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President Donald Trump sent mixed signals connected Sunday (November 2, 2025) astir imaginable U.S. involution successful Venezuela, playing down concerns of imminent warfare against the South American federation but saying its person Nicolas Maduro's days were numbered.
The President's remarks, made during a CBS interrogation released connected Sunday, travel arsenic the United States amasses subject units successful the Caribbean and has conducted aggregate strikes connected alleged drug-trafficking vessels, sidesplitting dozens.
"I uncertainty it. I don't deliberation so," Mr. Trump said during the "60 Minutes" program, erstwhile asked if the United States was going to warfare against Venezuela.
However, erstwhile asked if Mr. Maduro's days arsenic President were numbered, Mr. Trump replied: "I would accidental yeah. I deliberation so, yeah."
Mr. Maduro, who faces indictment connected cause charges successful the United States, has accused Washington of utilizing cause trafficking arsenic a pretext for "imposing authorities change" successful Caracas to prehend Venezuelan oil.
More than 15 U.S. strikes connected boats successful the Caribbean and the Pacific person killed astatine slightest 65 radical successful caller weeks, with the latest taking spot connected Saturday, prompting disapproval from governments successful the region.
Experts accidental the attacks, which began successful aboriginal September, magnitude to extrajudicial killings adjacent if they people known traffickers.
Washington has yet to marque nationalist immoderate grounds that its targets were smuggling narcotics oregon posed a menace to the United States.
