AMERICA'S military is reportedly preparing to seize ports and airfields in Venezuela as Donald Trump declared a full-scale war on drug cartels.

The President stunned Washington by formally declaring the US is in a “non-international armed conflict” with the Latin American “terrorist organisations.”

The move, revealed in a secret memo to Congress, gives Trump sweeping wartime powers to strike, kill and detain cartel fighters without trial.

And it comes as the Pentagon quietly builds a force big enough to grab and hold territory on Venezuelan soil.

According to the Washington Examiner , US planners now have enough firepower positioned to seize key ports and airfields if ordered.

Off Venezuela’s coast sits a formidable armada: Navy warships and a submarine, ten F-35 Lightning II st

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