Nearly a dozen F-35 stealth fighter jets have been positioned at a Puerto Rico airbase, a source familiar with the situation confirmed to The Epoch Times.
This marks the latest example of the United States’ continued buildup of its military presence in the Caribbean, where there is a growing effort to combat drug cartel operations that have triggered a rise in tensions with Venezuela.
This disclosure of 10 F-35 fighters in the Caribbean comes shortly after the Pentagon announced that two Venezuelan military planes flew over a U.S. Navy vessel in the Caribbean Sea, calling it a “highly provocative move” intended to interfere with ongoing “counter narco-terror operations.”…