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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
Politics
Maybelyn B. Paden

Trump's 'No More Wars' Pledge Under Fire After Massive Venezuelan Air Assault

Trump's 'No More Wars' Pledge Under Fire After Massive Venezuelan Air Assault (Credit: Gage Skidmore/Flickr CC BY-SA 4.0)

The contradiction was impossible to ignore. Just moments after announcing a large-scale military strike against Venezuela, with explosive footage pouring in from Caracas, President Donald Trump found himself facing backlash from an unexpected quarter — his own supporters at Fox News. The credibility gap between Trump's repeated rhetoric about ending American military interventionism and the reality unfolding across South American airspace had become impossible to ignore.

Multiple explosions reverberated across Caracas early Saturday morning, painting the Venezuelan capital's skyline with fire and smoke as residents scrambled into the streets. The assault marked a dramatic escalation in what had already been simmering tensions between the Trump administration and the government of Nicolás Maduro.

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