Posted on 10/04/2025 4:08:36 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The Caribbean is a powder ked ready to explode.
In the last few days, there has been a surge in activity on the maritime siege of Venezuela and the operation against the drug Cartels.
The Trump administration has reportedly declared – in a memo to Congress – drug cartels to be ‘unlawful combatants’, further declaring the United States to be in ‘armed conflict’ with them.
Then, yet another alleged drug boat was destroyed on the Caribbean.
A squadron of US F-35’s are detected flying over coastal city of Maiquetia, according to the Bolivarian Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino.
After all these developments, multiple reports note that the Department of War has assembled a force large enough to conquer territory on Venezuelan soil.
The Sun reported:
“US planners now have enough firepower positioned to seize key ports and airfields if ordered.
[…] Off Venezuela’s coast sits a formidable armada: Navy warships and a submarine, ten F-35 Lightning II stealth jets, and the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit — 2,200 Marines with Harrier jump jets, helicopters and armor.”
“The Pentagon hasn’t confirmed invasion plans but isn’t hiding its posture either.
The deployment is far beyond routine counter-drug patrols — suggesting Washington wants the option to strike deep inside tyrant Nicolás Maduro’s regime if needed.”
Daily Mail reported:
“The US military is also mulling how to go about striking targets linked to drug trafficking in Venezuela directly, NBC News reported last week.
Further, the large build-up of servicemen in the region, based out of Puerto Rico, has some wondering whether troops are practicing for potential operations to seize key locations within the country.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
One Good bullet, hard to find in Venezuela.
I call B S on this report.
Unlawful Combatants, Kiss Your Rears Goodbye!!
Move on to the communist enclave of shitcago next....
“22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit”
22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit
I’m telling you they are badasses to the bone.
I believe all drugs should be legal.
I won’t miss the dead.
Our system makes people like cartels
very rich.
Kill the money source!
If I recall correctly during the Biden administration Venezuela was a Russian client state. hmmmm
Now we know what the non-public part of Tuesday’s top brass briefing was about.
“The IWO ARG - 22nd MEU (SOC) is an integral part of advancing our nations’ interests abroad and is a dynamic representation of our Navy’s 250 years of lethality and warfighting excellence,” said Capt. Chris Farricker, commodore, Amphibious Squadron 8. “Our integrated Navy-Marine Corps warfighters are ready to execute the nation’s business and deliver quick and decisive combat power no matter where we are tasked in today’s complex global environment.”
Believe it.
“The IWO ARG - 22nd MEU (SOC) is ready to serve as the nation’s force of choice, prepared to decisively respond to any crisis in support of our national interests,” said Col. Tom “Banshee” Trimble, commanding officer, 22nd MEU (SOC). “We are warfighters; manned, trained, and equipped to win – anywhere, anytime.”
Monroe Doctrine still in effect.
China, Russia, and Iran have been using Venezuela as a base of operations against the USA.
People say the Ukraine war is stretching the USA thin.
Donald Trump is showing this can work both ways.
The USA does not recognize the Venezuelan government as legitimate. Several other nations do not recognize it as legitimate.
https://www.as-coa.org/articles/how-have-international-leaders-responded-venezuelas-2024-election
If all drugs are legal, how are doctors going to make a living?
Writing prescriptions is what MD’s do most. MD does not mean Mercedes Driver, it means doctor of Medicine.
This is as much about Cuba as it is about Venezuela.
This is as much about Cuba as it is about Venezuela.
. But none dare call it mission creep, right guys?
I only see 2 a/c but the humididity there must be pretty good to be able to intermittently create attached clouds.
“This is as much about Cuba as it is about Venezuela.”
Cuber don’t have no earl.
Sugar? maybe.
Durn good old skool SeeGars? Probably.
Some kind of lock on hemispherical Casinos? Not so much.
Sales of Communism as a superior alternative to what ever we have here these daze? Not so much.
Venezuela has the Ca$h to some degree still.
Lot’s of truth in that. We either need to win the drug wars decisively, or legalize all of them, and let the idiots who were eventually going to OD on some of them move up the pace a bit...
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