Trump Warns Strikes Inside Venezuela Will Start Very Soon, Other Countries Could be Targeted

President Trump speaks alongside Secretary of State Marco Rubio during a Cabinet meeting in the White House on Dec. 2, 2025. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP via Getty Images U.S. military strikes on land targets inside Venezuela will begin “very soon,” President Donald Trump said during a Cabinet meeting Dec. 2, while warning that other countries could also be subject to strikes if they’re suspected of being involved in drug trafficking.“We’re going to start doing those strikes on land too,” he said at the White House alongside his Cabinet officials, responding to a question on whether the military will strike inside Venezuela. “We know where they live. We know where the bad ones live, and we’re going to start that very soon.”The president did not provide other details about the operation, but U.S. strikes inside the Latin American country would mark an escalation in the conflict that has been brewing since September after the military conducted strikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea that officials have said were carrying drugs into the United States.