U.S-Venezuela WAR: Trump THREATENS to Strike Maduro’s Drug Cartels on LAND| Defends 'Kill All' Order

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President Trump escalated tensions with Venezuela by warning that U.S. operations could expand onto Venezuelan soil to target what he calls Maduro-linked drug cartels. He strongly defended the controversial second strike on an alleged drug boat, insisting the action saved American lives. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth praised Admiral Bradley for sinking the vessel and “eliminating the threat.” The remarks signal a sharply intensified U.S. posture as questions mount over military conduct and regional stability.     #USVenezuelaWar #TrumpThreatensMaduro #VenezuelaCrisis #DrugCartelStrike #USMilitaryAction #PentagonBriefing #AdmiralBradley #PeteHegseth #TrumpRemarks #NavalStrike #InternationalTensions #Geopolitics #WarFooting #LatinAmericaCrisis #DefenseUpdate #BreakingNews #CrisisAlert #ForeignPolicy #USStrike #MaduroRegime #MilitaryEscalation #WhiteHouse  ~HT.96~

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00:00To me, it was an attack. It wasn't one strike, two strikes, three strikes.

00:03Somebody asked me a question about the second strike. I didn't know about the second strike.

00:07I didn't know anything about people. I wasn't involved in it. I knew they took out a vote.

00:11But I would say this. They had a strike. I hear the gentleman that was in charge of that is

00:18extraordinary. He's an extraordinary person. I'll let Pete speak about him. But Pete was satisfied.

00:25Pete didn't know about second attack having to do with two people. And I guess Pete would have to

00:32speak to it. I can say this. I want those boats taken out. And if we have to, we'll attack on land

00:38also, just like we attack on sea. And there's very little coming in by sea. I think we've knocked out

00:43over 90 percent of it. There's very little. And I understand that. There's very little. We're saving

00:48hundreds of thousands of lives with those pinpoint attacks. It's an amazing thing when you see a

00:54boat going along. And, you know, a lot of the press would like to say they're not. You see the boat.

00:59They're not maybe drugs. You see these boats. First of all, who has five engines on the back of a boat

01:05going in weird directions and loaded up with lots of white containers? They're bags or things.

01:15Now, they've done an amazing job. And Pete has done an amazing job. Pete, you could probably better answer

01:20the question. No, you're spot on, sir. I think you've got to start with the baseline, which Marco

01:24laid out. Everybody's laid out. We've got 20 million people invading our country over four

01:29years. We don't know where they're coming from. That includes Trendy Aragua and cartels and violent

01:33criminals. They bring drugs. And you mentioned it, Mr. President, poisoning, an intentional poisoning

01:38of the American people, killing hundreds of thousands of Americans. So the president had the courage to

01:44designate these cartels as designated terrorist organizations. A number of us here served in the

01:50military and spent 20 years fighting terrorists like al-Qaeda and ISIS on the other side of the

01:55world. How do you treat al-Qaeda and ISIS? Do you arrest them and treat them, pat them on the head and

02:00say, don't do that again? Or do you end the problem directly by taking a lethal kinetic approach? And that's

02:07the way President Trump has authorized the War Department to look at these cartels. And I wish everybody

02:12could be in the room watching our professionals, our professionals like Mitch Bradley, Admiral Mitch

02:17Bradley, and others at JSOC and SOCOM and other commanders. The deliberative process, the detail,

02:23the rigorous, the intel, the legal, the evidence-based way that we're able to, with sources and methods

02:29that we can't reveal here, make sure that every one of those drug boats is tied to a designated

02:34terrorist organization. We know who's on it, what they're doing, what they're carrying. All these

02:38white bales are not Christmas gifts from Santa. This is drugs running on four-meter motor fast

02:44boats or submarines that we've also struck. No one's fishing on a submarine. And I have empowered

02:51them to make that call. Now, the first couple of strikes, as you would, as any leader would want,

02:56you want to own that responsibility. So I said, I'm going to be the one to make the call after getting

03:01all the information and make sure it's the right strike. That was September 2nd. There's a lot of

03:06intelligence that goes into that, building that case and understanding that a lot of people

03:09providing information. I watched that first strike loss. As you can imagine, at the Department of

03:14War, we got a lot of things to do. So I didn't stick around for the hour and two hours, whatever,

03:19where all the sensitive site exploitation digitally occurs. So I moved on to my next meeting. A couple

03:25of hours later, I learned that that commander had made the, which he had the complete authority to do,

03:30and by the way, Admiral Bradley made the correct decision to ultimately sink the boat and eliminate

03:35the threat. He sunk the boat, sunk the boat, and eliminated the threat. And it was the right

03:42call. We have his back. And the American people are safer because narco-terrorists know you can't

03:49bring drugs through the water and eventually on land if necessary to the American people.

03:54We will eliminate that threat, and we're proud to do it.

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