Two US fighter jets circle Gulf of Venezuela in escalation of hostilities (www.theguardian.com)
from pete_link@lemmy.ml to world@lemmy.world on 10 Dec 04:59
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Roque Planas
Tue 9 Dec 2025 21.37 EST

Two US fighter jets circled the Gulf of Venezuela on Tuesday, in what appeared to be an escalation of the Trump administration’s ongoing hostilities toward the South American country and its leftist leader, Nicolás Maduro.

Venezuelans and South American media followed the flights in real time using websites like FlightRadar24, which showed a pair of F/A-18 Super Hornets flying together into the narrow Gulf of Venezuela for about 40 minutes. The jets flew just north of Maracaibo, Venezuela’s most populous city.

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xenomor@lemmy.world on 10 Dec 06:08 next collapse

Fuck the United States of America and all its feckless citizens too. I say this as a US citizen.

Mihies@programming.dev on 10 Dec 07:00 next collapse

Gulf of Venezuela? It could be renamed to Gulf of America.

kelpie_returns@lemmy.world on 10 Dec 07:10 collapse

I hope you washed your hands after typing that. Yuck!

PrinceOfSloth@lemmy.zip on 10 Dec 07:53 next collapse

The US really wants that Venuzuelan Oil huh.

tyrant@lemmy.world on 10 Dec 13:11 next collapse

God damnit.

yojimbo@sopuli.xyz on 13 Dec 17:09 collapse

If they want to cause a regime change, they will have to do a lot more than fly aroud.