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Trump signals possible ground operations against alleged drug networks in Venezuela

Trump signals land operations in Venezuela a possibility

US President Donald Trump has suggested that Washington could soon expand its anti-narcotics campaign against alleged Venezuela-linked drug operations to include action on land, intensifying already strained relations with Caracas.

Speaking to reporters at the White House on Friday, Trump claimed US efforts had sharply reduced maritime drug trafficking tied to Venezuela, asserting that narcotics smuggling by sea had fallen by more than 90 percent.

He credited stepped-up naval operations for what he described as unprecedented interdictions and said attention could soon shift beyond coastal waters. “We’ve knocked out drugs coming in by water at levels nobody’s ever seen,” Trump said, adding that operations on land could begin “pretty soon.”



The president did not provide details on where such actions might take place or what form they could take.

Since September, the United States has increased its military presence in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, carrying out more than 20 operations against suspected drug-smuggling vessels. US officials argue the campaign has prevented large quantities of narcotics from reaching American shores.

Venezuela has strongly rejected US allegations linking the government to drug cartels. President Nicolás Maduro has accused Washington of using counter-narcotics operations as a pretext to destabilise and ultimately overthrow his administration.

Tensions escalated further this week after US authorities seized an oil tanker off Venezuela’s coast that was allegedly transporting sanctioned crude linked to Venezuela and Iran.

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6 COMMENTS

  1. Nothing to do with this well maybe
    Apparently where the name shit comes from is derived from when manure was being shipped as fertilizer that gave off methane gas which was prone to causing explosions down in the holds of the transporting vessels
    Then the containers were marked
    Stack High In Transit

  2. Trump is systemically destroying the US
    That is what is left of it
    The Jew parasite eventually kills the host
    The termites that never sleep
    Who have drowned the world in a tsunami of fiat printed paper currency
    Backed by nothing but fresh air
    And all other forms of uncleanliness
    Reduced to now having to buy their Own debt
    Which is all about to collapse like a house of cards
    Desperate times demand desperate measures
    And the sun going down on a failed state clinging tenaciously to what is and what could have been

  3. That’s half the picture, the Zionist Occupation Govt has taking open control of the US to fix the mass immigration gerrymander that would have given the DNC and the Left a demographic super majority (and then give ultimate power to the Leftwing Jew, B’nai B’rith). Who would have then used the US to depose Netanyahu and install a Leftwing Govt in Israel.
    Goy means cattle, and the shoe still fits today.

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