Trump keeps door open to military strikes inside Venezuela
The article discusses President donald Trump’s stance on potential military action inside Venezuela. Trump indicated that all options remain open regarding strikes against Venezuelan drug cartels, specifically the narco-gang Tren de Aragua. Previously, the Trump governance conducted strikes on drug boats in the Caribbean, effectively stopping drug trafficking via waterways. Trump mentioned the continued threat posed by Venezuela in terms of drugs and other dangers, hinting at possible future actions against cartels operating by land. While speaking to military leaders at Quantico, Virginia, Trump avoided giving direct answers about plans for strikes but emphasized his intent to evaluate and perhaps fire military leaders he finds unsatisfactory. The piece also references recent political updates,such as congressional negotiations failing to prevent a government shutdown.
Trump keeps door open to military strikes inside Venezuela — and firing military brass
President Donald Trump kept all options on the table Tuesday when asked if he is preparing military strikes against targets inside Venezuela.
Over the summer, the Trump administration escalated its war against the Venezuelan narco-gang Tren de Aragua by launching strikes against reported drug boats in the Caribbean. Furthermore, NBC reported over the weekend that the Pentagon is preparing options for Trump to strike directly at gang targets inside Venezuela.
The president spoke to military leadership in Quantico, Virginia, on Tuesday morning. On his way out of the White House, he danced around a question from the Washington Examiner about plans for strikes against the gangs on Venezuelan soil.
“We’ll see what happens with Venezuela. Venezuela has been very dangerous with drugs and with other things, and they’ve been very, very dangerous,” he stated, before pointing back to the strikes on drug boats.
“We had a lot of drugs coming in through water. We call it water drugs, just a simple term. We don’t have any boats on the water. There are no boats. There are no fishing boats. There are no anything. So we hit a number of boats. You probably saw that, and since we did that, we have absolutely no drugs coming into our country via water, because it was lethal,” Trump continued. “And now we’ll look at cartels. We’re going to look very seriously at cartels coming by land.”
The president declined to say if he planned to discuss the subject during his speech in Quantico, describing the event as “only an esprit de corps.”
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“A thing like this has never been done before, because they came from all over the world,” he explained. “And there’s a little bit of expense, not much, but there’s a little expense to that. We don’t like to waste it. We’d rather spend it on bullets and rockets, frankly. But this was the one time we had to do a great spiritizing.”
Still, the president did say that he planned to meet with “generals and with admirals and with leaders,” and that if he didn’t “like somebody, [he’s] going to fire them right on the spot.”
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