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Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro on August 18 said that he would deploy 4.5 million militia members in response to “outlandish threats” by the United States.
The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has been slowly escalating against Venezuela, using the problem of drug trafficking as a pretext.
In February, it designated Venezuelan criminal group Tren de Aragua and a number of Mexican drug cartels as global terrorist organizations.
Furthermore, the U.S. announced earlier this month that it had doubled the reward for the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro from to $50 million. Maduro was accused by the Trump administration of being “the world’s biggest drug trafficker” and of working with cartels to smuggle fentanyl-laced cocaine.
The U.S. dispatched in recent days a 4000-strong naval group, including an amphibious group, multiple guided missile destroyers, a nuclear attack submarine and several naval patrol aircraft, to Latin America and the Caribbean on a counter-cartel mission.
“This week, I will activate a special plan with more than 4.5 million militiamen to ensure coverage of the entire national territory — militias that are prepared, activated and armed,” Maduro announced on state television, without mentioning recent U.S. actions.
The Bolivarian Militia of Venezuela, founded by Maduro’s predecessor Hugo Chavez, is reported to contain about five people. Meanwhile, the National Bolivarian Armed Forces of Venezuela, which is heavily armed, has over 100,000 active duty troops.
The Venezuelan President went on to llambasted “the renewal of extravagant, bizarre and outlandish threats” from the U.S.
Maduro also thanked those who expressed their support in the face of what he called “rotten refrain” of threats, and called on his government’s political base to move forward with the formation of peasant and worker militias “in all industries” in the country.
“Rifles and missiles for the peasant force! To defend the territory, sovereignty, and peace of Venezuela,” declared Maduro.
Maduro’s remarks came following a Reuters report revealing that three of the destroyers deployed by the U.S. would take position off the coast of Venezuela.
The U.S. did not recognize Maduro’s past two election victories. In addition, Trump floated the idea of a military intervention in Venezuela during his first term. Thus, the oil-rich country has every right to be extremely cautious about the U.S. naval buildup near its shores.
A U.S. military intervention seems highly-unlikely. However, the naval deployment could enable Trump to pressure Venezuela in new ways.
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god be with venezuela.🇻🇪 🙏 🙌
to hell with uncle sams imperialistic military!
where does venezuela get their electricity from.
where does murica get its drugs from? certainly not venezuela.
the (((sackler))) family.
no. they were just allowed to serve but the commandment is thou shall not get caught. the minute the chips are down your disowned and if you sing then you’ll suffer in their prison and your relations will too. 101.
colombia and mexico. everyone knows. both catholic nations. like venezuala.and everyone knows that it’s a rerun of the british empires opium wars aimed at drugging the young, exacerbating crime and enforcing expensive prevention efforts whilst stealing criminally millions and millions and millions of us dollars out of circulation forcing the government to have to increase debt levels to the mint.
by billions, probably trillions now since they’ve been criminally smuggling drugs in for over 80 years.who profits the most. in china the empire set up jardine in hong kong to do their money laundering who’s doing the laundry in south america?
look at bain capital, romney, utah is their home base for money laundering.
so they have been doing military sending and maduro thinks his national warpenis is big enough to brandish at the us. ok. are these missile carriers built in iran, how many do they have. what is their range, can they hit the us from gaspumpistan.
i think maduro is planning on buying some anti-ship missiles from the houthis. the two aircraft carrier groups we sent to yemen sure didn’t last long.
yes, dumb fck they can hit the us and they can hit those ships too. do you think when russia came and revamped venezuela weapons they left them with useless u.s. weapons? the u.s. is just about out of air defense missiles and dumb fck tramp is going to use them in venezuela? right. what’s he gonna use against china? spit-wads? you’re every bit as smart as trump, as in dumb as a rock. u.s. mainland is as vulnerable as can be. hello mara lago.
i suppose the venezuelan navy and air force are in a complete state of disrepair from so many years of sanctions. so only the ground forces could really do damage to an us expeditionary force, if it puts boots on the ground. but trump just needs to take out maduro with a precision strike and the whole regime will collapse and the bolivarian militias will receive the marines as liberators. may be china should do the same with taiwan. nice guys finish last.
you’re sorely mistaken if you really believe the bolivarian militias will bend over to drag queen crayon 🖍 eating big bad marines so easily it’d be a guerilla war 100x times worse then vietnam.
what a load of it. south americas never been to war except against itself usually over proceeds of crime and who gets to keep the bag.
right…how old are you? ever head of the malvinas? or as the cheeky brits would call it the falkland islands? how many ships did the brits lose? ever heard of the sheffeld? how it caught fire and burned down to water level? they wouldn’t even be there had the us stayed out of it. uk couldn’t beat argentina by itself and the u.s. is about in the same shape now. how many air defense is in florida? yeah.
it’s not even about vebezuala its a concerted effort using russia ukraine iran palestine india pakistan, indonesia, africa,china taiwan, north and south korea japan, philippines, and obviously eu and uk to keep the wheels of economic activity maximising profits. allegedly its just business.
and while america is busy invading another tiny country, egypt is massing 40 thousand troops in the sinai while iran is setting up to eradicate the israeli air force. without air cover israel is a sitting duck.
not going to happen in amillion years. why you think they call him abdull elsissy
if only your alters vould be as creative in thinking as you with your names then maybe they wouldn’t come across as so stupid.
as if. but your name displays your politics. so it’s a head up to your nazi fascist roman ( the most bloodthirsty empire ecerc) roots.
the zionist genocidal imperialist entity found that it’s sanctions can’t get the job done so now they are getting even more aggressive. long live the bolivarian revolution and venezuela! death to imperialist monsters and their agents! china and russia should help arm venezuela with anti-ship missiles to make the aipac regime think twice before attacking venezuela!
if chumpo pushes his luck, the beaners are going to go on a big gringo hunt. the reconquista is proceeding apace. sheinbaum has already renamed texas and arizona northern mexico. they will soon take over texas, arizona, new mexico, california and nevada completely and rename it beanerland. all the burger joints will be replaced by taco stands. mtv will have to play non stop mariachi music. it’s as simple as that.
they couldn’t even defend those island, the folklands from uks rust bucket navy.
red gurad for the communists.
“the bolivarian militia of venezuela, founded by maduro’s predecessor hugo chavez, is reported to contain about five people”
would have been funny if it was true.
use that 5k usd you get every month to hire a proofreader sf.
simon. el tren de aragua hace choo choo cinco veces.
americunts are feminized cowards devoid of individuality–we live in totalitarian oligarchy but we so stupid we believe freedom is fentanyl
bigdum bum
will be another fake war on terror/drug traffickers like iraq for oil. china needs to put their foot down and save south america.
exactly same shameless foreign policy of lie murder plunder repeat www dot telesurtv.net slash tren-de-aragua-arma-narrativa-internacional
you’ve no idea at all about what really went down in iraq or iran no idea you just regurgitate nazi anti american anti democratic rhetorical boring tedious clichéd crap for the globalists every day. imo
hahahahaha…what a moron. talk about people with no idea…get a clue. why don’y you enlighten us? as if.
i told you so, when they was finish with ukraine, they will jump to new murders, beside the ongoing genocide in palestine. the only final solution are to blow “us” from the surface, but that demands that imported nazis, and the goofy “jew” einstein not have fool everybody about “nuclear weapon” 😂 russia will of course kill venezuelas if its attacked. its the multipolar world.
the us is completely outnumbered gorilla warfare will make it impossible for us corporations to steal the oil . and almost 100% all drugs transported to the us come through mexican / cia cartels
go and google which countries have the most oil, which is renewed by the grinding of tectonic plates constantly, and see for yourself why the oil shortage story, for the royals and sony s control over the petro dollar through opec rigging prices, is a total fraud. there’s so much oil it should be as cheap as water. imo. cheaper actually by supply and demand.
just because there is no real oil shortage doesn’t mean they can’t manipulate it. why do you think the u.s. sells it’s domestic oil internationally? it’s a scam, but they control it…or did. and the largest reserves are in venezuela…
venezuela can´t stand a air-naval attack of course… but boots on the ground are other… i hope the amurikan idiots comenting here are feeling good to fight in the jungle! invade venezuela, colombia, brazil and mexico: i dare you amurikan fagotts!
don’t forget there are quislings in venezuela who will need to be watched.
ayo man, check that north korean anti ship cruise missile? it is 604 or 704 mm, with like 2000 kg of warhead. they always prnk think big, like really big. north koreans just wants to be sure that that ship won’t come back from the bottom of the ocean (if is deep enough for that wreckage anyway.)
it’ll never get to that you twit its smoke and mirrors for nedia manipulations of simple minds
us can invade countries like grenada… lmao
but let´s remember the us asian records
1950 – ass beat by china in korea war (+30 countries)
1960 – ass spanked by vietcongs (alongside with obedient filipinos and south koreans!)
2000-2020 – iraq and afghanistan – loose to isis and taleban
you stayed 20 frigin years in afghanistan and couldn´t stop drug flow…
good luck with latin america! hahahaha
turks in nk, that too. australians in vietnam too. remember the song that paul hardcastle took for his hit ’19’, australian song ‘i was only 19’?
also every single man from that summit of sovereign natinos, from king faisal, anwar al sadat, sadam, al assad, moammar gadaffi, ali jinnah, ali buto were e x e c u t e d. as well as last sane person in pakistan – benazir bhutto.
vietnam was another drug war just like afghanistan and china’s opium war heroin from the golden triangle to coincide with the attack on america australia (australia bring a registered corporation in america since 1933) by the empire running the swinging sixties
led by the beatles followed by the rolling stones, drug and sex and rock n roll revolution to build crime demoralise the youth subvert the economy just like they did to china. well except for the rock n roll they hadn’t used jesuit colonel parker, illegal immigrant, to set up pelvis yet.pelvis the pouty first real trans style rocker with his heavy make up eye liner and lip stick that made him a sensation to begin with followed by the first gay bond age discipline smash hit, jailhouse rock.
is that gay friendly serv james bond?
america s never been imperialistic they haven’t been interested in building an empire they like russia and china know you can only sustain a certain size for long just as hustory proved by romes collapse, persias, austro hungarian which included spain, mongolian, and of course the english roman rerun that the sun never set on. all failed because they expanded too far.
but don´t worry. us won´t fight real missiles: russia as always will left his “ally”… but maybe you will… a country named china isn´t a coward trump lover!
isis real gave merkavas to that shithole colombia, immediately after that russia gave t 90 to venezuela. you wanna play games? okay, let’s play.
us can´t fight real communists and islamic fighters, so they decided to fight latinos… what a mighty! lmao!
lmao at all of your names and faux conversations.
us sended weapons to ukraine, russia hasn´t done nothing about it…
us sended weapons to chinese taipei (taiwan doens´t exist!)…
china was the only country that supplied iran (directly and through pakistan) during the 12 day war and china send drones to the houthis…
if us invade countries in latin america, wow… that´s will be a huge business oportunity for china! don´t be mad! be affraid… when chinese drones armed with ieds starting coming at you! enlist now motherfuger!
no ship to colombia cuz without blow ugly americuntland intolerable
$50 million for maduro. $0 now, nada, zilch, for joo c*cksucker and puppet jewlani, 2nd in command of “isis”, israhell’s pet head choppers. that tells you all you need to know about the jewsa, “terrorism”, and the “war on drugs.”
all planned 45 to 50 years ago imo and that’s why trumps attempts won’t stop them they’ve already had their agents whispering in every necessary earchole for decades. allegedly
r.i.p. maduro.
i’m just waiting for the us’s puppet juan guaidó to re-make an appearance.
venezuela, is the underdog of america hegemony over the colonies
one of the seals of united states is based in the unlimited usa power over the ‘americas’, the american colonies, and all the american institutions created with the ‘hidden’ primary goal of promote western values. the western values they preach its you are only allowed to be a slave and they are the masters, and you only need to obey your masters of the universe.