--- title: "US Moving Forward on Regime Change of Venezuela" type: "post" post_id: "11692" slug: "us-moving-forward-on-regime-change-of-venezuela" canonical: "https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2025/10/25/us-moving-forward-on-regime-change-of-venezuela/" markdown_url: "https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2025/10/25/us-moving-forward-on-regime-change-of-venezuela.md" json_url: "https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2025/10/25/us-moving-forward-on-regime-change-of-venezuela.json" txt_url: "https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2025/10/25/us-moving-forward-on-regime-change-of-venezuela.txt" published: "2025-10-25T16:48:52+00:00" modified: "2025-10-25T16:48:52+00:00" author: "penny2" categories: - "Uncategorized" tags: - "state sponsored terrorism" - "US" site_name: "PFYT2" publisher: "" language: "en-US" generator: "easyPress Markdown" generator_version: "1.0.6" --- **And it’s going to be nasty, with many dead civilians.** > [US Dispatches Aircraft Carrier, B-1 Bombers Near Venezuela as Trump Ponders Expanded Strikes](https://www.airandspaceforces.com/us-aircraft-carrier-b-1-bombers-venezuela-trump-strikes/) > The Pentagon is significantly bolstering airpower near Venezuela, **dispatching the USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group to Latin America, it said in an Oct. 24 statement.** > > **The announcement came just hours after U.S. Air Force B-1 bombers and other U.S. assets flew near the Venezuelan coast on Oct. 23**. Earlier in the day on Oct. 24, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced the U.S. military conducted its 10th lethal airstrike on alleged drug smugglers in the overnight hours. > > **Hegseth’s order to dispatch the Ford, the world’s largest aircraft carrier, is a significant escalation of the U.S. growing military presence in the Caribbean.** The carrier’s **embarked combat aircraft comprise Carrier Air Wing Eight—which includes multiple F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet squadrons, a squadron of EA-18 electric warfare attack planes, and other support aircraft and helicopters. The carrier’s battlegroup also includes several Tomahawk cruise-missile carrying destroyers.** The Ford was last known to be in port in Croatia and will take a number of days to transit the Atlantic. > > **On Oct. 23, the two B-1B Lancers, which can carry standoff cruise missiles, flew near Venezuela** after taking off from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, according to U.S. officials and open-source flight tracking data. > > **A week earlier, three B-52H Stratofortress bombers from the 2nd Bomb Wing at Barksdale Air Force Base. La., joined armed Marine Corps F-35B stealth fighters, 10 of which are based in Puerto Rico**, in what the U.S. military referred to as “bomber attack demonstration,” in which the planes conducted orbits off the Venezuelan coast for hours. > > **The B-1s used the callsigns BARB21 and BARB22 and had their transponders on, flight tracking data shows**. U.S. officials also confirmed the flight. As in the previous flight of B-52s, photos of which were later published by the U.S. military, t**he active transponders indicated the bombers did not attempt to hide their presence. The bombers flew roughly 50 miles off the coast of Venezuela.** > > **A U.S. Air Force RC-135 signals intelligence aircraft was also in the area at the time, according to open-source analysis of air traffic control radio transmissions.** The U.S. military did not confirm the presence of an RC-135, standard practice with intelligence-gathering aircraft. **But the U.S. Navy already has a publicly acknowledged surveillance plane presence in the region, with multiple P-8 Poseidon reconnaissance and maritime patrol planes operating out of Puerto Rico.** > > **The U.S. also deployed an E-11 BACN, a communications relay aircraft, from its home base** of Warner Robins, Ga., to San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Oct. 23, flight tracking data shows. The E-11 returned home the same day. > > ***“I’m not going to necessarily ask for a declaration of war,” Trump said Oct. 23. “People that are bringing drugs into our country … we’re going to kill them. `You know, they’re going to be, like, dead.`*** **Trump’s talk is very thuggish. Like some type of a mobster.** > ***“The land is going to be next,” Trump added. “And we may go to the Senate; we may go to the Congress and tell them about it, but I can’t imagine they’d have any problem with it.”*** > > Air Forces Southern, which oversees forces in the region, released photos of Airmen building a munitions armory and repairing a runway in Ceiba, Puerto Rico, where the AC-130s are known to operate. > > **In addition to the Marine Corps F-35Bs stationed on land, USMC AV-8 Harrier fighter jets and AH-1 attack helicopters are embarked on the USS Iwo Jima, an amphibious assault ship which has been operating in the region, along with a number of destroyers and the Special Operations ship MV Ocean Trader. The Harriers and helicopters have been conducting live-fire exercises in recent weeks.** ##### [What the US really wants is regime change in Venezuela](https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251025-what-the-us-really-wants-is-regime-change-us-military-build-up-in-the-caribbean) > **Trinidad and Tobago, a country located less than 10 miles from Venezuela, announced that a U.S. destroyer will arrive in the country on Sunday to conduct military drills as the Trump administration escalates pressure on Caracas.** > > **`The drills will take place between October 26 and 30`**, with the Caribbean country noting that the development “highlights the U.S.’s commitment to regional security and cooperation in the Caribbean.” - [**U.S. Warship Set To Conduct Military Drills In Country Less Than 10 Miles From Venezuela**](https://www.latintimes.com/us-warship-set-conduct-military-drills-country-less-10-miles-venezuela-590896) - [**Every reason to expect attacks inside Venezuela**](https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251025-every-reason-to-expect-attacks-inside-venezuela-expert-warns-as-us-escalates-operations)