US President Donald Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One that his country has made "great progress" in stopping the supply of drugs amid reports that Washington is preparing to strike targets in the Venezuela.
The Republican answered in the affirmative to the question whether he had decided on further steps in relation to Venezuela.
"I can't say which one," he added.
Since September, the US armed forces have been carrying out airstrikes on ships suspected of transporting drugs in the Caribbean and the eastern Pacific, resulting in the death of dozens of people. The authorities explain their actions by the fight against drug cartels and drug trafficking. According to The Wall Street Journal, a secret memorandum of the Ministry of Justice justifying the strikes states that the synthetic opioid fentanyl can be used as a chemical weapon. The document was criticized by Republicans and Democrats.
Trump has repeatedly threatened to expand attacks on Venezuelan territory, but in October said he was not considering such a possibility. Nevertheless, according to The Washington Post, Washington continues to discuss issues of potential military action in Venezuela. Meetings at the White House were held on November 13 and 14, and were attended by Pentagon Chief Pete Hegseth, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan Kane, Vice President Jay Dee Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Deputy Chief of Staff of the administration Stephen Miller.
In early November, White House officials stated that there was no legal justification for attacks on any ground targets in Venezuela does not.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, amid the aggravation with the United States, called on the American people and Trump's call for an end to "endless wars" and peace. The Kremlin after the operation announced by the United States against drug terrorists in the Western Hemisphere called Southern Spear ("Southern spear") He expressed the hope that it would not come to destabilizing the situation in the Caribbean, RBC reminds.
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