🇺🇸⚔️🇻🇪 The planned limited and surgical bombing campaign of Venezuela will be the most powerful U.S. bombing campaign since the 1998 bombing of Iraq!

Even without the USS Gerald Ford Carrier Strike Group present, there are more Tomahawk cruise missiles in the Caribbean than the missiles used against the Houthis in the past year.

When the USS Gerald Ford and its escorts arrive in the Caribbean though, the firepower will overshadow the intervention in Libya however, this firepower will still fall short of the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.

The 1999 NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia's impact on the decision of Slobodan Milošević's decision to withdraw from Kosovo and sign the Kumanovo Agreement is debatable. Milošević signed the agreement only after the Russian envoy, Viktor Chernomyrdin, gave him guarantees that Kosovo would not declare independence for at least 3 years and that Russian peacekeepers will be deployed in Prishtina.

The bombing although "surgical" still left a lot of Serbian civilians dead and some bombings might even be considered war crimes, such as the Grdelica train bombing, NATO bombing of Albanian refugees near Đakovica, NATO bombing of the Radio Television of Serbia headquarters and The bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.

Despite much of Yugoslavia's infrastructure being destroyed in the bombing, Milošević and the Yugoslav Army were determined to continue the war until the Kumanovo Agreement with guarantees from Russia. Milošević lasted one more year in power after that until he lost the 2000 presidential elections which he gave up on because the Yugoslav Army hinted that they would stand aside and allow the transfer of power.

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🇺🇸⚔️🇻🇪 Map shows USS Iwo Jima off the coast of Venezuela - Sky News

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🇺🇸⚔️🇻🇪 53% of Latin Americans say they would support a U.S. military intervention “to depose Nicolás Maduro and his government.” Among the Venezuelan diaspora surveyed, 64% back the action.

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🇺🇸 Warren Buffett’s cash pile is now larger than the market cap of all but 30 public companies in the world.

What is Buffett waiting for?

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🇺🇸⚔️🇻🇪 New satellite images reveal that the USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group (CSG-12) is now moving west, currently located south of Sicily and about 56 miles (90km) northeast of Malta.

The USS Gerald R. Ford will thus not take part in the bombing campaign against Venezuela. This means that the U.S. will have only 115 Tomahawk cruise missiles at the ready to throw against Nicolas Maduro, which is 35 less than what the U.S. threw at Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.

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🇺🇸⚔️🇻🇪 USS Gerald R. Ford's escorts, USS Oscar Austin (DDG 79), USS Bulkeley (DDG 84), USS Paul Ignatius (DDG 117), USS Roosevelt (DDG 80), USS Arleigh Burke (DDG 51), and USS Winston Churchill (DDG 81) were seen at the Naval Station Rota, Cádiz Province Spain. Oct 31, 2025

While the USS Gerald R. Ford will not be able to make it in time for an operation targeting Venezuela, the aircraft carrier's escorts can make it in time to the Caribbean.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 In the Gulyaipole-Pokrovskoye direction, Russian troops captured all towns and villages east of the Yanchur river and captured all but two settlements on the other side.

To the north, Russian troops entered the villages of Alexeevka and Novoalexandrovka.

With the fall of Novoalexandrovka, this puts the Russian Army 6.2 miles (10 km) away from Pokrovskoye, a major supply hub which, up until two months ago, was deep in Ukraine's rear and critical for the city of Gulyaipole to the south and the south-Donetsk sector which was conquered.

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🇬🇧 10 people stabbed on a train in Huntingdon, UK.

Two men have been arrested and the attack is being treated as a terrorist incident.

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🇬🇧📝 Olly Foster on X: "I was on the Huntingdon train.

I only know of one attacker, he got on the train from Peterborough. He was black mid 20’s. We ran from the back of the train to the end as everyone was screaming to run, explaining there was somebody stabbing everyone and everything.

At first I thought it was a joke, but quickly I realised they were serious. Some people coming thought he had a gun, we really didn’t know what we were up against. As I ran I put my hand on a chair, when I looked at my hand it was covered in blood.

There was blood on the top of countless chairs, coming from 2 of the guys who had been severely stabbed ahead of me.

A young girl was distraught as the attacker tried to stab her, but a hero of an older man got in the way taking a gash on his forehead

And I think another on his neck. We all ran to end the of the train and pretty soon we realised it was a short train. Everyone was queued at the front and I was one of the people at the back of that queue.

I was standing there with a few others trying to find any kind of weapon, one person I knew got ready with a Jack Daniel’s bottle. I had nothing. For what felt like 10 minutes, I watched that carriage doorway waiting to see a figure appear.

I knew he had a knife from everyone’s wounds but from somebody’s previous comments there was a chance he had a gun. So I stood there praying. We all tried to keep calm but you could feel everyone’s adrenaline.

The train eventually stopped. And I thank god I didn’t see anybody come through that doorway. Everyone ran out the train at Huntingdon, and as I ran out I looked to my right knowing that’s where the attacker would come.

And that’s when I saw about 20 people running in pure panic. Atleast 3 of which were covered in blood. One guy was holding his stomach of which blood was pouring out, shouting, ‘help help, I’ve been stabbed.’

We all ran together, being completely unarmed against an attacker or attackers that we thought had a gun, you really did feel helpless. To the police’s credit, as we left the train station, they were all arriving. The response was really good.

Then the scene became everything you’re seeing on social media.

I’m not sure how travelling on trains will feel after this. I haven’t really processed it all. It felt genuinely surreal and is something I don’t wish anyone to experience.

Knowing somebody has weapons and you have nothing, knowing they’re willing to strike woman and I think children. It wasn’t the England I grew up in.

That was barbaric."

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🇺🇸🇵🇷⚔️🇻🇪 José Aponte de la Torre Airport, Puerto Rico.

Reuters was able to capture photos of "tent cities" having popped up at the ex-Roosevelt Roads Naval Station.

This is the one major development I had been awaiting to see heighted conflict potential with Venezuela.

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🇺🇸⚔️🇻🇪 Reuters' map of the American military buildup in the Caribbean Sea.

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🇺🇸🇨🇦⚾️ — The Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Toronto Blue Jays to win the 2025 World Series, with Japanese player Yoshinobu Yamamoto being star of the game

🔗 MLB (@MLB)

🇺🇸 The elephant in the room:

AI stocks are outperforming consumer stocks by 20%+ over the last 60 DAYS.

And, as AI investment exceeds $1 TRILLION per year, car repossessions are at 2009 levels.

There are 2 US economies: Rich vs Poor, and AI is the lifeline of it all.

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🇺🇸 The economy is particularly bad for Americans who are seeking entry level jobs.

The US unemployment rate for youth graduates aged 20-24 has averaged 8.1% over the last 3 months, the highest in 4 years.

This is up sharply from under 4% just 2 years ago, when the AI boom began.

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