Venezuela flies military airplanes near the US Navy ship
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What we know about the drug boat strike at sea
For him second time in two daysVenezuela has flown military airplanes in the vicinity of the USS Jasson Dunham in international waters near South America, confirmed News themezone on Friday, describing that the action became a “chicken game.”
The plane, that an official of the Defense Department said they were F-16 Combat Jets, flew over the Dunham at some time on Thursday night. It was unknown if the plane was armed.
The Dunham, an Aegis guided missile destroyer, did not get involved, the officials said. The plane was inside the rank of weapons for both the plane and the ship, the officials added.
This occurs after News themezone reported on Thursday that two F-16 combat planes also flew over the Dunham that day. Later, the Pentagon confirmed that incident, describing it in a statement as a “highly provocative movement” that “was designed to interfere with our opposite drug traffickers.”
The Dunham is among a flotilla of US warships sent to the region In recent weeks That the Pentagon says that they have been deployed to attack criminal organizations and narcorism.
“I would say that they will be in trouble,” said President Trump, told reporters on Friday in response to a matter of what could happen if Venezuela would fly again on the ships of the US Navy.
“If they fly in a dangerous position, I would say that … you or your captains can make the decision of what they want to do,” Trump said while heading to the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and General Dan Caine, president of the Joint Chiefs.
On Tuesday, the White House announced That the United States Army carried out a strike in an alleged boat that trafficked drugs from Venezuela that, according to Trump, killed 11 people. The Trump administration said the ship was operated by the Trena de Aragua gang, one of several gangs that have been designated by the White House as foreign terrorist organizations.
The earlier Friday, A source familiar with plans He confirmed that the US is sending 10 F-35 combat aircraft to the Caribbean for operations aimed at drug cartels.
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James Laporta
James Laporta is a national security coordinating producer at the Washington Office of News themezone. He is a former American marine infantry and veteran of the Afghanistan war.