Russian president “is not looking at all to get involved there,” Trump says.
By Karen DeYoung Karen DeYoung Associate editor and senior national security correspondent Email Bio Follow May 3 at 6:56 PM President Trump’s senior national security aides met Friday at the Pentagon to review what acting defense secretary Patrick Shanahan called a “comprehensive set of options” for the administration’s next steps in Venezuela.
Defense officials said the Friday review included a briefing by Adm. Craig Faller, head of the Miami-based Southern Command. It focused, officials said, on discrete options for the U.S. military, including humanitarian assistance and support for civilians, rather than plans for a possible intervention in Venezuela.
But on Friday, the president indicated that he and Putin were in agreement, and that Putin “is not looking at all to get involved there.” Overall, Trump said later in the day, “I thought it was a very positive conversation I had with President Putin on Venezuela.” The public dissonance between Trump and his national security team came amid high level concerns in the military over a push by Bolton and his National Security Council aides for more aggressive U.S. intervention as the crisis has dragged on for months.
The administration has also charged that more than 20,000 Cuban military and intelligence officials are embedded in the Venezuelan security services, although experts on the region believe that number is significantly inflated and that whatever Cubans are there do not include combat capability.
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