US jet noticed close to Mexico coast after Donald Trump makes Venezuela-style navy menace
Trump has suggested the US could take action against a number of other countries including Mexico over a range of issues after capturing Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro
A US Navy plane has been spotted circling near a part of Mexico’s coast shortly after Donald Trump threatened Venezuela-style military action against the country.
The P-8 Poseidon was reportedly detected on flight tracking websites conducting surveillance and reconnaissance missions off Tijuana, just south of the Mexican border with California.
It launched from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island in Washington and over Oregon and California then looped several times off the coast of Mexico and Southern California before returning to base.
The P-8 has been used to monitor suspicious ships and movements in the ocean as it’s equipped with with sensors that can detect targets on the surface and underwater, the Express reports.
It flew off the Southern Californian coast towards Baja and Ensenada, over territorial waters and exclusive economic zones near San Diego and Tijuana, stretching roughly 352 miles west into the Pacific Ocean.
It comes after the emboldened Orange Manbaby has hinted he may want to bomb other countries south of the USA and warned “something’s going to have to be done” about drug trafficking.
The US president suggested military action similar to that in Venezuela could be possible if the Mexican government does not stamp out drug cartels.
He said: “The cartels are running Mexico, whether you like it or not. It’s not nice to say, but the cartels are running Mexico.”
In November, Trump ordered Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum to clamp down on drug activity in the country or potentially face US military intervention.
He said: “Would I launch strikes in Mexico to stop drugs? It’s OK with me. Whatever we have to do to stop drugs. I didn’t say I’m doing it, but I’d be proud to do it. Because we’re going to save millions of lives by doing it.”
And Trump appeared to make threats of more Venezuela-style US military attacks on Cuba, Colombia and Mexico after capturing leader Nicolás Maduro over the weekend.
Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores appeared before a court in New York on drug trafficking-related charges on Monday. It comes as Trump claimed that US oil companies would also fix Venezuela’s “broken infrastructure” and “start making money for the country”.
Maduro previously denied being a cartel leader and accused the US of using its “war on drugs” as an excuse to try to topple him.
But he sealed his fate by taunting the notoriously thin-skinned US President with cheeky YMCA-style dance moves, sources claimed on Monday.
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