What is the content of the confidential notice submitted by Trump? The US military continues to fire on ships in the Caribbean Sea. What is its real purpose?

On the same day, the Trump administration submitted a confidential notice to the U.S. Congress. The notification clearly "confirms" that the United States is in a state of "armed conflict" with the "drug trafficking group" and designates the "drug trafficking group" as a "terrorist organization" and constitutes an "armed attack" on the United States that the U.S. military can attack.This also means that in the eyes of the Trump administration, the ¡°drug trafficking group¡± has been legally placed in the same category as the ¡°Al Qaeda¡± and ¡°Islamic State¡± terrorist groups. In other words, the U.S. military will be ¡°famous¡± in future attacks on ¡°drug ships¡± in the Caribbean Sea. Recently, the U.S. has deployed at least eight warships, one nuclear-powered rapid-attack submarine with more than 4,500 soldiers. And last month the U.S. military launched attacks on several so-called ¡°drug trafficking boats¡± in the Caribbean, three of which occurred near Venezuela and another near the Dominican Republic. This unintentional behavior of the U.S. military also led to tensions between the U.S

However, this is not over. Just after the Trump administration submitted a confidential notice to Congress, less than 24 hours after the Trump administration submitted a confidential notice, US warplanes opened fire in the Caribbean waters. According to the situation reported by U.S. Defense Secretary Hegseth on social media, the U.S. military attacked a "drug trafficking ship" in the Caribbean waters on the 3rd and killed four people in the operation.At the same time, he also stressed that the strike took place in international waters, close to the coast of Venezuela. Although the United States keeps emphasizing that they are attacking "drug dealers," Venezuela does not recognize this. In the view of the Venezuelan government, the so-called "fight against drug trafficking" by the United States is a "big lie" and its real purpose is aimed at Venezuela. Because just last month, the Trump administration publicly stated that it was considering launching a direct military strike against "drug trafficking groups" in Venezuela. Previously, the Trump administration also increased the reward amount of Venezuelan President Maduro to US$50 million, then deployed warships and fighter jets to Venezuela's doorsteps, and now it is attacking ships close to the Venezuelan coast. Venezuela believes that What the United States is doing now is to put pressure on Maduro's government and take the opportunity to create panic in Venezuela. On the one hand, it is to force Maduro to step down and realize the change of Venezuelan regime; On the other hand, it covets Venezuela's domestic energy and minerals.

In order to deal with this naked threat from the United States, the Maduro government has already made its final plan, which is to fight the United States to the end. Recently, the entire country of Venezuela has also been surrounded by soldiers. Not only have the Venezuelan military and volunteer militia members conducted training exercises, but even soldiers have begun to teach the public weapons operation skills, all of which are for "a possible American invasion". Prepare. In addition to Venezuela, many countries in Latin America have generally expressed strong dissatisfaction with the current Trump administration's practices. Also on the 3rd, Ten members of the American Bolivarian Coalition joined the big battle, strongly condemning the ¡°illegal and provocative invasion¡± by U.S. aircraft near Venezuela in the Caribbean Sea in a joint statement.From the perspective of Latin American countries, the US military's military operations in the Caribbean are not only "systematic military harassment", but also "part of a series of aggressive acts" and "intimidation logic that imposes imperialist characteristics." Its actions have seriously undermined regional stability.

After the U.S. military cracked down on "drug ships" on the 3rd, Cuba, Colombia and Bolivia successively voiced their support for Venezuela. Among them, the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs criticized in the statement that the current practice of the US military is to "legalize" and "rationalize" the later larger-scale military operations; Colombian President Petro issued a document condemning the actions of the US military for violating the generally applicable legal principle of proportionality and constituting murder. The ships attacked by the US military were not "drug ships", nor were the people on board "terrorists" in the mouth of the United States. They were all poor young people in the Caribbean. From the voices of these countries, it is not difficult to see that the actions of the US military are being unanimously opposed by Latin American countries. Under such circumstances, if the Trump administration still chooses to go its own way, the most likely result will be those Latin American countries that were originally prepared to carry out economic cooperation with the United States directly turn around and leave. The Trump administration wants to control the "back garden" of the United States through this means of military power, and its purpose is difficult to achieve.