“When President Trump was running, he and I both campaigned on the same thing, which was [to] secure the border, designate the cartels as narco-terrorists, and use our military in a strategic-focused way to destroy this cartel infrastructure,” McCormick added. As part of Operation Southern Spear, a campaign to crack down on drug trafficking in the western hemisphere, the US has deployed the USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group to the Caribbean, including 11 ships, over 70 aircraft and nine carrier air wings. “We’re not going to allow them to continue to use Venezuela as a terrorist country to ship in tons of drugs into the United States and continue to kill our brothers or sisters, our friends and family on the streets of the United States.”
Author: Ryan King
Published at: 2025-11-30 21:55:51
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