🛢 Brent crude oil prices have surged to 66.6 $ following American sanctions on LukOil and Rosneft.

Higher oil prices mean an increase in inflation as the prices of groceries will rise. "Coincidentally", it is now reported that The White House will not be releasing this month's inflation report.

Although Trump says that the sanctions were placed on Russia to pressure the Kremlin to cave in to the demands of Vladimir Zelensky and the EU, the real reason has to do with the fracking industry. Brent oil prices under 60$ mean the fracking companies do not turn a profit.

American consumers will now have to deal with much higher gasoline and diesel fuel prices on top of already expensive groceries to satisfy the oil tycoons.

@CIG_telegram

🇺🇸⚔️🇻🇪 Crisis Group: The U.S. military buildup in the Caribbean could signal a push to oust Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro.

CG warns of chavismo’s deep-rooted resistance, should the U.S. choose that course of action. Maduro’s regime, bolstered by illicit profits, has “coup-proofed” the military through fragmented command and loyalty-based rivalries. Officers face jail, torture, or exile for dissent, deterring defection.

Paranoid leaders swap phones, shift locations, and deploy untrained militias, potentially even using senior citizen units as human shields.

The ELN, with thousands of fighters, vows to defend Maduro, while 6M civilian guns and armed colectivos raise risks of post-regime chaos. María Corina Machado’s transition plans face hurdles from entrenched chavista forces, threatening violence and instability.

Crisis Group urges diplomacy, not force, to avoid catastrophe.

🔗 https://www.crisisgroup.org/latin-america-caribbean/venezuela/beware-slide-toward-regime-change-venezuela

🇺🇸⚔️🇻🇪 Overnight, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War carried out a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Tren de Aragua (TdA), a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO), trafficking narcotics in the Caribbean Sea.

The vessel was known by our intelligence to be involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, was transiting along a known narco-trafficking route, and carrying narcotics. Six male narco-terrorists were aboard the vessel during the strike, which was conducted in international waters—and was the first strike at night. All six terrorists were killed and no U.S. forces were harmed in this strike.

If you are a narco-terrorist smuggling drugs in our hemisphere, we will treat you like we treat Al-Qaeda. Day or NIGHT, we will map your networks, track your people, hunt you down, and kill you.

🔗 Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (@SecWar)

🇺🇸⚔️🇻🇪 The U.S. has ordered the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group to deploy to SOUTHCOM’s area of responsibility to combat transnational criminal organizations and narco-terrorism. The move aims to boost surveillance, interdiction, and regional security operations - Statement

🔗 Faytuks

🇺🇸🌎🪖 — The US Navy USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) Carrier Strike Group includes the following ships

USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78)
USS Mahan (DDG 72)
USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81)
USS Bainbridge (DDG 96)

With these 3 destroyers there's an additional 96 tomahawks bringing the total to 236 deployed in SOUTHCOM AOR

📝 With the Ford Carrier this will bring the following additional aircraft into SOUTHCOM AOR:

3x Squadrons of F/A-18E
1x Squadron of F/A-18F
1x Squadron of EA-18G
1x Squadron of E-2D
2x Helicopter Squadrons 1x MH-60R and the other 1x MH-60S
1x Detachment of C-2A

🔗 @Schizointel:

— You know what's really funny?

Maduro has spent the past 10 years calling anyone that opposed his regime as funded by Narcos or being themselves Narcos

➡️ He used to falsely accuse Guaido and Voluntad Popular of being funded by Los Rastrojos Cartel of Colombia
➡️ He used to falsely accuse Leopoldo López of being a front for Tren de Aragua (which since its formation was nothing but a SEBIN/DGCIM front for Venezuelan black ops abroad), before this one was forcibly exiled to Spain
➡️ He used to falsely accuse Henrique Caprilles of being funded and tied with Cuban exiles' Mafia networks (Miami mafias) as an excuse to ban Caprilles from ever running on elections again
➡️ He used to falsely accuse Maria Corina and Vente Venezuela of being funded by Gaitanista Army of Colombia (Clan del Golfo) and Tren de Llano

It's very ironic that he is going down in a Counter-Narcotics Operation like this.
His eventual demise could not be in a funnier way possible

📝 Mr Rubio has indeed a very good sense of humor. One that admin really likes.