As Trump Halts Venezuela Talks, Military Action Appears to Be on the Table
The US Navy has certainly been effective in striking drug boats, so the next set of cartel targets may be land-based.
The U.S. military has been steadily racking up hits on Venezuelan cartel drug boats:
- U.S. Military Sinks Suspected Drug Ship in Deadly Caribbean Strike
- Trump: Military Conducted Second Strike on ‘Narcoterrorists’ From Venezuela
- Trump Orders Third Strike on Alleged Drug Vessel
- Hegseth: Latest Strike on Venezuela Boat Kills Four Narco-Terrorists
It appears more military action may now be on the table as President Donald Trump has officially ended diplomatic talks with Venezuela, shutting down negotiations led by presidential envoy Richard Grenell.
The move signals potential military escalation against President Nicolás Maduro’s government and his alleged drug trafficking networks.
President Trump has stopped diplomatic discussions with Venezuela in his bid to end drug trafficking and cartels operating in the U.S., according to a report by The New York Times.
The outlet cited U.S. officials and claimed Trump has closed the door on negotiations, potentially setting in motion increased military action against drug traffickers, cartel ships or President Nicolás Maduro’s government.
According to the report, Richard Grenell, the special presidential envoy who was leading talks with Maduro, was informed Oct. 2. that all diplomatic contact must stop.
The Trump administration has accused Maduro of overseeing a “narco-state,” indicting him on drug trafficking charges and offering a $50 million reward for his arrest.
#BREAKING | US President Trump has called off efforts to reach a diplomatic agreement with Venezuela, according to U.S. officials, paving the way for a potential military escalation against drug traffickers or the government of Nicolás Maduro, — NYT pic.twitter.com/CpE9iBIr1Z
— The Global Eye (@TGEThGlobalEye) October 7, 2025
The noose seems to be tightening considerably around Maduro and his goons.
The suspension of diplomatic engagement marks a major shift in U.S. policy toward Venezuela. The Trump administration is combining political isolation, economic pressure, and an expanded military presence near the Caribbean coast in what it describes as a campaign against organized crime and drug trafficking.
In recent weeks, U.S. warships and intelligence vessels have carried out strikes on boats allegedly smuggling narcotics, operations the White House calls part of its “war on drug trafficking.” Caracas has denounced the actions as “acts of aggression,” accusing Washington of violating its sovereignty and threatening regional stability.
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OSINT Update (Oct 6): The USS Lake Erie (CG-70), a high-value, highly capable, Ticonderoga-Class Cruiser, operating in close proximity (<6 km) with the shadowy US Special… pic.twitter.com/j8xemFDF7N
— MT Anderson (@MT_Anderson) October 8, 2025
American officials indicate that the Trump administration has prepared several military options for the continued response.
Those operations could also include plans designed to force Mr. Maduro from power. Marco Rubio, the secretary of state and national security adviser, has called Mr. Maduro an “illegitimate” leader and repeatedly cited a U.S. indictment of him on drug trafficking charges.
Mr. Rubio had described Mr. Maduro as a “fugitive from American justice,” and the United States increased the reward for Mr. Maduro to $50 million.
A White House official said Mr. Trump was prepared to use “every element of American power” to stop drugs from entering the United States and had been clear in his messages to Mr. Maduro to end Venezuelan narcotics trafficking.
The US Navy has certainly been effective in striking drug boats, so the next set of cartel targets may be land-based.
The strikes, which have been challenged by legal scholars, follow a US decision to beef up the US Navy presence in the region, which has grown to least eight warships, one nuclear submarine, more than 4,000 troops, fighter jets, drones and surveillance planes. The force deployment is already the largest in the region since the 1989 invasion of Panama.
Over the weekend, Trump said US strikes have already halted drug traffickers moving by sea routes, and that an expansion to land targets in the future was possible.
“They’re not coming in by sea anymore, so now we’ll have to start looking about the land, because they’ll be forced to go by land,” Trump said.
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One has to wonder, behind the drugs, the illegal immigration, control of the canal zone, lie the chicoms. This is a silent war to disentangle their many tentacles around us.
Venezuela falls, then the communist clown in Columbia, then Ortega in Nicaragua. If those three fall Cuba won’t be far behind. And yes this appears to be a strategy to force China and Iran out of the Western Hemisphere. We learned this 60 years ago. It’s called the Monroe Doctrine.
Evil never rests
China is in Africa HUGLY
I understand the positives here and maybe a hard-line approach like this is finally called for (what about Mexico?). I even think taking out the cartels, to the extent that is possible, would not necessarily lead to war with Venezuela. But a lot of killing would be involved.
Trump is all theater.
A more ironic approach would be to eliminate all the drug users in America. Kill the demand curve.
Yeah that would go over great….dumb post that doesn’t even attempt to be intellectually honest.
Yes, we demand the product
Speak for yourself.
Everything, everywhere, all at once.
The worst thing to ever happen for the Democrats (and the entire Socialist World Order) was for “that kid acting independently” to shoot at Trump and miss by so little. That gave Trump’ I believe, a sense of his mortality and of how little time he has to do everything which needs to be done. It is both awe-inspiring and a little frightening to watch. I pray for him, and the country.
south americans have been told ( its on video) by cretins such as nancy pelosi etc that our land is their land and then backed up by the lefty /rino admins of allowing that to become real
After rereading some of the comments above (“Trump” is all theater”, for example), I would like to say that yes, Trump IS all theater, but not JUST theater.
I used to do labor negotiations for a company of 50,000. Trump’s way is the way high-stakes negotiations are done: Huge demands, and huge threats (“We’ll just shut down the goddam factory then!). Displays of power to remind the other side of just who they’re dealing with. Acts of crazy whimsy … to make sure that they can never assume you’re really bluffing. Hold out for as long as you can to force the other guy to blink first. When you’ve squeezed all you can out of the deal, settle fast, praise the opposition negotiator.
Remember Greenland and all the kerfuffle? It’s gone. That was a hand that was played to counter China and its purpose has been served. Remember the horror of tariffs on the EU? Negotiated and settled, and everyone is comparatively happy. Now Venezuela. All theater? You bet! But Maduro, are you SURE about that? Do you feel lucky? $50 million lucky? That’s a lot of cash for some sidekick to pocket and Trump would probably throw in American citizenship too. Or would you rather go into comfortable exile?
Nah, I’m SURE he’s just all theater….
Guess which side Democrats are on.
At least these pukes are consistent.
Soviet Communists, Chinese Communists, Cuban Communists, Venezuelan Narco-Terrorist-Communists, Muslim terrorists/Islamofascists.
Trust that the vile, stupid and evil Dhimmi-crats will always back totalitarianism and despotism, in all its myriad ideological manifestations.
Mr. Trump could disarm Democratic opposition to the use of force by doing one thing.
Say that he’ll respect the War Powers Act.
That would not be out of character for him; he genuinely dislikes war and doesn’t want to go to war, particularly forever war.
The WPA was passed by Congress after Vietnam and made clear to the President (then Ford) that Congress’ Article I powers trumped the President as commander-in-chief. It puts timing limits on military action without congressional approval. Most of our recent presidents have considered the WPA to be unconstitutional but that has never been tested.
Trump should accept the WPA, and then smile and say that whatever we’re going to do to Mr. Maduro, no worries, we’ll be done in 30 days.
He doesn’t want or need to disarm their opposition. He wants the optics of them defending narcoterrorists.
Trump shouldn’t commit to abide by the War Powers Act because it is likely unconstitutional, and this would be a bad precedent that gives the WPA legitimacy that it doesn’t deserve. Rather, he should get a congressional resolution authorizing use of military force to subdue the narco-terrorists from Mexico and Venezuela as was done against Islamic terrorists. Of course the Democrats won’t support this resolution, but the negative political effects and what the Republicans can use against them should be the same. He should do this now, before the Republicans lose either the House or the Senate, which is a real possibility given some of the poor candidates that the Republicans are fielding.
Sounds like Chavez was right about the US invading Venezuela. He was just 29years too soon as to when it would occur
“The strikes, which have been challenged by legal scholars …”
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I suspect that these so-called “legal scholars” are all dedicated, card-carrying Dhimmi-crats. None of whom raised any issues when narcissist-incompetent-dunce, Obama, was killing American citizens, abroad, using drones, or, using U.S. military action to help depose Qaddafi.
#47 has fairly determined that Venezuela is a narco-terrorist regime whose brazen drug trafficking poses a national security threat to the U.S. His military orders are well within his authority as Commander-in-Chief.
I’m having a hard time figuring out Trump’s legal justification in sinking the boats not that drug runners don’t deserve it but they are not in US Waters or approaching the US.
Physical location is only one aspect. Yes, they were in international waters. But the identity on those boas is known, their port o origin, destination, cargo, etc. Why wait till they coss that madjic invisible line in the sea?
Perhaps an alternative would be the use o drones, shadowing them until they DO cross that line, then appoach with orders to stop and be searched. Noncompliance would result in immediate and total and parmanent consequences.