Hours after the United States carried out strikes in Venezuela that led to the capture of incumbent Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, US President Donald Trump told Fox News that it was a complex manoeuvre and hailed the professionalism of the armed forces.
"It was amazing to see the professionalism -- the quality of leadership...To have a few injuries, but no deaths on our side is really amazing," Trump told Fox News.
"We were surrounded by lots of people, including Generals and they knew everything that was happening. It was extremely complex- the whole manoeuvre -- the landing, number of aircraft, helicopters, different kinds of fighter jets. They just broke in, and into places which were not really able to broke into," he added.
Trump told Fox News that he had not seen anything like this, and was able to watch it in real time and watched every aspect of it.
"I've never seen anything like this. I was able to watch it in real time, and I watched every aspect of it," Trump said.
"They rehearsed and practice like nobody has ever seen. I was told by military people there is no other country on earth that can do such a manoeuvre. I watched it like I was watching a television show. If you would have seen the speed, violence- it was an amazing thing, an amazing job that these people have done. Nobody else could have done anything like this," he said.
Trump told Fox News that the US had planned to conduct the military operations in Venezuela four days ago but had to delay it due to the weather conditions.
"We were going to do it four days ago but the weather was not perfect. The weather has to be perfect... It was amazing. I'll tell you -- it was highly guarded, like a fortress actually. We had nobody killed, we lost no aircraft," Trump said in his first remarks after the US conducted strikes into Venezuela that led to the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores.
"We had to do it. It is a war. We are losing three hundred thousand people a year. We don't lose that much in a war," he told Fox News.
Trump said the US action, 'sends a signal we're not going to be pushed around as a country anymore'.
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