Illustrative image. (U.S. Navy photo by Lithographer Seaman Apprentice Bryant Kurowski)
Senior United States military officials on November 13 presented President Donald Trump with updated options for potential operations in Venezuela, including strikes on land, CBS News reported, citing multiple sources familiar with the meetings at the White House.
The options were presented by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan Caine and other senior officials.
The U.S. intelligence community assisted in providing information for potential operations against Venezuela, according to the report.
No final decision was made by Trump, however, two of the sources told CBS News, without providing details on any of the operations.
The report came after the Pentagon confirmed earlier in the week that the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford and its strike group began operating in the area of responsibility of the Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), which includes the Caribbean Sea.
The Ford joined an amphibious ready group led by the USS Iwo Jima landing helicopter dock that was deployed to the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility in August. In the same month, doubled the reward for the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to $50 million on drug trafficking charges. Later in September, the U.S. military began launching strikes against boats allegedly carrying drugs in the Caribbean and the eastern Pacific Ocean.
According to CBS News, the U.S. has so far targeted 21 alleged drug boats in both areas, killing at least 80 alleged smugglers.
Earlier this month, Trump was presented with multiple military options for Venezuela, including targeting Maduro himself and occupying the country’s oil fields, according to a report from The New York Times.
As a part of its preparation for an attack by the U.S., the Venezuelan government announced earlier this week that it was launching a “massive mobilization” of military personnel, weapons and equipment.
Any U.S. attack on Venezuela will likely be aimed to topple Maduro in a way or another, with the ultimate aim of tapping into the country’s oil reserves, which are the largest in the world. Trump hesitation in making a decision likely stems from fear of a catastrophic failure, or even legal challenges within the U.S. itself. In any case, dragging this situation any more won’t be in favor of the U.S.
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usa will liberate the people of venezuela soon!!!
heheheh
and of cuba, and of north korea, and of china and of russia, et caetera et caetera, but, but, it’s not more simple to put you…?
that ragbag motley crew of weird dodgy paedo billionaires and their degenerate offspring, rabid warmongers, religious nutjobs, superannuated generals, grifters, fraudsters, conmen, halfwits, dimwits and certifiable lunatics could not liberate their way out of a paper bag.
ars you talking about the venezualas or are you ignorant ?
the staff at the bank here are venezuelan a ckassmare in high school.was ,my best friend in city beach and his wife are they would be grateful if america did.because they left there to escape.
too bad south front can’t keep google scams out of the comments.
don’t bother, humans survive.
they choose not too .obviously
the empire of lies just demonstrated how criminal it was by murdering so many people of several countries for no other reason than provocation and power abuse. lies after lies and at the end only the guys at the top will believe their own fallacies and they wont stay forever at the top and could be held accountable. many us citizens who did not yet are waking up. it is so obvious…
well.youre a real sucker for lies.
option 1: don’t do it.
option 2: make peace with the narcos, topple colombian gov and then invade venezuela
option 3: make a naval blockade and pray that china wont sink your toys
mr. the “war” minister
so silly
unbelievable.
where will china and russia get their drugs from then ? coke only comes from south america and the wealthy love coke and obviously irs very attractive to market to billionaire chinese communists and russian oligarchs.
why dont they ever talk about it ? do they think people will believe they don’t do coke ?
as if .
vamos venezuela, resiste!!!
updated options ? the us empire is dying . suicide ! ever since 1948 when it chose israel over its people it has never really won a war, but extended them globally. venezuela does not charge load interest and the planets largest oil reserves. the armed population is well aware of this.
wailing-wall-hugger chumpo and the thieving gringos will find that venezuela is another vietnam, another afghanistan x 100. their thieving hands will be cut off.