Donald Trump is sending 10 F-35 fighter jets to Puerto Rico to bolster US military operations against drug cartels in the Caribbean region, it was reported on Friday.
If follows a deadly US missile strike on Tuesday on a boat in the Caribbean Sea that the Trump administration insisted was carrying 11 Venezuelan drug traffickers, and comments by secretary of state Marco Rubio on Wednesday that such attacks “will happen again”.
In another development on Thursday, the US accused Venezuela of the “highly provocative move” of buzzing one of its warships in international waters.
The deployment of strike aircraft to Puerto Rico, first reported by Reuters, citing two sources briefed on the matter, is a sharp escalation of the US president’s crackdown on what he sees as a Venezuelan-led drug trafficking menace in the region.
The planes will arrive in the US territory next week and will be part of a sustained military campaign in the Latin American region that began with Tuesday’s air strike, the news agency said.
Trump has already sent at least eight warships and other military assets to the area in recent weeks, and Rubio, speaking in Mexico City on Wednesday, warned of more operations to come.
Posted by John3262005
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So 10 F-35s to sabre rattle against Venezuela’s 21 Su-30s and 3 F-16s?
Probably a smart enough matchup given the ability to MADL.
Okay. But like…why? The one of their three F-16s buzzing over the Dunham yesterday was provocative but do they really think the Dunham was threatened by a 4th gen fighter that WE built and designed?
God damn do I hate these weak ass “strong men” chest beating.
Odds of Nothing Happening still holding steady at 97.30%
Why not F22’s instead. Need to get that low radar observability as well as top dogfighting capabilities to be able to have a chance at defeating the cartels