And Now… F-35s “Headed to the Caribbean to Help Take on the Cartels”
September 10th, 2025Mmm hmm.
Via: The War Zone:
With the current growing tensions between Venezuela and the United States, it’s worth recalling a little-known aerial mission that the U.S. military launched to interdict narcotics coming out of Central and South America back in the 1990s. Most notably, the announcement earlier this week that 10 F-35s will deploy to Puerto Rico startled some, but it is actually far from unprecedented. In fact, something similar was happening for years, decades ago. This was Coronet Nighthawk, which employed U.S. Air Force fighters to patrol against suspected drug traffickers.
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What’s the difference between the Mafia (at least in the Mob’s Golden Age of Carlo Gambino) and the CIA?
The Mafia didn’t allow its members to traffic in narcotics.