Because it was never about drugs.

I'm sure you'll figure it out when they start 'finding drugs' on their domestic enemies.

Agreed. And why not just intercept the boats too? More proof that it wasn’t about the drugs.

They're trying to put all the fish in one barrel. They're doing a similar tactic with trans people in the US by fucking with passports

Precursor to an invasion. It’s basically a warning to the rest of the world: all flights going to, from, or through Venezuelan air space would do well to divert around it because soon that air space is going to be a war zone.

Why wouldn’t they just intercept them at the runway

Gotta justify $850 billion military budget somehow, plus Donny and Petey get a hate boner blowing up brown people

They have answered that question and they said that "the drugs" in those planes is still in transit between other countries. So the planes and boats are not directly going to the US but indirectly.

Allegedly.

He's showing he's trying to be a real threat. Now they're sending in the military to scare Venezuela into a good deal for resources or else.
It won't work. Internally, Congress is already calling out the illegality of attacking the boats. Congress won't allow a war and has already figured this out enough to tell the military to not follow illegal orders. It's still a sticky situation, but Venezuela's best move is to warn people and wait it out.