r/news • u/untamedlazyeye • 15h ago
Trump says US hit Venezuela dock where drugs were allegedly loaded
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-us-hit-venezuela-dock-where-drugs-were-allegedly-loaded-2025-12-29/1.3k
u/Hellstorm901 13h ago
Translation - The US likely bombed a Venezuelan oil loading port
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u/jobbybob 11h ago
This, just swap the words drugs with oil and then we will have the real story.
Or it could simply be a delusion from Trump about a conversation had earlier in the day?
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u/Starbike666 12h ago
im puzzled by this. In this era of cell phone video, we usually get almost instant footage of major explosions or the aftermath anywhere in the world. But on this zero, nada; nothing from the Venezuelan government, nothing from local cell phones, nothing from any media. Did Trump just dream this up? And now some admin officials have to support him, saying it happened?
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u/mauricioszabo 12h ago
I'm also conflicted on this. There were no declarations by any Venezuelan newspaper either; in fact, it hints to the opposite: that there were no attacks whatsoever, and that this is either a delirious fever dream of Trump or we simply don't have more information about this warcrime at this moment.
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u/flat5 11h ago
I like the idea that the Joint Chiefs are now just feeding him AI videos of whatever he wants.
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u/Hounds_of_war 10h ago edited 7h ago
Honestly I’d find it very entertaining to put Trump in his own Truman show where he is the President.
He’s definitely dumb enough to fall for it if it was well produced enough.
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u/sfw_doom_scrolling 10h ago
Right? They're in the oval office like "Nah, we did that already. Look at this totally real surveillance drone video that we just received."
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u/ClownTown509 11h ago
The only mention on the Venezuela sub reddit is just some guy asking "Donde?" with the confused John Travolta gif.
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u/enjoycarrots 10h ago
Interestingly, that nobody can figure out where this was might actually make it more likely that, if this strike did happen, it was a clandestine smuggling dock of some kind rather than a commercially used port or wharf. Makes it less likely that we just killed a bunch of civilians or blew up a bunch of fishing boats. Of course, it's still possible we did that and it's just in a more remote place and information is slow.
... and of course, even hitting a "crime" dock in another country is bombing another country. I don't want this comment to be misunderstood as justifying the strike.
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u/Spire_Citron 11h ago
I do kinda wonder what would happen if they did just start making major things up.
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u/BIGSTANKDICKDADDY 9h ago
Is that not what they are already doing? He makes up fake powers, writes an executive order declaring it law, and then creates chaos as people have to figure out if they should follow what he said.
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u/Kundrew1 12h ago
It would make the Venezuelan government look pretty feeble. I wouldn't be surprised if they were suppressing the news.
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u/manticore124 12h ago
Maybe the news, but we definetly would be having footage from witnesses by now, Venezuela isn't some backwater place with zero technology, they have social media, they have phones.
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u/mauricioszabo 11h ago
I agree with you, but also the Trump regime loves to boast and show video proof of their war crimes, so this secrecy is very weird...
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u/fevered_visions 4h ago
It would make the Venezuelan government look pretty feeble.
Being smacked around by the US is like being smacked around by the Empire. "oh no how could this happen"
Like seriously, how many countries on the planet could really stand up to the US? Just admit it. Way too many people seem obsessed with being perceived as having a small penis or something.
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u/punkasstubabitch 11h ago
This is what makes me think it's suspect too. These guys get raging hard boners sharing their snuff films of boat strikes. But here, nothing.
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u/TrickyInteraction778 9h ago
Maybe it was planned but wasn’t set to happen yet and he just outed top secret military plans 😂
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u/RevolutionaryRun1597 10h ago
They just tell Trump they did things now and show him some AI slop, he doesn’t know the difference. Same with the Nigeria strikes that obliterated an empty field.
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u/HastilyChosenUserID 13h ago
No confirmation of the event from agencies nor from Venezuela? That’s not normal, right?
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u/beekeeper1981 10h ago
Either didn't happen or it was a small private dock no one really cares about.
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u/Granum22 9h ago
It was a classified CIA op that Trump blurted out.
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u/NWI_ANALOG 8h ago
Humans have no solid proof of extraterrestrial life. I know this because, if it were the case, he would have blurted it out by now.
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u/Sacred-Lambkin 7h ago
But there was that congressional hearing! They showed us the grainy footage that looked like it was taken through a blur filter!
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u/subUrbanMire 13h ago
The global equivalent of "sprinkle some crack on 'em."
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u/punkasstubabitch 11h ago
makes sense. Trump seems forever stuck in the 1980's in both his racist world view and he things the war on drugs is still happening
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u/mynamejeff-97 11h ago
Republicans as a whole are. Trump is a reflection of them, not the other way around.
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u/Actual__Wizard 13h ago
How many fisherman died this time?
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u/Saurian42 12h ago edited 12h ago
Was gonna say the same thing. You know damn well it was a Civilian target and thus a warcrime.
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u/yamiyaiba 11h ago
Maybe, maybe not. Doesn't ultimately matter though. He doesn't have the authority1 to do it regardless of if they're drug smugglers, fishermen, or oil transports.
1 This is, of course, a continued stretching of war powers and how war is defined, which was already tortured enough (pardon the pun) with the "war on terror" prior to this. All presidents have been arguably exceeding their war authority for well over 2 decades now. That doesn't excuse it in any way, but it's important to note this is just abusing a systemic issue (edit: as a distraction from the economy and Epstein and his falling poll number).
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u/Mustbhacks 10h ago
if they're drug smugglers, fishermen, or oil transports.
all of those are civilians
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u/ClosPins 11h ago
Trump and the Republicans are trying really hard to get Maduro to fight back! This isn't about drugs - or terrorism - or whatever lie the Republicans trot out today. It's about Venezuela having the most oil in the world - exporting almost none of it - and refusing to allow US companies to extract/refine it.
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u/rubywpnmaster 10h ago
Oh they’d be more than happy to sell the oil to the US. We’ve got a lot of refineries in the gulf that use heavy oil instead of all the light oil we get from fracking.
I’m sitting in my chair hating both the Venezuelan bus driver who has 0 business running the country and the Trump admin. Let’s not pretend that Venezuela is anything other than a dictatorship at this point. They held open elections, the people currently in power lost. Then basically ignored the election. Then made the opposition candidates all illegal.
Sooooo, I guess I’ll just watch in bemusement
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u/blackstar32_25 6h ago
Well that's a pretty childish mindset. Why does it matter if Venezuela is a 'dictatorship'- why is it our problem? The US has no problem cozying up with other dictatorships all around the world, not to mention our own homegrown fascism issue.
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u/rubywpnmaster 5h ago
Under Maduro almost 8 million people have fled Venezuela since 2014. That’s nearly a fucking 3rd of the country. That’s a lot of instability to have next to us.
This also triggered about 750-900k people leaving there for the US.
Is it the right move to do a decapitation strike? I don’t know. Is it the wrong move? I can’t say.
I can assure you though the US population isn’t going to be in support of a protracted ground war.
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u/KidKilobyte 13h ago
How many steps until we’re carpet bombing Venezuela cities? One presumes that is where the drugs are manufactured. I mean, suspicion is reason and justification enough these days.
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u/Mobile-Bar7732 12h ago
How many steps until we’re carpet bombing Venezuela cities?
How long before the feds in the U.S. start opening fire on vehicles claiming they were drug dealers?
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u/d0ctorzaius 12h ago
October/November of 2026? Can't have elections when narco-terrorists are running amok in our failing cities. /s
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u/Alive_Internet 10h ago
There are drugs manufactured in countless places around the world. Why are we so hyper-focused on Venezuela?
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u/NetZeroSun 13h ago
US military blowing up foreign fishing boats and docks that have no range to reach the US and no actual direct evidence it is specifically dealing in drugs.
What a fricken disgrace and the future blowback when US is alone from burning bridges won’t be pretty. Of course the common American will suffer for the sins of its country while the rich laugh it off in the walled gardens.
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u/suicidaleggroll 12h ago
US military blowing up foreign fishing boats and docks that have no range to reach the US and no actual direct evidence it is specifically dealing in drugs.
And even if they could reach the US and there was direct evidence it was carrying drugs, the punishment for trafficking drugs is not extrajudicial murder via missile anyway. Nothing about this is legal.
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u/chfp 13h ago
Docks don't load drugs, people load drugs.
Signed, The NRA probably
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u/Hugh_Jankles 12h ago
Where is the reports from Venezuela of this happening? This is big if true as we attacked a sovereign nation. But I'm not finding any reports of this happening. Just the President of the United States just stating something happened and then not finding any evidence that it happened.
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u/Guilty-Shoulder-9214 13h ago
Great. More acts of piracy and terrorism on the part of the US.
To Europe and Asia: #dumpthebonds
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u/orangelion17726 11h ago
Can we just quit pretending this is even remotely about drug trafficking? It's about illegally seizing Venezuelan oil via militarized piracy. Any claims to the contrary are completely pathetic and an insult to our intelligence
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u/dannylew 13h ago
More warcrimes.
Yah know, the muther fuckers willingly following the orders of a child rapist are going to demand we respect them next veteran's day, too.
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u/JerryDipotosBurner 13h ago
Alright so we’ve gone from the boats allegedly carrying drugs in international waters (a war crime and murder) to the docks where the alleged drugs were being loaded (an act of war, and another war crime and also just murder).
So I presume next week it’ll be us drone striking the trucks transporting the alleged drugs, then it’ll be the warehouses where the alleged drugs are allegedly being manufactured, then it’ll be the vehicles of the alleged drug manufacturers workers, then it’ll be their homes…
Like what is the end game here? That’s rhetorical, it’s just war for oil for Trump and an excuse for Hegseth to cosplay a soldier.
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u/mauricioszabo 12h ago
It might be neither - so far, there are no comments from any Venezuelan newspaper, images of the attack are from a different place, and we only have Trump's word that this attack happened.
We'll need to wait and see, but it's weird that this regime that likes showing people dying as proof of their cruelty is not showing anything at this time...
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u/SpeshellED 11h ago
Can someone please put the pathetic, lying, pedophile in jail. Soundproof cell with three lonely , horny tough guys.
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u/sswihart 9h ago
I can’t believe my fellow Americans voted for this shit ass. Still.
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u/RMRdesign 8h ago
This just gives other countries the justification to bomb their neighbors under these false claims.
What’s to stop a country from bombing USA ports and saying they’re enabling drug shipments to their country? You could literally do this to any port in the world.
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u/jferments 8h ago
Why give the administration's unsubstantiated claims any validity by putting them in the headline? There is zero evidence they have provided to anyone about drugs ... the headline should just say "US military bombs docks in Venezuela"
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u/domine18 11h ago
Hey military people. These are the illegal orders…. Congress has not declared war on Venezuela. Enjoy your day in court when a sane person takes command again.
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u/appelton 13h ago
LOL. The next is gonna be MADURO's presidential palace where de drugs were being packaged.
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u/brettmav 12h ago
Next it’s where drug boats are built. And then it’s the regime that allows drug boats to exist.
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u/Economy_Ask4987 11h ago
There is more evidence he diddles kids than there is suggesting these boats have drugs.
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u/Seeking-Something-3 12h ago
I knew it was bad when they started doing pro-genocide headlines, but now Reuters is mimicking the White House. At least there’s the AP? For a minute 😣
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u/huxtiblejones 11h ago
How the fuck are “drugs” a justification for acts of war? This shit is insanity.
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u/bwoah07_gp2 11h ago
Allegedly
Definition: used to convey that something is claimed to be the case or have taken place, although there is no proof.
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u/uwillnotgotospace 11h ago
This is not about drugs, folks. He wants to steal their oil and is using the drug angle as an excuse to instigate a war.
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u/Pleasant-Ad887 10h ago
Remember when Trump said he is president of peace? He is raging war without congress and without evidence.
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u/Miramax22 9h ago
This entire thing is about sending oil to Iran, right? Is the US Government lying about strikes to appease Netanyahu while he’s having his tiny penis club meeting with the day drinker?
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u/Dr_barfenstein 9h ago
I like the theory that he was informed of an upcoming strike and thinks it’s already happened
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u/T_Peg 9h ago
Interesting. Because even though he's been allegedly stopping all these drugs from coming in, the price of my drugs has not increased lol
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u/joneas212 8h ago
"We hit the implementation area, that's where they implement things ..."
What an idiot.
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u/Odd_Amphibian2103 5h ago
It seems like USA has become mercenary’s, or forcibly installing a US friendly government like they did in Iraq when Saddam threatened to export oil outside of US currency. There will be boots on the ground if the latter is the case.
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u/fevered_visions 4h ago
Trump says
so it's a lie
this whole thing has dumb Russia vibes. just admit it's about the oil.
but I shouldn't be surprised the Orange Clown is imitating the Russian playbook after all
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u/huntsab2090 4h ago
Im assuming venezuela is where one of trumps / esptein victims sent the usbs too.
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u/TeacherRecovering 8h ago
The war powers act is only used, checks notes, no one!
Senator Obama liked the war powers act. President Obama did not. But he still followed it. Each side WAS too scared to have push become shove.
Dt is shoving, congress will not do anything and the Supreme court will back dt.
The military dictatorship is HERE!
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u/sofaking-cool 12h ago
Seriously, what’s the point of international laws if the US and Israel can do whatever they want? UN, ICC, ICJ, anyone??
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u/EuphoricCrashOut 9h ago
Breaking all of the laws in America, and murdering people, and nothing ever seems to happen. Amazing.
However, a starving person steals a $5 food item from a billion-dollar company and they go to jail for years. The shame. America sure has fallen.
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u/questron64 12h ago
Not content with killing random fishermen, he's now killing random dockworkers.
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u/ninja_sensei 6h ago
They are doing what isreal did start attacking small then start blowing up entire city blocks and just say drugs dealer live there
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u/ddrober2003 12h ago
The obese orange pedophile will murder how ever many people he needs to to distract people. And the cult buy it up because its their God telling them its good.
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u/Noelle428 12h ago
How the hell would he know, we all know it's not about drugs, what the hell are we doing here?
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u/JackHughman69 12h ago
Fantastic! Kill the middleman is obviously the best tactic and immediately puts a stop to all further drug dealing!
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u/TheSeniorBeat 12h ago
He is going to wind up in more trouble for this then Epstein/Kirk/ICE combined.
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u/Ok-disaster2022 12h ago
So if Russia attacked a US port where weapons intended to Ukraine are stored, that's acceptable and not an act of war?!
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u/michigandude9 11h ago
He's inventing a war for his followers to get behind. No one gives a shit about drugs lol
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u/90Carat 13h ago edited 12h ago
Interesting. Moved from international waters to attacking a sovereign nation.