cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/39450256
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.
Hoping the U.S has learned nothing from the Russian invasion of Ukraine and just start sending unprepared American soldiers into the Jungle 60’s-style. It would be hilarious to see.
Is it going to be a “special military operation”?
Peace President. Nobel prize, please.
He really thinks the Nobel Committee is as stupid as he is. He thinks they’ll believe that he has brokered all these peace deals where there hasn’t been any peace at all, and won’t notice that he’s starting all kinds of shit with all kinds of countries, including illegal attacks on Venezuelan fishing boats.
Oh yeah, and he changed the name of the Department of DEFENSE, to the the Department of WAR. That certainly sends the wrong message.
But none of that matters to him, because he still thinks he can demand, bully, strongarm, pressure, cheat, and bribe his way to a Nobel Prize, like he’s done for everything else in his life.
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Donald Trump is ILLEGALLY declaring war on another soveriegn nation. And nothing will be done about it.
Where’s my guy with his “Now that’s what I call a distraction from the Epstien files” graphics? You are needed here.
I’ve missed seeing that on posts, but I did save one just in case
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Went back to Reddit
Ok, Legislative Branch, you’ve got the purse strings. Whatcha gonna do about it?
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So we’ll be going from fighting in a dessert theater to a jungle now? How lovely.
Dessert theater? Sounds delicious
Son, have you ever tried to storm an enemy bunker up a hot fudge sundae hill? The sound of young boys screams as they slowly sink into burning hot fudge? Horrible…
G.I. Joe is gonna change the environment they are fighting in, again.
Luckily, the US military has great experience fighting in jungles.
And losing in them
Well, at least in 5 years, we’ll have some cool jungle maps in future fps games.
mm maybe trump wants enough land with oil under it so he can start pumping it out?
