Trump Says US Military Took Out 'Big Facility' in Venezuelahttps://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2025/12/29/trump-says-us-military-took-out-big-facility-in-venezuela-n2668585President Donald Trump said the U.S. military destroyed a Venezuelan facility, which would mark the administration’s first airstrike on Venezuelan soil.
Up to this point, the administration limited its strikes to Venezuelan boats alleged to have been carrying narcotics to the United States. At least 100 people have been killed in the strikes so far.
Now, it appears the White House is escalating its military pressure on the Venezuelan regime, according to NBC News.
In the short phone interview on Friday, Trump responded to a comment about Venezuela by touting the administration's attacks on alleged drug boats before referring to a strike on a "big plant or big facility" that he said took place two nights earlier.
"We just knocked out — I don't know if you read or you saw — they have a big plant or big facility where they send the, you know, where the ships come from," Trump said in the interview. "Two nights ago we knocked that out. So we hit them very hard."
Trump did not provide further details about the apparent attack on the facility, which if correct would be the first known land strike in the U.S. counternarcotics efforts against Venezuela. NBC News has not independently confirmed the strike. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the president's remarks.
This story may grow greater as more information becomes public. A couple of notes/comments:
* Has there been any howls of protest from Venezuela over this?
* Traditionally - and incorporated in the US Constitution - nations kind of followed the ritual dance of declaring and then waging war. That got blurred or tossed aside in the latter half of the 20th Century. WRT Venezuela, it has been waging a form of undeclared war against the US by sending thugs with drugs into the US to kill US citizens with their products and to commit whatever additional violence that suited their fancy. The US government, dating at least to GWB and Clinton did not take this seriously, and more recently the thugs have been taking advantage of social programs with state and Federal lack of oversight.
Trying to force Federal actions into the declaration-of-war mold when the foe is waging undeclared war is more
partisan thought than clear thought, IMO.
