United States President Donald Trump has indicated that he does not plan to take any action against Venezuela, which appears to go against his own statement in the first part of this month, as the US continues to build-up a significant military presence in the area.

The US has already moved fighter jets, warships, and thousands of its troops to the Caribbean, and the largest warship in the history of the world, USS Gerald R Ford, is currently heading towards the coast of Venezuela.

Trump replied in the negative when questioned by reporters on board Air Force One on 31st October whether reports that he had been considering strikes in Venezuela were accurate.

The same message was relayed by the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, who responded to an article published in the Miami Herald that stated that the forces of Washington were about to strike Venezuela.

In an X post, Rubio wrote: “Your sources with their alleged knowledge of the situation fooled you into writing a fake story.”

The short reply made by Trump on Friday seemed to differ from his statements made about Venezuela at least two times earlier in the month.

In response, last week, the president of the US said that he would not necessarily request the declaration of war in order to do so, stating that he believed that they would simply kill those who were trafficking drugs into the country. “OK? We’re going to kill them.”

“They are now making their way to shore by land with them [drugs], you see that the land will be second,” he said.

Since the beginning of September, the US military has undertaken a spate of attacks on ships in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, killing at least 62 and destroying 14 boats and a semi-submersible.

The Trump administration has asserted that the attacks are aimed at alleged drug smuggling; however, it has not made any evidence available to the people to prove the claims.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, condemned the attacks, including their growing human price, as something unacceptable in a statement on Friday.

Turkey was urging the US to stop these attacks and do everything possible to stop the extrajudicial murder of individuals on these boats, regardless of the alleged criminal behavior against them.

In the meantime, a new YouGov poll released on Friday showed that fewer Americans support the US Navy’s presence around Venezuela than they did in September.

The latest poll showed that only 30 percent of the people polled indicated that they strongly or somewhat supported the naval deployment, with 37 percent opposed.

In comparison, a slightly higher proportion of 36 percent of people approved in September, with 38 percent disapproving.

The American increase has been answered by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who accuses the US government of creating a new eternal war against him.

He has negated the US allegations on drugs, too.

He told me that Venezuela is not a coca leaf-producing country, and according to analysts, the majority of smuggled drugs make it into the US through the Mexican land border by American citizens.

Trinidad and Tobago, the neighbouring country of Venezuela, but has been hosting a US warship since the beginning of time, raised its military on Friday and recalled all its staff to their bases despite what Trump and Rubio had said.

The army sent a message to the AFP news agency that stated that Trinidadian forces had been put on a level of State one alert. According to the police, they are restricted from all leave until further notice.

It was also reported by the Trinidad and Tobago Guardian newspaper that soldiers had been asked to report to duty.

On Tuesday, Venezuela cancelled a huge deal of gas with the neighbouring Trinidad and Tobago, claiming that this island state was welcoming the USS Gravely US warship.

Trinidad and Tobago claimed that the warship was in the country on normal, scheduled collective military drills with the United States.

US senators in search of a solution to the strategy on anti-drug.

Both the republican and the democratic leaders of the US Senate Armed Services Committee have expressed that they had sought information on the legal foundation of the US attacks on the ships in the Caribbean to no effect.

Republican Senator Roger Wicker and Democrat Jack Reed published a statement on Friday in one of the rare bipartisan moves, and two letters seeking more details on the strikes, which they wrote to the US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, dated September 23 and October 6.

Wicker, the chair of the committee, and Reed, the best Democrat, stated that the requested documents had not been provided yet.