NEW YORK, December 19. /TASS/. US President Donald Trump is not ruling out a possibility of war with Venezuela, he told NBC News in an interview.
"I don’t rule it out, no," he said, addressing the corresponding question.
At the same time the US leader declined to clarify whether US strikes on Venezuelan vessels could directly lead to war. But he confirmed that the US intends to carry out new seizures of tankers. "If they’re foolish enough to be sailing along, the tankers will be sailing along back into one of our harbors," he noted when asked to specify the timing of possible seizures.
Washington has baselessly accused Venezuelan authorities of not doing enough to combat drug smuggling. According to the New York Times newspaper, Trump has allowed the CIA to conduct covert operations in Venezuela.
As reported by The New York Times in August, Trump signed a classified directive on the use of military force against Latin American drug cartels. After this significant additional US military forces were deployed to the Caribbean Sea.
