President Donald Trump is considering plans to target cocaine facilities and drug trafficking routes inside Venezuela, though he has not yet made a decision on whether to move forward with them, three US officials told CNN.

Outward signs on Friday pointed toward a major potential military escalation, with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordering the Navy’s most advanced aircraft carrier strike group currently stationed in Europe to the Caribbean region amid a massive buildup of US forces there. Trump has also authorized the CIA to conduct covert operations in Venezuela.

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    12 hours ago

    Actually of all the things they could have claimed to target, why cocaine?

    Like, shit, there’s so many other things people could have believed slightly more than cocaine.

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      11 hours ago

      MAGA base doesn’t think like that. South American country, and Trump says there’s cocaine there? Yes, of course that’s true, why even check those facts?