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This from the man who promised no new foreign wars. What a liar.

These are the U.S. ships and aircraft massing off Venezuela
The large-scale buildup of U.S. military forces and assets in the Caribbean suggests that the Trump administration is preparing to expand operations.

By Júlia Ledur and Susannah George

The large-scale buildup of U.S. military forces and assets in the Caribbean suggests that the Trump administration is preparing to expand operations in the region — escalating tensions between Washington and Caracas and raising the possibility of the first U.S. strikes on Venezuela.

U.S. forces in the Caribbean include eight Navy warships, a special operations vessel and a nuclear-powered attack submarine. When the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford arrives in the Caribbean next week, it will bring with it three more warships and more than 4,000 additional troops.

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From the beginning, the Pentagon’s buildup in the Caribbean has far exceeded what was needed for a counternarcotics operation, suggesting the mission was always “set to evolve,” said Ryan Berg, the director of the Americas Program and the Center for Strategic & International Studies.

But Berg said the addition of the carrier strike group could indicate that the expanded operations are imminent. “The competition for these vessels is tremendous,” he said, because only three are deployed at any one time. Once the Ford arrives in the Caribbean next week, “It’s going to start a clock ticking and Trump will have about a month or so to make a major decision on a strike before he has to move” the vessel elsewhere.

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I am sure that Obama and Biden will be blamed for whatever Twitler does. The only things that stop at the Resolute Desk now are bribes.

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I am sure that Obama and Biden will be blamed for whatever Twitler does. The only things that stop at the Resolute Desk now are bribes.

"The bribes start here." - Pedonald "John" Trumpedo

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Well, in Trump’s defense, he has to keep ratcheting up the news cycle to keep the Epstein files out of people’s minds.

The next thing you know, Trump will be saying we need to start testing nuclear bombs again.

Oh, wait. He already said that.

Maybe he’ll test them in Venezuela.

Trump is an obese and physically frail sociopath who has clear signs of dementia and loss of his cognitive function and is surrounded by sycophants who will do anything he mutters in his incoherent ramblings.

What could possibly go wrong?

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The only things that stop at the Resolute Desk now are bribes.

To be fair to Twitler, the bucks stop there too.

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