Posted on 10/27/2025 4:18:01 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The Trump administration is accumulating a massive U.S. military presence in the Caribbean, deploying warships, surveillance planes and fighter aircraft as it continues to blow up alleged drug-trafficking boats in the waters around South America.
The main target for the flurry of activity appears to be Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, whom the administration has called an “illegitimate leader.” The country’s attorney general said on over the weekend there is “no doubt” that Trump wants to topple Maduro’s regime.
On Friday, the Defense Department (DOD) ordered the USS Gerald R. Ford and its escort ships to head to the U.S. Southern Command (Southcom) area of responsibility, significantly expanding the U.S. military presence, which already counts around 10,000 U.S. forces supporting counternarcotics operations.
Earlier this month, Trump confirmed he had authorized the CIA to conduct covert operations in Venezuela. The U.S. flew B-52 Stratofortress bombers near the coast of Venezuela. And last week, two Air Force B-1 bombers flew near Venezuela’s airspace.
“So I think that’s another example of the president trying to scare the pants off of Nicolás Maduro and his top generals in order to hopefully create … some sort of breaks within the regime, which might lead to a change that might be more favorable to an opening with the opposition,” said Christopher Hernandez-Roy, the deputy director and senior fellow of Americas Program at Center for Strategic and International Studies.
He called the B-52 bombers that flew for hours off the Venezuelan coast action meant “to intimidate” the country and it’s military. He said the U.S. “seems to be telegraphing some sort of imminent kinetic action inside Venezuela.”
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But...but...but, Maduro has already organized and armed his Housewife and Prostitute Militia. Trump will just strike back with our Women of Color, Pancake Waitresses/Dipstick Judges Brigade-Weaponized. This should be a real hoot.
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Or Trump could send Monica Lewinsky with a message. I seem to remember she had the ability to get the pants off politicians.
We're perfectly capable of keeping any drugs coming from Venezuela from coming into the country with going to war.
Trump, for a decade, campaigned against getting us involved in unnecessary foreign wars.
Tired of scaring despots!
Get rid of them by any means necessary!
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