BREAKING: USA just closed off the airspace near Puerto Rico with a NOTAM announcing hot pit refueling at the local airport. Hot pit refuelling means aircraft are refuelled with their engines still running so they can take off quickly again. Long night ahead for Maduro…
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Be careful....this account posts BREAKING shit all the time with no sauce
https://x.com/FoxNews/status/1984329277001625884
Not that the admin saying they're not going to do the thing the leak said they're going to do is necessarily proof or disproof of anything. If the time for talk is over, Trump isn't going to posture he's going to act.
The only proof will be if shit blows up.
Thanks.
There is a link down in the comments. https://tfr.faa.gov/tfr3/?page=detail_5_9106
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And a NOTAM should be public information and EASILY found.
I haven't looked yet to see if OP was bsing or not
Link: FAA NOTAM
NOTAM starts: Nov 1 00:00
NOTAM ends: Mar 31 23:59
Altitude Range: 2500ft - 5000ft
Pretty sure that, when I voted for Trump, I voted for no new wars.
Loved it when he threatened w/ sky-high tariffs. Hate that we're going to war on foreign soil when we don't have to.
I think this has to do with Trump freeing the Maduro regime from the cartels. Maduro is working with the white hats in order to save Venezuela is my guess. Otherwise, the white hats wouldn’t have let him in as el Presidente or whatever they call him. He has to be convincing that he’s fighting against the US, or else he’s cooked. Just a guess.
Yup. And that's not America's responsibility. If Venezuelans want a regime change, let them. We could even help them. But fighting and dying for their cause when we've got so many domestic problems yet unresolved? No way.
Except they invaded us with illegals and Tren de Aragua.
We already have CIA in Venezuela now. The last time we did created Tren de Aragua.
Define invasion. If you Government paid people, flew them in, and put them up in hotels and gave them money to be here... then is it their government that is the one invading?
72-hour rule. It's best to hold your thoughts for that long as the situation tends to change after that time. No sense in getting all upset when we don't have specifics. We're not sending anyone in to die either.
Moves and countermoves. Especially with Trump. Nothing is at it appears to be on the surface.
Thanks for that. I love the 72-hour-rule, but I don't always remember to apply it.
Not upset, so much as I'm just asking the question. What's really going on.
Maybe I need to replace Hunter Biden on my Bingo card w/ Maduro.,,
Didn’t America train and fund these cartels during the Ollie North drug war operations? This is why they are so militarized ? Asking seriously. I could be wrong. The cia is heavily involved.
You are right. Those were all DS black operations - mostly by the C_A. So who exactly is Trump taking on here?
I still can't understand why Trump doesn't dismantle the CIA.
It’s happening right in front of us. The media.
Trump is up against something much larger than just Venezuela and Maduro. They are a base of operations for extensive transnational criminal networks and they have been targeting the US. He is sending a huge message to the DS that there is a new sheriff in town and he has their number. FAFO.
Hope you're right, Mac. I'm willing to wait it out w/ you all and see.
Yes. This drama is far bigger than what it appears to be on the surface. It is a huge global chessboard with many players all jockeying for control of the board. Moves and countermoves. Besides the cartels, Iran and the CCP are heavily imbedded in Venezuela. Russia also has presence there. Way too damn close to continue allowing the systematic takeover of Latin America. Trump is pushing back saying ENOUGH and Trump has chosen Venezuela to make that stand with a huge show of force.
We can probably get an indication of which way the wind is blowing by watching what these other actors do. They just may end up abandoning Maduro and shift their resources and attention somewhere else. It's not like they don't have other places in Latin America where they can establish a beachhead.
The US for years has buried its head in the sand and ignored what has been taking place throughout the area. Think Panama. The US sat back while the CCP basically took control of the Canal along with other strategic choke points. It's not like China doesn't have a history of using these points as a weapon in order to get the US or other countries to knuckle under and capitulate. That has been part of their soft power strategy of global domination for years. Trump is trying to correct that. The CCP interfered with the deal that would have handed control of several ports, not just the Canal. I am not sure where the deal being made with CK Hutchison Holdings Limited stands for the moment. But from what I can see, at least where the Panama Canal is concerned, we will have to focus on pressuring the Panamanian government to use other legal means to get control back, which was a card on the table but in reserve if plan A didn't work. It will force Panama to get off the fence and choose a side - something we have been reluctant to do. China is heavily invested in Panama through BRI so there are huge financial and infrastructure considerations that the US has to be ready to step up and fill the gap if China is pushed out - something the US did not want to do.
So we will wait and see what happens in the future. Sadly we live in a globally connected world. The days of being able to exist isolated from things taking place around us are long gone. Nothing exists in a vacuum. If the US does not get involved, someone else will and they are.
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The Deep State is getting their money from somewhere . . .
Exactly.
"Maduro is working with the white hats"
I don't think so.
Make no mistake. Maduro is a rabid Communist and a dictator thug. The entire regime is in bed with the cartels, transnational money laundering (China), and the trafficking of human misery. Many of their partners are other Communists and terrorists that have gained foothold in Latin America and they all target the US. So Trump is trying to destroy that regime, not save it. He is the only one that has balls big enough to attempt dismantling the threat. Other administrations have simply let it grow and did nothing. Probably because they also received proceeds and benefits from allowing it to fester - think election interference and campaign contributions.
A great deal of the proceeds from these networks pays for black operations around the world and here in the US (DS C_A). Obviously Trump has identified Maduro and his network as a main hub for many of those operations that are an existential threat to the US. Cut off the head of the beast and some of the downstream activity will be curtailed if not outright dismantled.
I’m sure Maduro is a cutthroat s.o.b. I just think it’s above Maduro. Either way, the regime is going down. I’m thinking that Maduro was approached and told what was going to happen. He could either play along- or wind up with a Colombian necktie courtesy of his current bosses. I could be wrong. I just see weak attempts at answering back to our current modus operandi. F14s using old school radar from the 80s and 90s and like munitions aren't going to cut it in any confrontation. Maduro knows it. We know it. The cartels know it. Many of these terrorists may just turn over on their bosses if given a way out. Just spitballing here. I assume this-whatever is really going on we aren’t privy to. Watching the movie. Waiting for the credits to roll…
I think you are right on the money. We don't need direct military intervention to make our point or to affect change. Just the threat of it is enough to lead to action on the other end. Trump has used this strategic ambiguity more than once. He does this on purpose - and it works.
You're right. We are fully capable of engagement and winning and they know it. They saw what we did to Iran in one move. Getting those thugs to turn on each other and start throwing themselves under the bus I think is a very distinct possibility. I too have heard the rumblings of possible overthrow. Trump will simply monitor the situation to make sure it doesn't cause an even bigger problem because of any destabilization that spirals. You are also right in that this is way bigger than just Madero. The people behind him are simply pulling his strings.
I think this also is to send a message to the CCP. Your days of infiltrating our backyard while the US did nothing are over. Especially now when the CCP regime is in a weakened state themselves. Trump knows exactly what is happening in China and their global proxies. The CCP is crashing and the Party is desperately trying to save themselves and their regime. Trump knows right where to hit them. The CCP doesn't know how to read Trump. That drives them crazy because they don't know how to plan for his ambiguity. A communist regime has to have plans. They have a difficult time adapting to chaos and uncertainly - exactly how Trump operates and where America shines. One flight restriction and people lose their minds.
I like your deeper look with the China perspective. I still am of the mind that Xi is working with Trump to overthrow the CCP. You made me wonder if the CCP has puppeteers or is the CCP really the top of the chain for China? Do they have a deep state?? That’s a deep thought I’m going to have to think about. What do you think?
The top of the food chain in China are the dragon families and the CCP princelings. So yes, there are puppet masters. Those dragon families are aligned with the rest of the elitists around the world that operate out of sight behind the curtains. I guess you would call them China's deep state. They are all pretty much the same.
IMO, Xi no way in hell is working with Trump. Xi is a rabid Maoist and wants to destroy us and export Chinese Communism globally. Xi is a princeling, but he aspires himself and his family to be among the top of that dragon family food chain. The Xi family has amassed billions held all over the world - all stolen from the Chinese people, weaker nations that the CCP exploits through Belt and Road, and through good old fashion Chinese corruption. There is nothing noble or honorable about Xi or anyone in this family. They are the very thing Trump is against. Unfortunately for the Chinese people, China is in really bad shape right now because of Xi's bad policies that have turned the clock back to the days of the Cultural Revolution. The Chinese people are the ones suffering - not the elites. They live insulated and have their exit strategies if needed.
Since Xi has been in power he has really stepped up the CCP's efforts of expansion and self interest. He wants to be emperor of the world and he has been actively working to take down the West - most of it has been through soft power rather than direct conquest. The CCP's soft power infiltration is everywhere and Xi is calling the shots. Trump is actually the first President to actually check the CCP. All the others simply looked the other way or they were benefiting in some way. Like I said, Trump knows right where to hit them - especially Xi. Trump is sitting on info on about the elites and Xi that if exposed, would bring the entire CCP house of cards down. Trump is keeping that card close to the chest for right now.
I have been monitoring China closely for years and am not inclined to form my perspectives based on a couple of Q posts with no other evidence to support that idea. Everything I have seen over the years points in the opposite direction. You also can't go by what Trump says either. He operates through strategic ambiguity. Uncertainty on the chess board is the zone where he best shines. Disinformation is necessary.
You are not alone in your thinking. Thank you for sharing.
That's how I read it.
Great. But there's more than one way to not be a passive cuck, as you say.
Tariff the HELL out of them. Help motivate Venezuelans to take up arms against Maduro and take back their country. Fund their cause. That too would get it done.
Regime change? Yeah. That worked out GREAT for us in the Middle East. As if.
Actually, w/ the ever-sucking War in Ukraine, the kinetic part of WW3 has been underway for over three years now.
I get the ties between the CCP and Venezuela.
And I'm still waiting for Trump and Marco or somebody to make the case that it's in the best interest of the American people to war against Venezuela.
It's not that I'm not listening. A strong case - with details - has yet to be made.
Let's agree to press Pause on that, since neither of us can know the future. Time will tell whether a limited engagement is possible or not.
Military action does not instantly equal, “regime change.” Wouldn’t Trump motivating and funding Venezuelans be the same thing you’re proposing against? Seems a little too “concern trolling” for me.
I'm not trolling at all. I've simply had it with involvements where we, the American public, haven't been given enough of the receipts to feel comfortable w/ military action abroad.
Iran? Israel told us they were two weeks from having nuclear capability. So we bombed their installations. Then we learned, Oh, actually, it was two years.
SICK AND TIRED of being played. That's all.
The people are unarmed and in fear. Venezuela has already been under sanctions for years and the only ones that ultimately get hurt are the people - they are victims.
Maduro makes plenty of money from his criminal connections that give him money. I keep saying, this is not about Venezuela or Maduro per se. This is about criminal networks and Communism in our own backyard. There is this thing called the Monroe Doctrine. They all are existential threats to the US. Besides, who said we were going to war? This is all saber rattling and strategic positioning. A strategy that has worked for Trump more than once.
As far as nation building in the ME; that was the DS C_A that had other agendas while they were feeding the American people a line of bull. That is not what is going on here in this situation. If there is regime change in Venezuela, fine. But that is not why Trump is taking the actions that he has. It is much bigger than simply trying to depose a dictator. The CCP, cartels, the Islamists, and a whole host of others, are all actively operating out of Venezuela to destroy the US - operations that Maduro and his cronies are paid handsomely.
Trump's negotiations with the rest of Latin America will be easier if Trump can take the Maduro card and some of their networks off the table. Many of these countries are also afraid of the cartels. The CCP created a chokehold in Latin America through soft power and economics. The US has already paid a huge price for allowing this situation to grow. What Trump is doing right now is the only thing these people understand - strength. But that is not the same thing as going to war with a sovereign nation. Our beef is not with Venezuela, but with the criminals and thugs operating there.
I understand that. But I disagree with the notion that we can just waltz into Venezuela, send a bit of shock and awe, and they'll surrender w/o any real blood or treasure lost to the families of American servicemen and women.
Maduro has an army ready to go. If we go there, it's not going to be immediate. And it's going to be ugly. Maduro's survival - in power and his life - depend on it.
Nobody is saying the US is going to commit ground forces in Venezuela. That is not how Trump operates. He will however, use the force of our military by other means - such as naval, airpower, along with cyber and electronic warfare. Ask Iran how that worked out. Trump will not send ground forces to spill the blood of our soldiers on foreign shores - a promise I have no doubt that he will keep. Venezuela has no defense against what we are capable of doing without a single boot stepping foot there.
Thanks for that. I get nervous whenever I see Lindsey Graham eroticizing over the prospect of another endless war. You're likely right. Hope so.
I wish old Lindsey would just go away - for good. That guy is all over the place. Who the hell even knows what he stands for.
Agreed. This is a huge message to the CCP and other terror networks and Communists that have been allowed to freely gain a foothold. Not in our backyard. This is not about Venezuela or Maduro - its much bigger.
Hasn't happened yet. Other articles have mentioned that Venezuelan generals may be lining up to turn Maduro in. And of course Trump is well known to use brinksmanship strategically.
I imagine that if we were truly heading for a ground war, we'd be receiving less open press, and only hear about it after it was a fait accompli. All this media tells me to be on the lookout for other things happening first. We'll see what happens.
Agreed. This is all strategic positioning and brinksmanship. Who will blink first? I sure as hell don't think it will be the US. Strength is the only thing this ilk understands.
If the rest of the Latin American countries can see that the US is not going to sit back while the rest of the place goes to hell and a handbasket, through CCP infiltration and soft power economics, along with all the criminal networks, these countries will be more inclined to step up and deal with it themselves when the US is not going to just sit back and watch it happen like we have for far too long. If the US is not going to act, why should they?
I'm just sitting back and watching very carefully because a lot of stuff is just not right, man.
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Possibly related to support/help to Jamaica?
Not a statement... just a question.
For those that didn't bother to read the NOTAM, it's for an altitude of and including 2500 ft up to 5000 ft. This is letting civilian pilots and air crews know that there will be aerial refueling ops over and around Puerto Rico from today to March 2026.
These notices are quite common when you have a Carrier Battle Group operating in an area.
I know. I don't understand why everyone has to get excited about it. They are completely misreading the situation.
Because it's red-lettered and stickied.
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