Venezuela announced: National defense deployment.
The confrontation between the United States and Venezuela has escalated. Foreign media reported on the evening of September 14: On Saturday (September 13), five F-35 fighter jets from the United States landed at a military base in Puerto Rico, which is across the sea from Venezuela. Venezuelan President Maduro announced that he will deploy defensive forces at 284 "frontline" locations nationwide to respond to a potential military invasion.
The United States has increased its military presence in Puerto Rico under the pretext of "cracking down on drug trafficking gangs in Latin America," but its real target is the Maduro government, aiming to overthrow this Latin American regime that refuses to submit to U.S. influence. This action continues the core logic of the Monroe Doctrine — viewing Latin America as an exclusive U.S. sphere of influence, not allowing any external power to interfere, and not permitting regional countries to escape U.S. control; while the Trump administration's "Trump Doctrine" has taken this unilateral intervention to an extreme, using military deterrence to strengthen control over Latin America. The so-called "counter-terrorism and anti-drug" rhetoric of the United States is merely a cover, and the real goal is to maintain its absolute hegemony in the "backyard" of Latin America.
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