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Donald Trump has said that reports of the United States sending B-1 bombers to Venezuela to increase military pressure were false, despite evidence that suggests otherwise.
Asked about the report, Trump told reporters, “No, it’s a lie.” Trump said Washington was “very unhappy with Venezuela.”
The U.S. military flew a pair of supersonic, heavy bombers to the Venezuelan coast on Thursday, a little more than a week after another group of U.S. bombers made a similar trip as part of a training exercise to simulate an attack, reports show.
The army has prepared an unusually large force Caribbean Sea and Venezuelan water, increasing speculation about the president donald trump May try to oust Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Maduro is accused of drug terrorism in America
Adding to the speculation, the US military since early September has been carrying out deadly attacks in Venezuelan waters against ships that Trump says are smuggling drugs.
A pair of B-1 Lancer bombers take off from Dyess Air Force Base, according to flight tracking data texas Thursday and flew through the Caribbean to the coast of Venezuela. A US official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive military operations, confirmed that a B-1 training flight had taken place from the Caribbean to AP.
The B-1 bomber could carry more bombs than any other aircraft in the US stockpile.
A similar flight of slow B-52 Stratofortress bombers was conducted over the region last week. bombers included Marine Corps F-35B stealth fighter jet – one squadron currently located Puerto Rico – Why pentagon In photos online it is described as a “bomber attack demo”.
When Trump was asked about Thursday’s B-1 flight and whether it was intended to increase military pressure on Venezuela, he said, “That’s wrong, but we’re not happy with Venezuela for a lot of reasons. Drugs is one of them.”
US forces in the Caribbean include eight warships, P-8 maritime patrol aircraft, MQ-9 Reaper drones and an F-35 fighter squadron. Operation of a submarine in the maritime area has also been confirmed South America,
Trump said on Wednesday that he had the “legal authority” to attack boats allegedly carrying drugs and suggested that similar attacks could be carried out on land.
“When they come by land, we will attack them with force,” Trump told reporters. Oval Office“We’re fully prepared to do that. And we’ll probably go back.” Congress And explain exactly what we’re doing when we get to land.”
Secretary of Defense pete hegseth said on Wednesday that the army carried out its ninth attack, killing three in the eastern pacific oceanThis was followed by an attack in the eastern Pacific on Tuesday night, which killed two people and brought the total number of deaths from the attacks to at least 37.
The latest pair of attacks expand the Trump administration’s campaign against drug trafficking South America From the waters of the Caribbean to the eastern Pacific Ocean.
Hegseth has drawn a direct comparison between the war on terrorism declared by the US after the September 11, 2001 attacks, and the actions of the Trump administration.
“Our message to these foreign terrorist organizations is that we will treat you the same way we treated al-Qaeda,” Hegseth told reporters Thursday. white House,
They said, “We will find you, we will find your network, we will hunt you down and we will kill you.”