U.S. Deploys F-35 Jets to Puerto Rico Amid Rising Tensions with Venezuela: A Question of True National Security

Washington’s recent order to deploy ten F-35 fighter jets to a Puerto Rican airbase marks a significant escalation in the ongoing proxy tension with Venezuela—an escalation wrapped in the rhetoric of combating narcotrafficking but fraught with strategic ambiguity. The Pentagon’s silence on details, despite clear provocations such as Venezuelan F-16 jets flying dangerously close to the USS Jason Dunham, signals a deeper geopolitical struggle masked as an anti-drug operation. How long will Washington permit foreign adversaries like Maduro's regime to test our naval forces without decisive consequences? Is This Deployment Protecting America or Provoking Conflict? The official narrative justifies the...