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BumRushDaShow

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14. I understand that

Reply to EX500rider (Reply #13)

Sat Aug 30, 2025, 03:47 PM

Aug 30

All kinds of ships move through there and fortunately there is even enough water to have more ships able to use it (after a couple years of severe drought).

But the headline and article mentions - "U.S. guided-missile cruiser spotted..." and I linked above to an Atlantic Council article that mentioned this -

Why are US warships heading toward Venezuela?

By Atlantic Council experts

Set a course for the Caribbean. The United States has deployed three Aegis guided-missile destroyers and several other warships to the waters near Venezuela to counter maritime narcotics trafficking. US President Donald Trump has made curbing drug flows into the United States an administration priority. At the same time, the sizable US flotilla, which carries more than four thousand US sailors and Marines, has raised speculation about the threat it poses to Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro. To steer us to answers on the important questions about this operation, two top Atlantic Council experts take the helm below.

(snip)

So one could put 2 + 2 together.

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U.S. guided-missile cruiser spotted crossing the Panama Canal after warships deployed to Venezuela [View all] BumRushDaShow Aug 30 OP

Trump really wants to win something, it doesn't matter what. ananda Aug 30 #1

Note to writers: traversing is not the same as crossing and the Isthmus is not the same as the Canal. Bernardo de La Paz Aug 30 #2

Apparently the content source (and charactization) BumRushDaShow Aug 30 #4

Thanks. Language confusion may be the cause if composed in English by non-native speaker, or poor translation. . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Aug 30 #8

I'd go with "transit" (nt) GJGCA Aug 30 #6

Good word, shorter than "traverse", and possibly understood by a greater number of people. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Aug 30 #7

Very old pun... GJGCA Aug 30 #10

We still won't forget about Epstein but CBS, NBC and ABC will. They like Trump. twodogsbarking Aug 30 #3

"Wag the Dog" stuff. Sept. 3 is the day of Epstein victims' press conference Ritabert Aug 30 #5

Anything to distract from the Epstein files. n/t area51 Aug 30 #9

Not sure it has anything to do with Venz. EX500rider Aug 30 #11

There is reportedly a U.S. deployment going on BumRushDaShow Aug 30 #12

But 3+ USN vessels go thru the canal every month, so may or may not be related. nt EX500rider Aug 30 #13

I understand that BumRushDaShow Aug 30 #14

Pedofelon one is high on that failed 20th-Century "war on drugs" Justice matters. Aug 30 #16

"Just say NO!!11!!!!!!" BumRushDaShow Aug 30 #17

Yeah the Aegis DD's are already on station I believe and the Lake Erie is a Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser EX500rider Aug 30 #18

Saber-rattling BumRushDaShow Aug 30 #19

Kremlin linked military contractors are currently protecting Maduro. Xolodno Aug 30 #15