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[H. E. Panqui]

"As if we didn’t have enough ugliness in the world right now, Trump has deployed warships near Venezuela’s coast, prompting Caracas to ready drone and naval patrols for conflict. In an article titled “Inside Trump’s gunboat diplomacy with Venezuela,” Axios’ Marc Caputo writes that “The U.S. has never been closer to armed conflict with Venezuela, with a fully loaded U.S. flotilla sitting off its coast and dictator Nicolás Maduro living under a $50 million bounty.”

“President Trump ordered seven warships carrying 4,500 personnel — including three guided-missile destroyers and at least one attack submarine — to the waters off Venezuela,” Caputo writes. “Officially, they’re there to combat drug trafficking. But Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt leaned into the ambiguity of the mission on Thursday, noting that the U.S. considers Maduro the ‘fugitive head of [a] drug cartel’ and not Venezuela’s legitimate president.” The US personnel reportedly include some 2,200 Marines. “This could be Noriega part 2,” an unnamed official in the Trump administration told Axios, saying that “Maduro should be shitting bricks....”

Whenever the US war machine moves its crosshairs to a different target I always get people telling me “No no Caitlin, THIS time the Evil Bad Guy really DOES need to be regime changed! THIS time our government and media are telling us the TRUTH!” And it’s always so stupid, because it’s just the same rehashed lies over and over again. The empire takes whatever actions will help it to dominate our planet and its resources to a greater extent than it already does, and then it makes up justifications for those actions....

They’re just lying. The US empire lies about all its acts of war. Trump tried to orchestrate a regime change in Venezuela the last time he was in office, and he’s doing it again for the exact same reasons. It’s an oil-rich nation that refuses to bow to the dictates of Washington, and all the worst warmongers in the imperial swamp are eagerly pushing to absorb it into the folds of the empire. That’s all we are looking at here, and anyone who says otherwise is lying."

They’re Lying About Venezuela While Moving War Machinery Into Place

As if we didn’t have enough ugliness in the world right now, Trump has deployed warships near Venezuela’s coast, prompting Caracas to ready drone and naval patrols for conflict.

caitlinjohnstone.com.au

 

[SNOWFLAKE]

Just in time to cancel the midterms, and if the war drags on, to cancel 2028.

 

[bythoughts]

By most accounts he's lowballing the number of troops to commit. He's at risk of believing his own propaganda about how his puppets are the real government of Venezuela. So there's a chance he loses this. Would that be enough to shake his supporters out of their daze? That I don't know.

 

[Mycroft]

"As if we didn’t have enough ugliness in the world right now, Trump has deployed warships near Venezuela’s coast, prompting Caracas to ready drone and naval patrols for conflict. In an article titled “Inside Trump’s gunboat diplomacy with Venezuela,” Axios’ Marc Caputo writes that “The U.S. has never been closer to armed conflict with Venezuela, with a fully loaded U.S. flotilla sitting off its coast and dictator Nicolás Maduro living under a $50 million bounty.”

“President Trump ordered seven warships carrying 4,500 personnel — including three guided-missile destroyers and at least one attack submarine — to the waters off Venezuela,” Caputo writes. “Officially, they’re there to combat drug trafficking. But Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt leaned into the ambiguity of the mission on Thursday, noting that the U.S. considers Maduro the ‘fugitive head of [a] drug cartel’ and not Venezuela’s legitimate president.” The US personnel reportedly include some 2,200 Marines. “This could be Noriega part 2,” an unnamed official in the Trump administration told Axios, saying that “Maduro should be shitting bricks....”

Whenever the US war machine moves its crosshairs to a different target I always get people telling me “No no Caitlin, THIS time the Evil Bad Guy really DOES need to be regime changed! THIS time our government and media are telling us the TRUTH!” And it’s always so stupid, because it’s just the same rehashed lies over and over again. The empire takes whatever actions will help it to dominate our planet and its resources to a greater extent than it already does, and then it makes up justifications for those actions....

They’re just lying. The US empire lies about all its acts of war. Trump tried to orchestrate a regime change in Venezuela the last time he was in office, and he’s doing it again for the exact same reasons. It’s an oil-rich nation that refuses to bow to the dictates of Washington, and all the worst warmongers in the imperial swamp are eagerly pushing to absorb it into the folds of the empire. That’s all we are looking at here, and anyone who says otherwise is lying."

They’re Lying About Venezuela While Moving War Machinery Into Place

As if we didn’t have enough ugliness in the world right now, Trump has deployed warships near Venezuela’s coast, prompting Caracas to ready drone and naval patrols for conflict.

caitlinjohnstone.com.au

First of all, any time you see statements by "unnamed official in the Trump administration", it's from the Intel Community, who are certainly NOT supportive of Trump. Take it with a grain of salt.

Second, that force is not big enough to mount an invasion of that country. The best they could do is to be cover for a special forces operation to seize Maduro...and that would be very difficult.

Third, as a force to shut down drugs, this is about right...especially with the Marines. The US is effectively boxing in the Venezuelan drug cartel. They can't use the Atlantic. All they have left is west through Columbia, which is a US ally. If they do somehow manage to make it through Columbia and into Central America, they'd have to run that gauntlet of countries and into Mexico...to a US border that is essentially shut down. And there is another Naval force on the Pacific side of Central America.

Now...if Maduro decides to be extremely stupid and directly attacks that Naval force sitting off his coast, THEN the US would have an excuse to invade, and believe me, it won't be by that small Naval force. Trump will bring the full might of the US Armed Forces to bear on Maduro and the cartel.

 

[Fledermaus]

"As if we didn’t have enough ugliness in the world right now, Trump has deployed warships near Venezuela’s coast, prompting Caracas to ready drone and naval patrols for conflict. In an article titled “Inside Trump’s gunboat diplomacy with Venezuela,” Axios’ Marc Caputo writes that “The U.S. has never been closer to armed conflict with Venezuela, with a fully loaded U.S. flotilla sitting off its coast and dictator Nicolás Maduro living under a $50 million bounty.”

“President Trump ordered seven warships carrying 4,500 personnel — including three guided-missile destroyers and at least one attack submarine — to the waters off Venezuela,” Caputo writes. “Officially, they’re there to combat drug trafficking. But Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt leaned into the ambiguity of the mission on Thursday, noting that the U.S. considers Maduro the ‘fugitive head of [a] drug cartel’ and not Venezuela’s legitimate president.” The US personnel reportedly include some 2,200 Marines. “This could be Noriega part 2,” an unnamed official in the Trump administration told Axios, saying that “Maduro should be shitting bricks....”

Whenever the US war machine moves its crosshairs to a different target I always get people telling me “No no Caitlin, THIS time the Evil Bad Guy really DOES need to be regime changed! THIS time our government and media are telling us the TRUTH!” And it’s always so stupid, because it’s just the same rehashed lies over and over again. The empire takes whatever actions will help it to dominate our planet and its resources to a greater extent than it already does, and then it makes up justifications for those actions....
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They’re just lying. The US empire lies about all its acts of war. Trump tried to orchestrate a regime change in Venezuela the last time he was in office, and he’s doing it again for the exact same reasons. It’s an oil-rich nation that refuses to bow to the dictates of Washington, and all the worst warmongers in the imperial swamp are eagerly pushing to absorb it into the folds of the empire. That’s all we are looking at here, and anyone who says otherwise is lying."

They’re Lying About Venezuela While Moving War Machinery Into Place

As if we didn’t have enough ugliness in the world right now, Trump has deployed warships near Venezuela’s coast, prompting Caracas to ready drone and naval patrols for conflict.

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[H. E. Panqui]

First of all, any time you see statements by "unnamed official in the Trump administration", it's from the Intel Community, who are certainly NOT supportive of Trump. Take it with a grain of salt.

Second, that force is not big enough to mount an invasion of that country. The best they could do is to be cover for a special forces operation to seize Maduro...and that would be very difficult.

Third, as a force to shut down drugs, this is about right...especially with the Marines. The US is effectively boxing in the Venezuelan drug cartel. They can't use the Atlantic. All they have left is west through Columbia, which is a US ally. If they do somehow manage to make it through Columbia and into Central America, they'd have to run that gauntlet of countries and into Mexico...to a US border that is essentially shut down. And there is another Naval force on the Pacific side of Central America.

Now...if Maduro decides to be extremely stupid and directly attacks that Naval force sitting off his coast, THEN the US would have an excuse to invade, and believe me, it won't be by that small Naval force. Trump will bring the full might of the US Armed Forces to bear on Maduro and the cartel.

Do you have any idea of the murderously retarded policies the/?your neocon assholes have foisted in Latin America for decades? Why would anyone not a complete sucker continue to believe the CIA/MIC/$ narrative?!?

I believe you'll find this is about oil, lithium, etc., not 'drugs'.. ugh..

 

[Fledermaus]

Do you have any idea of the murderously retarded policies the/?your neocon assholes have foisted in Latin America for decades? Why would anyone not a complete sucker continue to believe the CIA/MIC/$ narrative?!?

I believe you'll find this is about oil, lithium, etc., not 'drugs'.. ugh..

Rote regurgitating...

 

[H. E. Panqui]

Ime, it's not just the murderously retarded Republican shit puppet$...it's the murderously retarded Democrat shit puppet$ too! ugh..

"...Maduro’s response to the U.S. threats—activating 4.5 million militia members—signals the possibility of protracted conflict. That would pose risks of potential Russian involvement. If U.S. efforts to ease tensions with Moscow fail, hardliners in Moscow might push to intensify a conflict in America’s backyard as payback for the Ukraine proxy war. Kremlin-aligned Russian military bloggers, such as Rybar, speculate that Moscow, already Caracas’ key security partner, could supply Venezuela with advanced weapons like Geran 2 drones (with a range of around 1,600 miles). That would be a threat to critical U.S. assets in the region, such as Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba, Soto Cano Air Base in Honduras, Fort Buchanan in Puerto Rico, or the U.S. personnel in neighbouring Colombia.

The U.S. would certainly prevail in any conflict with Venezuela, but the costs of escalation would be steep, and Trump has amply demonstrated his lack of interest in protracted military campaigns. Furthermore, toppling Maduro would appear to be the easy part compared with the nightmare that governing Venezuela afterward would be. The country is fractured and impoverished, with many heavily armed criminal groups. A power vacuum could unleash widespread violence and warlordism. The resulting instability would exacerbate—not alleviate—the very drug trafficking the intervention claims to address.

Military operations in Latin American countries, without the consent of their governments, would trigger profound regional backlash. Mexico has already flatly rejected the possibility of U.S. troops on its soil to fight the cartels. Other nations would see such interventions as a return to gunboat diplomacy—undermining efforts to secure a U.S.-friendly Western Hemisphere, a strategic task of the highest magnitude...."

Trump’s Doomed Venezuela Militarism

The president should pursue realism and restraint in Latin America.

www.theamericanconservative.com

 

[Fledermaus]

Ime, it's not just the murderously retarded Republican shit puppet$...it's the murderously retarded Democrat shit puppet$ too! ugh..

"...Maduro’s response to the U.S. threats—activating 4.5 million militia members—signals the possibility of protracted conflict. That would pose risks of potential Russian involvement. If U.S. efforts to ease tensions with Moscow fail, hardliners in Moscow might push to intensify a conflict in America’s backyard as payback for the Ukraine proxy war. Kremlin-aligned Russian military bloggers, such as Rybar, speculate that Moscow, already Caracas’ key security partner, could supply Venezuela with advanced weapons like Geran 2 drones (with a range of around 1,600 miles). That would be a threat to critical U.S. assets in the region, such as Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba, Soto Cano Air Base in Honduras, Fort Buchanan in Puerto Rico, or the U.S. personnel in neighbouring Colombia.

The U.S. would certainly prevail in any conflict with Venezuela, but the costs of escalation would be steep, and Trump has amply demonstrated his lack of interest in protracted military campaigns. Furthermore, toppling Maduro would appear to be the easy part compared with the nightmare that governing Venezuela afterward would be. The country is fractured and impoverished, with many heavily armed criminal groups. A power vacuum could unleash widespread violence and warlordism. The resulting instability would exacerbate—not alleviate—the very drug trafficking the intervention claims to address.

Military operations in Latin American countries, without the consent of their governments, would trigger profound regional backlash. Mexico has already flatly rejected the possibility of U.S. troops on its soil to fight the cartels. Other nations would see such interventions as a return to gunboat diplomacy—undermining efforts to secure a U.S.-friendly Western Hemisphere, a strategic task of the highest magnitude...."

Trump’s Doomed Venezuela Militarism

The president should pursue realism and restraint in Latin America.

www.theamericanconservative.com

Mispellings + Rants + Other Peoples Words = H.E.Panqui post.

 

[H. E. Panqui]

 

[Fledermaus]

So very H.E.Panqui....

 

[H. E. Panqui]

"Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro held a press conference on Monday where he addressed the deployment of US warships off Venezuela’s coast and warned that if the US attacked, he would declare his country a “republic in arms” and engage in an “armed struggle.”

According to Newsweek, the US has deployed nine warships, including three guided-missile destroyers, three amphibious assault ships, and one nuclear-powered fast attack submarine, toward Venezuela. The stated purpose of the deployment is to combat drug cartels, but there’s no evidence to support the US claim that Maduro is a cartel leader, signaling the real purpose is another regime change effort in Venezuela.

The Trump administration claims that Maduro is the leader of the Cartel of the Suns, a term used to describe a network of Venezuelan government and military officials allegedly involved in drug trafficking, but it does not actually exist as an organization. Maduro and other Latin American leaders, including Colombian President Gustavo Petro, have denied the US claims.

Maduro pointed out the involvement of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who was a staunch supporter of the failed coup attempt against the Venezuelan leader during President Trump’s first term in office, and recently announced the bounty on Maduro’s head was increased to $50 million. “President Trump must be careful because Marco Rubio wants to drag him into a war against South America and stain the Trump name with blood,” he said..."

Venezuela's Maduro Says If the US Attacks, He Will Declare the Country a 'Republic in Arms' - News From Antiwar.com

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro held a press conference on Monday where he addressed the deployment of US warships off Venezuela's coast and warned that if the US attacked, he would declare his country a "republic in arms" and engage in an "armed struggle." According to Newsweek, the US has...

news.antiwar.com

 

[NJBob]

"Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro held a press conference on Monday where he addressed the deployment of US warships off Venezuela’s coast and warned that if the US attacked, he would declare his country a “republic in arms” and engage in an “armed struggle.”

According to Newsweek, the US has deployed nine warships, including three guided-missile destroyers, three amphibious assault ships, and one nuclear-powered fast attack submarine, toward Venezuela. The stated purpose of the deployment is to combat drug cartels, but there’s no evidence to support the US claim that Maduro is a cartel leader, signaling the real purpose is another regime change effort in Venezuela.

The Trump administration claims that Maduro is the leader of the Cartel of the Suns, a term used to describe a network of Venezuelan government and military officials allegedly involved in drug trafficking, but it does not actually exist as an organization. Maduro and other Latin American leaders, including Colombian President Gustavo Petro, have denied the US claims.

Maduro pointed out the involvement of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who was a staunch supporter of the failed coup attempt against the Venezuelan leader during President Trump’s first term in office, and recently announced the bounty on Maduro’s head was increased to $50 million. “President Trump must be careful because Marco Rubio wants to drag him into a war against South America and stain the Trump name with blood,” he said..."

Venezuela's Maduro Says If the US Attacks, He Will Declare the Country a 'Republic in Arms' - News From Antiwar.com

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro held a press conference on Monday where he addressed the deployment of US warships off Venezuela's coast and warned that if the US attacked, he would declare his country a "republic in arms" and engage in an "armed struggle." According to Newsweek, the US has...

news.antiwar.com

I think you bold key is stuck.

 

[H. E. Panqui]

I think you bold key is stuck.

Thanks for you readership and the advice!

 

[H. E. Panqui]

"The outcome now is indisputable. We, the U.S. and NATO, lost our proxy war in Ukraine, a war that will go down in history as one of our worst foreign policy disasters, even worse than our ignominious withdrawal from our 20-year war in Afghanistan. Hundreds of thousands of Russian and Ukrainian soldiers and civilians are dead, far more wounded and maimed. 1.72 million Ukrainian soldiers have been killed or declared missing in action since the war began. Ukraine’s energy and transportation infrastructure has been decimated. Cities and villages leveled. The U.S. and NATO fought to the last Ukrainian soldier, with no skin in the game. Sorrow blankets the land. Russia is substantially stronger politically, economically, and militarily with stronger ties to Iran, North Korea, and China.

The paucity of NATO’s military forces, capabilities, and industries has been exposed. Conservative political upheaval is growing across Europe. NATO’s viability and utility have been further diminished, having proved useless for deterring Russia for over a decade, its combat equipment decimated by Russian forces on the battlefield. Some $350 billion of U.S. taxpayer money given gratis to Ukraine—with no audit trail—proved a foolish investment, enriching the corrupt Zelensky regime, the U.S. defense industry, and served no purpose other than protracting the war and filling graveyards with brave men and women. Lest we forget, it was all borrowed money increasing U.S. annual deficits and the U.S. debt, which now exceeds $37 trillion.

Considering the immense scope of this avoidable human tragedy, the war demands a candid, unbiased examination of why this war started and why NATO, using Ukraine as its proxy, failed to achieve victory on the battlefield. Over the coming weeks, many explanations will undoubtedly emerge. It is unlikely that any will address the root cause of the war or elucidate the reasons for NATO and Ukraine’s military failure. This two-part essay aims to shed light on these critical issues, hoping that future generations of U.S. political and military leaders entrusted with the responsibility of committing our sons and daughters to war, have a clear understanding of the disastrous consequences of incompetence in both domains...."

https://armedforces.press/

 

[Fledermaus]

"The outcome now is indisputable. We, the U.S. and NATO, lost our proxy war in Ukraine, a war that will go down in history as one of our worst foreign policy disasters, even worse than our ignominious withdrawal from our 20-year war in Afghanistan. Hundreds of thousands of Russian and Ukrainian soldiers and civilians are dead, far more wounded and maimed. 1.72 million Ukrainian soldiers have been killed or declared missing in action since the war began. Ukraine’s energy and transportation infrastructure has been decimated. Cities and villages leveled. The U.S. and NATO fought to the last Ukrainian soldier, with no skin in the game. Sorrow blankets the land. Russia is substantially stronger politically, economically, and militarily with stronger ties to Iran, North Korea, and China.

The paucity of NATO’s military forces, capabilities, and industries has been exposed. Conservative political upheaval is growing across Europe. NATO’s viability and utility have been further diminished, having proved useless for deterring Russia for over a decade, its combat equipment decimated by Russian forces on the battlefield. Some $350 billion of U.S. taxpayer money given gratis to Ukraine—with no audit trail—proved a foolish investment, enriching the corrupt Zelensky regime, the U.S. defense industry, and served no purpose other than protracting the war and filling graveyards with brave men and women. Lest we forget, it was all borrowed money increasing U.S. annual deficits and the U.S. debt, which now exceeds $37 trillion.

Considering the immense scope of this avoidable human tragedy, the war demands a candid, unbiased examination of why this war started and why NATO, using Ukraine as its proxy, failed to achieve victory on the battlefield. Over the coming weeks, many explanations will undoubtedly emerge. It is unlikely that any will address the root cause of the war or elucidate the reasons for NATO and Ukraine’s military failure. This two-part essay aims to shed light on these critical issues, hoping that future generations of U.S. political and military leaders entrusted with the responsibility of committing our sons and daughters to war, have a clear understanding of the disastrous consequences of incompetence in both domains...."

https://armedforces.press/

And yet Ukrainians continue to fight.

 

[Metric Mouse]

I kinda knew people would post to support Maduro...

I don't like it, though.

 

[H. E. Panqui]

I kinda knew people would post to support Maduro...

I don't like it, though.

I kinda knew Republicrat-level people would support the murderously retarded and obfuscated neocon regime change operation in Venezuela....

"President Trump claimed in a post on Truth Social that a US military strike on a boat near Venezuela targeted Tren de Aragua (TDA), a Venezuelan gang that the Trump administration recently designated as a terrorist organization. The post came after Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the US conducted a strike against a boat that had departed Venezuela.

“Earlier this morning, on my Orders, US Military Forces conducted a kinetic strike against positively identified Tren de Aragua Narcoterrorists in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility,” the president said.

Trump posted a video of the strike and claimed that it killed 11 “terrorists,” though no evidence has been provided to back up his claims. “No US Forces were harmed in this strike. Please let this serve as notice to anybody even thinking about bringing drugs into the United States of America,” Trump said.

The president also claimed that TDA is “operating under the control” of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, but that contradicts a recently declassified US intelligence memo that said it was unlikely that Maduro’s government cooperates with or directs TDA...."

Trump Claims US Strike on Boat Near Venezuela Targeted Tren de Aragua Gang - News From Antiwar.com

Updated on September 2, 2025, at 6:32 pm EST President Trump claimed in a post on Truth Social that a US military strike on a boat near Venezuela targeted Tren de Aragua (TDA), a Venezuelan gang that the Trump administration recently designated as a terrorist organization. The post came after…

news.antiwar.com

 

[H. E. Panqui]

Apparently the U$ government is infested with murderously retarded neocon assholes..

"Alexus Grynkewich, a US Air Force general who serves as NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe, is urging more weapons makers to test their military equipment on the battlefield in Ukraine as the war continues to rage.

“Those few that have tried it have either learned a lot, or they’ve decided to go home because they can’t compete in that environment. But that is going to be the environment that we face,” Grynkewich said last week while speaking virtually to an industry group in Washington, according to Defense One.

Brave1, a Ukrainian government-backed tech firm, recently launched a program for foreign defense contractors to apply to test weapons technology on the battlefield and has received dozens of applications. Since the start of the proxy war, Ukrainian officials have urged Western arms makers to send weapons into the war by framing it as an opportunity to test the equipment against a near-peer competitor..."

NATO Commander Urges More Arms Makers To Test Their Weapons in Ukraine - News From Antiwar.com

Alexus Grynkewich, a US Air Force general who serves as NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe, is urging more weapons makers to test their military equipment on the battlefield in Ukraine as the war continues to rage. "Those few that have tried it have either learned a lot, or they’ve decided…

news.antiwar.com

 

[Fledermaus]

Apparently the U$ government is infested with murderously retarded neocon assholes..

"Alexus Grynkewich, a US Air Force general who serves as NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe, is urging more weapons makers to test their military equipment on the battlefield in Ukraine as the war continues to rage.

“Those few that have tried it have either learned a lot, or they’ve decided to go home because they can’t compete in that environment. But that is going to be the environment that we face,” Grynkewich said last week while speaking virtually to an industry group in Washington, according to Defense One.

Brave1, a Ukrainian government-backed tech firm, recently launched a program for foreign defense contractors to apply to test weapons technology on the battlefield and has received dozens of applications. Since the start of the proxy war, Ukrainian officials have urged Western arms makers to send weapons into the war by framing it as an opportunity to test the equipment against a near-peer competitor..."

NATO Commander Urges More Arms Makers To Test Their Weapons in Ukraine - News From Antiwar.com

Alexus Grynkewich, a US Air Force general who serves as NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe, is urging more weapons makers to test their military equipment on the battlefield in Ukraine as the war continues to rage. "Those few that have tried it have either learned a lot, or they’ve decided…

news.antiwar.com

Why does the concept of helping Ukraine defend itself from an UNPROVOKED Russian invasion bother you so?

Do you not understand Russia and her suppliers are currently testing their weapons in Ukraine?

Why is it evil to test NATO weapons?

 

[H. E. Panqui]

"Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Wednesday didn’t rule out the possibility of the US military pursuing regime change in Venezuela and suggested more US strikes on boats in the region were coming. Hegseth made the comments in an interview on Fox News on Wednesday morning, the day after the US bombed a boat in the Southern Caribbean that it claimed without evidence was carrying drugs, marking the first US kinetic military action in the name of combating drug trafficking, though the real purpose of the attack may be part of a new push to oust Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

“We have assets in the air, assets in the water, assets on ships because this is a deadly serious mission for us, and it won’t stop … with just this strike,” Hegseth said. “Anyone else trafficking in those waters who we know is a designated narco-terrorist will face the same fate.” When asked if the goal was regime change in Venezuela, Hegseth said that was a “presidential decision” and added that “we’re prepared with every asset that the American military has...”

..The US has claimed that Maduro is the leader of the Cartel of the Suns, a term used to describe a network of Venezuelan government and military officials allegedly involved in drug trafficking, but it does not actually exist as an organization. Despite the lack of a structured organization, the US recently labeled the Cartel of the Suns as a terrorist group and increased the bounty on Maduro’s head to $50 million over claims of “narco-terrorism.” Maduro and other Latin American leaders have strongly denied the US claims.

President Trump claimed that the 11 people he said were killed in the bombing of the boat on Tuesday were members of Tren de Aragua (TDA), a Venezuelan gang the US has also labelled as terrorists. He also claimed that Maduro controls TDA, which is disputed by his own intelligence agencies. The US has deployed at least nine warships toward Venezuela, and some US officials have suggested in comments to Axios that the operation could be “Noriega part 2,” referring to the 1989 US invasion of Panama that led to the ouster of Manuel Noriega. Maduro has vowed to fight if the US attacks, warning on Monday that he will declare a “republic in arms.”

Hegseth Doesn't Rule Out Regime Change in Venezuela, Suggests More US Strikes on Boats Are Coming - News From Antiwar.com

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Wednesday didn't rule out the possibility of the US military pursuing regime change in Venezuela and suggested more US strikes on boats in the region were coming. Hegseth made the comments in an interview on Fox News on Wednesday morning, the day after the…

news.antiwar.com

 

[H. E. Panqui]

Ime, Republicrat-level people/voters are still LARGELY butt-ignorant/brainwashed/misinformed about the many ongoing [for years] deliberate provocations fomented by these lying, murderously retarded Republicrat neocons... ugh..

From 2023:

"...It’s been funny to watch the response of empire apologists to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg’s surprising refutation of a year and a half of empire propaganda by openly admitting that NATO expansion provoked the invasion of Ukraine and acknowledging that NATO powers rejected Moscow’s proposed compromises which could have averted the war. Basically the only argument they now have after this admission is to say that Russia should not have viewed NATO expansion as an existential threat.

Their only remaining trick is to argue with reality; to basically say that yes it’s reality that NATO expansion provoked this war because Moscow saw it as a threat, but reality shouldn’t have been what reality was. They argue that Russia should have felt completely different feelings about a military threat on its border than nations like the United States would feel, since as we’ve discussed previously the last time there was a credible military threat near the US border the US responded so aggressively that the world almost ended.

That’s really all they’ve got: “Yes it’s true that all the people who’ve died and lost their homes in this war did so because we were amassing a hostile military alliance near Russia’s border, but in our defense the Russians should’ve thought different thoughts in their heads than the ones that we ourselves would think about a hostile military threat on our border.”

If all westerners deeply understood all the suffering and danger that has been unleashed upon our world by this war, and deeply understood the fact that their own governments played a role in starting it, the political status quo of the western world would be impossible to maintain. Which is why such unprecedented levels of propaganda and internet censorship have gone into preventing westerners from coming to such an understanding.

Westerners were deceived into supporting yet another evil war, which once again is showing every sign of dragging on for the foreseeable future with no exit strategy in sight. The only difference between this war and all those other wars is that this one is laden with the risk of nuclear annihilation, a risk which the US empire has been treading less and less carefully around as the bloodshed continues. The more you think about it, the more horrifying it gets. These people are absolute monsters."

This War Wasn't Just Provoked — It Was Provoked Deliberately

In an interesting speech about the way US imperial aggression provokes violence around the world, antiwar commentator Scott Horton made reference to an April 2022 article from Yahoo News that had previously escaped my attention.

www.caitlinjohnst.one

 

[j brown's body]

First of all, any time you see statements by "unnamed official in the Trump administration", it's from the Intel Community, who are certainly NOT supportive of Trump. Take it with a grain of salt.

Second, that force is not big enough to mount an invasion of that country. The best they could do is to be cover for a special forces operation to seize Maduro...and that would be very difficult.

Third, as a force to shut down drugs, this is about right...especially with the Marines. The US is effectively boxing in the Venezuelan drug cartel. They can't use the Atlantic. All they have left is west through Columbia, which is a US ally. If they do somehow manage to make it through Columbia and into Central America, they'd have to run that gauntlet of countries and into Mexico...to a US border that is essentially shut down. And there is another Naval force on the Pacific side of Central America.

Now...if Maduro decides to be extremely stupid and directly attacks that Naval force sitting off his coast, THEN the US would have an excuse to invade, and believe me, it won't be by that small Naval force. Trump will bring the full might of the US Armed Forces to bear on Maduro and the cartel.

They'd be fired if their identity was known, so yeah, a grain of salt.

 

[Fledermaus]

Ime, Republicrat-level people/voters are still LARGELY butt-ignorant/brainwashed/misinformed about the many ongoing [for years] deliberate provocations fomented by these lying, murderously retarded Republicrat neocons... ugh..

From 2023:

"...It’s been funny to watch the response of empire apologists to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg’s surprising refutation of a year and a half of empire propaganda by openly admitting that NATO expansion provoked the invasion of Ukraine and acknowledging that NATO powers rejected Moscow’s proposed compromises which could have averted the war. Basically the only argument they now have after this admission is to say that Russia should not have viewed NATO expansion as an existential threat.

Their only remaining trick is to argue with reality; to basically say that yes it’s reality that NATO expansion provoked this war because Moscow saw it as a threat, but reality shouldn’t have been what reality was. They argue that Russia should have felt completely different feelings about a military threat on its border than nations like the United States would feel, since as we’ve discussed previously the last time there was a credible military threat near the US border the US responded so aggressively that the world almost ended.

That’s really all they’ve got: “Yes it’s true that all the people who’ve died and lost their homes in this war did so because we were amassing a hostile military alliance near Russia’s border, but in our defense the Russians should’ve thought different thoughts in their heads than the ones that we ourselves would think about a hostile military threat on our border.”

If all westerners deeply understood all the suffering and danger that has been unleashed upon our world by this war, and deeply understood the fact that their own governments played a role in starting it, the political status quo of the western world would be impossible to maintain. Which is why such unprecedented levels of propaganda and internet censorship have gone into preventing westerners from coming to such an understanding.

Westerners were deceived into supporting yet another evil war, which once again is showing every sign of dragging on for the foreseeable future with no exit strategy in sight. The only difference between this war and all those other wars is that this one is laden with the risk of nuclear annihilation, a risk which the US empire has been treading less and less carefully around as the bloodshed continues. The more you think about it, the more horrifying it gets. These people are absolute monsters."

This War Wasn't Just Provoked — It Was Provoked Deliberately

In an interesting speech about the way US imperial aggression provokes violence around the world, antiwar commentator Scott Horton made reference to an April 2022 article from Yahoo News that had previously escaped my attention.

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Caitlin Johnstone..

EVERYONE DRINK!!!!!

 

[H. E. Panqui]

Here are a few Republicrat shit puppet$ bragging about the murderously retarded war they provoked...

From ?2023:

"One of the most glaring plot holes in the official mainstream narrative on Ukraine is the way US officials keep openly boasting that this supposedly unprovoked war which the US is only backing out of the goodness of its heart just so happens to serve US interests tremendously.

In a recent article for the Connecticut Post, Senator Richard Blumenthal assured Americans that “we’re getting our money’s worth on our Ukraine investment.” “For less than 3 percent of our nation’s military budget, we’ve enabled Ukraine to degrade Russia’s military strength by half,” writes Blumenthal. “We’ve united NATO and caused the Chinese to rethink their invasion plans for Taiwan. We’ve helped restore faith and confidence in American leadership — moral and military. All without a single American service woman or man injured or lost, and without any diversion or misappropriation of American aid.”

As Antiwar’s Dave DeCamp recently observed, this type of “investment” talk about Ukraine has been getting more common. Last weekend Senator Mitt Romney called the war “the best national defense spending I think we’ve ever done.” “We’re losing no lives in Ukraine, and the Ukrainians are fighting heroically against Russia,” Romney said. “We’re diminishing and devastating the Russian military for a very small amount of money … a weakened Russia is a good thing.”

Last month Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell argued that Americans should support the US government’s proxy warfare in Ukraine because “we haven’t lost a single American in this war,” adding that the spending is helping to employ Americans in the military-industrial complex. “Most of the money that we spend related to Ukraine is actually spent in the US, replenishing weapons, more modern weapons,” McConnell said. “So it’s actually employing people here and improving our own military for what may lie ahead...”

US Officials Keep Boasting About How Much The Ukraine War Serves US Interests

One of the most glaring plot holes in the official mainstream narrative on Ukraine is the way US officials keep openly boasting that this supposedly unprovoked war which the US is only backing out …

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