Rubio says US has no plan to use force in Venezuela — but warns ‘imminent threat’ could change that
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the U.S. is not postured to take an additional military action in Venezuela, following the capture of dictator Nicolás Maduro.
Diana Stancy is a politics reporter with Fox News Digital covering the White House.
That said, Rubio said that certain events could warrant military actions — pointing to a hypothetical scenario where an Iranian drone factory emerged in the region and threatened U.S. presence or allies there.
"The president does reserve the option in self-defense to eliminate that threat," Rubio said. "We don't see that, we don't anticipate that, but it could happen. We hope not … But I think it would require the emergence of an imminent threat of the kind that we do not anticipate at this time."
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