Trump says land strikes in Venezuela will 'start very soon'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: USA Today

Amid a buildup of U.S. military forces near Venezuela and strikes on alleged drug boats, President Donald Trump told U.S. troops on Thanksgiving that the military operation will soon include strikes on land.

“In recent weeks, you’ve been working to deter Venezuelan drug traffickers," Trump said during a call with military service members that alluded to the boat strikes, adding: "We’ll be starting to stop them by land also. The land is easier, but that’s going to start very soon."

Since early September, the Trump administration has attacked at least 21 boats traversing the Caribbean Sea and Eastern Pacific in international waters, killing 83 people − many of them Venezuelans. Administration officials have said, without providing evidence, that those boats were attempting to carry narcotics to the United States.

The military campaign that has drawn criticism from legal experts, who question the legality of using deadly military force rather than trying to apprehend suspected trafficking vessels and their cargo. This week Senate Democrats escalated their demands that the Trump administration publicly disclose the legal justification for conducting the attacks.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-says-land-strikes-venezuela-191521301.html

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Another war started by a chickenhawk.

[wcmagumba]

1. Good Ole "Brain Spurs" always loves war and killing...It is the way...

[Klarkashton]

26. I doubt Barron Trump is going to enlist.

He wouldn't qualify even if he did.

[GreenWave]

2. The land is easier so said Bay of Piggie parte dos.

[Norrrm]

3. D'ya suppose that would affect his Nobel Peace Prize? ("Noble" as he also calls it)

[paleotn]

4. Followed by the unraveling of this regime.

It's no secret many Republicans hate his ass almost as much as we do. They simply had to go along to keep their cushy jobs. But as his base erodes along with his political clout, we're seeing more of them break from the pack. He does this and it might be stamped. Particularly if body bags start landing at Dover AFB. Trump is weaker politically than he's ever been and maybe I'm reading too much into this but it feels like the "knives" are coming out. Getting "strung up and butchered" by his own party would be an interesting turn of events.

[Scruffy1]

13. I think it was "unraveled" on day one.

In the whole history of the USA there might have been a few complete mental cases appointed to cabinet level jobs but this administration has nothing but the worst of the worst. All of the great ones were very careful with their cabinet picks and relied on building a consensus among them before making important decisions. When you have people with no ability except kissing ass and a person with Narcistic Personality Disorder in charge the result is catastrophic. I'm beginning to think I made a really bad choice in not leaving the country, but then I'm old and probably won't have to deal with this shit for a long time. Pity the next generation. Aldous Huxley was right. You don't need violence to control; you only need to control the media.

[LudwigPastorius]

14. "Particularly if body bags start landing at Dover AFB"

I have my doubts that he's going to send in any troops.

He'll likely lob some cruise missiles at random places and people, then declare victory.

[paleotn]

34. That might be the least foolish or several foolish options.

Then again, these people aren't known for their smarts.

[DJ Synikus Makisimus]

5. Baron Harkonnen wants spice.

Or at least the kickbacks he gets from Exxon/Mobil et al. Venezuela got lots of spice.

[wcmagumba]

8. Apt comparison, I wonder if our Baron can fly up in the air and laugh maniacally?

It would take some strong suspensors...

[DJ Synikus Makisimus]

25. Dunno, bu Trump's almost as good looking as Stellan Skarsgard

or Kenneth McMillan in their makeup for the role.

Anyone got eyes on Rex Tillerson?

[wolfie001]

6. Desperate and caged rabid fatso

Please Grim Reaper, I implore you! Help the world out! 👏☮️

[mdbl]

12. Or at least visit the assholes in Congress in their dreams

and implore them to take action.

[sheshe2]

7. Ummm

Putin ally floats sending Venezuela nuclear-capable missiles to deter US

Russia has suggested it could send its most advanced hypersonic missiles to Venezuela as tensions with the United States escalate.

Alexei Zhuravlyov, deputy chairman of Russia’s parliamentary defense committee, told Russian news outlet Gazeta.Ru there were “no obstacles” to providing the Oreshnik or Kalibr missiles to the “friendly” nation.

“Russia is actually one of Venezuela’s key military-technical partners. We supply the country with nearly the entire range of weapons, from small arms to aviation. The details and volumes of deliveries are classified, so the Americans might be in for a surprise. I see no obstacles to providing our friendly nation with new systems such as the Oreshnik or the well-proven Kalibr missiles. No international commitments restrict Russia in this regard,” Zhuravlyov said.

Why It Matters
Tensions in the region have grown in recent months as the U.S. has increased its military presence near Venezuelan waters. The Trump administration has deployed fighter jets, bombers, drones, spy planes, warships and Marines to the region, citing efforts to curb drug trafficking. These operations have resulted in more than a dozen strikes and over 60 deaths since September, with many of the alleged traffickers having departed from Venezuela.

In response, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has reportedly reached out to Russia, China and Iran to request military assistance.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/putin-ally-floats-sending-venezuela-nuclear-capable-missiles-to-deter-us/ar-AA1PO1xT

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Smart move, donnie. Let's start a war with Russia, China and Iran!

[twodogsbarking]

9. Point to it on the map, stable jeenus.

[Baitball Blogger]

10. WAG THE DOG.

Let’s say it together.

[Lemon Lyman]

11. -

I wonder if it'll take his base 10 seconds or 15 to do a 180 on, "We didn't/don't have any wars under numbnuts" ??

New talking points do out soon.

[Aussie105]

15. Logical!

The department of defence was renamed the department of war, so now Trump is looking for wars to start.

And the best way to start a war is to blame another country for something they may, or may not, have done.

Too simple!

[YoshidaYui]

16. Does he not get the fact

That eventually they will start shooting back???

[NickB79]

17. A land conflict in a nation of 28 million composed of jungles and mountains

How hard could it be?

[Justice matters.]

18. How A Nuclear War Would Actually Go Down

The sickness of playing with atomic fire from the 0.01% on all sides.

What could go wrong if yatches won't be able to buy themselves?

They won't be happly until they'll kill us all, themselves included.

No effin "Rapture" to be seen anywhere...

[Xolodno]

37. B...b...b...but some on DU say it won't be that bad!

And Russia is so backwards they couldn't get their nukes off the ground! Adding this, just in case.

Lets just ignore the 500 pound gorilla in the room that Russia has developed new nukes that can be launched and basically hover until required to target an area. Or the fact they have nukes that have evasion capabilities. Not that they really need them, they have more than enough to overwhelm any anti nuke system we have. Even Hilary Clinton admitted as much.

You can't win in a nuke exchange.

[Justice matters.]

38. And at the pace China is currently developing its own nukes...

Watchdog reports state that in only 10 years from now, China will have more nukes than the US and Russia combined.

Doomsday clock is going to get to one tenth of a second before midnight.

[BurnDoubt]

19. "Onward... to Macho Grande!"

Firesign Theater wrote the Future.
Check it out.

[kacekwl]

20. Won't anyone stop this demented old

man from playing army with his little green men ?

[WestMichRad]

21. Hopefully it will be the same two weeks away

… as his amazing new health care plan.

[BarbD]

22. This demented wacko is destroying us.

We must up our resistance to this insanity. Good trouble here we come.

[Ocelot II]

23. In two weeks.

[DallasNE]

24. And Putin Says I'm Sending Russian Troops To Venezuela

Who didn't see that coming? Check and Mate.

[Bobstandard]

27. We need to take to the streets if he does

Psycho in the White House. It’s going to be up to us to stop him.

[Bread and Circuses]

28. We've Fallen Through The Ice

This is indeed a fascist coup . The entire Republican Congress are seditious traitors. I don’t want to hear that they are afraid of speaking out against the PedoPrez. Do your Job. Impeach the OrangeFelob for treason and flagrantly violating the constitution. That enables Congress to remove the entire administration.

Time has run out. Each day the stranglehold of the people is tighter .

There will be concentration camps and the end to free speech next.

We the people are doing all that we can. But the republicans refuse to act. And act they must.

[Firestorm49]

29. Drugs? My ass. It's OIL! Give me oil, oil, oil.

[dweller]

30. Prediction

December 6-7

😐



✌🏻

[JohnnyRingo]

31. I think that's called an act of war.

Doesn't Congress take care of such things, or have they been completely neutered?

[KS Toronado]

32. With SCOTUS giving IQ4.7 everything he wants, Congress is simply bypassed.

[thought crime]

35. The republican congress will call it "peacemaking"

Trump merely intends to put Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado in power to bring "peace" to Venezuela. It will be totally up to her if she wants to bestow rights to oil reserves to American companies.

[KS Toronado]

33. What Venezuela ought to do is start making American flags

then film thousands of people on the shores waving them with their welcome posters
WE WANT TO BECOME THE 51st STATE.........FOLLOW ME TO THE NARCO-TERRORISTS

And when is our military gonna start refusing illegal orders?

[bluestarone]

36. His lips are moving all the time. UNLESS questions on

EPSTEIN

[Deminpenn]

39. There will never be American soldiers

on the ground in Venezuela. Hegseth or whoever is really running DoD will plan to bomb Venezuela into submission. That strategy only worked to force Iraq out of Kuwait. It didn't work in VN, Iraq, Afghanistan or even completely in WWIi not including the A-bombs dropped on Japan.