Current Events > Are you ready to declare war on Venezuela?

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https://apnews.com/article/trump-cartels-hegseth-drugs-boat-strikes-6c3316b2852723e26c39dc701bba9d52

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.

Hegseth's pecker can't get hard enough over the prospect of killing people.

While also going to war with America.

? This is our Nobel Peace Award receipient to be. Surely this will make peace with Venezuela.

/s

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c891gzx7xn4o

Venezuela's President Nicols Maduro has accused the US of "fabricating a new war", after it ordered the world's largest warship to be sent to the Caribbean.

US President Donald Trump has accused Maduro of being the leader of a drug-trafficking organisation, which he denies, and there are fears in Venezuela that the US military build-up is aimed at removing the long-time opponent of Trump from power.

The US is among many nations that do not recognise Maduro as Venezuela's legitimate leader, after the last election in 2024 was widely dismissed as neither free nor fair. Opposition tallies from polling stations showed its candidate had won by a landslide.

but i was told when taco is in charge their will be no new wars.....was i lied too!!!/s

Youd have to be a real moron to think any nation has the ability to prevent drugs from leaving its own territory

Escalating like this wont end well

22%

This fucking lunatic has irreparably destroyed the United States because 22% of our population voted for him

gikos posted...

but i was told when taco is in charge their will be no new wars.....was i lied too!!!/s

No new wars, and he's ended eight wars. He truly is the paragon of peacekeeping. Donald the Dove!

Trump quote

"I think we're just going to kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. OK? We're going to kill them. You know? They're going to be like, dead," he said last week.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-boat-strikes-pacific-ocean-hegseth/

Is Trump and friends gonna blow 7 Vuvuzelas?

seems America did not sign UN agreement. Seriously? That would be like me saying I was born in America but I never signed an agreement to follow the law.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdjzw3gplv7o

What does international law say?
The US is not a signatory to United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, but the US military's legal advisors have previously said that the US should "act in a manner consistent with its provisions".
Under the convention, countries agree not to interfere with vessels operating in international waters. There are limited exceptions to this which allow a state to seize a ship, such as a "hot pursuit" where a vessel is chased from a country's waters into the high seas.
"Force can be used to stop a boat but generally this should be non-lethal measures," Prof Luke Moffett of Queens University Belfast said.
Prof Moffett added that the use of aggressive tactics must be "reasonable and necessary in self-defence where there is immediate threat of serious injury or loss of life to enforcement officials", noting that the US moves were likely "unlawful under the law of the sea".

When is the ICC going to put a poster up for Trump?

Sayoria posted...

When is the ICC going to put a poster up for Trump?

Never, because it is US law that if the ICC attempts to try any America, America will attack them.

Trump literally out there murdering people without a shred of due process.

suchiuomizu posted...

Never, because it is US law that if the ICC attempts to try any America, America will attack them.

Is there a source on this? I don't know the ins and outs of the ICC but Trump is definitely hitting levels of interest that I bet they've talked about it by now.

Sayoria posted...

Is there a source on this? I don't know the ins and outs of the ICC but Trump is definitely hitting levels of interest that I bet they've talked about it by now.

It was not quite as broad as I remembered it being. Not every American. But does apply to Trump, as it covers any elected official or member of the military.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Protection_Act

suchiuomizu posted...

It was not quite as broad as I remembered it being. Not every American. But does apply to Trump, as it covers any elected official or member of the military.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Protection_Act

That's annoying. And I use annoying because I cannot think of the word I want to use here. Asshole commits international crimes. I'd say the ICC should take him and America step aside and let it happen. This asshole is going to impact so many countries in the remainder of his cholesterol-heavy life that many are going to want him brought to justice internationally too.

Edit: Also lmao that this was signed in in 2002. I wonder why.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnHp5OwpJE4

It wouldn't be a Republican presidency if there wasn't a new war, so I have been ready for a while.

Looks like Donald the Dove is up for some Latin America Regime Change. St. Reagan would be so proud.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-venezuela-war-2674253712

The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday night that the administration is preparing to attack a variety of targets insReports from the US government and the United Nations have not identified

Venezuela as a significant source of drugs that enter the United States, and the country plays virtually no role in the trafficking of fentanyl, the primary cause of drug overdoses in the US.
ide Venezuela, including ports and airports controlled by the military that are allegedly used to traffic drugs, including naval facilities and airstrips.

While the WSJ report said that the administration had not yet decided to carry out the operations against Venezuela, the Miami Herald reported on Friday morning that the administration has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela and the strikes could come at any moment.

A source who spoke with the Miami Herald didnt explicitly say that Venezuelan leader Nicols Maduro would be the target of these actions, but they nonetheless hinted that the goal was to weaken his grip on power.