U.S. guided-missile cruiser crosses Panama Canal, warships deployed to Venezuela

Re:U.S. guided-missile cruiser crosses Panama Canal, warship... by Havoc on Saturday August 30, 2025 @05:20PM (#45078112)

Oil play? Epstein distraction?

Guided missiles makes zero sense for something as diffuse as cartel operations. Besides its fentanyl not cocaine that's causing the most harm

wth is the US doing

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Re:U.S. guided-missile cruiser crosses Panama Canal, warship... by delichon on Saturday August 30, 2025 @06:33PM (#45078573)

Trump has been planning embargos on cartel states for a long time. A missile cruiser can help a lot with that, including area defense, long range sensors, command and control, and strikes on radars and airfields. If I was a ship driver and a cruiser told me to pull over, I'd pull over.

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Re:U.S. guided-missile cruiser crosses Panama Canal, warship... by readthenotes1 on Sunday August 31, 2025 @08:47AM (#45082767)

Maybe Trump got the news about how prevalent cocaine is in the Nantucket sewer system.

Not many there voted for him, and he's got a grudge.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/wealthy-enclaves-sewage-reveals-h...

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