Defiant Venezuelan Dictator Maduro Threatens the US, Claims He Has 5,000 Anti-Aircraft Missiles to Fight (VIDEOS)

Gateway Pundit ^ | October 23, 2025 | Paul Serran

[Red Badger]

Maduro is a wannabe rocket man.

With the continuing military and intelligence pressure against Venezuela’s socialist regime of Nicolas Maduro, his own inner circle is in turmoil, and successive purges try to weed out traitors, real or imaginary.

So, Maduro has to be constantly beating his war drum, engaging in what he believes to be shows of force.

Now, the ‘tyrant of Caracas’ claims he has 5,000 Russian anti-aircraft missiles positioned in ‘key air defense positions’.

The Sun reported:

“The inflammatory statement comes as a bold response to the United States’ continued military deployment in the Caribbean.”

This comes as Trump is considering further military action inside Venezuela as part of his war on drug cartels.

4,500 troops are deployed in the Caribbean, and several lethal strikes have targeted alleged drug boats off the Caribbean coast.

“Trump revealed last week that he had granted permission for the CIA to conduct covert operations in Venezuela.

He went on to say that the US was considering expanding military activity to land operations.

‘I authorized it for two reasons’, he said. Venezuela, he said, was the ‘worst abuser’ of ‘open border” policies under the Biden administration, emptying its ‘prisons, mental institutions, insane asylums’ of migrants to the US.

‘The other thing is drugs … We have a lot of drugs coming in from Venezuela’.”

[Sirius Lee]

Anybody can make claims. I have a missile in my pants that can take down any woman in a hundred mile radius.

[GingisK]

Hey Madro, stop the drug boats yourself so we don’t have that need.

[AppyPappy]

We have that many HARM missiles.

[hanamizu]

“...claims he has 5,000 Russian anti-aircraft missiles...”

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Am I wrong or has there been recent events that show the effectiveness of Russian anti-aircraft missiles?

[red-dawg]

Trump should send a boat down there with the invitation to “Drive this to Florida and we’ll talk”...

[Texas Eagle]

What a dumbass. You can’t see our planes.

[alloysteel]

Go ahead, Senor Maduro. Poke the hornets’ nest.

FA, FO.

[adorno]

All the U.S. needs to do is send in 4,000 cheap drones, and all of Maduro’s missiles will be wasted, if he had them at all

“Maduro’ means ripened in English. But Maduro is just a rotten piece of crap. Just send in a bunch of dung beetles to take care of him.

[Mariner]

“Now, the ‘tyrant of Caracas’ claims he has 5,000 Russian anti-aircraft missiles positioned in ‘key air defense positions’. “

High flying aircraft are exempt, as are those more than 4 miles from the manpad.

Well hell, now he leaves the Marines no choice but to jam him from the sea.

[mass55th]

“...claims he has 5,000 Russian anti-aircraft missiles...”

If Russia has enough missiles to supply other countries like Venezuela, then it's hard to believe the propaganda thrown out by Zeepers who constantly claim Russia is on her last leg militarily.

[adorno]

Am I wrong or has there been recent events that show the effectiveness of Russian anti-aircraft missiles?

The missiles are deadly, but they first have to find the targets, and the targets won't be found if the radar systems are taken out. The radar systems that guide the anti-aircraft missiles, are the parts that the Ukrainians have been successful at taking out of commission. No radar, no eyes. No eyes, and the missiles will go wildly into the air, and won't hit anything.

[rhinohunter]

What I don’t understand is why - at this point - are they still sending drug boats?

[adorno]

If Russia has enough missiles to supply other countries like Venezuela, then it's hard to believe the propaganda thrown out by Zeepers who constantly claim Russia is on her last leg militarily.

Still going with that 'zeeper' thing?

Anyhow, Maduro doesn't have the missiles and any delivery of those would have been noticed by the U.S.

And if Maduro did get them, Putin would be demanding them back, since he's running out of those missiles himself.

Those S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems? They're being systematically taken our of effectiveness by the Ukrainians. Not the missiles themselves, but the radar which detects the 'enemy' aircraft. No radar, no missiles that can take out the enemy aircraft. A missile system without eyes or radar, is just a pile of junk.

[mass55th]

Not you again? Blah, blah, blah. I told you before, I don’t read your comments when I see they are from you, but go ahead if you must. I’ll just ignore them like I’ve ignored your other ramblings.

[NeverTyranny]

I’d like to see that.

[NeverTyranny]

I’d like to see that.

[Alas Babylon!]

F-18 Growlers to block radar locks and comms and F-35A with the SEAD (suppress enemy air defenses) package with AGM-88G AARGM-ER anti-radar missiles.

Adios, Amigo! Hasta La Vista Misiles de Rusia!

[catnipman]

“russian” ... not something to be bragging about: russian air defenses were wiped out in iraq and iran and have failed miserably in the ukraine war ...

[catnipman]

“Am I wrong or has there been recent events that show the effectiveness of Russian anti-aircraft missiles?”

LOL! recently totally wiped out in iraq and iran without a whimper and failing terribly in the ukraine war ...