{"id":186685,"date":"2025-09-05T15:25:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/?p=186685"},"modified":"2025-09-05T15:25:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T13:25:01","slug":"maduro-and-trump-on-the-brink-of-conflict-venezuelan-fighter-jets-fly-over-us-destroyer-pentagon-threatens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/maduro-and-trump-on-the-brink-of-conflict-venezuelan-fighter-jets-fly-over-us-destroyer-pentagon-threatens\/","title":{"rendered":"MADURO AND TRUMP ON THE BRINK OF CONFLICT: Venezuelan Fighter Jets Fly Over US Destroyer, Pentagon Threatens!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Pentagon has announced that two armed Venezuelan F-16<\/strong> fighter jets flew over the U.S. destroyer “USS Jason Dunham<\/strong>” yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CBS News reports that multiple Defense Department officials described the action as a “show of force.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The destroyer, armed with Aegis<\/strong> guided missiles, is part of a flotilla of U.S. warships sent to the region in recent weeks, which the Pentagon says are deployed with the goal of attacking vessels of criminal organizations and narcoterrorists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The American television network was unable to determine what actions, if any, the crew of the USS Jason Dunham took in response to the Venezuelan jets’ overflight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After CBS News published the story, the U.S. Department of Defense confirmed on the social network X that two Venezuelan aircraft “flew near a U.S. Navy ship in international waters.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This very provocative move is designed to disrupt our counter-narcoterrorism operation. The cartel that runs Venezuela is strongly advised not to take any further efforts to obstruct, deter, or interfere with counter-narcotic and terrorist operations conducted by the U.S. military,” the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

U.S. Navy ships were sent to the waters near Venezuela after President Donald Trump<\/strong> vowed to crack down on drug cartels, at a time of rising tensions between him and Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Trump administration has accused Maduro of allying with drug cartels to traffic narcotics to the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Reward for Maduro’s Arrest Doubled to $50 Million<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

U.S. authorities recently doubled the reward they are offering for Maduro’s arrest to $50 million<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Venezuelan government has denied the accusations, and Maduro earlier this week called the warships a “criminal and bloody threat” and deployed drones and warships to patrol the coast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Tuesday, the U.S. military announced that it had struck a boat it claimed was transporting drugs from Venezuela and alleged it had killed 11 people on board whom it accused of belonging to the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These accusations were made by both Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Trump’s Target Since First Term<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Maduro, who won a third term in the July 2024 elections, which were marked by allegations of fraud and a crackdown on the opposition, has been a target for Trump since the U.S. president’s first term from 2017 to 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump’s policy of maximum pressure on Venezuela, including an oil embargo that is still in effect, has not succeeded in toppling Maduro from power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington accuses Maduro of leading the Cartel de los Soles<\/strong> (Cartel of the Suns), a cocaine trafficking cartel that the Trump administration has designated as a terrorist organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Pentagon has announced that two armed Venezuelan F-16 fighter jets flew over the U.S. destroyer “USS Jason Dunham” yesterday. CBS News reports that multiple Defense Department officials described the action as a “show of force.” The destroyer, armed with Aegis guided missiles, is part of a flotilla of U.S. warships sent to the region […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2169,"featured_media":186686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[71,2956,24,8382,2555,23,2986,6565],"class_list":["post-186685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","tag-amerika","tag-borbeni-avioni","tag-donald-tramp","tag-nikolas-maduro","tag-pentagon","tag-sad","tag-sukob","tag-venecuela","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t