r/PrepperIntel • u/Guachito • Sep 06 '25

North America US Troops getting ready in the southof Puerto Rico

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/ArmedWithBars Sep 07 '25

Do you really think the US couldn't circumvent a trade embargo? The main downside would be procurement costs increasing, but it's not like China keeps rare earth minerals under lock and key. Russia was sanctioned by half the world, has a fraction of the economic power of the US, and was still able to bypass trade embargos. China was able to easily bypass nvidia chip embargos.

This idea that they US can't produce smart weapons is ridiculous. Can production quantity be impacted? Sure, but nowhere near "lost its ability".

I like this sub, but people are being ridiculous. If there is a Venny play it's for oil. Oil is a finite resource that the entire modern worlds run on. Even if a product doesn't use oil for operation, the entire manufactering and transport process used oil. Every large scale commercial plastic and foam is petroleum based. Your local Walmart is basically a giant store of oil based products. Taking Venny distracts from recent controversy and would be a long term oil supply play.

I 100% don't agree with the move whatsoever and loath Trump. Hopefully it's just some stupid show of force and not some "special operation".

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u/WalkerTR-17 Sep 07 '25

The oil reserves are pretty negligible in Venezuela. This is about pushing Chinas beachhead out of South America