President Donald Trump left the possibility of war with Venezuela on the table in an interview published Friday, after escalating the US pressure campaign on Caracas with an oil blockade.
“I don’t rule it out, no,” Trump told NBC News in a phone interview on Thursday.
Trump also declined to say whether he wants to oust Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Authoritarian leftist Maduro says Washington wants regime change in Caracas.
“He knows exactly what I want,” Trump replied. “He knows better than anybody.”
Trump said there would be further seizures of oil tankers, after US forces last week took control of an oil tanker leaving the South American nation.
