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.

 

[Retired AF Guy]

More details from The War Zone:

F/A-18 Super Hornets Were Just Tracked Flying Deep Inside The Gulf Of Venezuela

Openly sending fighters over a gulf bounded by Venezuelan territory on three sides is a new escalation in the pressure campaign against the Maduro regime.

www.twz.com

 

[dapaterson]

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…

The governor is a Democrat, so that checks out.

 

[Fishbone Jones]

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…

They don’t have a problem with spy balloons hanging overhead the continental US for a couple of weeks. A couple of jets over the ocean is easy peezy.

 

[Blackadder1916]

When even your robots think you're a war criminal.

The military's new AI says 'hypothetical' boat strike scenario 'unambiguously illegal’

An AI chatbot unveiled by the Pentagon appears to have described airstrikes against suspected drug smugglers at sea as “illegal.”

san.com

An artificial intelligence chatbot unveiled by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday appears to have described airstrikes against suspected drug smugglers at sea as “unambiguously illegal.” The platform, powered by Google Gemini, has been made available to military personnel as part of the Pentagon’s effort to adopt AI.

In a video posted to X, Hegseth said the platform, known as GenAI.mil, puts “the world’s most powerful frontier AI models into the hands of every American warrior.”

“At the click of a button, AI models on GenAI can be utilized to conduct deep research, format documents and even analyze video or imagery at unprecedented speed,” Hegseth said. “We will continue to aggressively field the world’s best technology to make our fighting force more lethal than ever before, and all of it is American-made." . . .

 

[PPCLI Guy]

And of course they are tracking individual use of the chatbot and who asks what question, for future use.

 

[GR66]

And of course they are tracking individual use of the chatbot and who asks what question, for future use prosecution.

FTFY

 

[brihard]

The U.S. has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. Not clear which ship, where precisely, or the legal grounds.

US seizes oil tanker off coast of Venezuela, officials say

The U.S. has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, three officials told Reuters on Wednesday, a move that raised oil prices and is likely to further inflame tensions between Washington and Caracas.

www.reuters.com

 

[HavokFour]

When even your robots think you're a war criminal.

The military's new AI says 'hypothetical' boat strike scenario 'unambiguously illegal’

An AI chatbot unveiled by the Pentagon appears to have described airstrikes against suspected drug smugglers at sea as “illegal.”

san.com

Well, I suppose this is a better outcome than what the Terminator movies portrayed.

 

[HavokFour]

The U.S. has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. Not clear which ship, where precisely, or the legal grounds.

US seizes oil tanker off coast of Venezuela, officials say

The U.S. has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, three officials told Reuters on Wednesday, a move that raised oil prices and is likely to further inflame tensions between Washington and Caracas.

www.reuters.com

Possibly this vessel? It tried several times to dock in Venezuela. I am also starting to see that the one that was seized was sanctioned. This was also only a little while after Russia started to import fuel due to the effect of Ukrainian strikes.

https://www.reddit.com/r/navy/comments/1p3exh2/well_thats_interesting_according_to_marine

 

[brihard]

Possibly this vessel? It tried several times to dock in Venezuela. I am also starting to see that the one that was seized was sanctioned. This was also only a little while after Russia started to import fuel due to the effect of Ukrainian strikes.

https://www.reddit.com/r/navy/comments/1p3exh2/well_thats_interesting_according_to_marine

Not sure. But it is, of course, probably the girthiest, veiniest tanker ever seized, probably in history, ever. Or something like that.

 

[OldSolduer]

The U.S. has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. Not clear which ship, where precisely, or the legal grounds.

US seizes oil tanker off coast of Venezuela, officials say

The U.S. has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, three officials told Reuters on Wednesday, a move that raised oil prices and is likely to further inflame tensions between Washington and Caracas.

www.reuters.com

Now the US is acting like a pirate gang maybe?