2025 U.S. - Venezuela conflict

[Bruce Monkhouse]

We"re drifting off topic but the major difference is when you quit tobacco you can still find joy in things, unlike a lot of the hard drugs.
Always needing to find "that" feeling that they experienced ONE time.

 

[daftandbarmy]

We"re drifting off topic but the major difference is when you quit tobacco you can still find joy in things, unlike a lot of the hard drugs.
Always needing to find "that" feeling that they experienced ONE time.

I hear this pursuit is proving even more addictive for your age group... be careful out there

 

[mariomike]

I hear this pursuit is proving even more addictive for your age group... be careful out there

That's the absolute truth .

9 Dec., 2025

Trump administration quietly builds plans for what would happen if Maduro were ousted in Venezuela​

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/09/politics/trump-plans-after-maduro

 

[brihard]

The U.S. Navy is being pretty damned aggressive and obnoxious towards Venezuela today…

https://twitter.com/x/status/1998446345406071247

 

[Good2Golf]

While not in their territorial airspace per se, it’s well inside Venezuela’s ADIZ. By this account, America shouldn’t have an issue with Chinese fighters flying 13 miles offshore from Bangor…

 

[brihard]

A different screenshot showed a couple EA-18 were back and forth just offshore during that demonstration- all of them squawking, so this was intended to be seen.

I would bet a bunch of F-35s were also up ready to do angry plane shit had things gone hinky.

 

[Good2Golf]

I would bet a bunch of F-35s were also up ready to do angry plane shit had things gone hinky.

Probably IN VEN’s airspace…

 

[brihard]

Probably IN VEN’s airspace…

I imagine USN/USAF already have a very good idea of how freely certain platforms can operate in the Venezuelan air defence environment.