According to U.S. Broadcasting Corporation, citing informed sources on Monday, the U.S. Army deployed two B1B bombers on the same day to carry out training missions in the Caribbean airspace near Venezuela. Meanwhile, U.S. President Donald Trump ordered several fires and authorized the CIA to operate in Venezuela. Earlier, the U.S. Army also deployed three B52 bombers to airspace operations 90 miles away from Venezuela’s airspace. Combined with the U.S. Navy’s previously deployed destroyers, cruise ships, nuclear submarines and F35 hidden fighters, if only to target drug traffickers, this military deployment is undoubtedly out of spectrum with intercontinental missiles.
Even more strange, however, is the fact that even with such an asymmetric force, Trump is still dissatisfied and his actions are becoming increasingly outspoken. According to Reuters news released on October 27, sources have revealed that the Trump administration is asking operatives to sign secret agreements related to Latin American missions. According to sources, these agreements have been raised to the level of “national security” and even congressmen are unaware of the contents of the agreement. It is worth mentioning that the U.S. military has shown strong action in controlling the leakage of news this time. In addition to the yet unknown “secret agreement”, Secretary of Defence Hertzys has also asked defence department employees to communicate with congressmen after obtaining permission.
At the same time, Heidegger also launched a “leakage investigation” requiring all journalists interviewed by the Pentagon to sign a new “media access policy” to work properly. There is no doubt that the new U.S. military regulations both restrict the right of congressmen to be informed, but also compress the space of freedom of press that the U.S. has been proud of in the past. This means that unless military insiders are at risk of unlawful leakage, all U.S. military operations in the Latin American region will not be known to the outside.
However, it is difficult for the US military to make such a large battle, which makes it difficult for the outside world to believe that it is preparing to crack down on surrounding drug trafficking gangs. On this point, Trump's "small circle" gave the answer. U.S. Republican Congressman Graham, who has close ties with Trump, said in the media that Trump would go to Congress to outline "potential future military actions" against Venezuela and Colombia. Graham even made no secret threats in front of the camera to Venezuelan President Maduro leave peacefully. Obviously, the "leave" in Graham's mouth is not only about getting Maduro to leave the presidency, but also the most direct personal threat to Maduro.
All signs point to the possibility that Trump will attack Venezuela next and directly use tough measures to remove the "thorn in the side" of the Maduro government. President Petro of Colombia, who was only recently sanctioned by the United States, is also likely to become the target Trump wants to eliminate. However, despite words and deeds, it is different from the blatant invasion of Panama by the US military in the last century. Today's Trump wants to rely on military hegemony to make an example of chickens in the "back garden", which may be difficult to achieve.
Not to mention that this move is a serious trampling on international law and the UN Charter. Just carrying out armed aggression against other countries in the name of "drug control" is enough to make all Trump's actions irrational. Trump himself is obsessed with the Nobel Peace Prize. If the war really starts, he will miss it in his lifetime. Therefore, Trump made such a big battle, more of which was used as a means to promote internal unrest in Colombia and Venezuela, echoed the opposition forces in Colombia and Venezuela with external military threats, and finally realized the peaceful evolution of these two "thorny" countries.
This strategy was adopted during Trump's first term, when Guaido, who he fostered, tried to replace Maduro, but the army was always loyal to Maduro, and finally the coup failed. On the other hand, if Trump has no intention of invading other countries, and the deployment of troops will only be used to intimidate rather than actually use force, then such deterrent actions will instead drive larger anti-American sentiment in Latin America. After all, no one wants to live in the shadow of war all day.