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Asked if only Venezuela was in the Pentagon’s crosshairs, Trump said he saw any country producing drugs for contraband as fair game, echoing previous saber-rattling directed at Mexico.

“If they come in through a certain country, or any country, or if we think they’re building mills, whether its fentanyl or cocaine … anybody doing that and selling it into our country is subject to attack. Not just Venezuela,” Trump said, adding that he “heard” Colombia was “making cocaine, they have cocaine plants”.

Trump then said military action inside Venezuela was imminent, further inflaming a conflict that began with targeted attacks on vessels his administration identified as engaged in drug trafficking, although without providing proof to the public, and now on the verge of becoming a wider regional conflict.

“We’re going to start doing those strikes on land, too,” he said.

“You know, the land is much easier, much easier. And we know the routes they take. We know everything about them. We know where they live. We know where the bad ones live, and we’re going to start that very soon too.

“When we start that, we’re going to drive those numbers down so low.”

An infographic that explains the warning signs of imminent U.S. escalation against Venezuela, including massive military buildup, pre-conflict use of covert and psychological operations, closing of civilian airspace, and designations of certain groups as terrorist organizations.

And he goes on to mention poet William Butler Yeats's line, "The falcon cannot hear the falconer; things fall apart; the center cannot hold," to frame his call to "return to a shared national experience – an embrace of common identity that by definition puts forward certain ideas, values, culture, and ways of living at the exclusion of others."

Karp's letter continues with a cliffhanger: "It is and was a mistake to casually proclaim the equality of all cultures and cultural values. Some have proven to be wondrous and generative. Others destructive and deeply regressive."

We're left to wonder which cultures Karp deems worthy.

An Il-76 can transport up to 50 tons of cargo or up to 200 people. Aircraft of this type are known to have delivered small arms, military supplies and even mercenaries on Russia’s behalf in the past. Larger deliveries, such as an S-400 air defense system, would likely require several trips.

Aviacon Zitotrans, the operator of the Ilyushin, has a fleet of six transport aircraft and is under sanctions by the U.S., Canada and Ukraine for its ties to the Russian military. It has delivered military equipment such as rockets, warheads, and helicopter parts globally, including to regions where the mercenary Wagner group has been active. The Wagner group, formerly headed by Yevgeny Prigozhin, has been a key tool used by Russian president Vladimir Putin to extend his country’s global geopolitical reach and was particularly active in Africa, with reports of some activity in Latin America. Following the group’s mutiny in 2023, it was absorbed into the Russian military proper, with its African operations turned into the Russian Africa Corps.

Russia is willing to respond to Venezuela's requests taking into account the existing and potential threats, declared this Thursday the spokesperson for the Russian Foreign Ministry, María Zajárova.

"We are in contact with our partners. We are prepared to continue responding adequately to your requests, considering existing and potential threats", he said during a press conference when responding to how Moscow would respond to Washington's threats against Caracas, in accordance with the strategic partnership agreement with Venezuela.

It should be remembered that, in mid-October, Trump did comments on the possibility of carrying out ground attacks against Venezuela and stated that he has them "in his sights". "I don't want to say it exactly, but we definitely have the terrestrial part in our sights right now", he said. "We have stopped him by sea, now we will stop him by land", he said regarding drug trafficking.

A New York Times report this month revealed that no one in Washington seems to know the actual number of federal dollars “saved” by DOGE — not congressional appropriators, and not independent budget hawks, while the White House’s own figures remain inaccurate, likely willfully so.

Those factors and more resulted in the Treasury declaring this past week that the U.S. debt is now climbing at its highest rate outside of the Covid-19 pandemic, when federal spending was supercharged in the American Rescue Act and through other measures taken to stabilize the economy amid lockdowns, supply chain shortages and business closures. In the same report, the Treasury noted that the U.S. national debt hit $38 trillion, a new record high.

The U.S. is set to be in the fairly unusual position of having only a single aircraft carrier deployed and none in the waters off both Europe and the Middle East. The change is especially stark after the U.S. joined Israeli strikes on Iran in June and has engaged in some of the most intense combat operations since World War II against Yemen's Houthi rebels in the Red Sea.