Posted on 10/31/2025 11:09:44 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
The Trump Administration has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela and the strikes could come at any moment, sources with knowledge of the situation told the Miami Herald, as the U.S. prepares to initiate the next stage of its campaign against the Soles drug cartel.
The planned attacks, also reported by the Wall Street Journal, will seek to destroy military installations used by the drug-trafficking organization the U.S. says is headed by Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro and run by top members of his regime.
Sources told the Herald that the targets — which could be struck by air in a matter of days or even hours — also aim to decapitate the cartel’s hierarchy. U.S. officials believe the cartel exports around 500 tons of cocaine yearly, split between Europe and the United States.
While sources declined to say whether Maduro himself is a target, one of them said his time is running out.
“Maduro is about to find himself trapped and might soon discover that he cannot flee the country even if he decided to,” the source said. “What’s worse for him, there is now more than one general willing to capture and hand him over, fully aware that one thing is to talk about death, and another to see it coming.”
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Issue? Not just Maduro's Cartels, but other targets in South America.
It is clear that Russia is also interested in supplying weapons to Maduro.
We have no business attacking Venezuela. If Trump does without congressional approval he must be impeached and removed.
Caracas threatens retaliation against Trinidad as U.S. military buildup nearby grows
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article312673775.html
It has been coming for a while. Congress knows. Senators have discussed it openly.
Maduro is probably already in Russia or China
Today's Word is "Escalation".
Sinking drug boats is one thing. Attacking a country because you don’t like it’s politics or criminal gangs is another.
We’d be a target rich environment if crooked politics and corruption were the standard justification for an outside attack.
Trump’s over-running his headlights on this one.
pretty sure Tuco said “if you’re going to shoot, shoot. Don’t talk”
You are in the wrong site.
So we should not have killed Osama bin Laden?
CHINA is the target of any attack by U.S. in Venezuela.
Their military is their cartel. You're ok with enemy soldiers invading my country (dunno what country you're in; don't care) with their poison? Killing tens of thousands of America's children every year?
We've got agents in deep cover down there and know what's going on. That's how we know where the boats are. The routes. The cargo. Reagan did it to Noriega. If Trump does it to Maduro, so be it.
Trump is making the case that the government of Venezuela and the cartels are one and the same. See "Cartel of the Suns".
I think the problem we have in Venezuela is that it’s politicians and its criminals are the same group of people. It’s a illegitimate government and a narco-state.
CC
yeah, right. Why don’t you impeach him for Iran first. Better yet, lets go back and impeach Reagan’s corpse for Libya & Grenada, followed up with GHWB for Panama and Kuwait.
[U.S. poised to strike military targets in Venezuela in escalation against Maduro regime]
Given the U S. Military assets down there at
this moment, I believe this is a real possibility.
Mentioned same to someone locally a couple of weeks ago.
The President just said no. Not going to directly attack Venezuela territory.
Tucker? Is that you?
“Sources” again.
Daily Mail is going crazy with anti Trump comments.
Venezuelans will be in the streets celebrating and as a bonus Iranian/Russia collaborators will be getting wacked. Great day.
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