American B-52 bombers in the air near Venezuela

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/american-b-52-bombers-in-the-air-near-venezuela/

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  1. > Two US Air Force B-52 Stratofortress bombers were observed flying inside the Maiquetía Flight Information Region north of Los Roques, Venezuela, on Wednesday afternoon, as tensions between Washington and Caracas continued to build.
    At the time of writing, the aircraft remained visible on public flight-tracking sites, where they appeared to circle repeatedly within the Venezuelan-controlled FIR before briefly disappearing from civilian radar and then reappearing as they continued south. The flight path brought the bombers close to La Orchila and Gran Roque, both Venezuelan islands with military facilities.

    > The movement coincided with the diversion of a US deportation flight that had been scheduled to land at Maiquetía Airport, which instead routed to Puerto Rico. Observers on social media suggested the diversion may have been linked to the B-52 presence, though no official connection has been confirmed.

    > The timing also followed comments from former US President Donald Trump, who claimed a US strike had destroyed a small boat allegedly carrying narcotics off the Venezuelan coast, killing six people.

    > The flight profile is consistent with long-range training and deterrence patrols routinely conducted by B-52s from Barksdale Air Force Base across the Caribbean. These missions often test endurance, navigation, and joint coordination with regional partners while remaining within international airspace. However, the proximity of this particular patrol to Venezuelan territory and its visibility on open tracking platforms suggested a deliberate signalling exercise intended to reinforce US reach and readiness in the region.

  3. This is the quo in the quid pro quo for Rubio right?
    This is what he put his name down for.

    Hard to believe it’s Miller, or Vought, or Petey, or Trump.

  4. What’s the pizza index at right now? Is there a website for that?

  5. I doubt the Attack will come before the end of October/November

  6. And they are still there. Call signs BUNNY01 and BUNNY02, but they seem to be heading north now, probably leaving the area.

  7. It looks like a US Deportation flight got rerouted from Venezuela due to these exercises.

    This administration is just a shit show, no planning and all gas. Constantly stepping on each other like those Hyundai factory raids being completely against implemented policy at the top level for onshoring jobs.

  8. If they were on a strike mission there would be a bevy of fighter jet escorts

  9. Trump is eventually going to attack Venezuela to remove Maduro from power, isn’t he

  13. Military personnel will have no qualms about following orders to drone strike or bomb Canada, Greenland, Mexico, or other US allies. Americans fapping off about how the military command structure cares about the “legality” of orders are full of themselves.

  14. I remember when Russia was amassing troops and equipment near the Ukrainian border while insisting that they were not preparing an invasion.

  15. The CEOs of Exxon & Chevron are pitching tents in their pants right now.

  16. More illegal actions and War mongering from Trump. He’s such an embarrassment.

  20. Why are we paying for this performance of adventurism but not paying for healthcare and air traffic control.

  21. i once read that if you didn’t know anything about modern central/south american history and somebody explained the broad strokes of american covert and overt intervention there, it would sound like an unhinged conspiracy theory.

  22. Venezuela is not covered by any official defence pacts and has only just signed an intelligence deal with Russia. If you were going to pick someone to freedomize, they would be high on the list.

  23. This should help secure that 2026 peace award, a few more months of bombings.

  25. Are they dropping copies of the epstien trump files

  26. Someone is big mad because he didn’t won the Nobel peace prize

  27. Whats the end goal here? Regime change so we can get our hands on their oil?

  29. Trust me. You need to track Nandos orders not pizza.

  30. Tough luck Venezuela, you shouldn’t have had all that oil in your land, your fault really /s

  31. Polymarket is giving about 50/50 odds on “military engagement” by December 31.

  32. How much does it cost to fly these for so many hours?

  33. Bc they have all their crypto money in El Salvador and the gangs of El Salvador have beef w Venezuela, so they need to hard against Venezuela to keep the govt of El Salvador happy, so their deregulated Crypto haven will be safe in El Salvador for a long time. Bessent’s sons and CanterFitz are all involved in this

  34. Time to start that war so that we can’t hold elections during wartime right?

  35. Americans remove themselves from the guilt and responsibility of this by always saying Trump is the one doing it. You’re cowards.

  36. This is gonna be a mess. Cartel de los soles is a schrondinger operation, they are either easily toppled with Maduro gone or its a cartel involving Russia/China/Iranian operations with smuggling of weapons and drugs to finance wars. It cant be both. If Maduro can be toppled and the entire Venezuelan drug network falls apart just like that, seems like it was not a drug network worth focusing on. Meanwhile convoys of trucks come across the border every day with 1000x the amount from Mexico.

    So we bombed those boats just to murder some people and make a useless move to actually eliminating the drug problem.

    If it is a giant, multi continent network spanning from the gulf cartel in Baja california all the way down to the Patagonian pirates or whatever, all getting support etc from China, Russia and Iran-then no fucking way is dropping Maduro going to do anything.

    And if regime change IS the goal, what does that accomplish? Actually? Not like a giant, multi continent spanning network like that needs Maduro and his cronies that much.

    Whats important is control of the rural jungle ish areas and routes. That is what matters in getting drugs moving. Not 35 dudes sitting in the palace in Caracas

  37. Going to bomb the Nobel Peace Prize winner. Seem “par for the course”……

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