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President Donald Trump is the spearhead of a military accumulation in the Caribbean, which is already disconnecting from a series of American military strikes against alleged drug ships in Venezuela.

So far, the Trump administration has carried out at least three deadly strikes against the so -called drug trafficking, which has prompted certain legislators to the congress to question the legality of these strikes and to request additional surveillance.

Strikes are the last climbing of the Trump administration as it moves to suppress drugs from drugs and the influx of illicit drugs in the United States and they come after the administration of drug cards designated as Tren de Aragua, the Sinaloa cartel and others as foreign terrorist organizations in February.

The constitution of naval forces in the Caribbean gives the United States the capacity not only to carry out such strikes in international waters near Venezuela, but also in Venezuela itself, according to Geoff Ramsey, a principal researcher to the International Reflection Group of Affairs of the Atlantic Council.

Trump says “we will see what’s going on” when they were asked to hit Venezuela in the middle of the growing tensions

President Donald Trump arrives at the airport

President Donald Trump heads a military accumulation in the Caribbean. (Images Kevin Dietsch / Getty)

In August, Trump approved the sending of several destroyers of missiles guided by the US Navy to strengthen the efforts of counter-nosto-leaders of the administration in the region.

“That we see more substantial strikes will depend more on political calculations in Washington than on operational capacity,” Ramsey said in an email on Wednesday in Fox News Digital. “The administration could use strikes as occasional demonstrations of force, or it could degenerate in a more systematic campaign. But the risk of doing so would be that we could destabilize Venezuela and trigger an internal armed conflict without a clear end game.”

Ramsey said strikes are accompanied by a “real risk of climbing” and said Venezuela considered them violations of sovereignty. In addition, attacks within Venezuelan territory could ignite a “reprisal cycle,” he said.

“This would increase the prospect of a broader confrontation between American and Venezuelan forces, which could potentially end up triggering an internal armed conflict in the South American country, which could destabilize the region,” said Ramsey.

“Until now, President Trump seems to be aware of these risks, which is why strikes have so far been carefully supervised as counter-narcotic operations in international waters rather than a manifesto against the Venezuelan government.”

After Trump sent the destroyers to the American Southern Command, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said that his country was ready to respond to any attack, adding that this decision was “an extravagant, unjustifiable, immoral and absolutely criminal threat”.

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USS seriously and president Maduro

The USS seriously and several other destroyers were deployed at US Southern Command while the Trump administration takes drug cartels and President Nicolás Maduro. (Getty Images)

After the second strike, Maduro said the incident was part of a greater effort “to intimidate and ask for a regime change” in Venezuela. The Trump administration said that she did not recognize Maduro as a legitimate head of state and considered him a head of a drug cartel.

Meanwhile, the members of the Congress questioned whether the strikes approved by the Trump administration are even legal in the first place. For example, the senators Adam Schiff, D-Calif., And Tim Kaine, D-VA., Filed a resolution of war powers on Friday which would prevent American forces from engaging in “hostilities” against certain non-state organizations.

The Democratic Senator of Virginie Tim Kaine

Senators Tim Kaine, D-VA., Illustrated here, and Adam Schiff, D-Calif., Recently deposited a resolution of war powers which would prevent American forces from engaging in “hostilities” against certain non-state organizations. (Al Drago / Bloomberg via Getty Images)

“President Trump has no legal authority to launch strikes or to use the military force in the Caribbean or besides in the Western hemisphere. The administration refused to provide the Congress with the basic information on the multiple strikes he has carried out, including which was killed, why it was necessary to put the life of the members of the risk service, and why a standard prohibition operation was not carried out,” said Kaine in a statement on Friday.

“Congress simply cannot be stiff because this administration continues to flee the law.”

The Senate will have to examine and vote on the resolution.

Despite this, the Trump administration said from the start that it is prepared for additional strikes.

“Obviously, they would not do it again,” Trump told journalists in September after the first military strike. “And I think many other people would not do it again. When they look at this band, they will say:” Let’s not do that. “We have to protect our country and we will do it.

Likewise, the secretary of war Pete Hegseth reported that the US military would launch future strikes on other drug ships that would try to pass drugs in the United States

Trump announces that the American soldiers have led a “deadly strike” on a Venezuelan drug boat in the Caribbean

Defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, arrives at a pentagon briefing

The war secretary, Pete Hegseth, said that the US military would launch future strikes on other drug ships trying to pass drugs in the United States (Images Andrew Harnik / Getty)

“We have active in the air, assets in water, assets on ships because it is a serious mortal mission for us, and that will not stop with this strike,” Hegseth told Fox News in September after the first strike.

“Any other traffic in these waters we know is an designated narco-terrorist will face the same fate.”

However, strikes will probably not continue in the long term while boats traffic in the region is triggered in response to strikes, according to Bryan Clark, director of the Center and Defense Technology of the Hudson Institute Think Tank.

“These strikes will probably intensify for a few weeks, then lower when fewer boats will try to cross. This is probably the intention of the operation,” Clark told an email on Tuesday at Fox News Digital. “I think it is very unlikely that it will lead to a wider conflict because the Venezuelan government will not want it.”

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