Tensions in the Caribbean

Expert: Learn to be small attacks with special forces

Donald Trump's words that Venezuela's airspace "should be considered closed" are an escalation. This is what Björn Ottosson, who researches American security policy at the Swedish National Defense Research Institute (FOI), tells Aftonbladet.

The most likely thing is that the US will carry out small and limited ground operations with special forces, targeting drug labs or warehouses with links to drug cartels, Ottosson believes.

- The last thing they want is for the "American hand" to be too visible and there is a risk that soldiers will be taken hostage or something similar.

Venezuela condemns Donald Trump's "colonialist threat"

Venezuela's Foreign Ministry has commented on Donald Trump's statement about the country's airspace, reports AFP.

“Venezuela rejects and condemns the colonialist threat that seeks to affect the sovereignty of our airspace, and which constitutes yet another extravagant, illegal and unjust act of aggression against the Venezuelan people,” they wrote in a statement.

Earlier on Thursday, Donald Trump wrote that Venezuela’s airspace “should be considered completely closed,” without going into details about his plans.

Trump has no legal right to close another country’s airspace, but his threat could lead airlines to avoid operating in the country – something several have already done, writes the BBC.