🇺🇸⏳❌🇻🇪🇻🇪❗️ — New York Times says that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio , backed by CIA Director Ratcliffe and chief domestic policy adviser Stephen Miller, are pushing POTUS Donald Trump for the destruction of the Chavista Regime in Venezuela

➡️ The push by top aides to President Trump to remove Nicolás Maduro as the leader of Venezuela has intensified in recent days, with administration officials discussing a broad campaign that would escalate military pressure to try to force him out, U.S. officials say to NYT

🇺🇸 It is being led by Marco Rubio, the secretary of state and national security adviser. Mr. Rubio argues that Mr. Maduro is an illegitimate leader who oversees the export of drugs to the United States, which he says poses an “imminent threat.”

➡️ In recent weeks, the U.S. military has launched lethal attacks on civilian boats that the administration said were smuggling drugs for Venezuelan gangs.

🇺🇸 But Mr. Rubio is shaping a more aggressive strategy, using intelligence provided by the C.I.A., the officials said. The Pentagon has built up a force of more than 6,500 troops in the region.

📝 The Central intelligence agency’s director, John Ratcliffe, and Stephen Miller, Mr. Trump’s chief domestic policy adviser, both support Mr. Rubio’s approach, the officials added.

➡️ The U.S. military has been planning potential military operations targeting drug trafficking suspects in Venezuela itself as a next phase, although the White House has not yet approved such a step, current and former officials say.

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🇺🇸🤝🇮🇷 — NYT's Farnaz Fassihi reports the Trump administration has struck a deal with Tehran to begin deporting Iranian individuals denied visa or arrested for crimes committed in the USA from the US, with the first flight carrying 100 deportees already on its way to Iran.

➡️ Iranian officials said that the plane, a U.S.-chartered flight, took off from Louisiana on Monday night and was scheduled to arrive in Iran by way of Qatar sometime on Tuesday. And the U.S. official confirmed that plans for the flight were in the final stages.

👺 All the officials spoke to The New York Times on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss details publicly.

📝 One of the officials said that Iran’s foreign ministry was coordinating the deportees’ return and that they had been given reassurances that they would be safe and would not face any problems. Still, he said, many were disappointed and some even frightened.

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🪖❌🇱🇻🇧🇾🇷🇺 — Observers report NATO fighter jets are currently conducting a low-altitude flyover of Latgale and other areas of Eastern Latvia near the border with Belarus and Russia.

🇺🇸🪖📹 — US President Donald J, Trump arrives for rare meeting with hundreds of U.S. generals and admirals at Quantico, Virginia

🇺🇸🪖📹 — US Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth speaking to US Military Leadership:

"The best way to take care of troops is to give them good leaders committed to the war-fighting culture of the department. Not perfect leaders, but good leaders.

Competent, qualified, professional, agile, aggressive, innovative, risk-taking, apolitical, faithful to their oath and the Constitution."

🇺🇸🪖❌🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 — US Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth speaking to US Military Leadership announces a crackdown on Woke within US Ranks:

"The military has been forced by foolish and reckless politicians to focus on the wrong thing. In many ways, this speech is about fixing decades of decay...

WE'RE ENDING THE WAR ON WARRIORS"

🇺🇸🪖❌🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 — US Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth speaking to US Military Leadership announces a crackdown on Woke within US Ranks:

"This admin. has done a great deal from day one to remove the social justice politically correct and toxic ideological garbage that had infected our department, to RIP OUT the politics...

No more identity months, DEI offices, dudes in dresses. No more climate change worship. No more division, distraction, or gender delusion...

As I said before and will say again, we are done with that shit."