US President Donald Trump has expressed doubts about the likelihood of war with Venezuela, but warned that authoritarian leader Nicolás Maduro’s time is almost up. In a recent interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes,” Trump said he did not think the US would go to war with Venezuela, despite escalating tensions in the region. The US military has conducted 15 strikes against vessels suspected of smuggling drugs in the past month, which some experts have called illegal extrajudicial killings. Trump also discussed his deportation campaign, government shutdown, and nuclear testing, stating that Maduro’s days as president are numbered.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/us/politics/trump-venezuela-shutdown-nuclear.html