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... Like Mr. Trump's earlier threats to take back the Panama Canal, the dispatching last week of forces near what the administration considers a terrorist narco-state has raised a raft of still-unanswered questions about a mercurial president's intentions.

Is the show of force aimed at cowing Venezuela's embattled President Nicols Maduro into further cooperation with the U.S. on immigration matters and tackling the region's drug cartels and Venezuela's trafficking gangs? ...

@#3

The presence of US warships off the coast of a country is not something to be taken lightly.

Why did Pres Trump take this action?

@#6 ... Nobel Peace Prize aspirant Dotard Trumpf wants to rename the DOD to the Department of War, gets his spies caught in Greenland scoping out a potential takeover, can't rein in Vladimir Putin or Benjamin Netanyahu because they have kompramat on him, has now authorized the military to target international drug cartels. ...

imo, a pretty good summary.