In a major escalation of the war that Trump seems to be starting against Venezuela,

Hegsseth and the Pentagon have ordered the deployment of the United States' most advanced

and newest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald Ford, to the Caribbean off the coast of Venezuela.

This ship has 5,000 Navy seamen, and this is an addition to the 10,000

troops already deployed in the region. This comes as Trump was just recently asked whether or not

he plans to go to Congress in order to seek the authorization to go to war, as he says, he is going to war against

drug cartels, but solely based on the executive order he issued earlier in the year. He has

had no approval from Congress despite the fact that our Constitution requires Congress to

declare war. This is what he said in response.

Our sea drugs, as they call them, they use the term sea drugs, the drugs coming in by sea

are like 5% of what they were a year ago, less than 5%. So now they're coming in by land.

And even the land is concerned because I told them that's going to be next. You know, the land is going to be next. And we may go to the Senate. We may go to the, you know, Congress and tell them about it. But I can't imagine that have any problem with it. I think, in fact, while we're here, I think it's a good idea, Pete, you go to Congress, you tell them about it. What are they going to do, say, gee, we don't want to stop drugs pouring in.

I don't see any Lawson going, no reason not to. You know, they'll always complain, oh, we should have gone. So we're going to definitely, I'd like to just tell you, let's go. We'll go. We're going to tell them what we're going to do, and I think they're going to probably like it except for the radical left lunatics.

And Mr. President, if you are declaring war against these cartels and what we're going to do and I think they're going to probably like it except for the radical left lunatics.

And Mr. President, if you are declaring war against these cartels and Congress is likely to approve of that process,

why not just ask for a declaration of war?

Well, I don't think we're going to necessarily ask for a declaration of war.

I think we're just going to kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. Okay? We're going to necessarily ask for a declaration of war. I think we're just going to kill people

that are bringing drugs into our country. Okay? We're going to kill them. You know, they're going to be

like dead. We will just kill them. Seems to be Trump's policy. And he apparently thinks he needs

zero oversight or authority to do so. Hegset also just announced the 10th strike

against a boat in the Caribbean, again claiming each one had to do with drugs and the drug cartel.

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