Hegseth Orders Warships and Planes to Latin America, a Major Escalation

[Meglamaniac 769]

16 minutes ago, TimHauck said:

 

Certainly looks to me like you are saying these were not wars, but I guess we’ll never know because you’re just being a troll.  Carry on with your trolling 

Are we at war with Venezuela yet?

 

CHECK YES OR NO

[TimHauck 3,282]

2 minutes ago, Meglamaniac said:

Are we at war with Venezuela yet?

 

CHECK YES OR NO

Not yet 

[Meglamaniac 769]

19 minutes ago, TimHauck said:

 

Certainly looks to me like you are saying these were not wars, but I guess we’ll never know because you’re just being a troll.  Carry on with your trolling 

It's truely sad that you don't know you're being mocked, even more sad that you try to use my mockery as a gotcha

Sad sad little man

[seafoam1 3,393]

Just now, TimHauck said:

Not yet 

When is it coming? And who will win in the end? When will the draft start? 

[Meglamaniac 769]

1 minute ago, TimHauck said:

Not yet 

Let me know when we are, till then I'll bump this every other day or so

[seafoam1 3,393]

1 minute ago, Meglamaniac said:

Let me know when we are, till then I'll bump this every other day or so

Just get in shape. You may be getting drafted into the military soon. 

[TimHauck 3,282]

 

[Strike 5,972]

2 minutes ago, Meglamaniac said:

Let me know when we are, till then I'll bump this every other day or so

You really don't need to:

1)  I'm sure Hack will anyways in an attempt at a GOTCHA!!!!

2)  No one else cares.

[TimHauck 3,282]

2 minutes ago, Meglamaniac said:

Let me know when we are, till then I'll bump this every other day or so

And what would need to happen for you to consider it war?

[TimHauck 3,282]

1 minute ago, Strike said:

You really don't need to:

1)  I'm sure Hack will anyways in an attempt at a GOTCHA!!!!

2)  No one else cares.

So have you seen Venezuela complaining about the strikes yet? 

[seafoam1 3,393]

1 minute ago, TimHauck said:

And what would need to happen for you to consider it war?

[TimHauck 3,282]

 

[seafoam1 3,393]

3 minutes ago, TimHauck said:

 

OMG!! Military exercises!!!??? I thought the military stopped doing those!!!!!  

[Ron_Artest 2,135]

1 minute ago, Meglamaniac said:

Sad sad little man

 

6 minutes ago, Meglamaniac said:

Are we at war with Venezuela yet?

 

CHECK YES OR NO

 

56 minutes ago, Meglamaniac said:

TWITTA

 

57 minutes ago, Meglamaniac said:

TWITTA

 

1 hour ago, Meglamaniac said:

Are we at war with Venezuela yet?

 

CHECK YES OR NO

 

2 hours ago, Meglamaniac said:

Are we at war with Venezuela yet?

 

CHECK YES OR NO

 

3 hours ago, Meglamaniac said:

TWITTA

 

3 hours ago, Meglamaniac said:

Are we at war with Venezuela yet?

BOOK MARK IT

 

4 hours ago, Meglamaniac said:

Are we at war with Venezuela yet?

BOOK MARK IT

 

 

4 hours ago, Meglamaniac said:

TWITTA

 

This was just this morning.

 

[seafoam1 3,393]

Just now, Ron_Artest said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This was just this morning.

 

Now do you. 

[Meglamaniac 769]

15 minutes ago, TimHauck said:

And what would need to happen for you to consider it war?

Are we at war with Venezuela yet?

 

CHECK YES OR NO

[Ron_Artest 2,135]

Jesus dude take a break.

[seafoam1 3,393]

3 minutes ago, Ron_Artest said:

Jesus dude take a break.

Wait, what? Coming from you? 

[Strike 5,972]

1 minute ago, seafoam1 said:

Wait, what? Coming from you? 

Mike's been trying to get Artest to take a break for a least 10 times but Artest won't take the hint.

[seafoam1 3,393]

16 minutes ago, Strike said:

Mike's been trying to get Artest to take a break for a least 10 times but Artest won't take the hint.

His self awareness is non-existent.

[squistion 2,473]

https://kstp.com/kstp-news/international/us-is-sending-an-aircraft-carrier-to-latin-america-in-major-escalation-of-military-firepower/

US is sending an aircraft carrier to Latin America in major escalation of military firepower

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military is sending an aircraft carrier to the waters off South America, the Pentagon announced Friday, in the latest escalation of military firepower in a region where the Trump administration has unleashed more rapid strikes in recent days against boats it accuses of carrying drugs.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the USS Gerald R. Ford and its strike group to deploy to the U.S. Southern Command region to “bolster U.S. capacity to detect, monitor, and disrupt illicit actors and activities that compromise the safety and prosperity of the United States,” Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said on social media.

The USS Ford, which has five destroyers in its strike group, is now deployed to the Mediterranean Sea. One of its destroyers is in the Arabian Sea and another is in the Red Sea, a person familiar with the operation told The Associated Press. As of Friday, the aircraft carrier was in port in Croatia on the Adriatic Sea.

The person, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive military operations, would not say how long it would take for the strike group to arrive in the waters off South America or if all five destroyers would make the journey.

Deploying an aircraft carrier will surge major additional resources to a region that has already seen an unusually large U.S. military buildup in the Caribbean Sea and the waters off Venezuela. The latest deployment and the quickening pace of the U.S. strikes, including one Friday, raised new speculation about how far the Trump administration may go in operations it says are targeted at drug trafficking, including whether it could try to topple Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. He faces charges of narcoterrorism in the U.S.

Moving thousands more troops into the region

There are already more than 6,000 sailors and Marines on eight warships in the region. If the entire USS Ford strike group arrives, that could bring nearly 4,500 more sailors as well as the nine squadrons of aircraft assigned to the carrier.

Complicating the situation is Tropical Storm Melissa, which has been nearly stationary in the central Caribbean with forecasters warning it could soon strengthen into a powerful hurricane.

Hours before Parnell announced the news, Hegseth said the military had conducted the 10th strike on a suspected drug-running boat, leaving six people dead and bringing the death count for the attacks that began in early September to at least 43 people.

Hegseth said on social media that the vessel struck overnight was operated by the Tren de Aragua gang. It was the second time the Trump administration has tied one of its operations to the gang that originated in a Venezuelan prison.

The strikes have ramped up from one every few weeks when they first began last month to three this week, killing a total of at least 43 people. Two of the most recent strikes were carried out in the eastern Pacific Ocean, expanding the area where the military has launched attacks and shifting to where much of the cocaine from the world’s largest producers is smuggled.

“If you are a narco-terrorist smuggling drugs in our hemisphere, we will treat you like we treat Al-Qaeda,” Hegseth said in his post. “Day or NIGHT, we will map your networks, track your people, hunt you down, and kill you.”

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[Ron_Artest 2,135]

PEACE 2025

[Maximum Overkill 2,380]

3 hours ago, Meglamaniac said:

Are we at war with Venezuela yet?

 

CHECK YES OR NO

Huh 

[Maximum Overkill 2,380]

32 minutes ago, Ron_Artest said:

PEACE 2025

Yup, let's Kill babies but spare drug smugglers, domestic terrorists and Hamas. 

You couldn't be any more Anti-American 

[Mike Honcho 5,411]

Trump considering plans to target cocaine facilities inside Venezuela, officials say

President Donald Trump is considering plans to target cocaine facilities and drug trafficking routes inside Venezuela, though he has not yet made a decision on whether to move forward with them, three US officials told CNN.

[Maximum Overkill 2,380]

Just now, Mike Honcho said:

Trump considering plans to target cocaine facilities inside Venezuela, officials say

President Donald Trump is considering plans to target cocaine facilities and drug trafficking routes inside Venezuela, though he has not yet made a decision on whether to move forward with them, three US officials told CNN.

I love this for America 

[SaintsInDome2006 599]

4 minutes ago, Maximum Overkill said:

Yup, let's Kill babies but spare drug smugglers, domestic terrorists and Hamas. 

You couldn't be any more Anti-American 

Sounds a lot like Zhao, the Chinese bitcoin magnate Trump just pardoned. He ticks all those boxes, plus some more, & he dumps piles of money into Trump’s bitcoin slush fund.

[Maximum Overkill 2,380]

1 minute ago, SaintsInDome2006 said:

Sounds a lot like Zhao,

So you agree that @Ron_Artest is much like Zhao? 

[HellToupee 2,162]

10 minutes ago, Mike Honcho said:

Trump considering plans to target cocaine facilities inside Venezuela, officials say

President Donald Trump is considering plans to target cocaine facilities and drug trafficking routes inside Venezuela, though he has not yet made a decision on whether to move forward with them, three US officials told CNN.

Nice. The US should’ve done this decades ago to major producers instead of of protecting poppy fields 

[SaintsInDome2006 599]

23 minutes ago, Maximum Overkill said:

So you agree that Trump is much like Zhao? 
 

Don’t have to conclude anything, they’re in business together.

[The Real timschochet 7,358]

3 hours ago, HellToupee said:

Nice. The US should’ve done this decades ago to major producers instead of of protecting poppy fields 

Except that Venezuela isn’t a major producer of cocaine. It transports cocaine to and from. 
And in any case it’s very unlikely that bombing the crap out of drug manufacturers will do anything to decrease drug use in America. It’s a little amazing to me that some people seem to believe that it can. 

[Meglamaniac 769]

2 minutes ago, The Real timschochet said:

Except that Venezuela isn’t a major producer of cocaine. It transports cocaine to and from. 
And in any case it’s very unlikely that bombing the crap out of drug manufacturers will do anything to decrease drug use in America. It’s a little amazing to me that some people seem to believe that it can. 

If dont think it does, then we know it does

[TimHauck 3,282]

43 minutes ago, The Real timschochet said:

Except that Venezuela isn’t a major producer of cocaine. It transports cocaine to and from. 
And in any case it’s very unlikely that bombing the crap out of drug manufacturers will do anything to decrease drug use in America. It’s a little amazing to me that some people seem to believe that it can. 

Hegseth’s tweet seemed to open the door to killing drug dealers within the US as well.   Which probably still wouldn’t decrease drug use, but it would decrease the number of dealers and thus increase the prices.

[seafoam1 3,393]

On 9/3/2025 at 10:29 AM, squistion said:

The MAGA crowd are cheering Trump directing the military to blow up a tiny Venezuelan drug running boat .

I sure am. 

[SaintsInDome2006 599]

11 hours ago, Meglamaniac said:

If dont think it does, then we know it does

”According to the DEA, 93 percent of cocaine samples tested were of Colombian origin.” CNN

[Maximum Overkill 2,380]

The Trump administration has conducted 40 removal flights to the Venezuelan capital of Caracas, deporting nearly 8,000 Venezuelan nationals since March, according to senior Department of Homeland Security officials who spoke to CBS News on the condition of anonymity. 

The flights began after Venezuela agreed in March to resume repatriation flights, and have continued amid heightened U.S.-Venezuelan tensions in recent weeks.

[TimHauck 3,282]

 

Forcing regime change via military force = war.  I doubt we kill Maduro, but it’s possible.

 

 

 

[TimHauck 3,282]

The ironic thing about going after Maduro is that that is basically acknowledging that many Venezuelans fleeing there to come here probably had valid asylum claims.

[Maximum Overkill 2,380]

2 minutes ago, TimHauck said:

Forcing regime change via military force = war.  I doubt we kill Maduro, but it’s possible.

We could obviously kill him at anytime but we won't. Just like Russia could kill Zelensky and we could kill Putin at anytime. 

[Maximum Overkill 2,380]

1 minute ago, TimHauck said:

The ironic thing about going after Maduro is that that is basically acknowledging that many Venezuelans fleeing there to come here probably had valid asylum claims.

Do you know what conditions are like in Venezuela due to Maduro? It would be a blessing for the people of Venezuela if we killed him. 

They want him dead more than anyone.