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U.S. Is Preparing for War in Venezuela
More U.S. military firepower is headed to the Caribbean as Trump escalates his anti-Maduro rhetoric.
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The US has attacked several Venezuelan boats and deployed its largest military buildup in Latin America in decades.[image or embed] -- Al Jazeera English (@aljazeera.com) Oct 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The US has attacked several Venezuelan boats and deployed its largest military buildup in Latin America in decades.[image or embed]
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Well Trumpers, I thought he wasn't going to engage in foreign conflicts?
Or is it ok now when it's a war of aggression to steal resources?
#1 | Posted by jpw at 2025-10-25 08:31 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2
Well Trumpers, I thought he (Trump) wasn't going to engage in foreign conflicts?
#1 | Posted by jpw
Only MAGA thought that.
For the rest of us, we always knew that he would go there.
#2 | Posted by Zed at 2025-10-25 08:51 AM | Reply
So, without snark (well, maybe a little)...
If MAGA claims to believe in anything, this is your chance to make your values known.
To have any chance to prevent war, you're going to have to oppose Trump.
Or....You can do what we all expect you to do and roll over.
#3 | Posted by Zed at 2025-10-25 08:54 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
#1 | Posted by jpw a
I wish that it was as sane as Trump wanting war for resources.
But I've never thought that Trump is sane.
And now he's going to prove it.
Again.
#4 | Posted by Zed at 2025-10-25 08:57 AM | Reply
He wants control of the HUUGE oil fields just offshore, largest found so far on the planet. Then he will say "I lowered the price of gas." He is the bigliest gasbag ever.
#5 | Posted by shoeless at 2025-10-25 09:07 AM | Reply
Regardless of what you think about it, saying it's just about wanting resources is an oversimplification on the level of claiming the Afghanistan and Iraq wars were motivated primarily by wanting resources.
#6 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-10-25 09:15 AM | Reply
#6 | Posted by sentinel
The simple reason we face a war of Trump's personal choice in Venezuela is that he is grossly mentally ill.
That's the model you need to understand this, all of what he is doing (including, I hear, building a ballroom with stairs to nowhere, like the Winchester house).
What are Trump's motives? How dark do you want to get?
#7 | Posted by Zed at 2025-10-25 09:23 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
Okay, so Trump is invading Venezuela to slow the import of Colombian marching powder?
#8 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-10-25 09:27 AM | Reply
The fat ------ needs to be put down
#9 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-10-25 09:35 AM | Reply
#6
You're an idiot
#10 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-10-25 09:35 AM | Reply
"Well Trumpers, I thought he wasn't going to engage in foreign conflicts?"
Trumpy says a lot of things.
He also said he won't touch the East Wing.
The East Wing was completely demolished.
I am detecting a pattern.
#11 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-10-25 09:51 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2
Like the middle east, it's all about oil.
#12 | Posted by bat4255 at 2025-10-25 10:24 AM | Reply
#12 | Posted by bat4255
Maduro will blow those oil fields, just like Saddam.
#13 | Posted by Zed at 2025-10-25 10:58 AM | Reply
Headline is misleading - should read:
The Epstein Files are preparing for War in Venezuela
#14 | Posted by Angrydad at 2025-10-25 11:16 AM | Reply
We may already be at war. But how will we know? The press is no longer allowed into the pentagon.
Coincident?
I think not.
#15 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-10-25 11:50 AM | Reply
"Like the middle east, it's all about oil."
You guys like to make fun of maga for their ignorance and stupidity, but your own roses don't pass the smell test. The people who think "everything is about oil" aren't that far apart from those who rant about Soros or Jewish space lasers.
#16 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-10-25 11:50 AM | Reply | Funny: 1
Sentinel is here to do his usual BOTH SIDES! crap.
*drink*
#17 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-10-25 11:52 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
Haven't seen MAGA out yet to say let's give peace a chance.
#18 | Posted by Zed at 2025-10-25 11:54 AM | Reply
So, Trump will conduct air strikes against the mainland of Venezuela and provoke a patriotic war there in which Maduro is stronger than ever.
Like I said. Donald is insane.
#19 | Posted by Zed at 2025-10-25 11:55 AM | Reply
I'm not going to think this is serious until the USS Epstein is dispatched to the area.
Trump needs this new Epstein Distraction bigly because sooner or later Moses Mike is going to have to hold, and lose, the vote to release the files.
Plus, we will need to be in a state of war somewhere when the 2028 elections roll around so he can declare a State of Emergency to try to stall them.
#20 | Posted by Corky at 2025-10-25 11:58 AM | Reply
Trump claims he's not pursuing "regime change." Therefore he is obviously pursuing a regime change.
"It is as a show of force, sabre rattling, gunboat policy intended to put pressure on Mr Maduro with the goal of forcing him to step down and convince him to step down and take a golden exit. If that fails emboldening those in his government, who might topple him." -Brian Finucane, a former state department lawyer who is now senior adviser at the International Crisis Group.
Declaring war could help with the revival of the Alien Enemies Act, last used to intern Japanese, German and Italian nationals during World War Two, to detain and deport Venezuelan nationals en masse.
And yes access to their oil and natural resources.
In the past, Trump has expressed frustration that the U.S. did not get oil after the Iraq invasion, and has suggested keeping oil resources in Syria. Furthermore, Venezuelan officials have reportedly floated proposals, including offering the U.S. a stake in the country's oil and mineral wealth, as a way to appease Washington.
#21 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-10-25 12:05 PM | Reply
I'll do my own research before I trust "the Atlantic".
#22 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-10-25 12:20 PM | Reply
LftHndThrds prefers the comfort of his own ignorance.
Story of his life. Never left the safety of the nest. Never had to.
#23 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-25 12:22 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
#22 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS
Is Stormfront really still a thing?
Amazing.
#24 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-10-25 12:31 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
Translation: "I don't know how to get around the paywall."
#25 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-10-25 12:38 PM | Reply
"usual BOTH SIDES! crap."
All you wingnuts whine like little bitches whenever someone points out you're just aping each other.
Drink to the truth. Like Bob Dylan.
#26 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-10-25 01:12 PM | Reply
Great! All those cosplaying Proud Lads and ICEes can be on the front lines. No training needed, just like their Russian counterparts. Give them a gun, tell them to advance and remind them deserters, cowards and anyone retreating will be shot. Remind them to forage for their own food ...
#27 | Posted by catdog at 2025-10-25 01:16 PM | Reply
Yeah! It's all the same!
One side wants universal healthcare and the other side wants tax cuts for billionaires! It's all the same.
#28 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-10-25 01:34 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
The Trumpf junta is channeling a 19th-century white supremacist movement to dominate nations in Latin America and the Caribbean. Championed by "Copperheads" and Confederate Army officers, The Knights of the Golden Circle sought to expand slavery into Mexico and Cuba before their organization finally went defunct. In 1898, the US would go to war with Spain and obtain Puerto Rico and the Philippines anyway, as well as a naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. USMC General Smedley Butler wrote "War is a Racket" after enforcing US corporate interests in the Caribbean. Last century the "white man's burden" was the rationale for imperial expansion; the Trumpf junta is using drug trafficking as it's casus belli. But the reality is that American drug demand is fueling the illegal trafficking from South America and resource-rich Venezuela is the smallest producer of drugs reaching the US.
Last century the "white man's burden" was the rationale for imperial expansion; the Trumpf junta is using drug trafficking as it's casus belli. But the reality is that American drug demand is fueling the illegal trafficking from South America and resource-rich Venezuela is the smallest producer of drugs reaching the US.
#29 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-25 02:25 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
Here is Amerikkka's Josef Goebbels bleating about the Trumpf junta killing people and invading Venezuela: youtu.be
#30 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-25 02:47 PM | Reply
Here is Amerikkka's Josef Goebbels bleating...
Sounds like they are painting Maduro as the Saddam Hussein of the West. Is the yellowcake in Peru this time?
#31 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-10-25 02:52 PM | Reply
After George "W" Bush 'won' in 2000, the late author-intellectual Gore Vidal sniffed about the Republican win: "Hmph. Expect a war or two."
Criminy was he ever spot on.
Now we suffer with Republican warmonger Dummkopf Trumpf in the half-destroyed White House.
#32 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-25 03:47 PM | Reply
Hey republicl0wns... how long are we going to fight to get our assets kicked this time? 15... 20... 30 years?
#33 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-10-26 06:07 AM | Reply
How many conflicts did Joe Biden start? Zero
Gullible rubes voted for Trump, who's now started economic wars with our allies and now this.
Coca is largely grown in Peru and southern Columbia. So, Venezuela?
His Sharpie went askew. Again.
#34 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-10-26 12:01 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
It's what they do.
#35 | Posted by fresno500 at 2025-10-26 03:01 PM | Reply
Staying out of wars: another lie.
This is going to be like the Iraq invasion in 2002-3: a lie built from a need to distract from both how bad things are and the incompetency of the administration.
#36 | Posted by e1g1 at 2025-10-26 06:06 PM | Reply
Every time I see a cartel boat blown to pieces, it puts a smile on my face!
#37 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-10-27 12:44 AM | Reply
There are no cartel boats.
This is a Gulf of Tonkin level hoax, and you're falling for it a second time.
#38 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-27 02:06 AM | Reply
No surprise: US Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) supports attacking Venezuela.
No surprise: US Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) appeared on Bari Weiss' CBS News 'Face the Nation' to beat the war drum.
twitter.com
Nota Bene: This Republican warmongering dinosaur also supports any attack on Iran, whether its the US or Israel.
#39 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-27 03:52 AM | Reply
Isn't it time, at long last, for Sentinel to finally read PNAC? Saying that the invasion of Iraq was for resources is silly. It was for one specific resource ; I.e.: OIL! Remember Operation Iraqi Liberty? a/k/a OIL? And now, CRAZY TRUMP wants to steal Venezuela's oil! Question; do you think he'll hand Maduro like Dubya did to Saddam?
#40 | Posted by danni at 2025-10-27 07:22 AM | Reply
#41 | Posted by danni at 2025-10-27 07:23 AM | Reply
#37 | POSTED BY MSGT
"Look, Big Daddy!"
"Teacher says, every time Dear Leader murders someone , a magatard gets his horns."
"That's right. That's right." And, glancing toward Hell, I said,
"Attaboy, Msgt."
#42 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-10-27 10:51 AM | Reply
**** Missile Frigate USS Gravely Arrives in Trinidad and Tobago for Joint Exercises ****
Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro accused Trinidad of acting as the "aircraft carrier of the US empire" and said that he was left with no choice but to pull out of treaties signed with Trinidad ten years ago.
Missile Frigate Miles Away from Venezuela.
#43 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-28 01:49 AM | Reply
drudge.com
#44 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-28 01:52 AM | Reply
*** Venezuelan Security Services Capture CIA-Linked Mercenaries ***
The VP of Venezuela described it as a "false-flag operation" planned from waters bordering Trinidad and Tobago, or from Trinidadian or Venezuelan territory, "to generate a full-scale military confrontation" against Venezuela.
Link: archive.ph
#45 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-28 04:44 AM | Reply
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