In his Dec. 2 televised (so-called) cabinet meeting, U.S. President Donald Trump casually threw out three or four times that the U.S. military “will attack on land also, just like we attacked on sea.” The first time, it was “if we have to,” to stop drugs. Then, it became “we will start doing the strikes on land, too. The land is much easier, and we know the routes they take; we know everything about them…. We know where the bad ones live, and we will start that very soon, too.”
The name “Nicolás Maduro”—the Venezuelan President—was not mentioned. Asked to elaborate further on land strikes, Trump began talking about “they” (presumably drugs) coming in “through a certain country, or any country,” or if we think cocaine or fentanyl “mills” are being built—“anybody that’s doing that, is subject to attack.” He mentioned Colombia specifically ("I hear Colombia has cocaine manufacturing plants"), and insisted the attacks will not be “just Venezuela,” although Venezuela is “probably worse than most, but a lot of people do it.”
