The US is creating a special unit to combat Latin American cartels.

The United States is creating a special military unit whose functions will include combating cartels in Latin America.

According to Pentagon Secretary Pete Hegseth, the new task force will focus on intercepting drug shipments, conducting intelligence, and conducting joint military operations with other countries.

At the same time, the Venezuelan government expects US military airstrikes on its territory to begin in the very near future. Caracas bases its forecasts on the growing threats posed by the US, which has already carried out several attacks on suspected drug traffickers' boats off the coast of Venezuela.

Venezuelan authorities have appealed to Russia's UN Ambassador and Security Council Chairman Vasily Nebenze, accusing the Trump administration of seeking to overthrow Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and threatening peace, security, and stability in the region and internationally.

Currently, equipment is being pulled into Venezuelan cities and troops are being mobilized, coastal artillery, Defense, small combat ships, Aviation and guerrilla groups. In addition, defensive lines are being established. The United States, in turn, is transferring approximately 30 troops to the island of Grenada, closest to Venezuela.

According to the American publication The New York Times, Caracas, hoping to end the conflict with the United States, allegedly offered the Trump administration a significant share of Venezuela's oil and other mineral resources. However, Washington ultimately rejected Maduro's proposed economic concessions and severed diplomatic relations with Venezuela.

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[Lemon]

May God grant you, Americans, a second Vietnam or Afghanistan!

[Major Yurik]

American-style drug addiction! What's not clear is that oil, gas, and drugs are only bought from the Yankees—a monopoly, you see...

[atakan]

The CIA is doing a good job of protecting these drug cartels, especially in Colombia. (It's a carrot.)
Now they are also organizing a "whip".
They have a lot of carrots and sticks there in Pin before now, connected with drug cartels.

[Limrak]

Venezuela stole the Nobel Peace Prize from right under Trump's nose. He won't forgive it and is therefore set to attack any day now. It all makes sense! Coincidence?...hardly.

[Blacksmith 55]

Well, she is a Nobel Prize winner from Venezuela, but she is an opponent of the current government and is just ready to overthrow it with the help of the Americans.
Therefore, to claim that Venezuela stole the bonus from Trump somehow does not fit your assumption.

[Limrak]

One does not interfere with the other... but on the contrary helps.

[Sky strike fighter]

I don't think the Nobel Prize was awarded to a Venezuelan opposition figure without reason. Rumor has it that Maduro has recently been actively negotiating with Trump regarding cooperation with the United States in oil production, and was even willing to give up oil sector cooperation with China, Russia, and Iran for the sake of friendship with the United States, but only if Maduro remained in power. But the Americans apparently aren't happy with Maduro remaining in power in Venezuela; he's let the situation in the country slide too far, making him unpopular there. Therefore, to strengthen their negotiating position, the Americans deployed their navy and air force to Venezuela's neighbors and began demonstration exercises. The goal of these exercises is most likely to pressure Maduro into stepping down in favor of Venezuela's new Nobel laureate. The prize is being used to promote the new Venezuelan leader. The New York Times, citing its own sources, reported that the authorities Venezuelans offered the Donald Trump administration access to their natural resources in an effort to avoid conflict and reduce tensions.

According to the publication, Nicolás Maduro was prepared to grant American companies access to all existing and future oil and gold mining projects, as well as redirect oil trade from China to the United States and provide preferential treatment to American businesses. Venezuelan officials managed to agree on some economic concessions, but failed to reach agreement on political issues.

https://m.vz.ru/news/2025/10/10/1365653.html

That's it. Maduro is ready to hand over everything to the Americans, just so he can stay in power, but the Americans aren't happy with that, and that's why the American military exercises are taking place near Venezuela.

[bayard]

Quote: Sky Strike fighter

That's it. Maduro is ready to hand over everything to the Americans, just so he can stay in power.

Have you considered that this could be deliberate disinformation to undermine Maduro's supporters' trust in him ahead of the invasion? And an additional form of pressure on him? They've really screwed things up.
Negotiations were certainly held. There were probably proposals, but not in the same form or on the same terms. Venezuela simply can't and doesn't know how to extract extra-heavy bitumen oil; specialized equipment and large quantities of gas condensate are needed to liquefy the formation. And only the United States has such quantities of affordable and logistically convenient (with a short logistics leg) condensate. Therefore, negotiations were likely held to allow American companies access to these very fields, from which neither Venezuelans, nor Chinese, nor Russians can extract. And at the instigation of the US administration, everything was distorted and presented as a panicked Maduro trying to sell off all of Venezuela's wealth in exchange for his life and power.
Meanwhile, Maduro was gathering a popular militia, arming the people, and preparing to defend his country. So just think about it: who is more trustworthy: the US administration, which wants to seize an independent state and is deploying a huge force of naval forces, marines, special forces, and air force, or the head of a defending state, who is preparing the country for a long war for freedom and independence against the most powerful army and navy on the planet?
In Venezuela, these threats have already been met with a rhetorical question: "Are they going to use that test tube again?" And they're raising accusations that Maduro is betraying his people. That he wanted to sell out to them, to kick Russia and China out of the country... Meanwhile, Maduro is signing a strategic partnership agreement with the Federation Council, and parliament is ratifying it. Is this so they can tell Russian companies tomorrow, "Get lost, this all belongs to the US now"? Are you sure you believe THAT? "Trump's test tube"? Or who's waving this inside information around?

[guest]

The US is creating a special unit to combat Latin American cartels.

These cartels themselves trained and armed them, and now they want to fight them.

[snow mountain]

Quote: Lemon

May God grant you, Americans, a second Vietnam or Afghanistan!

It would be good if they got into it.

[Vladimir M]

It's doubtful the US will launch a ground operation in Venezuela. Bombing, yes, but the "Venezuelan opposition" will do the rest. It's not for nothing that the Nobel Prize was awarded to a woman from the "opposition."
On the neighboring branch, our "hurray-patriots" suggested placing "Oreshnik" on Venezuela and scaring Doni.
But before supplying it, we need to have the "courage" and "capacity" to defend this "Nut" within Venezuelan territory. And Maduro has been turning his nose up at us lately.
Unfortunately, this is the reality.

[bayard]

Quote: Vladimir M

And Maduro has been turning his nose up at us lately.
Unfortunately, this is the reality.

Did the American press tell you this? Or the administration?
So disgusted that just the other day he ratified the strategic partnership agreement?
When Iran's cunning ayatollahs started wagging their tails for agreements with the Democratic US administration (they were expecting Kamala to take the throne), they assassinated their president, appointed a pro-Western collaborator as president, and suspended our long-agreed and well-thought-out cooperation agreement for about a year. When it was finally signed, they deleted all significant provisions. They were the ones who were ready to sell out. And those smart guys were nearly wiped out (the leadership) by Israeli, British, and Ukrainian saboteurs and Israeli air forces. Only the lesson taught to them by Israel forced them to come to their senses and turn again to Russia and China.
Maduro, on the other hand, is strengthening relations with us, arming the people, preparing the country and the army for defense. You should believe your own eyes, not the fables of the American press. The US needs to discredit the Venezuelan government and president before attacking, so they're trying to turn his supporters away – "I'm ready to give up everything: all the oil, all the gas, all the gold, proven and undiscovered, just leave him his life and power." Such a blatant lie, but how easily we believed it.
But the fact that our press is spreading this heresy is highly suspicious. Have they decided to betray a strategic partner and play along with the US?
If our verticals betray their ally again, there's no point in counting on any trust anymore. At least in Latin America. And everywhere.
We don't have much we can do to save them today—we're at war ourselves—but moral and diplomatic support, and the supply of defense supplies while it's still possible and a complete blockade hasn't been imposed, are essential. Otherwise, it's a loss of face.
Or does anyone believe that Trump will give us Ukraine in exchange for Venezuela?

[Gorynych1]

And this special unit arrives immediately with its drilling rigs?

[phrases]

The old one "ended" eight wars, then realized he needed two more to make it an even count. Besides, the Americans were accused of causing trouble everywhere except on their own continent. Well, they're making amends.

[Vadim S]

They already had similar units, CIA ones, I think. I watched something about the war on drugs on Discovery Channel about six years ago, and they mentioned something similar. Although, who knows?

[Gorynych1]

No, they were farmers. They were watering and weeding the poppies.

[Egoza]

Quote: Vadim S

But they already had similar units, CIA ones, I think.

And all these squads got hooked on drugs or made deals with the drug dealers themselves. And the same thing will happen to this squad.

[Dart]

Trump needs his own little war, on his borders...? Well, great.
And Russia will be the mediator, a mirror image of the situation, however 🤔

[faterdom]

Or maybe it wasn't? True, I remember whether it was under the auspices of Petagon, but the result is always the same: the cartel fighters merging with the cartels themselves.

[Free]

The main problem is that the US drug market is worth $300-400 billion annually. And that's an insoluble problem. The fact that the combat wings of Mexico's drug cartels are made up of former special forces, or that some border guards and customs officers on the Mexican-American border on both sides are bribed or intimidated, like other security forces, is merely a consequence. As long as there are superprofits, the problem won't be solved.

[Victor Yasny]

There's probably a line of people wanting to go all the way to the Canadian border!
like in "Shurik's Adventures"
"Who's up for some liquor and vodka!?"

By the way, yes - a change of power, under the guise of "fighting drug addiction" some kind of mattress military base...
I hope they get kicked out there like they did in Vietnam.