This is one thing. I'm David Rind, and the U.S. military has a pretty good view of Venezuela right now.

It is far too large at this point to only be about striking a few speedboats in the Caribbean.

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They've completely stopped.

And I said, I know why.

I would stop too.

Hell, I wouldn't go fishing right now in that area of the world.

Since early September, Trump administration officials like Vice President J.D. Vance

had been bragging about blowing up

boats off the coast of Venezuela. They claim, without any hard evidence, that the boats are affiliated

with cartels, trafficking illegal drugs from South America up to the U.S. Now, this had already raised

a ton of legal and ethical questions, but then on Wednesday,

President Trump took things a step further and confirmed the CIA had been authorized to operate

inside Venezuela.

So is this really about drugs or something deeper?

And how serious could this conflict get?

Let's break this down today with CNN's Natasha Bertrand. She

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