Venezuelan officials who have fled the regime over the past decade have described the operations of the cartel in the government.
Over 200 Americans per day are killed due to spiked drugs as part of a reverse opium war supported by China through Venezuela.
Because of this high death rate, the US has declared the group of terrorist organization and this week bombed a ship delivering these drugs.
The Venezuelan government is mad about this defensive action and is flying jets now as a show of force.
cafard · 7h ago
The US government blew up a ship said to be delivering these drugs. It did not, as far as anyone has said, give those on the ship the option of surrendering.
mensetmanusman · 6h ago
The US has many times accepted the surrender of foreign drug cartel members. International law does not require a surrender communication before every trigger is pulled.
If this happens again, and they aren't blown out of the sky, I think that'll resolve a lot of open questions about this whole thing. A lot of people believe that this is all a big show to distract us from the Epstein files.
FirmwareBurner · 14h ago
Given how OP it is, the US military probably thinks these actions are cute/adorable, kind of like when a baby kitten nibbles on your finger.
Venezuela does have SU 30 's ,russian, also flown by Chinas Navy, equiped with mach 4 plus shipkiller missles
and given the current situation, it would be very much in the interest of those other parties to see that Venezuela was operating the updated versions of those missles, which as we all know, are the most important weapons in any battle today.
China got a freebee test when Pakistan and India traded shots, and it is quite clear that the Chinese hardware got everyone's attention, the rub is that there is no way that the missles used were China's best, but we do know that Chnia has a special interest in ship killer missles, and just so happens to fly, exactly the same basic platform as Venezuela.
The US military knows its the big dog, but they are looking at Venezuela like it's a nasty feral cat.
Over 200 Americans per day are killed due to spiked drugs as part of a reverse opium war supported by China through Venezuela.
Because of this high death rate, the US has declared the group of terrorist organization and this week bombed a ship delivering these drugs.
The Venezuelan government is mad about this defensive action and is flying jets now as a show of force.
https://www.justsecurity.org/98780/el-mayo-surrender-cartels...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CHeK9WjO-C4
They need to watch out for Israeli jets though[1]
[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident