"Asked if only Venezuela was in the Pentagon's crosshairs, Trump said he saw any country producing drugs for contraband as fair game, echoing previous saber-rattling directed at Mexico. If they come in through a certain country, or any country, or if we think they're building mills, whether its fentanyl or cocaine anybody doing that and selling it into our country is subject to attack. Not just Venezuela, Trump said, adding that he heard Colombia was making cocaine, they have cocaine plants."
"We're going to start doing those strikes on land, too, he said. You know, the land is much easier, much easier. And we know the routes they take. We know everything about them. We know where they live. We know where the bad ones live, and we're going to start that very soon too. When we start that, we're going to drive those numbers down so low."
US policy treats any country producing drugs destined for the US as potentially subject to military action. Military operations will expand from maritime strikes to imminent land strikes inside Venezuela. Responsibility was reassigned to a navy admiral for the extrajudicial killing of two survivors of a September strike on an alleged drug-smuggling boat. The approach claims detailed knowledge of smuggling routes, locations of suspects, and plans to drive trafficking numbers down. Targeting of vessels has been asserted without public proof. References were made to cocaine production in Colombia as an additional concern.
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