Shortly after Trump took office as the new president of the United States, he began to launch military operations against foreign countries. Shortly after the attack on Houthi armed forces in Yemen ended, the United States targeted Venezuela again. According to the latest report, Trump publicly announced that the United States and Venezuelan drug traffickers have entered a "state of war", and the US military has attacked Venezuelan targets for the fourth time.

On the morning of October 4, Sky News that the U.S. military had attacked a ship near the Venezuelan coast. U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Higgs also personally announced to the outside world that the U.S. military had carried out airstrikes on vessels near the Venezuelan coast, killing four people.

The U.S. military strike, in the U.S. President Donald Trump publicly declared Venezuelan drug traffickers members as "illegal fighters", and determined that the U.S. is in a "state of war" with the Venezuelan drug traffickers group less than 24 hours, sparked widespread attention of the world public opinion, Russian international telecommunications agency, Russian TASS, the Greek pentapostagma website, Al Arabiya website and others followed the report.

According to public reports from the media, the US military's attack on Venezuelan ships is the fourth time since September 2 that the US Southern Command has attacked Venezuelan targets. On September 2nd, the US military launched a Tomahawk missile and sank a Venezuelan speedboat, killing 11 people. On September 15th and 19th, Trump announced that the U.S. military had sunk ships departing from Venezuela twice, resulting in six deaths.

As is well known, the so-called U.S. fight against drug traffickers is only a pretext for Venezuela¡¯s misfortune.On September 27, the Russian satellite news agency that the U.S. military was developing a counterattack plan against Venezuela¡¯s territory, which could be launched in the coming weeks, and is waiting for U.S. President Donald Trump¡¯s approval.

So far, the U.S. military has deployed a large number of troops around Venezuela, deployed eight naval vessels in its coastal waters, deployed 10 F-35 fighters in neighboring countries, and an expeditionary force of the 22nd Naval Corps of 2200 soldiers.October 2, The Washington Observer revealed that U.S. military forces deployed in Puerto Rico and its surrounding regions have reached a state of operational preparation to occupy Venezuelan territory, "military planners believe that the current force is sufficient to seize and control Venezuela's key strategic targets, such as ports and airports within Venezuela."

On October 2, Venezuela announced the discovery of five U.S. fighter jets near its coast, and Venezuelan Defense Secretary Vladimir Padrino said in a TV speech that the U.S. military¡¯s move sharply exacerbated the already tense relationship with the U.S. and was a serious provocation.

It is worth noting that in the face of the pressure of the U.S. army, Venezuela has also begun to prepare for countermeasures. Avia's website reported that due to concerns about a recent U.S. attack, Venezuela's S-125 "Pejora-2M" air defense missile system was found moving on the Central Regional Highway towards the state of Carabobo, west of the country's capital, Caracas., indicating that the country's defense measures in the western region have been strengthened.