Barriers and hinges have been replaced detect and detonateCowardly and traditional diplomacy has been replaced by strategy and force. Nicolas Maduro will soon have to face US diplomacy Gerald R. fordThe most powerful and inspiring armed ship in the world.
Pentagon’s chief spokesperson Sean Parnell stated that, in support of the President’s directive to dismantle international criminal organizations, Secretary of War Gerald R. Ford commands the Carrier Strike Group and assigned carrier air wings to the U.S. Southern Command area of responsibility.
“The increased U.S. force presence will enhance the U.S. ability to detect, monitor, and disrupt illicit actors and activities that compromise America’s security and prosperity,” Parnell said.
USS Gerald R. moving away from fordMediterranean SeaAnd to address the conflict in Gaza that appears to be the United States’ top priority: the Cartel of the Sons and itstop leaderMaduro. This aircraft carrier is not just a powerful instrument of war; It’s a complete toolbox.
Ford Carrier Strike Group It has two nuclear reactors, a crew of 4,600, 75 military aircraft, advanced weapons elevators, F-18 Super Hornet and an E-2 Hawkeye.
Ford also has modern ships such as guided-missile cruisers A team of destroyers such as the Normandie and the Carney, Roosevelt, Thomas Hudner, Ramage and a powerful submarineThis is brilliant and extraordinary diplomacy, designed to deal with a brutal regime like Venezuela.
The US has not only changed its deterrence and diplomacy, but also its approach towards narco-dictators in the Western Hemisphere. “Narco-terrorists intent on bringing poison to our shores will find no safe haven anywhere in our hemisphere,” Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said After destroying a 10th US-bound drug boat “Just as Al Qaeda waged war on our homeland, these cartels are waging war on our border and our people. There will be no asylum or amnesty – only justice.”
But dictators like Maduro will not just destroy a few boats and walk away. The regime is convinced that America is playing pressure tactics and nothing more. Miraflores dictator survived Trump’s first administrationSanctions, pandemics, international isolation, and even the threat of invasion. Now he wants to replicate this formula – but he’s got it all wrong.
maduro dare to say That he will not give up power because he has Russian weapons to fight the battle.
“Any military force in the world knows the power of the Igla-S,” he said. “No less than 5,000 are in key anti-aircraft defense positions to guarantee peace, stability and tranquility in Venezuela.” He also said that they have “simulation equipment that puts thousands of Igla-S operators in good target positions. At the last mountain and the last city.”
Despite Maduro’s continued threats and abuses, their options appear to be running out. He is at a crossroads and faces the choice: either like run away to moscow Bashar al-Assad either die like clinging to power Muammar Gaddafi did it in Libya.
trump is determined To eliminate the threat presented by drug cartels. “I don’t think we would necessarily be asking for a declaration of war,” he said. “We’re just going to kill the people who are bringing drugs into our country. They’d be, like, dead.”
Nobel laureate Maria Corina Machado said That Maduro started a war against the Venezuelan people, but Trump will end it. “Change is underway and it will be orderly and peaceful,” he said. “We are moving from tyranny to democracy, from anarchy to order, from misery to prosperity.”
Arturo McFields is an exiled journalist, former Nicaraguan ambassador to the Organization of American States, and former member of the Norwegian Peace Corps. He is an alumnus of the National Defense University’s Security and Defense Seminar and the Harvard Leadership Course.
