{"id":173508,"date":"2025-09-03T08:22:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T12:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=173508"},"modified":"2025-09-03T08:23:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T12:23:38","slug":"monroe-doctrine-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=173508","title":{"rendered":"Monroe Doctrine Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-173509 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/venezuela-drug-boat-300x168.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/venezuela-drug-boat-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/venezuela-drug-boat-500x281.png 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/venezuela-drug-boat-768x431.png 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/venezuela-drug-boat.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Artificial Reef<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>US military kills 11 people in strike on alleged drug boat from Venezuela, Trump says<\/h3>\n<p><strong>By Phil Stewart, Idrees Ali and Steve Holland<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Summary<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trump shares video showing speedboat exploding<\/li>\n<li>US officials say boat was carrying illegal narcotics<\/li>\n<li>Strike comes amid increased deployment of warships to Caribbean<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>WASHINGTON, Sept 2 (Reuters) &#8211; The U.S. military killed 11 people on Tuesday in a strike on a vessel from Venezuela allegedly carrying illegal narcotics, President Donald Trump said, in the first known operation since his administration&#8217;s recent deployment of warships to the southern Caribbean.<br \/>\n&#8220;We just, over the last few minutes, literally shot out a boat, a drug-carrying boat, a lot of drugs in that boat,&#8221; Trump told reporters at the White House.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And there&#8217;s more where that came from. We have a lot of drugs pouring into our country, coming in for a long time &#8230; These came out of Venezuela.&#8221;<br \/>\nHe later shared a video on his Truth Social platform that appeared to show footage from overhead drones of a speedboat at sea exploding and then on fire.<br \/>\n&#8220;The strike resulted in 11 terrorists killed in action. No U.S. Forces were harmed in this strike,&#8221; Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the U.S. military had identified the crew as members of Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, which the U.S. designated a terrorist group in February. He repeated allegations that Tren de Aragua is being controlled by Venezuela&#8217;s President Nicolas Maduro, accusations that Caracas denies.<\/p>\n<p>Venezuela&#8217;s Communications Minister, Freddy Nanez, suggested in a post on social media that the video shared by Trump was created with artificial intelligence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/americas\/us-military-kills-11-people-strike-alleged-drug-boat-venezuela-trump-says-2025-09-03\/\">Reuters<\/a><br \/>\nThe gloves just came off in The War On Drugs and the media is already bemoaning the fact. NPR&#8217;s Nick Schifrin opines,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now, that said, Amna, regional experts tell me the drug trade is highly decentralized, and fighting it is not usually a military effort. It is traditionally seen as law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>So there are economic tools. There are diplomatic political tools and tools used by the Drug Enforcement Agency. So that is what fundamentally has changed, that it is the U.S. Navy, not the Coast Guard and the DEA, taking these steps.<\/p>\n<p>The nature of the military deployment, though, means that some experts believe this is a message or a threat to Nicolas Maduro, the head of Venezuela, whom Trump accused of controlling multiple gangs, including Tren de Aragua, and whom Trump tried to depose during the first term by backing an opposition figure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I believe the term our intrepid journo is grouping for is &#8220;Naval Blockade.&#8221; So, how successful has The War on Drugs has gone so far by pursuing diplomatic and legal means, and of course this is a direct warning to the Cartels. If Maduro&#8217;s regime is toppled in the process so much the better.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, Baghdad Bob changed his name and moved to Caracas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial Reef US military kills 11 people in strike on alleged drug boat from Venezuela, Trump &hellip; <a title=\"Monroe Doctrine Redux\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=173508\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monroe Doctrine Redux<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":173509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[703,9,340],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-navy","category-foreign-policy","category-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/173509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}