flappin and it seems pretty obvious in hindsight now that those congresspeople were tipped off, and now every single service member who hopefully pays attention to politics understands their jobs.
Pretty good litmus test on how the military would act if any kind of coup happened, imo
You want a new Taliban, ISIS and Al-Qaeda?
This is how you get it.
Who gave Diaper Dementia Don the plane again? Dollars to derricks they have a hand in a quid-pro-quo regime change in Venezuela.
Trump hates EVs and all of a sudden theres a& emergency on drugs coming out of a country with oil reserves.
It must. Too many things are going badly at home, so they gotta put some darker-skinned people murder on the TV.
What’s crazy is he could instead put a ton of support behind Ukraine and achieve many of the same results, but with much more popularity.
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.
He is thin-skinned and cares about his reputation.
except putin has his pdf tapes and would release it if trump dint end support for ukraine.
Russia is offering more money
Biden and the rest of Europe never gave Ukraine enough support to win either.
This should tell you that the goal of US intervention in Ukraine was never to win.
Liberals don’t want to talk about that. They want to pretend the only problem is Putler having Trump’s pee tapes or something lol
Using the War on Drugs as an excuse to install a fascist US puppet. A classic play
Dumbfounding how classic it is. Even with a complete outsider this shit is happening again.
In this case it’s Thatcherite/Reaganite US puppet and Nobel “Peace” Prize winner, Maria Corina Machado.
Don’t forget insurrectionist
Pff, I would never hold that against someone. Or rather, It’s what comes after that I have an issue with.
This is an emergency.
America is nothing but a chaser. He’s only interested if you’ve had a regime change.
America is pushing for the regime change, and even planning on footing the bill!
Hey just wants to oust (kill) Maduro because he’s still choked about his Bay of Pigs.
