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2025-12-17 Caribbean-Latin America

Trump declares 'Venezuelan regime' a foreign terrorist organization, orders oil tanker blockade

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Posted by Skidmark 2025-12-17 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1808 views ] Top
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1 Trump orders 'total and complete' blockade of all oil tankers bound for Venezuela while warning Maduro with 'largest Armada ever assembled'

Posted by Skidmark 2025-12-17 00:14|| 2025-12-17 00:14|| Front Page Top

2 Let's begin hearing all the pussies start screaming that the US is after the oil like we don't have any!

Posted by chris 2025-12-17 00:36|| 2025-12-17 00:36|| Front Page Top

3 Sounds good. Get it done.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2025-12-17 02:36|| 2025-12-17 02:36|| Front Page Top

4 This massive and rapid escalation seems to be an excessive reaction to "terrorism, trafficking and other criminal activity" from Venezuela.

Is the Trump administration aware of a massive impending threat to the US originating from Venezuela and allies like Iran, Russia or China.

Is this escalation an attempt to preempt a new Cuban Missle Crisis style confrontation?

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Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2025-12-17 03:15|| 2025-12-17 03:15|| Front Page Top

5 I expect Boasberg will shortly issue his first worldwide injunction. Eventually, his injunctions will intrude into the affairs Olof parallel dimensions.

Posted by Super Hose 2025-12-17 08:06|| 2025-12-17 08:06|| Front Page Top

6 This massive and rapid escalation seems to be an excessive reaction

excessive?
NIH: Drug Overdose Deaths: Facts and Figures
50,000/year

rapid?
Took 6 months to build up to the 10 day war for Kuwait.
The US Southern Front has been ignored for YEARS.
Peaking at 5000/day the migrant assault has been underway for decades.

/rage

Posted by Skidmark 2025-12-17 09:45|| 2025-12-17 09:45|| Front Page Top

7 I'm not criticizing the Trump administration.

But precisely because these issues have been ignored for decades (including Trump 45) I wonder if there's another reason behind this escalation.

There seems be an urgency behind this build up that might have an undisclosed cause.

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2025-12-17 11:37|| 2025-12-17 11:37|| Front Page Top

There seems be an urgency behind this build up that might have an undisclosed cause.

Europe is lost to the Muzzies.
The Chinese economic transform/invasion of South America is preceding apace.
From the Gulf of America south, the Western region needs stabilization to become reliable trading partners.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-12-17 11:55|| 2025-12-17 11:55|| Front Page Top

9 The Rand people wrote about that question in March, Elmerert Hupens2660:

Hezbollah's Networks in Latin America

Although U.S. policymakers face a variety of complex challenges in addressing transnational terrorism, one underappreciated aspect is Hezbollah's evolving presence in Latin America. Academic literature and government reports almost universally indicate that Hezbollah's activities in the region pose potential threats to U.S. national security. However, there is a significant knowledge gap in existing assessments. In this paper, the author offers an initial exploration of Hezbollah's operational footprint in Latin America, focusing on illicit funding mechanisms, violent operations, and key operational hubs — particularly in the Tri-Border Area and Venezuela. The analysis situates these activities within the broader context of Iran's regional diplomatic, economic, and cultural activities, which partially facilitate conditions amenable to Hezbollah's operations.

PDF. Pages 7-8 have a nice table by country of items of interest.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-12-17 11:55|| 2025-12-17 11:55|| Front Page Top

10 You're so good!

Posted by Skidmark 2025-12-17 12:48|| 2025-12-17 12:48|| Front Page Top

11 Fetterman sets the record straight on drug-boat kaboob strategy: "Scott Jennings: “I can report to you what Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman said today who went into a classified briefing and came out and said, we know exactly who's on the boats. We know exactly what they're doing. We know exactly what they have.”

“These are classified briefings, but you have a United States Senator of the president's opposition party saying. I got a briefing, I saw the intelligence and we know exactly what we're doing.”

https://x.com/RedWave_Press/status/2001277857419378756

Posted by NoMoreBS 2025-12-17 13:48|| 2025-12-17 13:48|| Front Page Top

12 Why now? Look at the worthless turds we've had in the Oval Office for the past three decades.

Posted by Regular joe 2025-12-17 15:06|| 2025-12-17 15:06|| Front Page Top

13 Why now?

In order to push out the Chinese, Trump has given Putin license to proceed with Ukraine et. al. in exchange for extraction/nullification of remaining Soviet influences in the Western hemisphere. /extrapolation

Posted by Skidmark 2025-12-17 16:50|| 2025-12-17 16:50|| Front Page Top

14 See: Pete Hegseth to slash 4-star generals in Pentagon shake-up that pulls the plug on Europe and Middle East

Posted by Skidmark 2025-12-17 16:57|| 2025-12-17 16:57|| Front Page Top

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