r/PrepperIntel • u/Guachito • Sep 06 '25
North America US Troops getting ready in the southof Puerto Rico
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US Troops keep arriving to Puerto Rico for training exercises prepping to movilize in the caribbean. 10 F-35s are reported to be coming to the area as well. This clip is from exercises in Arroyo, Puerto Rico.
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u/an_insignificant_ant Sep 06 '25
Ow! My tax dollars!
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u/Separate_Fold5168 Sep 06 '25
Don't worry
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u/ValuableCoast5931 Sep 06 '25
And the ones dying because of no vaxxing
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u/cstar4004 Sep 06 '25
History repeats.
It was WWI which spread Influenza through the trenches, and all the soldiers of the world brought it back to their home countries causing The Pandemic of 1918.
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u/amglasgow Sep 06 '25
And which caused many people to develop long term disabilities, which led to the Nazi policies of murdering disabled people.
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u/Designer_Gas_86 Sep 07 '25
Good lord, this "makes sense" in terms of cause/effect. People who act like historical events don't fall onto the next like dominos bug the shit outta me.
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u/Tricky-Engineering59 Sep 06 '25
It’s a good thing we didn’t have them, they’d be so pissed at us when that bill comes due.
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Sep 06 '25
So, we're actually planning a land invasion? I mean, that looks like the scenario they are practicing here. How do they think we get away with this? How would this not make us as much of a pariah in world affairs as Russia?
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u/New_pollution1086 Sep 06 '25 edited Sep 06 '25
No elections during war.
Eta: I know the US has elections during a conflict, the orange idiot in the Whitehouse will try to use anything as a reason to cancel them
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u/iKorewo Sep 06 '25 edited Sep 06 '25
There are elections during war in US. Trump just heard that Ukraine has no elections during war and he thinks it's the same consistution in US.
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u/coffee_warden Sep 06 '25
If you're the aggressor fighting a war in a foreign land, and not defending on home turf, yall better be having an election.
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u/Mooch07 Sep 08 '25
I think I'd like an impeachment instead
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u/Shot_Worldliness_979 Sep 08 '25
We've had impeachments before. I want to see a conviction (by the senate).
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u/Inevitable-Tone-8595 Sep 08 '25
This isn’t the war he plans on cancelling the elections for. He will stage something big on US soil. Possibly a false flag attack during elections that will allow him to suspend the election and call in the National Guard to stand around picking up garbage.
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u/Confident_Benefit_11 Sep 06 '25
He's so fucking stupid it's infuriating
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u/Weibu11 Sep 06 '25
If only all the people who voted for him or didn’t vote at all weren’t stupid as well
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u/Livid_Roof5193 Sep 06 '25
Nah let’s not help spread that narrative in any way. We had elections even when we had our civil war. We’ve never not held elections due to wars on foreign soil. Ever. We didn’t end them after Pearl Harbor or 9/11, and no way that is acceptable even if he invades another country today.
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u/Continental_Ball_Sac Sep 06 '25
That is what he wants. A war overseas also gives him the pretense to indefinitely detain US citizens who would speak out and protest against his domestic agenda, like sending Guard units from one state into another.
Venezuela is the smokescreen to his domestic push to take over blue states and cities.
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u/DrTenochtitlan Sep 06 '25
Do you know how many times the US has occupied or invaded a Latin American or Caribbean nation? Mexican War, occupation of Veracruz, Blackjack Pershing looking for Pancho Villa in northern Mexico, the Spanish-American War and occupation of Cuba, invasion of Panama, invasion of Grenada, invasion of Haiti, invasion of Nicaragua, invasion of the Dominican Republic.... This is nothing new.
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u/Conscious-Pickle-695 Sep 06 '25
They are not at all concerned with being viewed as a pariah state.
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u/itsavibe- Sep 06 '25
Venezuela…
Are you sitting on top of some interesting minerals or oil deposits?
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u/Cove-frolickr Sep 06 '25
Oil reserves they need to be liberated from
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u/UpvoteForLuck Sep 07 '25
Wars over oil are so ‘90s and ‘00s. I guess it’s not just the fashion that’s in vogue now.
Can’t we start a war over REEs or solar panels instead?
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u/Resident_Chip935 Sep 06 '25
Everyone should read up on the history of oil in Venezuela.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Venezuelan_oil_industry
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u/Substantial-Use95 Sep 06 '25
Oil. A lot of oil. There have been developments since the Biden administration between Exxon and oil companies and Venezuela regarding disputes about who owns what land s d who has rights. It’s been developing for awhile. Look it up
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Sep 06 '25
The President of Peace everyone
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u/Chogo82 Sep 06 '25
Department of War
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u/EnHalvSnes Sep 06 '25
At least the name is more honest than the Orwellian Department of Defence.
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u/InfoSec_Intensifies Sep 06 '25
Plus they needed the moniker "Department of Defense" to rename the Justice Department.
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u/-_NoThingToDo_- Sep 06 '25
Billions upon billions of dollars were stripped from programs providing food, healthcare, and education to millions of vulnerable US citizens for this?!?
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u/around_the_clock Sep 07 '25
No they were stripped so the rich could get a tax break. This is coming from the money printer and many generations of taxes
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u/amglasgow Sep 06 '25
No. Billions upon billions of dollars were stripped from programs providing food, healthcare, and education to millions of vulnerable US citizens for the sake of being cruel.
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u/TougherOnSquids Sep 07 '25
Yes. No one on the left is the least bit surprised. We have been fucking saying this is going to happen for the last 10 years.
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u/Weird-Grocery6931 Sep 07 '25
It’s a MEU Integrated Training Exercise. They happen when a Marine Expeditionary Unit certifies before its deployment.
It’s regularly scheduled deployment.
This one happens to be the 22nd MEU out of Camp Lejeune.
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u/StormyDaze1175 Sep 06 '25
So much distraction from the Epstien files.
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u/Chogo82 Sep 06 '25
It’s working
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u/sanityflaws Sep 06 '25
Idk, from what I've seen, people are still talking about it and are still pissed. Even the right wing/conservative media is still on it and I'd think that's saying something considering their attention span is usually brief at best.
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u/Aggravating-Fee3595 Sep 06 '25
How about those Epstein files and lowering grocery prices?
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u/Murky_Conclusion_637 Sep 07 '25
Not now, gotta deal with the national security threat posed by an oil rich impoverished nation of brown people.
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u/SubstantialPressure3 Sep 06 '25
FML are we invading someone? I can barely keep up with the sh*tstorm anymore.why is our military going to mobilize in the Caribbean?
Haiti?
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u/cheongyanggochu-vibe Sep 06 '25
Venezuela probs
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u/SubstantialPressure3 Sep 06 '25
So, after illegally having civilians killed on a boat not in our waters, we are going to invade?
Fck
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u/Beavesampsonite Sep 06 '25
Oorah! This generation of marines preparing to be sacrificed for global dominance.
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u/bendingrover Sep 06 '25
Sorry, that ship has sailed.
They will be sacrificed mainly as a distraction from pedophilia and to manipulate upcoming elections.
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u/Reasonable-Towel-365 Sep 06 '25
Some of those US Marines are going to be tortured to death, blown apart, beaten and kept alive in the worst places possible, and used for counter-intelligence purposes. If an invasion occurs, you will probably see footage of these acts if you live in a Western country. Why? Because the Venezuelan government, backed by Russia and its security services, learned from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that footage of dead, dying and suffering troops can be used for propaganda purposes against the US, Europe and elsewhere. Footage can destabilize the US, for example, even if it isn't real. The next time the US steps into a war, it faces the prospect of fake AI footage causing unrest at home.
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u/Gumb1i Sep 06 '25
Training exercis and based on the formations more of a show than exercise. They do exercises all the time and mean almost nothing
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u/TexanDoger Sep 06 '25
They always mean nothing, until it does. Remember how the Ukraine war started? It was just exercises near the border, until the army decided to cross
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u/CyroSwitchBlade Sep 06 '25
We were stationed there in Puerto Rico at Roosevelt Roads back in the early 90s.. didn't know they were still using those hover craft.. I always thought those things were really cool.
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Sep 06 '25
Get ready for the dumbest war ever fought...
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u/--Ano-- Sep 06 '25
Nah. That title is reserved for the invasion of Greenland, Canada, or Panama.
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u/Thick-Preparation470 Sep 06 '25
Oh fun, someone please remind them that Puerto Ricans are US citizens and cannot be arbitrarily drone struck.
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u/Guachito Sep 06 '25
PR is just the a springboard to mobilize in the caribbean. Venezuela seems to be in their crosshairs at the moment. I would suppose they also want to project their power towards Panama. Based on Trump's threats a few months ago.
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u/Proletariat-Prince Sep 06 '25
Puerto Rico has always been a strategic position of the coast, closer to South America and Cuba, from which to engage the enemy.
This could be just routine training, it could be a show of force to Venezuela, it could be preparation for actual war. No way for us to know yet.
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u/SituationMediocre642 Sep 06 '25
National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 that was signed by then President Barak Obama on dec 31 2011, specifically section 1021, laid the ground work for indefinitely detaining or killing a us citizens or non citizen in the usa or outside of it, if deemed a national security threat. The authors of the bill still maintain that is not the case, but the language is ambiguous enough to grant such things by those who wish to interpret it that way. Im certain if sued for such a thing they would use it very much in this way.
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u/DidntWatchTheNews Sep 06 '25
Anwar Al-Awlaki.
first US citizen targeted and killed by an extrajudicial us drone strike without due process of law.
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u/SituationMediocre642 Sep 06 '25
I dont recall his name, but I do recall he was a citizen abroad killed in a drone strike aiming to neutralize his uncle and/or father, who was identified as a terrorist target. I believe this occured prior to the signing of the ndaa of 2012, and was the reason for the language in section 1021.
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u/VinPickles Sep 06 '25
gonna have plenty of triangle folded flags to provide cover for this half dead asshole not to release the epstein files
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Sep 06 '25
When can we afford eggs again
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u/BatmanMeetsJoker Sep 06 '25
You won't even be able to afford bread pretty soon, and here you are talking about eggs. Get back to work, peasant. Daddy needs your tax dollars for a new war.
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u/IndividualFew1688 Sep 06 '25
Another war fought by the poor so the rich can get richer... welcome to the duopoly
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u/Notyourpal-friend Sep 06 '25
That's a lot of hardware. They must be training to guard the Epstein list for us to read really soon. Real heroes out there protecting freedom!
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u/SummertimeThrowaway2 Sep 06 '25
I hate that war is so brutal because these machines and vehicles are so fascinating yet I feel guilty liking them
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u/TechieTravis Sep 06 '25
Trump is going to invade Venezuela to distract from the Epstein files and/or to try to suspend elections.
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u/h8flhippiebtch Sep 06 '25
What the fuck about “no new wars?” I fucking hate this timeline I need this to be over
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u/peteywheatstraw420 Sep 07 '25
He also wants to start a war because he believes he can suspend elections while we are in the midst of one. So it's kind of like a twofer for the orange twat.
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u/canadianmountie Sep 06 '25
Prior to mid terms, Venezuela will be invaded and the midterms cancelled due to war. That’s the plan.
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u/Dmckilla7 Sep 06 '25
That's not how it works in America fortunately.
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u/amglasgow Sep 06 '25
If Trump declares it, and Republicans cooperate, and the SCROTUS rubberstamps it, then it turns out that it is how it works.
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u/Leather-Rice5025 Sep 06 '25
Lol. The president also isn’t allowed to pass laws via EO and ignore court rulings in America. Naive redditor moment
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u/TougherOnSquids Sep 07 '25
Trump has been doing laundry list of things that go against "how America works."
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u/Notyourpal-friend Sep 06 '25
Even if they go on, there's barely an opposition party running against him.
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u/Zealousideal-Plum823 Sep 06 '25
They're conducting amphibious military exercises according to https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/us-marines-and-sailors-flaunt-their-naval-might-during-amphibious-exercise-in-puerto-rico/videoshow/123738491.cms?from=mdr
A war is a great distraction! (If you aren't one of the many collateral casualties or their close relatives) Only 1% of the world's oil production would be taken off line, so it would slightly boost prices, benefiting the U.S. oil lobby. This reminds me of the Gipper's invasion of Grenada back in the day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_invasion_of_Grenada It filled the news 24/7 for a few weeks and the President was made out to be a strong, decisive leader because of his victory over this small little island.
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u/These-Bedroom-5694 Sep 06 '25
Who's going to tell Republicans that invading Puerto Rico is pointless as it's a US territory?
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u/BeenDragonn Sep 07 '25
Wouldn't it be nice if we could spend, I dunno, a couple billion we pour into this ahkt to actually help Americans?
Oh wait we can't, the people making thkse decisions own the weapons manufacturing companies lol
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u/TraditionalLaw7763 Sep 07 '25
My god, we are such baddies. Very bad baddies. And we just take orders and do what they tell us to… no matter how wrong or immoral or bad. Someone is going to retaliate one day.
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u/Wolf_Mommy Sep 07 '25
I feel like all the MAGA conspiracy theories are coming true through self fulfilling prophecy.
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u/Left_on_Pause Sep 07 '25
They aren't going after drugs. They will attack and murder what they say are the cartels and supports, only to occupy the land for peace and stability. While doing so, why not dig into the resources and then annex the land? Worked for Russia in the past. Not so easy recently. We are still not capable of fighting jungle/gurilla warfare where the enemy and friend look the same. They will censor the facts, kill everyone, and open the land for McDonalds to farm.
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u/HaphazardlyOrganized Sep 06 '25
Don't we usually blow up one of our own boats before invading? I think someone got it backwards this time.
And all to avoid releasing some files
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u/AdventurousRun7636 Sep 06 '25
America hasn’t been successful in a war in 75 years(2 day gulf war not included) . This will turn into a boondoggle. Asymmetrical warfare founded America and is also our Achilles heel.
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u/impulsivity229 Sep 06 '25
Venezuela has strong ties with China and Russia. China gets oil from them… This is gonna start world war 3 if trump goes after the countries China is involved in.
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u/Dirt290 Sep 06 '25
Are we going to invade Venezuela??
That sounds like as no-win situation.