After repeated US airstrikes on Venezuelan drug smugglers’ boats in the Caribbean, President Donald Trump said that the US would very soon start attacking drug smugglers living in Venezuela. Trump’s comments during Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting indicate further rising tensions between Washington and Caracas.
Trump said during the cabinet meeting, we are going to start these attacks on the ground as well. It is very easy to attack on the ground. We know where they live. We know where these people live, and we are going to do that very soon.
Drug smuggling boats targeted
Trump’s comments come after his administration launched aggressive attacks targeting alleged drug smuggling boats, in which more than 80 people have been killed so far. At the meeting, Trump defended Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and said that neither he nor the Secretary of War knew about the second attack on a suspected drug ship.
No information about second attack
US forces attacked a suspected drug vessel operating in the Caribbean on September 2; not everyone on board was killed in the initial attack. Trump said that he did not know about the second attack. I didn’t know anything about people. I was not involved in it, and I knew that they had shot down a boat, but I would say that they had attacked. The president said Hegseth was satisfied with the attack but was not aware of another attack involving two people.
Didn’t see any living person
In his defence, Hegseth said that he had watched the first attack live but then went to his next meeting. The War Secretary further said that he learned about the second attack a few hours later. And did not see any living person. I personally didn’t see anyone survive because that thing was on fire. Hegseth said it is called the fog of war. The White House said Admiral Frank M Mitch Bradley, commander of US Special Operations Command, had ordered the second attack.
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