Psssst! US warship leaves quietly amid Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela falloutThe

[malaise]

https://newsday.co.tt/2025/10/31/us-warship-leaves-quietly-amid-trinidad-and-tobago-venezuela-fallout/

DESPITE fierce debate surrounding its visit, which further strained relations between Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela, the USS Gravely, an Arleigh Burke-class Aegis guided-missile destroyer of the US Navy, departed Port of Spain on October 30.

The vessel, named after Vice Admiral Samuel L Gravely Jr, was commissioned in 2010 and has since undertaken several overseas deployments. Gravely is the 57th destroyer in her class. She left the Port of Spain dock around 10 am, to little fanfare.

Her docking sparked not only regional, but also international discourse, as several international media houses reported her arrival. The Gravely's visit prompted a response from Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro.

Maduro accused TT of collaborating with the US and the CIA to provoke a military confrontation in the Caribbean. Maduro further claimed its presence was part of a broader plan to destabilise Venezuela.

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. This was the ship the Venezuelans said the Americans wanted to plant a false flag attack on

Venezuela claims to have foiled a CIA-financed cell plotting a false-flag attack on an American warship, in what the government alleges is a cynical ploy to spark a ‘full military confrontation’.

Interior minister Diosdado Cabello said that a cell ‘financed by the CIA’ planned to attack the USS Gravely and pin the blame on Caracas, after the missile destroyer docked in Trinidad and Tobago on Sunday to conduct joint exercises with Trinidad's navy.

Venezuela said that it had captured a group of mercenaries "with direct information of the American intelligence agency" and whose goal it was to carry out a false-flag attack in the region. Cabello said four people had been arrested, without providing details.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/venezuela-maduro-cia-false-flag-gravely-trinidad-b2853501.html

Don't know who to believe in that situation.

[sop]

3. "Remember the Gravely!" would have been Trump's rallying cry for the invasion of Venezuela.

[malaise]

4. I know who I believe

Those who actually own the oil

[Trueblue Texan]

2. Don't know who to believe?

Mission accomplished!