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Venezuela Accuses Trump of ‘Fabricating’
a War As U.S. Deploys Aircraft Carrier

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Posted By: Dreadnought, 10/25/2025 2:57:25 PM

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro accused President Donald Trump of pushing for war against his country just a day after the Pentagon confirmed it had dispatched the world’s largest aircraft carrier to the region. In a national broadcast on Friday night, Maduro accused Trump of "fabricating a new eternal war" against Venezuela. "They promised they would never again get involved in a war and they are fabricating a war that we will avoid," said Maduro. "They are fabricating an extravagant narrative, a vulgar, criminal and totally fake one.” Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said Friday that the U.S.S. Gerald R. Ford, the largest aircraft carrier in the world, was being deployed to “dismantle

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Reply 1 - Posted by: itsonlyme 10/25/2025 3:17:45 PM (No. 2021443)
Tomahawk Missiles. How Sweet The Sound.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: dgw1949 10/25/2025 3:23:45 PM (No. 2021445)
Real War on Drugs!
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Venturer 10/25/2025 3:24:28 PM (No. 2021446)
Trump[ declared a war against drugs, and drugs are coming from Venezuela sop Maduro calling it a fake war is not altogether true. It's easily stopped all Maduro has to do is stop the Cartels------and Trump will be happy to help him do it.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: thefield 10/25/2025 3:25:54 PM (No. 2021447)
El dictator is becoming paranoid.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Felixed 10/25/2025 3:41:43 PM (No. 2021450)
Now, gather 'round children and see for yourself the difference between declaring war on drugs and actually _going to war_ on drugs. And remember, being a drug lord arrested in Boston ain't the same as being a blown-to-smithereens drug-runner on the open sea. "Due process" and such during war, well...
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Reply 6 - Posted by: DVC 10/25/2025 4:22:37 PM (No. 2021458)
Shipping criminals and drugs into our country is asking for war. Stop the drugs and criminals and things will calm right down.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: thefield 10/25/2025 4:43:31 PM (No. 2021463)
With uncle Joe Maduro had no problem. 10% cut? Now with Trump he gets killed by a cartel or get killed by the followers of the real President. Such choices in live and death.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Birddog 10/25/2025 5:13:47 PM (No. 2021469)
Geee...a couple of US Boats(albeit large ones) taking a scenic Caribbean cruise, in International Waters, hardly seems like "War"....unless of course you have "some particular personal reasons" to get intimidated by such a thing... Remember just 3 months ago Maduro publicly threatened to "Take back" Puerto Rico, and use the Columbia armed forces along with his own to do so. Those two nations are also threatening to take over tiny.peaceful, unmilitarized, Guyana(because they recently found oil there. ONE carrier group can reduce ALL of the 5-6 Socialist Bloc nations in the region to flightless, shipless, powerless, oilless, Presidentless, thirdworld, chitholes in a matter of 3-4days. With no way to get anything they produce, to any market, particularly not Russian/Chinese markets where all of their funding currently comes from, and no way for ANYONE to stop it. These lefty loudmouths have ben "Talking tough on the interwebs", Trump is just sending a "Few Good men" to wander the block and see if they "Repeat it to our face"
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Reply 9 - Posted by: chance_232 10/25/2025 5:32:33 PM (No. 2021472)
Venezuela has been poking the bear since the Dubya Bush administration. I consider what Trump is doing as justified and earned comeuppance. Venezuela is the very definition of the phrase, "The Mouse That Roared".
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Reply 10 - Posted by: stablemoney 10/25/2025 6:16:44 PM (No. 2021492)
Fabricating? Trump himself said to the media that he intended to kill drug traffickers. Must be the problem with English!
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Reply 11 - Posted by: paral04 10/25/2025 6:17:32 PM (No. 2021493)
The "war" is the drug war.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: chumley 10/25/2025 6:53:35 PM (No. 2021505)
An aircraft carrier against a 3rd world banana republic is kind of overkill. I have an old row boat and a .22 I'd donate.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: JimBob 10/25/2025 11:43:24 PM (No. 2021594)
#8 said it well. In President Trump, we are seeing a LEADER TAKING ACTION, after decades of Politicians TALKING about -but being afraid to actually take- action. Every day I am glad that Donald Trump is our President and LEADER.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: SweetPea3 10/26/2025 5:46:37 AM (No. 2021616)
I'm thinking there's a lot of puckering going on in Venezuela right about now.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: mifla 10/26/2025 6:22:10 AM (No. 2021631)
Come on Maduro, your real concern is that your cut of the drug money is threatened.
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