Following confirmation of the planned deployment of U.S. Air Force F-35A fighter aircraft to Puerto Rico to support ongoing operations near Venezuela, questions have increasingly been raised regarding how the fighters may be utilised to support an American offensive against its southern neighbour as tensions continue to escalate.
The deployment of F-35s was announced hours after an overflight by two Venezuelan Air Force F-16 fighters over the U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke Class destroyer USS Jason Dunham in the Caribbean Sea, and at a time when the United States is actively considering options to escalate hostilities to launch attacks on Venezuelan soil.
As part this escalation, the United States government has placed a higher bounty on the head of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, following years of sustained efforts to oust him from power including a failed kidnapping attempt in 2020.
The F-35 is the only fifth generation fighter class in production anywhere in the Western world, and is considered unrivalled in its sophistication by any non-Chinese fighter class.
The aircraft is heavily optimised for operations against advanced air defence networks, making it an ideal fighter to neutralise the S-300VM, BuK-M2 and S-125 systems guarding Venezuelan airspace, all of which are deployed in only relatively limited numbers.
F-35 (left) and Venezuelan Su-30MK2
With Venezuela’s F-16s being among the oldest and least capable in the world, the greatest challenge to any attempts to attack the country by air will come from its fleet of 22 Su-30MK2 fighter aircraft, which considered by far the most capable in Latin America.
A comparison of the capabilities of the rival fighter classes could thus provide valuable insight into how a potential engagement could play out.
It’s too destabilizing for Egypt, Jordan, GCC [Gulf Cooperation Council], and the TPS [Transnational Private Sector].
So Israel resorts to incremental displacement; making areas unlivable so populations slowly filter out.
That’s Israel’s current state calculus.
In parallel to that, yes, flattening urban space creates a blank slate for reconstruction contracts.
Cycles of destruction/rebuilding feed into TPS projects tied to donor funds.
This ensures that while Israel secures its “security” objective, the TPS still gets entry points for capital deployment.
But the TPS doesn’t want total ethnic cleansing, because it risks blowing up the very donor funds from the GCC and sabotages Israel normalization with them.
So the TPS tolerates destruction as long as it leads to managed rebuilding under conditional frameworks.
Everyone thinks Palestinians will be exterminated / totally displaced.
It’s already a foregone conclusion that this will not happen.
I was a public school teacher in the hood for 11 years, and I know this type of kid.
The type that would smack the kid sitting in front of him, tell the teacher “IDGAF” when corrected, and ruin an entire year’s worth of learning for the entire class.
His special education teachers would describe him as “actually very smart with a lot of potential,” despite him failing every class and scoring a 9 on the ACT.
There would be countless meetings with him and his mom and the social workers, psychologists , and principal would speak in soft voices and nod and smile when the kid told them he wants to be a “doctor.”
They’d design all sorts of ridiculous accommodations that give him ample room to behave however he wanted and terrorize his teachers and peers with minimal consequences.
Teachers would spend the entire class trying to reign in his behavior, and when they called security to remove him, they’d have to evacuate the entire class first.
He’d rarely receive any consequences. The principal would reprimand the teachers for “not building a relationship with him” and accuse them of “singling him out because he was black.” As a result, they’d give up and his behavior would escalate.
If he was really bad, he’d get a time out in a special room where he’d sit on his phone and tell the supervisor to “shut the fuck up” if they said anything. Maybe he’d have to partake in a “peace circle” if he became violent.
He’d eventually get “socially promoted” to his senior year and there would be a massive effort to get his credits recovered, mostly by pressuring teachers to give him alternative assignments and 50% for the work he didn’t do.
He’d walk down the graduation stage and everyone would cheer, and he’d probably do something embarrassing like give the finger to the audience.
As a young adult, he’d walk the city behaving exactly as he did in school because he’d been socialized to learn there are zero consequences for his behavior. Depending on the city, he’d probably get similar treatment from the cops and public afraid of creating a public scene that would lead to riots in their city.
One day, he’d snap, and do something like this.
And only then, would everyone act surprised, as if this wasn’t largely in part due to how our public schools negatively socialize and enable the behavior of animals that should be locked up or institutionalized as teenagers.
Recently, Russian President Vladimir Putin was asked about the status of negotiations with Ukraine. President Putin notes some of the internal political issues within Ukraine must be deconflicted in order for discussions to proceed. Without these issues resolved, discussion is futile.
Russian President Vladimir Putin: “First. After all, quite recently, the leadership of the Kyiv regime, mildly speaking unflatteringly of us, and excluded all possibility of direct Contacts. Now we see that they are asking for these contacts, at least Offer.
I have repeatedly said that I am ready for these contacts. At the news conference in Beijing, which you mentioned, I said that there is no point in I don’t see much of it. Why? Because it will be agreed with the Ukrainian side is almost impossible on key issues.
Even if there is a political will, What I doubt is that there are legal and technical difficulties that are that any agreements on territories must be confirmed in accordance with the Constitution of Ukraine at a referendum. In order to hold a referendum, martial law must be lifted, Martial law is not carried out. If martial law is lifted, it is necessary to immediately hold presidential elections.
After the referendum, if it is held, regardless of the results, it is necessary to obtain a decision of the Constitutional Court. And the constitutional court does not work, because after requests, as I understand it, to the Constitutional Court about the legitimacy of the current government, the court evaded these decisions, and the head of the regime He simply ordered the guards not to let the chairman of the Constitutional Court into the working place.
This is the kind of democracy there. And the chairman of the Supreme Court is just sitting in prison on corruption charges. It is well known that Ukraine has enough of this Corruption. But why was it necessary to send the chairman of the supreme court to prison to plant, it is not very clear. Although it is clear that it came to destruction their judicial system as such. This is another of the striking signs of “democracy” current Ukrainian authorities.
Therefore, this endless process is going nowhere. Nevertheless, we said that we are ready for a summit meeting.
Listen, the Ukrainian side wants this meeting and offers this one Meeting. I said: ready, please come, we are definitely completely We will provide working conditions and safety, the guarantee is one hundred percent. But if We are told we want to meet with you, but you go there for this meeting, it seems to me that these are just their excessive requests to us.
I repeat once again: if someone really wants to meet with us, we Ready. The best place for this is the capital of the Russian Federation, the hero city Moscow.” {SOURCE}
Vladimir Putin: “We have an open dialogue with President Trump. There is an agreement that in case of We can call, contact, and talk to each other. He knows that I am open to these conversations; And he too – I know about it. But so far, we have not had conversations in Europe based on the results of these consultations. Actually, it was difficult for me to do this, I had just come from China, I’m here. We have no problems with communications here. First.
Secondly, regarding possible military contingents in Ukraine. This is one of the root causes of Ukraine’s involvement in NATO. Therefore, if there are some troops appear, especially now, in the course of hostilities, We proceed from the assumption that these will be legitimate targets for their destruction.
And if solutions are reached that lead to peace, to long-term peace, then I simply do not see any point in them being on the territory of Ukraine, that’s all.
If agreements are reached, let no one doubt that Russia will comply with them in full. We will respect those guarantees security, which, of course, must be worked out both for Russia and for Ukraine. And I repeat once again: of course, Russia will agree to these agreements execute. In any case, no one has discussed this with us on a serious level, that’s all.”
Many of the car workers arrested in a huge US workplace immigration raid had violated their visitor visas, officials say.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said 475 people, mostly South Korean citizens – were found to be illegally working at a Hyundai battery plant in the state of Georgia on Thursday.
“People on short-term or recreational visas are not authorized to work in the US,” ICE said, adding that the raid was necessary to protect American jobs.
UPDATE on the day after: Hyundai claims the workers were not their employees but were employed by construction subcontractors. That sounds to me like Hyundai is dodging responsibility on a technicality. A major point of their building facilities in USA is to provide jobs for American citizens. ABN
I have covered this story in the past. This is the first video of the stabbing we have seen. The killer is obviously crazy. But it’s also true he has surely been fed reams of anti-white propaganda and probably believes he is somehow justified in attacking a lone defenseless white female. Crazy people do reason, just not well. This sort of crime is a result of propagandizing and coddling the fantasies of the mentally ill. ABN
The United States has significantly increased its military presence near Venezuela in late August and early September 2025, deploying naval assets to combat drug trafficking and counter alleged narco-terrorism under President Donald Trump’s directives On August 18, three U.S. Navy warships—USS Gravely, USS Jason Dunham, and USS Sampson—along with approximately 4,000 military personnel, were sent to the Caribbean and waters off Venezuela’s coast This force has since expanded to include additional warships, P-8 surveillance aircraft, an attack submarine, and three amphibious assault ships carrying over 4,000 sailors and Marines
The U.S. government claims these deployments are part of a broader campaign to disrupt drug cartels, particularly the Venezuelan-linked Tren de Aragua, which was designated a foreign terrorist organization in February 2025 The Trump administration has also doubled the reward for information leading to the arrest of President Nicolás Maduro from $25 million to $50 million, accusing him of leading a “narco-terror cartel” Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the seizure of $700 million in assets linked to Maduro, including luxury goods and private jets
While the U.S. has not signaled plans for a land invasion, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stated that President Trump is “prepared to use every element of American power to stop drugs from flooding into our country and to bring those responsible to justice,” declining to rule out military strikes On September 3, two Venezuelan F-16 fighter jets conducted a flyover near a U.S. destroyer, which the Pentagon condemned as “highly provocative,” warning against interference with counter-narcotics missions
In response, Venezuela has declared “maximum preparedness” for defense President Maduro announced the activation of over 4.5 million members of the Bolivarian Militia—a civilian defense force established in 2005—to guard factories, workplaces, and national territory He characterized the U.S. naval deployment as an “extravagant, unjustifiable, immoral and absolutely criminal and bloody threat” and warned that military action would “stain Trump’s hands with blood” Maduro also stated he would declare a “republic in arms” if Venezuela were attacked, though he did not elaborate on what that would entail
Venezuela has deployed more than 15,000 troops along its coast and border with Colombia and temporarily banned drone operations in its airspace, citing past assassination attempts The Venezuelan government rejects U.S. allegations, calling them a “false narrative” designed to justify regime change, and insists that most cocaine trafficking from Colombia occurs via the Pacific, not Venezuela
Analysts and officials note that while tensions are high, there is no indication of an imminent U.S. invasion, and the current operations remain focused on interdiction and deterrence within international waters and airspace
Donald Trump greenlit a daring mission to send Navy SEALs into North Korea to bug Jim Jong Un before the operation unraveled after the soldiers killed several fishermen and fled, a bombshell new report reveals.
The audacious plot unfolded in early 2019 as Trump was locked in high-stakes nuclear talks with Kim to limit the hostile nation’s nuclear program.
With negotiations moving forward, Trump was set for the first of two face-to-face meetings with Kim in Vietnam, and military officials presented a plan to have a SEAL team covertly move in.
The mission was given to SEAL Team 6, the same unit that took out Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan in May 2011.
But despite months of rehearsals to sneak to the North Korean coast in submarines and plant the device before leaving undetected the operation quickly went sideways, a new report from The New York Times claims.
According to military officials who spoke with the outlet, the SEALs only got onto the beach for a short time before they were spotted by a sailing vessel.
Fearing that the vessel was North Korean military, the SEALs opened fire and killed around three people on board before puncturing their lungs to ensure their bodies would sink to the ocean floor.
Lithuania’s migration policy must be tightened, Deividas Matulionis, the president’s chief national security advisor, said on Friday.
“Migration policy must be tightened in order to protect business, but at the same time to solve all the problems faced by society,” Matulionis told reporters after President Gitanas Nausėda’s meeting with Interior Minister Vladislav Kondratovič.
Kondratovič said that around 200,000 foreign nationals live in Lithuania, but their numbers have been declining, which is at least partly due to the stricter migration controls that have been implemented. “We will not be relaxing those controls,” the minister said. According to him, migration officials will cooperate more closely with higher education institutions to ensure foreign students are not enrolled in education fraudulently.
The politician also said that the ministry has recently made considerable efforts to consult with the foreign ministry and other institutions on which countries’ citizens would be culturally acceptable to Lithuania.
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