Just so people are on the same page as me, I broke down the math for average speed of a go-fast smuggling boat and how long it would take to get from Venezuela to the USA.
Shortest distance from Venezuela to Florida: approximately 1,300 miles
Go-fast boat cruising speed: 50 mph (can't maintain top speed over distance)
Travel time at constant cruise: 26 hours nonstop
Fuel consumption: 1-2 miles per gallon on a good day
Typical tank capacity: 200-300 gallons
Maximum range before empty: 400-600 miles if you're lucky
They would need to refuel at least twice in the open ocean where there are no gas stations.
That's assuming perfect weather, no mechanical problems, no 20-foot swells flipping the boat, and a crew that can somehow operate for 26 consecutive hours without rest.
This is why the 'mothership story' exists. Because the math doesn't work without it. And if the motherships exist, we should have sunk them instead of chasing skiffs.
You're making a lot of assumptions in this. You assume the fuel capacity and economy. Most of these boats operate on diesel engines capable of 7 to 9 gallons per mile and top speed far exceeds 50mph. These go fast boats also do not cross open waters nor do they leave from a port that is beyond their fuel capacity. How eles do you assume the drugs reach out ports? Truth of it is more drugs come into the United States on small planes flying under to radar into private landing strips than ever do by sea
"These go fast boats do not cross open waters nor do they leave from a port beyond their fuel capacity."
Venezuela to the United States is 1,300 miles of open water. You just said they don't do that. Thank you.
And 7 to 9 gallons per mile? That's not the flex you think it is. That means a 1,300 mile trip burns over 9,000 gallons of fuel. Where are they storing that exactly?
Then you end by saying most drugs come in on small planes anyway. So we agree. The speedboat story is nonsense.
I'm not sure what point you were trying to make but you made mine instead.
You obviously dont know as much as you think you do. Narco boats travel the islands where there are plenty of refueling opportunities. They do not leave their port in a bee line for the states. Most of the drugs stop in Mexico and are muled across the border or at least were until they were shut down.
Venezuela -> Grenada -> Barbados -> St Lucia -> Dominica -> Antigua -> British VI -> Dominican Repiblic -> Cuba -> Bahamas -> Florida. Never more than 200 miles of open water. I’ve been cruising 3-4 times a year through those islands for 9 years and have yet to see 10 foot swells, much less 20 during the cruising season. Almost always calm waters. Cruising season is September to May, which is not the summer you spent with your uncle.
Why would they travel full speed the whole ride? There’s no reason to attract attention when you can conserve fuel and just look like another boat. Now, when the USCG gets too close, yeah, then you run. But otherwise, if it takes two weeks to get there, what’s the difference? 30 gallons of fresh water and a five gallon bucket of survival food per man and you can take 30 days to make the trip at 3 miles an hour.
You just described a two-week pleasure cruise at 3 miles an hour through a dozen sovereign nations with coast guards and you think this proves the go-fast boat fentanyl story.
Go-fast boats are called go-fast boats because they go fast. To evade authorities. That's the whole point. If you're puttering along at 3 mph for a month eating survival food out of a bucket, buy a sailboat. It's cheaper.
And every single island you listed has a government. Has a port authority. Has law enforcement. You think cartel guys are pulling into Barbados and Antigua and the British Virgin Islands with hulls full of fentanyl, waving at customs, topping off the tank, and nobody notices for nine stops across two weeks?
If this route is so easy and casual, why did we bomb Venezuela? Why not just interdict them at Grenada? At the Dominican Republic? At the Bahamas where we already have DEA operations?
The three people that liked this comment are clearly idiots.
Never argue with a stupid person who has convinced he is right but has no facts to back it up. Especially if he is a democrat. Anthony Whitaker said on this date.
I am not a Democrat you half-wit that did not even read the article apparently before deciding he needed to chime in his two-cents (because that is all ya got I wager).
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You just made my argument for me and you don't even realize it.
If every major Caribbean island is "directly on the way" from Venezuela to the US, then these alleged drug shipments are passing through the territorial waters of Grenada, Barbados, St. Lucia, Martinique, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Antigua, St. Kitts, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba, the Bahamas... you want me to keep going?
That's over a dozen sovereign nations with coast guards, customs enforcement, and law enforcement agencies. Many of them are US allies. Several have direct cooperation agreements with the DEA.
So here's my question: if Venezuelan drug boats are island-hopping through the entire Caribbean like it's a gas station tour, why the fuck did we need to invade Venezuela? Why not just interdict them at literally any of the twelve stops along the way? Why not work with Barbados or the Bahamas or Puerto Rico, which is literally US territory, to catch these boats?
You're telling me the only solution to drugs coming through a dozen countries was to kidnap the president of the first country in the chain? That's like saying the only way to stop shoplifting at Walmart is to nuke the factory in China.
Either this drug route exists and our interdiction strategy is the dumbest thing ever conceived, or the drug route doesn't exist and you're repeating propaganda to justify stealing a country's oil.
Pick one.
I swear some of you people must have flunked out of junior high...
If you look at the map of where the speed boats were engaged it was not in 30 foot swells in the middle of nowhere trying to go 1300 miles. My guess is speed boats get you to international waters and away from local law enforcement then transfer to a better boat.
They also were not trying to sail to London via the Atlantic.
Look at map below and get back to us as you see they first break out of port from local authorities, then off towards Grenada and other islands. Although growing up sailing from Mexico and Panama to the US was something people do as a family.
So the speedboats go to Grenada and transfer to a better boat.
Great. Why did we bomb Venezuela and kidnap their president?
We have DEA in Grenada. We have Coast Guard throughout the Caribbean. We have operations in the Bahamas, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands. We have allies at every single island on that route.
If the drugs are being transferred at sea near Grenada, interdict them at Grenada. If they're moving through the Dominican Republic, stop them there. We own the Caribbean. Nothing moves through those waters without us knowing about it.
You just described a drug route that passes through a dozen points where we could intercept it without firing a single missile at Caracas.
So why did we need to launch a military invasion, bomb a capital city, and drag a head of state onto a warship?
Your own theory doesn't justify what happened. You're describing a law enforcement problem in waters we already control. That's not a reason to start a war.
The drugs were the excuse. The oil was the point. Trump said it himself at the press conference. You just don't want to hear it.
What the literal hell are you talking about? How would Venezuela steal elections in 72 countries? This is a failed nation-state that cannot even keep store shelves stocked with basic foods but somehow they are rigging elections all around the globe? Take your head out of your butt before you suffocate.
That's the truth. He out right said on Air Force One on the way back to DC Sunday that we are taking the oil. He said Venezuela stole our oil. Nope. Look it up. It didn't happen. They stopped US companies from continuing to take it and giving them pennies for it. They reimbursed the US companies for the equipment. They just didn't get future oil. That's not stealing. It's taking back what is yours to begin with.
Oh stop being such a baby. Go ask the ones who bombed the boats if you are so concerned. Give it a rest already. No one other than the ones who had the orders knows. Not even you. So just stop. Go put your energy in something useful like finding a new source of information or a hobby or something.
You aren't very bright, your argument was idiotic, and now you are pivoting to just dismissing it instead of arguing the points I made because you have no way to refute them.
I don't have a 'hobby'. I work 15 hours a day, 7 days a week. I am a JOURNALIST. THIS IS MY JOB.
‘Why did we bomb Venezuela and kidnap their president?”
From 2020 but lots of relations with our global adversaries in our backyard that need to be challenged
- 'Too often, Hezbollah in Venezuela is characterized as only a potential terrorist threat. In reality, the Lebanese terrorist group has helped to turn Venezuela into a hub for the convergence of transnational organized crime and international terrorism. Hezbollah's crime-terror network in Venezuela has facilitated Iran's cooperation with the Maduro regime."
By the way that was a very quiet take out. And they charged him in Southern District of NY and not the Southern District of Florida where the jury would be full of anti-commie Cubans? Bet he will be released and live his life well paid. Not one shot at the choppers flying about? Could not pull that off in Somalia or Yemen.
"Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said his forces have at least 5,000 Russian-made Igla-S man-portable surface-to-air missiles across the country"
The Atlantic Council is a NATO-aligned think tank funded by the US State Department, defense contractors, and oil companies. That's not a source. That's the marketing department.
Where was the Hezbollah-Venezuela terror hub story before we needed a reason to invade? Show me CNN covering it in 2015. Show me the DEA warning about it in 2012. Show me any major coverage before Trump started talking about regime change.
The story appeared when it was needed. That's how psy-ops work.
And you just made my point about the operation. Maduro supposedly had 5,000 Russian anti-aircraft missiles. Hezbollah backing. Iranian support. A terror network. Organized crime connections.
And not one shot was fired at our helicopters.
Not one missile launched.
Not one bit of resistance.
We flew in, grabbed him out of bed, and flew out like we were picking up takeout. In a country supposedly bristling with Russian weapons and backed by Iran and Hezbollah.
Either all of that threat assessment was a lie, or Maduro was handed over on purpose. Pick one.
You're citing a think tank funded by the people who profit from the war to justify the war. That's not evidence. That's a press release.
Excellent article you summed everything I've been thinking perfectly. I'm in the UK & it's the same here, so called awake people swallow the slop fed to them without questions, it's so draining trying to get them to see what's behind the lies.
As you point out they're literally saying it out in the open knowing the gullible masses won't bother to question any of it, they've managed to brainwash the masses into compliant NPC's. shared thank you.
You should read what some of these NPC types are saying... They think cocaine comes from Venezuela, the their oil infrastructure does not exist, that fentanyl is made there and only there, that you can travel the entire world in a speed boat as long as you have the gas... You can't fix stupid. I don't even know why I try. I lost 10 paid subs on this article and 200 free subs since it published this morning.
Losing subs because they can't handle the truth, the truth makes them feel uncomfortable because they cant admit they were fooled by people they once had faith in, they would rather bury their heads in the sand.
I'm sure people were never this stupid, it's almost as if the more information they have readily available the less likely they are to use it, there is no excuse to swallow the slop when the facts are out there, where has the hunger for knowledge gone?
This is ... shattering. I read your comments and now I learnt more about cats and speedboats and sailboats in these few minutes. Thank you. I shall keep on reading your articles. I subscribed yesterday, and already, AI has been stalking me.
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Spent 6 months in Key West working on boats, some off shore boats have as many as 5 300hp outboards and carry 400 gallons of fuel. They can easily hit 75-100mph across the water and have a range of up to 500 miles
You clearly have no freaking idea what you are talking about. Have you ever traveled 1200-2000 miles on a speed boat through open ocean? No? BECAUSE YOU WOULD DIE IN THE PROCESS. A boat without a keel is not designed for open freaking ocean. The first wave over 20 feet that hits you, you are going to capsize and die. I spent YEARS working in the Gulf. You spent '6 months'. Speed boats are not 'off shore boats'. They do not have a freaking keel! Do you even know what a keel is? I have a feeling you don't even know the difference between port and starboard and think the bathroom on a boat is called a 'poop deck'.
In the Caribbean there are a chain of islands with multiple stopping points for fuel, ask any private pilot, that goes for boats as well....did you bother to watch those two videos?
Take a trip to Marathon Key sometime and get on some of those 'boats'....46 foot with 1500 hp....they can cruise pretty good.
Being foul mouthed and slamming another really gets you no where.....that is probably the biggest problem this country has right now, no one investigates, they just play keyboard warriors and use filthy language to try and sway others....that never works....only drives people further away from your ideas.
I have never claimed to be a 'know it all', but I have personally been on these boats and know their capabilities
Your entire logic falls apart under any amount of scrutiny.
Look at a map. Venezuela is on the northern coast of South America. It is not in the Caribbean island chain. From the Venezuelan coast to Florida is roughly 1300 miles of open Atlantic water with no island-hopping fuel stops along the way. You're describing routes through the Keys and the Caribbean like we're talking about the same thing. We're not.
I've been on fast boats too. My uncle ran charters in the Gulf for thirty years and I worked on them every summer as a kid. A 46-footer with 1500 hp is a beautiful machine for coastal runs but it sure as hell is not crossing the open Atlantic where swells hit 30 feet and there's nowhere to stop when your fuel runs out or you end up capsized and drowning. I like how you avoided answering if you knew what a keel is or the difference between port and starboard by the way 'boat man'. Might want to find a more suitable publication to read than us. We are gonzo journalists that don't eat whatever lie is fed to us. We use our brains around here.
Those are sailboats. Not speedboats. Completely different vessel. Sailboats have keels. That's why they don't flip over in open ocean. Speedboats don't have keels. That's why they do.
I lived in Key West for 20 years. I have three boats in my backyard right now. I sailed from Key West to Panama in a sailboat and you know what I never saw the entire trip? A single speedboat making that journey. Because they can't. Because they would die.
You still haven't explained where they store 9,000 gallons of fuel on a 40-foot boat while also carrying product.
Well in WWII a PT boat weighing in at 300 tons had a speed of 45 knots and range of 300 miles, that was in the 40's...how far have marine works come since then?
You should also consider that when running drugs these characters would not be stupid enough(or maybe they would) to attempt a 1400 mile journey with one boat, prolly have several in the waiting along the way
Just a thought.
That last boat link I posted here is a 50 foot, speed 90+mph, 1650hp
A drug running boat is going to make multiple stops along the way??? IDTS. I’d be suspicious if 6 men hopped off a boat, hollered fill ‘er up while we take a bathroom break, carrying weapons-or were they unarmed??? None of it makes any sense. They were fishermen, trying to make a living and that POS in the WH and his sidekick, Hogsbreadth, murdered them!
To gas up a speedboat in the Caribbean, you'll stop at marinas and fuel docks in popular island hubs like Providenciales (Turks & Caicos) for reliable service, or smaller spots in the 3ahamas like Great Inagua or Abaco,
but always check ahead for fuel availability, hours (especially weekends), and potential customs/fees.
Major destinations offer gas/diesel at docks, while remote islands might require arranging fuel delivery or using jerry cans, so planning your route with resources.
I just can’t see drug smugglers calling ahead to check what services are available…are you joking???🙃
I just could not imagine with such as string of islands and so many high performance boats these days that there would be no where to fuel up out there............
I looked up info on PT boats from WWll
80 foot long, 300 tons, top out at 60-65mph, 2400 hp, range of 300nm....that was in the mid-late 40's
This is correct. I traveled 200 miles on a 100 ft cat that is 35 ft wide and by no means a go fast boat. We maintained 55 knots 12 to 15 ft seas. Was it fun. Not really. Was it possible. Every single day. This guy is just trying to prove everyone else to believe his nonsense. Probably never even been on a boat much less south of the mainland
A 100-foot catamaran is not a go-fast boat. That's a completely different vessel with completely different hull stability. You didn't prove anything.
200 miles is not 1,300 miles. You were out for a few hours. Not 26 straight.
And here's the question none of you can answer. Where do you store 9,000 gallons of fuel AND the cocaine AND the fentanyl on a 40-foot boat? Show me where it fits.
You know why nobody circumnavigates the globe in a speedboat? Because they would die. That's not an opinion. That's why it doesn't happen.
But sure, you took a day trip on a cat the size of a small house so I guess physics works differently for drug runners. Fox News called, they have your brain on ice still. Said you never use it so they are going to toss it in the trash...
So what happens when they hit the 500 mile point on a 1500-2000 mile trip? WTF do they get more gas? Even if they have a spare 400 gallons on board (doubtful, doesn’t leave much room for drugs and 6-7 men), they still have 500-1,000 miles to go. Does Scooby Doo, et al, rescue them???
Look at the island chain in the Caribbean, there are multiple refuel areas from Florida to Venezuela......take a trip to Aruba sometime, you will see first hand what boats can do
Spent 6 days there, you can see the whole island in 6 hours.......one of the biggest 'stopping points' down there
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I'd say 99.9 percent of the jumps believe it's not about oil. Put fear of a fake drug or whatever it is in the hearts of men and get away with anything. Minor children will believe anything. I, for one, am not a minor.
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I’m not sure why anyone votes for evil team red or evil team blue. If you vote for evil, you are subscribing and supporting all of the evil deeds that they commit on behalf of their masters.
Analysis is accurate and factual but the push and persuade rhetoric is derisive and contemptuous. We all live move and have our being within the financial system into which we were born. Its very imperfection is the 'you will have tribulation' negative promise of Christ. Power dynamics of all stripes, styles, and stinkiness have plagued our world since Genesis. Yes, the excuse for the deed was a jalopy with 4 flat tires but no one can deny the horror that became Venezualan life once Fascisitic Socialism took hold. Moreover, no one can deny the horror of what illegal drugs and their distribution has done within our borders. When predators prey upon the innocent who pray, then I say God Bless the deliverer he sends, imperfect and flawed though he be. Perhaps the future will become for those impacted by voracious omnivores a little less harsh and sprinkled with joy and good will. Today, someone's prayers were answered.
Just so people are on the same page as me, I broke down the math for average speed of a go-fast smuggling boat and how long it would take to get from Venezuela to the USA.
Shortest distance from Venezuela to Florida: approximately 1,300 miles
Go-fast boat cruising speed: 50 mph (can't maintain top speed over distance)
Travel time at constant cruise: 26 hours nonstop
Fuel consumption: 1-2 miles per gallon on a good day
Typical tank capacity: 200-300 gallons
Maximum range before empty: 400-600 miles if you're lucky
They would need to refuel at least twice in the open ocean where there are no gas stations.
That's assuming perfect weather, no mechanical problems, no 20-foot swells flipping the boat, and a crew that can somehow operate for 26 consecutive hours without rest.
This is why the 'mothership story' exists. Because the math doesn't work without it. And if the motherships exist, we should have sunk them instead of chasing skiffs.
https://wisewolfmedia.substack.com/p/venezuelan-fentanyl-speedboats-cant
You're making a lot of assumptions in this. You assume the fuel capacity and economy. Most of these boats operate on diesel engines capable of 7 to 9 gallons per mile and top speed far exceeds 50mph. These go fast boats also do not cross open waters nor do they leave from a port that is beyond their fuel capacity. How eles do you assume the drugs reach out ports? Truth of it is more drugs come into the United States on small planes flying under to radar into private landing strips than ever do by sea
You just argued my point for me.
"These go fast boats do not cross open waters nor do they leave from a port beyond their fuel capacity."
Venezuela to the United States is 1,300 miles of open water. You just said they don't do that. Thank you.
And 7 to 9 gallons per mile? That's not the flex you think it is. That means a 1,300 mile trip burns over 9,000 gallons of fuel. Where are they storing that exactly?
Then you end by saying most drugs come in on small planes anyway. So we agree. The speedboat story is nonsense.
I'm not sure what point you were trying to make but you made mine instead.
You obviously dont know as much as you think you do. Narco boats travel the islands where there are plenty of refueling opportunities. They do not leave their port in a bee line for the states. Most of the drugs stop in Mexico and are muled across the border or at least were until they were shut down.
VENEZUELA IS NOT IN THE ISLANDS.
VENEZUELA IS ON THE COAST OF SOUTH AMERICA.
THERE ARE NO EASILY ACCESSED ISLANDS BETWEEN VENEZUELA AND THE USA.
THERE IS ONLY OPEN OCEAN.
1,300 MILES OF OPEN OCEAN.
NO GAS STATIONS.
NO REFUELING STOPS.
NOTHING.
A 40 FOOT SPEEDBOAT CANNOT CARRY 9,000 GALLONS OF FUEL.
A 40 FOOT SPEEDBOAT CANNOT CARRY 9,000 GALLONS OF FUEL AND ALSO CARRY DRUGS.
THERE IS NO ROOM.
YOU JUST SAID DRUGS GO THROUGH MEXICO OVER LAND.
THE DEA SAYS DRUGS GO THROUGH MEXICO OVER LAND.
SO WHY ARE WE BOMBING SPEEDBOATS IN VENEZUELA?
LOOK AT A MAP.
'Never argue with a stupid person because they will just drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.' -- Mark Twain.
Route:
Venezuela -> Grenada -> Barbados -> St Lucia -> Dominica -> Antigua -> British VI -> Dominican Repiblic -> Cuba -> Bahamas -> Florida. Never more than 200 miles of open water. I’ve been cruising 3-4 times a year through those islands for 9 years and have yet to see 10 foot swells, much less 20 during the cruising season. Almost always calm waters. Cruising season is September to May, which is not the summer you spent with your uncle.
Why would they travel full speed the whole ride? There’s no reason to attract attention when you can conserve fuel and just look like another boat. Now, when the USCG gets too close, yeah, then you run. But otherwise, if it takes two weeks to get there, what’s the difference? 30 gallons of fresh water and a five gallon bucket of survival food per man and you can take 30 days to make the trip at 3 miles an hour.
You just described a two-week pleasure cruise at 3 miles an hour through a dozen sovereign nations with coast guards and you think this proves the go-fast boat fentanyl story.
Go-fast boats are called go-fast boats because they go fast. To evade authorities. That's the whole point. If you're puttering along at 3 mph for a month eating survival food out of a bucket, buy a sailboat. It's cheaper.
And every single island you listed has a government. Has a port authority. Has law enforcement. You think cartel guys are pulling into Barbados and Antigua and the British Virgin Islands with hulls full of fentanyl, waving at customs, topping off the tank, and nobody notices for nine stops across two weeks?
If this route is so easy and casual, why did we bomb Venezuela? Why not just interdict them at Grenada? At the Dominican Republic? At the Bahamas where we already have DEA operations?
The three people that liked this comment are clearly idiots.
Never argue with a stupid person who has convinced he is right but has no facts to back it up. Especially if he is a democrat. Anthony Whitaker said on this date.
I am not a Democrat you half-wit that did not even read the article apparently before deciding he needed to chime in his two-cents (because that is all ya got I wager).
Have you personally ever been to Venezuela by boat?
I have sailed from Florida to Panama so not quite but a lot farther than you ever have.
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dude, every major caribbean island is directly on the way from venezuela (caracas circled) to the US gulf coast.
You just made my argument for me and you don't even realize it.
If every major Caribbean island is "directly on the way" from Venezuela to the US, then these alleged drug shipments are passing through the territorial waters of Grenada, Barbados, St. Lucia, Martinique, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Antigua, St. Kitts, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba, the Bahamas... you want me to keep going?
That's over a dozen sovereign nations with coast guards, customs enforcement, and law enforcement agencies. Many of them are US allies. Several have direct cooperation agreements with the DEA.
So here's my question: if Venezuelan drug boats are island-hopping through the entire Caribbean like it's a gas station tour, why the fuck did we need to invade Venezuela? Why not just interdict them at literally any of the twelve stops along the way? Why not work with Barbados or the Bahamas or Puerto Rico, which is literally US territory, to catch these boats?
You're telling me the only solution to drugs coming through a dozen countries was to kidnap the president of the first country in the chain? That's like saying the only way to stop shoplifting at Walmart is to nuke the factory in China.
Either this drug route exists and our interdiction strategy is the dumbest thing ever conceived, or the drug route doesn't exist and you're repeating propaganda to justify stealing a country's oil.
Pick one.
I swear some of you people must have flunked out of junior high...
And even more drugs come in through ports of entry
I didn’t say it proves anything, but it punches some barn sized holes in your “1300 miles of open water.”
Actually, no it proves my point because what you described was kind of retarded.
If you look at the map of where the speed boats were engaged it was not in 30 foot swells in the middle of nowhere trying to go 1300 miles. My guess is speed boats get you to international waters and away from local law enforcement then transfer to a better boat.
They also were not trying to sail to London via the Atlantic.
Look at map below and get back to us as you see they first break out of port from local authorities, then off towards Grenada and other islands. Although growing up sailing from Mexico and Panama to the US was something people do as a family.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Southern_Spear#/media/File:2025_United_States%E2%80%93Drug_Cartel_Armed_Conflict_Large_Infographic_as_of_November_20,_2025.svg
So the speedboats go to Grenada and transfer to a better boat.
Great. Why did we bomb Venezuela and kidnap their president?
We have DEA in Grenada. We have Coast Guard throughout the Caribbean. We have operations in the Bahamas, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands. We have allies at every single island on that route.
If the drugs are being transferred at sea near Grenada, interdict them at Grenada. If they're moving through the Dominican Republic, stop them there. We own the Caribbean. Nothing moves through those waters without us knowing about it.
You just described a drug route that passes through a dozen points where we could intercept it without firing a single missile at Caracas.
So why did we need to launch a military invasion, bomb a capital city, and drag a head of state onto a warship?
Your own theory doesn't justify what happened. You're describing a law enforcement problem in waters we already control. That's not a reason to start a war.
The drugs were the excuse. The oil was the point. Trump said it himself at the press conference. You just don't want to hear it.
"Venezuela manages election steals in 72 countries, including every single one in western Europe. All those leaders are fully illegitimate."
Venezuela is a criminal enterprise.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-183069770
What the literal hell are you talking about? How would Venezuela steal elections in 72 countries? This is a failed nation-state that cannot even keep store shelves stocked with basic foods but somehow they are rigging elections all around the globe? Take your head out of your butt before you suffocate.
That's the truth. He out right said on Air Force One on the way back to DC Sunday that we are taking the oil. He said Venezuela stole our oil. Nope. Look it up. It didn't happen. They stopped US companies from continuing to take it and giving them pennies for it. They reimbursed the US companies for the equipment. They just didn't get future oil. That's not stealing. It's taking back what is yours to begin with.
Oh stop being such a baby. Go ask the ones who bombed the boats if you are so concerned. Give it a rest already. No one other than the ones who had the orders knows. Not even you. So just stop. Go put your energy in something useful like finding a new source of information or a hobby or something.
You aren't very bright, your argument was idiotic, and now you are pivoting to just dismissing it instead of arguing the points I made because you have no way to refute them.
I don't have a 'hobby'. I work 15 hours a day, 7 days a week. I am a JOURNALIST. THIS IS MY JOB.
‘Why did we bomb Venezuela and kidnap their president?”
From 2020 but lots of relations with our global adversaries in our backyard that need to be challenged
- 'Too often, Hezbollah in Venezuela is characterized as only a potential terrorist threat. In reality, the Lebanese terrorist group has helped to turn Venezuela into a hub for the convergence of transnational organized crime and international terrorism. Hezbollah's crime-terror network in Venezuela has facilitated Iran's cooperation with the Maduro regime."
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/issue-brief/the-maduro-hezbollah-nexus-how-iran-backed-networks-prop-up-the-venezuelan-regime/
By the way that was a very quiet take out. And they charged him in Southern District of NY and not the Southern District of Florida where the jury would be full of anti-commie Cubans? Bet he will be released and live his life well paid. Not one shot at the choppers flying about? Could not pull that off in Somalia or Yemen.
"Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said his forces have at least 5,000 Russian-made Igla-S man-portable surface-to-air missiles across the country"
https://www.armyrecognition.com/news/army-news/2025/venezuela-declares-5-000-igla-s-missiles-in-nationwide-defense-net-to-deter-u-s-caribbean-flights
The Atlantic Council is a NATO-aligned think tank funded by the US State Department, defense contractors, and oil companies. That's not a source. That's the marketing department.
Where was the Hezbollah-Venezuela terror hub story before we needed a reason to invade? Show me CNN covering it in 2015. Show me the DEA warning about it in 2012. Show me any major coverage before Trump started talking about regime change.
The story appeared when it was needed. That's how psy-ops work.
And you just made my point about the operation. Maduro supposedly had 5,000 Russian anti-aircraft missiles. Hezbollah backing. Iranian support. A terror network. Organized crime connections.
And not one shot was fired at our helicopters.
Not one missile launched.
Not one bit of resistance.
We flew in, grabbed him out of bed, and flew out like we were picking up takeout. In a country supposedly bristling with Russian weapons and backed by Iran and Hezbollah.
Either all of that threat assessment was a lie, or Maduro was handed over on purpose. Pick one.
You're citing a think tank funded by the people who profit from the war to justify the war. That's not evidence. That's a press release.
https://wisewolfmedia.substack.com/p/venezuelan-fentanyl-speedboats-cant
Here is an articl from the far right ultra maga team at the Seattle Times from 2008
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/hezbollahs-presence-in-venezuela-draws-concern/
MAGA did not exist in 2008.
Wow! Good work on your part!
Truth and objective reality have gone out the window. Rational analysis is informative and interesting but irrelevant.
Great questions. Hard to hear but need to be asked.
Every war is the US taking something we want.
Excellent article you summed everything I've been thinking perfectly. I'm in the UK & it's the same here, so called awake people swallow the slop fed to them without questions, it's so draining trying to get them to see what's behind the lies.
As you point out they're literally saying it out in the open knowing the gullible masses won't bother to question any of it, they've managed to brainwash the masses into compliant NPC's. shared thank you.
Shared, thank you.
You should read what some of these NPC types are saying... They think cocaine comes from Venezuela, the their oil infrastructure does not exist, that fentanyl is made there and only there, that you can travel the entire world in a speed boat as long as you have the gas... You can't fix stupid. I don't even know why I try. I lost 10 paid subs on this article and 200 free subs since it published this morning.
If the mission of your Substack is to open eyes and foster discernment, you don’t want those subscribers.
Thank you wise wolf for trying to teach us to open our eyes and realize it was never drugs and ALWAYS OIL.
TAKEING the leader of Venezuela will be the easy part running a country not so easy.
I hope it goes well.
Losing subs because they can't handle the truth, the truth makes them feel uncomfortable because they cant admit they were fooled by people they once had faith in, they would rather bury their heads in the sand.
I'm sure people were never this stupid, it's almost as if the more information they have readily available the less likely they are to use it, there is no excuse to swallow the slop when the facts are out there, where has the hunger for knowledge gone?
Yeah, people are that stupid too! Don't defend the stupid!
Excellent article! I didn't know any of this! I have been schooled today.
Thank you for this
This is ... shattering. I read your comments and now I learnt more about cats and speedboats and sailboats in these few minutes. Thank you. I shall keep on reading your articles. I subscribed yesterday, and already, AI has been stalking me.
Great article !
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As I recall, wealthy American financiers who opposed the creation of the Fed were returning from Europe on the Titanic (April 2012); Woodrow Wilson was having an extramarital affair and was being blackmailed; The vote on the Federal Reserve Act was held on December 23, 1913, after many legislators had left for Christmas holidays. Draw your own conclusions!
The key banking interests involved in the Federal Reserve’s creation included J.P. Morgan & Co., National City Bank, now Citigroup (Rockefeller), Kuhn, Loeb & Co (Jacob ‘shifty’ Schiff and Paul Warburg), and Rothschild Banking Interests (Indirect Influence).
One of my fave books actually.
Thank you for recommending that book! I need to read it!
This was always about Oil, hold and silver, REEs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc1Adgk9Czw
Spent 6 months in Key West working on boats, some off shore boats have as many as 5 300hp outboards and carry 400 gallons of fuel. They can easily hit 75-100mph across the water and have a range of up to 500 miles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-E2zQlcfvY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ImHRl6BBSc
So don't tell people they can't do that...........
When you are dealing with multi million dollar drug runners, there is no limit to what they will do for money!
You clearly have no freaking idea what you are talking about. Have you ever traveled 1200-2000 miles on a speed boat through open ocean? No? BECAUSE YOU WOULD DIE IN THE PROCESS. A boat without a keel is not designed for open freaking ocean. The first wave over 20 feet that hits you, you are going to capsize and die. I spent YEARS working in the Gulf. You spent '6 months'. Speed boats are not 'off shore boats'. They do not have a freaking keel! Do you even know what a keel is? I have a feeling you don't even know the difference between port and starboard and think the bathroom on a boat is called a 'poop deck'.
Get off my newsletter you mewling sycophant.
In the Caribbean there are a chain of islands with multiple stopping points for fuel, ask any private pilot, that goes for boats as well....did you bother to watch those two videos?
Take a trip to Marathon Key sometime and get on some of those 'boats'....46 foot with 1500 hp....they can cruise pretty good.
Being foul mouthed and slamming another really gets you no where.....that is probably the biggest problem this country has right now, no one investigates, they just play keyboard warriors and use filthy language to try and sway others....that never works....only drives people further away from your ideas.
I have never claimed to be a 'know it all', but I have personally been on these boats and know their capabilities
Your entire logic falls apart under any amount of scrutiny.
Look at a map. Venezuela is on the northern coast of South America. It is not in the Caribbean island chain. From the Venezuelan coast to Florida is roughly 1300 miles of open Atlantic water with no island-hopping fuel stops along the way. You're describing routes through the Keys and the Caribbean like we're talking about the same thing. We're not.
I've been on fast boats too. My uncle ran charters in the Gulf for thirty years and I worked on them every summer as a kid. A 46-footer with 1500 hp is a beautiful machine for coastal runs but it sure as hell is not crossing the open Atlantic where swells hit 30 feet and there's nowhere to stop when your fuel runs out or you end up capsized and drowning. I like how you avoided answering if you knew what a keel is or the difference between port and starboard by the way 'boat man'. Might want to find a more suitable publication to read than us. We are gonzo journalists that don't eat whatever lie is fed to us. We use our brains around here.
The Gulf IS NOT THE Caribbean, last time I looked.
And if you consider slamming others and being foul mouthed 'gonzo smart', then you should stick with the 'gonzo' part.
Yes, I do know parts of a boat having owned 5, and also having a pilots license.
And yes, one can island hop from Miami to Caracas, just check some of these real stories
https://www.startpage.com/do/dsearch?q=island+hop+from+florida+to+venezuela&cat=web&language=english
Those are sailboats. Not speedboats. Completely different vessel. Sailboats have keels. That's why they don't flip over in open ocean. Speedboats don't have keels. That's why they do.
I lived in Key West for 20 years. I have three boats in my backyard right now. I sailed from Key West to Panama in a sailboat and you know what I never saw the entire trip? A single speedboat making that journey. Because they can't. Because they would die.
You still haven't explained where they store 9,000 gallons of fuel on a 40-foot boat while also carrying product.
You're out of your depth here.
Well in WWII a PT boat weighing in at 300 tons had a speed of 45 knots and range of 300 miles, that was in the 40's...how far have marine works come since then?
Did you watch the video on these
https://www.mby.com/features/fastest-boats-you-can-buy-129561
https://asisboats.com/blog/fastest-boats-in-the-world/
https://www.boatinternational.com/yachts/the-register/fastest-yachts-in-the-world--25053
What 'sailboats' are you speaking of???
While in the Florida Keys I was aboard many off shore boats, not necessarily fishing, but some center consoles of 46-50 feet with 5 300hp motors
https://www.boattrader.com/research/top-5-monster-center-consoles-over-50-feet/
You should also consider that when running drugs these characters would not be stupid enough(or maybe they would) to attempt a 1400 mile journey with one boat, prolly have several in the waiting along the way
Just a thought.
That last boat link I posted here is a 50 foot, speed 90+mph, 1650hp
Fuel on board 1800 gallons
A drug running boat is going to make multiple stops along the way??? IDTS. I’d be suspicious if 6 men hopped off a boat, hollered fill ‘er up while we take a bathroom break, carrying weapons-or were they unarmed??? None of it makes any sense. They were fishermen, trying to make a living and that POS in the WH and his sidekick, Hogsbreadth, murdered them!
How do drug dealers make connections around the world?....
By KNOWING where to go!.......they would prolly not stop in a local Exxon or Quik Trip
THERE ARE NO FUCKING GAS STATIONS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FUCKING OCEAN. FOR GOD'S SAKE WHY ARE SO MANY PEOPLE SO BRAINDEAD NOW?
I’m with you on the foul mouth stuff. I was beginning to read this wolf character. Now I’m seeing only criticism
Yup, and applies to any and all threads I read....when the foul language starts you know the panties are bunched and time to gracefully bow out
Arguing with facts based on experience is no match for wanting to derive a working paycheck from a substack poster.
Al Overview
To gas up a speedboat in the Caribbean, you'll stop at marinas and fuel docks in popular island hubs like Providenciales (Turks & Caicos) for reliable service, or smaller spots in the 3ahamas like Great Inagua or Abaco,
but always check ahead for fuel availability, hours (especially weekends), and potential customs/fees.
Major destinations offer gas/diesel at docks, while remote islands might require arranging fuel delivery or using jerry cans, so planning your route with resources.
I just can’t see drug smugglers calling ahead to check what services are available…are you joking???🙃
Interesting factoid, I just do not use AI
Ai=destruction, Book of Joshua
I just could not imagine with such as string of islands and so many high performance boats these days that there would be no where to fuel up out there............
I looked up info on PT boats from WWll
80 foot long, 300 tons, top out at 60-65mph, 2400 hp, range of 300nm....that was in the mid-late 40's
How far have the come since then!
This is correct. I traveled 200 miles on a 100 ft cat that is 35 ft wide and by no means a go fast boat. We maintained 55 knots 12 to 15 ft seas. Was it fun. Not really. Was it possible. Every single day. This guy is just trying to prove everyone else to believe his nonsense. Probably never even been on a boat much less south of the mainland
A 100-foot catamaran is not a go-fast boat. That's a completely different vessel with completely different hull stability. You didn't prove anything.
200 miles is not 1,300 miles. You were out for a few hours. Not 26 straight.
And here's the question none of you can answer. Where do you store 9,000 gallons of fuel AND the cocaine AND the fentanyl on a 40-foot boat? Show me where it fits.
You know why nobody circumnavigates the globe in a speedboat? Because they would die. That's not an opinion. That's why it doesn't happen.
But sure, you took a day trip on a cat the size of a small house so I guess physics works differently for drug runners. Fox News called, they have your brain on ice still. Said you never use it so they are going to toss it in the trash...
So tell me 'wise wolf in sheeps clothing' what is your 'provable' sailing/fishing/being aboard a boat larger than 22 feet....hahaha
You get pretty bent out of shape when others question you, huh
So what happens when they hit the 500 mile point on a 1500-2000 mile trip? WTF do they get more gas? Even if they have a spare 400 gallons on board (doubtful, doesn’t leave much room for drugs and 6-7 men), they still have 500-1,000 miles to go. Does Scooby Doo, et al, rescue them???
Exactly. This is so obvious to anyone that applies any modicum of logic to the quandry.
Look at the island chain in the Caribbean, there are multiple refuel areas from Florida to Venezuela......take a trip to Aruba sometime, you will see first hand what boats can do
Spent 6 days there, you can see the whole island in 6 hours.......one of the biggest 'stopping points' down there
I do not believe this speed you say those boats can go.
It’s not possible to go that fast in open water. The ocean is not kind to boats that small.
It was always the oil.
The amount of drugs from Venezuela is small. It’s always been about the oil.
What they are finding is that most likely it was marijuana
The blown up boats. That are washing ashore now are washing a shore with with bales of marijuana. Near them.
I learned a HELLUVA lot in a few succinct, well-written sentences. (I’ve also visited & explored Jekyll Island, just because I was nearby and COULD drive there.) SO big things happened there. It even has that feeling to it. Nice buildings on it, indicating some “fancy people” had spent time there. That was about 50 years ago. I was intuitive about people & my surroundings. But the Federal Reserve Board created there? Nah, I was way too young (early 20s) and my information at the time did NOT include anything as HUGE as what was conspired there. Just…wow. But I was slightly connected - married to a US Army pilot who DID fly in Viet Nam. And later, I knew a soldier in Iraq. So my life brushed up against this history. Thank you for the truth about the US system of grift.
I'd say 99.9 percent of the jumps believe it's not about oil. Put fear of a fake drug or whatever it is in the hearts of men and get away with anything. Minor children will believe anything. I, for one, am not a minor.
Why did you vote for Trump? Honest question. Especially if you know all this.
Why vote at all when you know both sides are whores looking out for their own interests? And you know your vote is irrelevant to them unless there's money behind it? And you know that it is not an election, but a selection? And you should know that your vote is your affirmation, your acceptance, your mandate that gives them license to do whatever they're darn well going to do? Just asking.
I’m not sure why anyone votes for evil team red or evil team blue. If you vote for evil, you are subscribing and supporting all of the evil deeds that they commit on behalf of their masters.
Analysis is accurate and factual but the push and persuade rhetoric is derisive and contemptuous. We all live move and have our being within the financial system into which we were born. Its very imperfection is the 'you will have tribulation' negative promise of Christ. Power dynamics of all stripes, styles, and stinkiness have plagued our world since Genesis. Yes, the excuse for the deed was a jalopy with 4 flat tires but no one can deny the horror that became Venezualan life once Fascisitic Socialism took hold. Moreover, no one can deny the horror of what illegal drugs and their distribution has done within our borders. When predators prey upon the innocent who pray, then I say God Bless the deliverer he sends, imperfect and flawed though he be. Perhaps the future will become for those impacted by voracious omnivores a little less harsh and sprinkled with joy and good will. Today, someone's prayers were answered.
No doubt in my mind that your post is the truth of the matter. Patterns repeating all the time.
Nothing new under the sun!