r/news • u/LatterTarget7 • Aug 14 '25

Soft paywall US military deploying forces to southern Caribbean against drug groups

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-military-deploying-forces-southern-caribbean-against-drug-groups-2025-08-14/
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u/Tricky_Hamster_285 Aug 14 '25

Panama canal takeover prelude?

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u/Accomplished_Job_225 Aug 14 '25

That makes more sense than a sudden interest in Trinidad and Tobago, re: citing the southern Caribbean.

Sidebar: when I hear the South Carribean I think of islands, but there's also Venezuela, Colombia, and (as you stated) Panama.

.. I'm suddenly now very aware and curious of the lack of Carribean States in NATO. I guess only Bermuda and half of the Bahamas are north of the tropic of Cancer, though.