US military ‘preparing to seize ports & airfields’ in Venezuela as Trump declares full-scale war on drug cartels– www.thesun.co.uk
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AMERICA’S military is reportedly preparing to seize ports and airfields in Venezuela as Donald Trump declared a full-scale war on drug cartels.
The President stunned Washington by formally declaring the US is in a “non-international armed conflict” with the Latin American “terrorist organisations.”
The move, revealed in a secret memo to Congress, gives Trump sweeping wartime powers to strike, kill and detain cartel fighters without trial.
And it comes as the Pentagon quietly builds a force big enough to grab and hold territory on Venezuelan soil.
According to the Washington Examiner, US planners now have enough firepower positioned to seize key ports and airfields if ordered.
Off Venezuela’s coast sits a formidable armada: Navy warships and a submarine, ten F-35 Lightning II stealth jets, and the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit — 2,200 Marines with Harrier jump jets, helicopters and armor.