{"id":679358,"date":"2026-01-07T06:48:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T06:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/679358\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T06:48:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T06:48:24","slug":"trump-set-to-launch-daring-military-operation-off-coast-of-northern-ireland-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/679358\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump set to launch daring military operation off coast of Northern Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Donald Trump could launch another daring military operation against Venezuela, this time a lot closer to home, by seizing a runaway oil tanker just over 500 miles from Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Bella 1 tanker managed to evade the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.belfastlive.co.uk\/news\/northern-ireland\/mla-calls-trump-release-venezuelan-33168105\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:U.S. blockade set up in the Caribbean Sea;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">U.S. blockade set up in the Caribbean Sea<\/a> in December and has since been spotted in the North Atlantic, off of Ireland\u2019s west coast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In recent days, flight tracking data appears to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.belfastlive.co.uk\/all-about\/donald-trump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:show American military aircraft operating;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">show American military aircraft operating<\/a> out of the RAF&#8217;s Mildenhall airbase, in Suffolk, to deduce the whereabouts of the sanctioned vessel. These aircraft have been joined by RAF Typhoon fighter jets, aided by KC2 aerial refuelling tankers, to <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/trump-announces-strikes-venezuela-claims-111024337.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:help locate the tanker;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">help locate the tanker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"This image posted on US President Donald Trump's Truth Social account on January 3, 2026, shows what President Trump says is Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro onboard the USS Iwo Jima after the US military captured him on January 3, 2026.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"810\" height=\"539\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2a100c58efb702fb016992858bf6f667.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>This image posted on US President Donald Trump&#8217;s Truth Social account on January 3, 2026, shows Venezuela&#8217;s captured President Nicolas Maduro -Credit:US President Donald Trump&#8217;s TRUT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump could launch another daring military operation against Venezuela, this time a lot closer to home, by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[32,131551,1144,16,15,8518],"class_list":{"0":"post-679358","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-military-aircraft","10":"tag-northern-ireland","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-venezuela"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115852483494787764","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}