captain_spalding said:

party_pants said:

dv said:

I don’t think you have to be a Maduro-fan to find this a troubling development.

It’s just bullying, plain and simple. Pick on somebody weak, for made up reasons.

Nothing like a sudden, arbitrary war to get people to forget about ‘files’ and things.

Odds against DT getting a Nobel Peace Prize just went through the roof, though.

Mr Trump gave few specifics about how the US would run Venezuela.

“We’re going to be running it with a group and we’re going to make sure it’s run properly,” he said.

He indicated his cabinet would initially be in charge.

“It’s largely going to be, for a period of time, the people that are standing behind me,” he told the press conference, where he was flanked by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth and others.

Mr Trump also said the US was “ready to stage a second and much larger attack if we need to”.