US moves more troops and special ops aircraft to Caribbean as Trump ramps up pressure in region: report

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Source: The Independent

Tuesday 23 December 2025 16:59 EST


More U.S. assets including special ops aircraft and troops arrived in the Caribbean this week as Donald Trump reiterated on Monday that ground-based operations targeting drug traffickers in Venezuela would soon begin, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis.

The newspaper cited U.S. officials as well as open-source flight data. The most recent deployments occurred this week, according to the Journal, days before the Christmas holiday and occurring as the president unveiled his plans for new “Trump-class” warships during a special announcement from Palm Beach, Florida, with his top Cabinet aides, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

During the event on Monday, the president confirmed that the U.S. would continue targeting small vessels that his administration claims are carrying drugs with military strikes, while also escalating interdictions of oil tankers off Venezuela’s coast for sanctions violations. Dozens of vessels off the coast of Venezuela are part of the so-called “shadow fleet” of ships that help Venezuela skirt U.S. sanctions by transporting oil to other countries while disguising their location data.

The latest deployment included a “large number” of assets, according to the Journal, including at least 10 Osprey aircraft used by U.S. special forces. U.S. Southern Command declined to comment to the paper on the deployments.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-military-caribbean-venezuela-aircraft-b2889802.html

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1. Regime change again? And a dog wagging by the chaos admin. Won't end well.

[Botany]

2. This is illegal, unnecessary, and done by a mad man under the influence of shits like S. Miller.

Venezuela is not a threat to us. Narcoterrorist is a made up word. This might get 10s of
thousands of people killed or injured. This will make a generation or two of real life terrorists
who will more than likely justly see America as an enemy to be attacked. Btw how much S.
American cocaine has gone up Don and Don Jr’s nose?

Btw why do this @ all? Epstein.

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4. For this one do not leave out Marco Rubio

[Botany]

6. I always thought of Rubio as little nebbish of a man. I'm sure he is willing to go along with this violent

and illegal nonsense of an operation but he never has deemed like a leader to me.

But then again I might be wrong.

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3. Idiot.

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5. Pressure to do what, exactly? That's what he never really says. The asshole.