Published On 24/10/2025
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The US military continued to amass an unusually large force in the Caribbean Sea off Venezuela, sending B-1 supersonic bombers there while Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro directed, “No crazy war, please.”
Yesterday, Thursday, the US Army sent two supersonic heavy bombers to the coast of the Caribbean, about a week after another group of American bombers made a similar flight as part of a training exercise to simulate an attack.
According to flight tracking data, two B-1 Lancer bombers took off from Dyess Air Force Base in Texas yesterday, Thursday, and flew across the Caribbean Sea to the coast of Venezuela.
An official confirmed American -He requested to remain anonymous- Conducting a training flight for these bombers in the Caribbean Sea, which are bombers that can carry more bombs than any other aircraft in the United States arsenal.
Last week, the region witnessed a similar flight of slower B-52 Stratofortress bombers, and the bombers were joined by Marine Corps F-35B stealth fighters, a squadron of which is currently in Puerto Rico, as part of what the US War Department (the Pentagon) considered a “bomber attack display.”
The American force in the Caribbean includes 8 warships, P-8 maritime patrol aircraft, drones, and a squadron of F-35 fighters, and the presence of a submarine operating in the waters off the coast of South America has also been confirmed.
Training and mobilization
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Trinidad and Tobago announced yesterday that an American warship will visit Trinidad and Tobago to conduct joint military exercises near the coast of Venezuela.
The guided-missile destroyer USS Graveley will dock in Port of Spain from October 26 to 30, where a US Marine division will conduct joint training with forces from Trinidad and Tobago.
The US military has amassed an unusually large force in the Caribbean Sea and the waters off Venezuela, raising speculation that President Donald Trump may try to oust Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, whom the Trump administration accuses of drug-related terrorism in the United States.
What has increased these speculations is that since early September, the US military has been launching deadly strikes on ships in the waters off Venezuela that Trump says are trafficking drugs.
Maduro’s call
Parallel to the American crowd, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro yesterday sent an appeal in English to the United States in which he said, “No to a crazy war, please.”
“Yes to peace, yes to peace forever, peace forever, no to crazy war, please,” Maduro said during a meeting with unions loyal to him.
Maduro’s comment came after Trump announced that he had allowed the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to carry out secret operations in Venezuela, as the pace of the US military campaign against alleged drug traffickers in the Caribbean and Pacific region increased.
Watch for the CIA
For his part, Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino confirmed yesterday, Thursday, that any operation carried out by the CIA against his country will be doomed to failure.
Padrino said, “We know that the CIA is present” in Venezuela. It may deploy units affiliated with it, whose number I do not know, to carry out secret operations, and any attempt will fail.
Padrino supervised military exercises along the coast of Venezuela in response to the United States’ deployment of a military fleet in the waters of the Caribbean Sea.
It is noteworthy that American strikes targeted boats in the Caribbean Sea, which led to the death of about 40 people, whose governments or relatives claimed that the majority of them were civilians and fishermen. Experts question the legitimacy of using lethal force in international waters against suspects who were not intercepted or interrogated.