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Re: Donald Trump Term 2
DIR By: caretaker
Date: November 13, 2025, 4:33 pm
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He'd rather start a war than release the Epstein files.
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> Trump Weighing Military Options to Attack Venezuela Within
Days.
HTML https://www.newsweek.com/venezuela-us-donald-trump-military-attack-war-maduro-11042677?utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=reddit_main
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> "President Donald Trump on Wednesday received updated military
options for potential operations in Venezuela, including
possible land strikes, according to CBS News. Senior defense
leaders, including Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Joint
Chiefs Chairman Dan Caine, briefed the president on scenarios
for the coming days."
> 2 days ago the USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group (the
most advanced in the US Navy and worlds largest aircraft
carrier) entered the Caribbean waters off the coast of South
America.
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Re: Donald Trump Term 2
DIR By: jsmth321
Date: November 15, 2025, 10:17 pm
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Trump suggested he has made a decision but who knows.
What is known;
- 15,000 US military personnel in the region.
- A dozen warships including a cruiser, destroyers, an air and
missile defense command ship, amphibious assault vessels, and an
attack submarine as well as the aircraft carrier.
- F-35 fighter jets have also been deployed to Puerto Rico.
This seems more and more likely that something is going to
occur.
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Re: Donald Trump Term 2
DIR By: caretaker
Date: November 16, 2025, 8:21 am
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> This seems more and more likely that something is going to
occur.
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Venezuelan President Maduro is Putin's boy, so I doubt Trump
would dare make a move against him, but they might have
something worked out in advance. I have become so cynical, I'm
looking between the lines at everything he says.
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Re: Donald Trump Term 2
DIR By: jsmth321
Date: December 16, 2025, 7:37 pm
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> Venezuelan President Maduro is Putin's boy, so I doubt Trump
would dare make a move against him, but they might have
something worked out in advance. I have become so cynical, I'm
looking between the lines at everything he says.
>
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Trump ordered a blockade of sanctioned oil tankers into
Venezuela today, and has declared the regime to be a terrorist
organization.
HTML https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-venezuela-tanker-blockade-9.7018843
Trump is apparently going address the nation Wednesday evening
from the White House.
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Re: Donald Trump Term 2
DIR By: jsmth321
Date: January 6, 2026, 8:35 pm
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White House discussing ‘options’ to acquire Greenland, says
military use isn’t off the table.
HTML https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/06/politics/us-options-greenland-military
"The White House said Tuesday that President Donald Trump is
“discussing a range of options” to acquire Greenland, making
clear that using the US military is not off the table."
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Re: Donald Trump Term 2
DIR By: caretaker
Date: January 7, 2026, 7:24 am
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So now the US Navy is chasing a Russian-owned tanker that was
sailing under a flag of convenience, but is now Russian flagged.
They started off the coast of Venezuela and now are in the
North Atlantic (I think). Russia has dispatched a submarine and
a surface warship to protect it. I wonder if this is just for
show, since I trust neither Putin or Trump further than I could
throw them.
HTML https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7v0deypjl4o
"Russian officials indicated in 2019 that the Kremlin would be
willing to back off from its support for Nicolás Maduro in
Venezuela in exchange for a free hand in Ukraine, according to
Fiona Hill, an adviser to President Donald Trump at the time."
HTML https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/trumps-former-russia-adviser-says-russia-offered-us-free-rein-in-venezuela-in-exchange-for-ukraine/
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Re: Donald Trump Term 2
DIR By: caretaker
Date: January 7, 2026, 8:50 am
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And they got it, actually the second tanker so far today!
"The US military has boarded and seized a Russian-flagged oil
tanker in the North Atlantic Ocean that has been trying to evade
a US blockade for weeks."
HTML https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-08/us-intercepts-bella-1-venezuelan-oil-tanker-russia-sub/106208100
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Re: Donald Trump Term 2
DIR By: jsmth321
Date: January 7, 2026, 2:32 pm
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> And they got it, actually the second tanker so far today!
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> "The US military has boarded and seized a Russian-flagged oil
tanker in the North Atlantic Ocean that has been trying to evade
a US blockade for weeks."
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>
HTML https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-08/us-intercepts-bella-1-venezuelan-oil-tanker-russia-sub/106208100
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“We need to provide a military response: attack with torpedoes
or sink a couple of American boats,” said Aleksey Zhuravlyov,
the first deputy head of the Russian State Duma’s defense
committee."
“This is nothing more than piracy: the seizure of a civilian
vessel by the armed US Navy. It is essentially the same as an
attack on Russian territory, since the tanker was flying our
national flag,” he stated."
"“There is no doubt that we must respond firmly and swiftly—our
military doctrine even envisages the use of nuclear weapons in
response to such an attack. Especially since, according to
available information, a Russian submarine and some other
Russian military ships were located somewhere near the vessel,”
Zhuravlyov said."
HTML https://united24media.com/latest-news/russian-official-threatens-military-retaliation-including-nuclear-response-after-us-seizes-oil-tankers-14833
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Re: Donald Trump Term 2
DIR By: jsmth321
Date: January 8, 2026, 10:17 pm
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Trump suggests U.S. will begin to strike drug cartels in Mexico.
HTML https://bnonews.com/index.php/2026/01/trump-suggests-u-s-will-begin-to-strike-drug-cartels-in-mexico/
“We knocked out 97% of the drugs coming in by water, and we are
going to start now hitting land with regard with the cartels,”
Trump said.
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Re: Donald Trump Term 2
DIR By: jsmth321
Date: January 9, 2026, 3:58 pm
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Trump: ‘We are going to do something on Greenland whether they
like it or not’.
HTML https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/09/trump-greenland-military-denmark-nato.html
"I would like to make a deal, you know, the easy way. But if we
don’t do it the easy way, we’re going to do it the hard way,”
Trump said at the White House."
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