US Military Build Up Near Venezuela | Aug 9th-28th 2025

[william]

Colombia Rejects Having Military Cooperation Agreement with Venezuela with U.S. Warships Off Its Coast​

Colombian Interior Minister Armando Benedetti said the country doesn't have a military cooperation agreement with Venezuela as tensions in the region escalate following the deployment of U.S. warships to the region.

"There is no military agreement here. Not even one of joint military cooperation. There's no trace of that happening whatsoever," Benedetti said.

He went on to criticize local press, claiming that some "came out to say we are giving up territory or talking about military cooperation... to face an alleged invasion by the U.S. on Venezuelan territory."

Colombia Rejects Having Military Cooperation Agreement With Venezuela With U.S. Warships Off Its Coast

Colombian Interior Minister Armando Benedetti said the country doesn't have a military cooperation agreement with Venezuela as tensions in the region escalate following the deployment of U.S. warships to the region

www.latintimes.com

I hear it's getting a little warm in South America recently!

 

[william]

Top Venezuelan Official Says All Foreigners Who Enter The Country Without Authorization Will Be Imprisoned: 'Whoever It May Be'​

Jorge Rodriguez, president of Venezuela's regime-friendly Legislative Assembly, said on Wednesday all people who enter the country unlawfully will be arrested. "Whoever it may be. Foreigners who enter the country unlawfully can come in, but won't come out. They'll stay here. In prison," Rodriguez said during an Assembly session, a statement greeted by applause from those present.

Top Venezuelan Official Says All Foreigners Who Enter The Country Without Authorization Will Be Imprisoned: 'Whoever It May Be'

Jorge Rodriguez, president of Venezuela's regime-friendly Legislative Assembly, said all people who enter the country unlawfully will be arrested

www.latintimes.com

 

[Yingyang]

Next target? No nukes no real military forces. c- mon Americans take on a real challenge like American warships and fighter planes supporting Ukraine and killing Russians in Ukrainian undisputed territories . Or complete destruction of iran, or directly facing China in their so called illegal agression towards neighbours . after all the global power projection claimed and military capacity plus capabilities I'm truly seriously shocked considering bigger threats are not dealt with before spud gun threats . The west has definitely undeniably got their priorities completely wrong or using these actions as an excuse of to much simultaneously to explain their demise as a lame excuse of global control lost. C,mon peoples if we cannot sort out our biggest issues first than we are doomed for the near future of global control and coercion. A new non western global power arises. I understand really i do. History shows those empires prior sometimes bite off more than they can chew.

 

[Publius]

Sounds like a reasonable policy for any nation to follow

 

[Publius]

Next target? No nukes no real military forces. c- mon Americans take on a real challenge like American warships and fighter planes supporting Ukraine and killing Russians in Ukrainian undisputed territories . Or complete destruction of iran, or directly facing China in their so called illegal agression towards neighbours . after all the global power projection claimed and military capacity plus capabilities I'm truly seriously shocked considering bigger threats are not dealt with before spud gun threats . The west has definitely undeniably got their priorities completely wrong or using these actions as an excuse of to much simultaneously to explain their demise as a lame excuse of global control lost. C,mon peoples if we cannot sort out our biggest issues first than we are doomed for the near future of global control and coercion. A new non western global power arises. I understand really i do. History shows those empires prior sometimes bite off more than they can chew.

It’s hard trying to make a point just with sarcasm

 

[Yingyang]

It’s hard trying to make a point just with sarcasm

Oh woopsie. How can I clarify my point better? More than happy to be blunt. Thought I was. In all honesty being blunt is better. So lets be blunt.
Get your shit together prove your claim and prioritise your issues without hesitation, prove your claims not you personally but the western attitudes from western warmongers who continue to fail and look like fools. Stop bullshitting the world with fake claims outdated since the 90s and stand your ground instead of tip toe crap around bullshit issues on small claims and stand up to large issues. Otherwise American so called power etc looks more like a desperate attempt to hold on something they once may have been. Honest enough without sarcasm? Or you prefer sarcasm? Sarcasm offered seemed more social friendly, my apologies for getting that wrong. more than happy to gut punch in future. In reality life is never go for knock out. That's boring prefer guts and knee caps . You want straight forward opinions you got it. America claims Russia, Iran and China are issues. Russia America has tip toed claiming( Russian fake threats- bluffs )yet no support as mentioned in post you reference. Reminder eg. Naval and or Air support against Russian military in Ukrainian territory. Directly from eu or American military.(ADD ON NOW )Let alone uniformed soldiers from any countries mentioned.
Iran real joke funny as achieving fuck all apparently to permanent issue-threat.
China well wtf. Nothing not even an attempt to stop shit.eg. Islands militarisation yrs ago. yeah emoji’s sarcasm couldn't help myself
More than happy to hear about each of the only so called major issues America has with these three as mentioned. And why the fuck it hasn't been sorted by now? After all these three didn't start last week last month or last yr. Apparently they existed yrs to atleast a decade or longer . Well minimum 2 major issues with nuclear capabilities has been given the luxury of time . Outstanding. Someone obviously forgot to inform the west it is a ball and not a shuttlecock.

 

[william]

Next target? No nukes no real military forces. c- mon Americans take on a real challenge like American warships and fighter planes supporting Ukraine and killing Russians in Ukrainian undisputed territories
So, you are advocating for the US to go to war with russia? Hope you have a deep hole to get in.
Latin America is our backyard. Ukraine is not.

. Or complete destruction of iran,

When is the last time the US has sent heavy bombers into iran? I give President Trump allot of credit for that.

or directly facing China in their so called illegal agression towards neighbours

International Court Rejects China’s Claim to South China Sea in Rebuke of Expansionism

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — An international tribunal rejected China’s extensive claims in the South China Sea in a landmark ruling Tuesday that also found the country had aggravated the seething regional dispute and violated the Philippines’ maritime rights by building up artificial islands...

www.courthousenews.com

U.S. Strengthening Deterrence in Taiwan Strait

The Defense Department is working with other government agencies, allies and friends to strengthen deterrence across the Taiwan Strait to ensure peace and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific region.

www.defense.gov

All aspects of US power are aliening to deter the CCP right now.

. after all the global power projection claimed and military capacity plus capabilities I'm truly seriously shocked considering bigger threats are not dealt with

How many reginal conflicts has the Trump administration mediated now. I forget if it's 7 or 8. I think the current administration is dealing with world events pretty well.

before spud gun threats . The west has definitely undeniably got their priorities completely wrong

I disagree. The US has let these two-bit dictators (supported by russia, china, iran and others) encroach in the western hemisphere for far too long.

or using these actions as an excuse of to much simultaneously to explain their demise as a lame excuse of global control lost.

I would refer you to all the squealing about the current administration demanding a free trade policy with any country that wants to trade with the US. Either play fair or the US will crush your economy. That is global control. IMO

C,mon peoples if we cannot sort out our biggest issues first than we are doomed for the near future of global control and coercion. A new non western global power arises. I understand really i do. History shows those empires prior sometimes bite off more than they can chew.

I do believe the US can handle the Maduro regime pretty well and has not bitten off more than they can chew.

 

[william]

Venezuela’s Barinas Governor Argenis Chávez, brother of Hugo Chávez, is now demonstrating how he will defeat President Trump and the “Yankees” with his martial art skills.

Should we be worried?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1958682529277317226

 

[william]

Looks like a Colombian helicopter ambushed while it was landing. At least a dozen casualties with at least 8 dead.

Soon after a military aviation school was hit with a car bomb causing another half dozen dead and dozens injured

https://twitter.com/x/status/1958705656539881876

 

[william]

F22 over venezuela ?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1958693178178929054

 

[william]

Venezuela's role as an increasingly close partner to Iran, which the U.S. government labels as “the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism,” warrants attention.

The leadership in Tehran has consistently promoted its so-called “axis of resistance” as a unified global anti-imperialist project. Ideologically, the regimes in Venezuela and Iran both harbor fervent anti-American sentiments and preside over authoritarian systems of government.

Venezuela and Iran have both vocally supported Russia's invasion of Ukraine and opposed the U.S.-led international rules-based order. These shared political stances have drawn the two nations closer together, effectively forging a quasi-alliance between Caracas and Tehran.

As the world's attention focuses on the Israel-Palestine conflict, one must not forget that the long arm of the Iranian state, with Venezuela as its Latin American spearhead, extends into the Western hemisphere.

Maduro told his Iranian counterparts (and was repeated in Iranian state-run media) that Venezuela was part of this axis and that it “exists throughout the world; it exists in Africa, in Asia, in the Middle East, in Latin America and in the Caribbean.”

Officers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Iran's elite paramilitary force which is labeled as a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department, have also been active in Venezuela.

Tehran has turned Venezuela into its Latin American weapons depot and arms trafficking hub. It is clear that Tehran regards Venezuela as the base for their subversive anti-democratic operations in the Western hemisphere and that Maduro openly allows Iran to use his country's territory for this sort of terrorism.

Using Caracas as a base for their subversive activities in Latin America, Hezbollah operates a criminal-terror network in the tri-border area of Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina that generates important revenue for the terrorist organization. Largely driven by narcotics trafficking, Hezbollah operatives can largely move to and from Venezuela discretely and many have roots in Venezuela's sizable Lebanese community. Embedded within Maduro's security apparatus and intelligence network, Hezbollah-linked agents and operatives launder money for the Iranian-backed terrorist organization and its sponsors in Tehran.

This clandestine foothold in Venezuela provides Iran and Hezbollah with closer access to the U.S. homeland as well as potential soft military targets in the Western hemisphere.

Leveraging shared ideological views of revolutionary socialism and opposition to the Colombian “bourgeois” state, Maduro's security services provided a safe haven and drug transit corridors to FARC dissident fronts. The porous border areas of Venezuela served as vital rear bases for FARC dissidents on the run from the Colombian military.

Maduro himself, partnered with FARC and the Cartel of the Suns to “flood” the U.S. with cocaine. In order to exploit illicit criminal activity and receive kickbacks from the drug trade, Maduro loyalists in the government and military received preferential postings in FARC sanctuaries and regional cartel strongholds. Aug 22, 2024

https://www.rand.org/pubs/commentary/2024/08/its-time-to-designate-venezuela-as-a-state-sponsor.html

 

[william]

CHINA CONDEMNS U.S. WARSHIPS OFF VENEZUELA AS TRUMP CRACKS DOWN ON CARTELS

China blasted the U.S. for sending guided-missile destroyers to patrol waters near Venezuela, calling it foreign interference.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1958773630500053078

 

[william]

It’s happening! US Navy destroyers, submarines & amphibious ships surround Venezuela.

The bravest woman in Latin America Maria Corina YA explains how liberating Venezuela & kicking out Narcos & Chinese is the ultimate power move for USA.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1958646632364613820

 

[Publius]

Oh woopsie. How can I clarify my point better? More than happy to be blunt. Thought I was. In all honesty being blunt is better. So lets be blunt.
Get your shit together prove your claim and prioritise your issues without hesitation, prove your claims not you personally but the western attitudes from western warmongers who continue to fail and look like fools. Stop bullshitting the world with fake claims outdated since the 90s

Neocons in the US have taken the US down the path of frivolous and destructive confrontations. I’ve never denied this and often spoken out about it. So I feel no compulsion to respond to your challenge defend my “claims” because I already have explained and defended my positions with historic examples and public statements or actions of national leader.


What is deficient is your own blanket criticisms of everything American, or what america does. Irregardless of the specific disputes or manner in which those disputes arise.

and stand your ground instead of tip toe crap around bullshit issues on small claims and stand up to large issues. Otherwise American so called power etc looks more like a desperate attempt to hold on something they once may have been. Honest enough without sarcasm? Or you prefer sarcasm? Sarcasm offered seemed more social friendly, my apologies for getting that wrong. more than happy to gut punch in future. In reality life is never go for knock out. That's boring prefer guts and knee caps . You want straight forward opinions you got it. America claims Russia, Iran and China are issues. Russia America has tip toed claiming( Russian fake threats- bluffs )yet no support as mentioned in post you reference. Reminder eg. Naval and or Air support against Russian military in Ukrainian territory. Directly from eu or American military.(ADD ON NOW )Let alone uniformed soldiers from any countries mentioned.

I’m assuming here but Russia and fake threats or bluffs is in regard to nuclear first use escalation. Yet no support has been provided back up claims of Russias nuclear first use escalatory rhetoric?
Again this too has been posted with multiple news sources, including Russian sources. Demonstrating Russia escalation of nuclear first use rhetoric these last four years. All the way back to summer of 2021 when Russia officially announced its change of nuclear use policies. Escalate to deescalate.
I remain clear in my position that Western forces should have entered the war at some level over two years ago.
Also clear in my criticism of western lack of coherent plan to win the fight in Ukraine. And absent such a plan a negotiated settlement need pursued with all haste.

Iran real joke funny as achieving fuck all apparently to permanent issue-threat.
China well wtf. Nothing not even an attempt to stop shit.eg. Islands militarisation yrs ago. yeah emoji’s sarcasm couldn't help

Your correct in the past failings go confront China the last two decades regarding “island hopping or more specifically their territorial claims of the nine dash line.
It’s true, yet irregardless when a different approach or actual confrontation of Chinas actions in the South China Sea is made. The go to response is sarcasm and very little substance. “it’s all things American bad” again not much substance and often very little effort to provide sources, “ go find them yourself”

More than happy to hear about each of the only so called major issues America has with these three as mentioned. And why the fuck it hasn't been sorted by now? After all these three didn't start last week last month or last yr. Apparently they existed yrs to atleast a decade or longer . Well minimum 2 major issues with nuclear capabilities has been given the luxury of time . Outstanding. Someone obviously forgot to inform the west it is a ball and not a shuttlecock.

Your correct these are not new issues And this is solely Americas fault? How so exactly.

Regarding this threads actual topic. What if the issue in using American military go guard the boarder of interdiction of smuggling at sea. This is a fairly common use of all militaries. Or T least it should be.
Yet somehow this is an old problem that has not been confronted by past administration in the US. It is now illegitimate, for a new approach to be made.

Even in this parting rational sarcasm it all that is contained there.

When an individuals efforts are unequivocally engaged in either supporting OR criticizing a particular nation. In the end it only proves that partisanship is the motive.

 

[william]

Neocons in the US have taken the US down the path of frivolous and destructive confrontations.

I agree with this statement, but, when confronted in a fight, be it political, military or otherwise you have to fight as dirty as your adversary. That is one of the things I like about President Trump. He will lie, cheat and steal all while smiling and saying how nice you are as he twists the knife in your back. I feel that the US has been to anti adversarial for quite a while now. It's time to put some heads on spikes. IMO

I’ve never denied this and often spoken out about it. So I feel no compulsion to respond to your challenge defend my “claims” because I already have explained and defended my positions with historic examples and public statements or actions of national leader.


What is deficient is your own blanket criticisms of everything American, or what america does. Irregardless of the specific disputes or manner in which those disputes arise.

I’m assuming here but Russia and fake threats or bluffs is in regard to nuclear first use escalation. Yet no support has been provided back up claims of Russias nuclear first use escalatory rhetoric?
Again this too has been posted with multiple news sources, including Russian sources. Demonstrating Russia escalation of nuclear first use rhetoric these last four years. All the way back to summer of 2021 when Russia officially announced its change of nuclear use policies. Escalate to deescalate.
I remain clear in my position that Western forces should have entered the war at some level over two years ago.
Also clear in my criticism of western lack of coherent plan to win the fight in Ukraine. And absent such a plan a negotiated settlement need pursued with all haste.

Your correct in the past failings go confront China the last two decades regarding “island hopping or more specifically their territorial claims of the nine dash line.
It’s true, yet irregardless when a different approach or actual confrontation of Chinas actions in the South China Sea is made. The go to response is sarcasm and very little substance. “it’s all things American bad” again not much substance and often very little effort to provide sources, “ go find them yourself”

Your correct these are not new issues And this is solely Americas fault? How so exactly.

Regarding this threads actual topic. What if the issue in using American military go guard the boarder of interdiction of smuggling at sea. This is a fairly common use of all militaries. Or T least it should be.
Yet somehow this is an old problem that has not been confronted by past administration in the US. It is now illegitimate, for a new approach to be made.

Even in this parting rational sarcasm it all that is contained there.

When an individuals efforts are unequivocally engaged in either supporting OR criticizing a particular nation. In the end it only proves that partisanship is the motive.

 

[william]

Venezuela represents a critical geopolitical focal point with far-reaching implications for the Western Hemisphere. Its proximity to the southern United States border places developments in the country squarely within the sphere of U.S. national security and regional stability considerations.

Foreign influence, particularly from Russia and China, has been firmly established through military and intelligence installations. This presence near the United States provides strategic leverage with the potential to affect not only Latin America but also broader international negotiations and global power dynamics.

Venezuela’s substantial energy reserves further elevate its strategic significance. Control over these resources impacts global energy markets and the international balance of power.

Concurrently, ongoing political and economic instability drives migration across neighboring countries, creating humanitarian challenges and administrative pressures that reverberate throughout the region.

The situation in Venezuela directly influences regional stability, U.S. security interests, and global strategic calculations.

Bottom line: what is happening in Venezuela matters to the negotiations in Eastern Europe.

General Mike Flynn

https://twitter.com/x/status/1958869618451521547

 

[RiffRaff]

A post headline I never thought I would type.

Sources:

U.S. Navy Destroyers, Submarine, Amphibious Ships Being Sent Toward Venezuela

The White House calls Venezuelan ruler Maduro a "narco-terrorist" and is deploying ships, planes and Marines in a major show of force.

www.twz.com

MSN

Donald Trump deploys 3 missile destroyers: what to know

The USS Gravely, USS Jason Dunham, and USS Sampson are expected to arrive in South America soon.

www.newsweek.com

Do we need to add a South America section to our regions?

 

[Torch]

Do we need to add a South America section to our regions?

Plenty of time for that. Hopefully the force is there to protect from, dissuade and, if necessary, destroy any pursuing forces.

 

[Irag8er]

The initial report I read stated they were deployed to help in the "drug war" with the cartels.
Intercepting shipments and the like.
I'll try to dig it up.

 

[Irag8er]

A post headline I never thought I would type.

Sources:

U.S. Navy Destroyers, Submarine, Amphibious Ships Being Sent Toward Venezuela

The White House calls Venezuelan ruler Maduro a "narco-terrorist" and is deploying ships, planes and Marines in a major show of force.

www.twz.com

MSN

Donald Trump deploys 3 missile destroyers: what to know

The USS Gravely, USS Jason Dunham, and USS Sampson are expected to arrive in South America soon.

www.newsweek.com

Do we need to add a South America section to our regions?

Yes, what I initially read was basically contained in the Newsweek article you linked.