European Space Agency Sentinel-2 satelitte imagery shows U.S. Navy’s amphibious transport dock USS San Antonio (LPD-17) docked at St. Croix
Colton Jones – Defence-blog Nov 1, 2025
The U.S. Navy’s amphibious transport dock USS San Antonio (LPD-17) was spotted docked at St. Croix on October 30, according to newly released satellite imagery shared by SA Defensa.
The defense monitoring outlet said the vessel was visible in European Space Agency Sentinel-2 imagery, showing the ship moored at port in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
“The USS San Antonio (LPD-17) was spotted at dock in St. Croix on October 30th on European Space Agency’s Sentinel-2 satellite imagery,” SA Defensa reported.
St. Croix lies roughly 620 to 650 miles north of Venezuela’s coast, a distance that places the ship well within the broader Caribbean operational area. The U.S. Navy maintains regular patrols and training missions in the region, supporting both regional stability and contingency operations.
The USS San Antonio is the lead ship of its class of amphibious transport docks designed for deploying Marines, armored vehicles, and equipment directly to shore. The ship can carry up to 800 Marines and features a well deck for launching landing craft and amphibious vehicles, as well as a flight deck for helicopters and tiltrotor aircraft.
The vessel’s presence near the southern Caribbean comes amid ongoing U.S. military and diplomatic engagement across the hemisphere. While the Navy did not immediately issue a statement about the ship’s specific mission, the San Antonio-class vessels typically participate in amphibious readiness exercises, humanitarian missions, or regional security patrols conducted under the authority of the Department of War.
According to open sources, ships of this class are often deployed as part of Amphibious Ready Groups, providing rapid response capability for crisis operations or regional contingencies. Their design allows them to support both combat and humanitarian tasks, including disaster relief or evacuation operations in coastal areas.
The imagery’s release drew attention due to its timing and location, as the U.S. continues to monitor regional tensions and migration routes through the Caribbean basin. The Department of War routinely positions amphibious ships like USS San Antonio to ensure flexibility in responding to developing situations across the Americas.
The docking at St. Croix underscores the island’s role as a staging and logistics hub for U.S. forces operating in the Caribbean. The port facilities there offer access to both Atlantic and Caribbean routes, making it a frequent stop for U.S. naval vessels on rotation.
Drumpf wants to secure Venezuelan oil supplies before he attacks Iran, the Straits get closed and Saudi wells go up in flames.
Unless Trump has been planning this invasion of Venezuela for some time now, as in since before he took office a second time, I doubt he can have had best officers plan it effectively in just a month or two. If he had a purge of officers (which I’m sure he did), that would surely have only left planning officers loyal to him–officers running bases might not be so important to purge as officers planning campaigns–meaning he will likely have kept yes-men in position, and the chances of keeping a modern MacArthur or Patton or Nimitz diminishes, as political loyalty by necessity supercedes military capability–and no MacArthur, Patton or Nimitz would kiss the butt of a billionaire politician. “F*** your Command!”
Ships and planes are unlikely to bring victory alone. You need the right men to lead, the right men to follow those leaders and you need the righteousness of your cause. The Pacific Campaign of WWII had all three, and though the US always had men who will do their duty, they have no right to fight this war.
Another problem US troops in Venezuela might have is if Trump doesn’t spend the money to equip these thousands of men and women in jungle camouflage, and going off in desert colours showing up against the greenery they will not perform well against resistance fighters who want them gone. They won’t be able to blend into the background but will stand out against it, even when they try to make themselves as small as possible, because even a small patch of desert camo will highlight them; and the people they’re going up against won’t be easy going like the Russians are with Ukrainian fighters. Offers of surrender will be few.
America might think it can kill Venezuelans in great numbers, but so long as they have small arms they can turn out in numbers too big even for America to kill. And if a decapitation strike takes out Maduro’s government I doubt the people will fold. America has killed too many in South and Central America to get an easy pass, and their School of the Americas let torturers loose on too many popular people.
Satellite imagery hahaha – is that blurry mess the best you can manage to come up with from your hi tech ‘space’ junk – hilarious – what happened to the technology that we were told enabled a satellite hahaha to read the time on an Israeli ‘soldier’s’ watch during the 6 day war way back in the day ….JFK should have said ‘we chose not to go to the moon and do the other ‘things’ not because they are easy ….but because they are IMPOSSIBLE ….satellites ….wake the F up boys n girls hahaha.
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@ Anonymous has it right in his comment at the top. While the Jewnited States has been pissing on Venezuela for decades, it has now pivoted its criminally insane military in that direction…to have the oil secured when the Muddle East goes up in flames.
@ MM – I typically agree with your comments, but I have to say that Douglas MacArthur was a sack of reeking pig shit and a coward. Not that it really mattered since the dumb-f*cks fought for The. Wrong. F*cking. Side. in WWII anyway, just like WWI, and just like every other conflict the Jewnited States got in over the past 175 years… And the dangerously stupid and frothing psychos in the Jew-S Army transitioned from desert camo to “multi-cam” with more greens and browns some years ago. Hell, I hope they wear day-glo orange so the Venezuelans can more easily smoke those assholes when they show up to destroy their country, er I mean spread freedumb and demonocracy….
The official description of madness
is someone who does the same thing over and over expecting a different result
There are folk who go out to vote over and over, not realising Labour Tory Lib dems
are all rothschild.
Most folk know these are controlled parties, they have the same agenda
because the backers are the same ones, but some folk just dont see it
the old saying, “no matter who you vote for the government always gets in”
are totally correct.
op Scientists Sound the Alarm: ‘Dead Humans Being Pumped Into U.S. Food Supply’
Fact checked by The People’s Voice Community The liquified remains of dead corpses are being quietly and deceitfully pumped into the U.S. food supply, according to the testimony of several top scientists.
in 2019, “Human composting” was legalized in the state of Washington in Bill 5001 entitled “Concerning human remains,” that legalized the “natural organic reduction” of human remains.
Naturalnews.com reports: Coroners and embalmers are blowing the whistle on one of the grossest atrocities now happening to American food, water and cheap supplements. Alkaline hydrolysis, also called liquid cremation, is the process of decomposing a human body using ultra-hot water and a strong base solution. Mainstream media claims there’s no human DNA, flesh or pathogens left after the big melt down, but then, who believes anything Big Food claims anymore. Remember, they’re the ones who say canola oil is “heart healthy” and fluoride in tap water is “good for building strong teeth.” Sure. If you still don’t believe this is happening, just ask Katrina Spade, the founder and CEO of Recompose, a company that uses this reduction process as an “urban, soil-based, ecologically friendly death-care option.” This is further covered in the feature film Biosludged.
Who is already suffering from mad human disease, the human version of mad cow disease? Is that why dementia cases are on a sharp uptick? Combine that with millions of spike proteins lodging in the medulla oblongata and what have you got? People who believe the nightly TV news and are voting for a complete communist takeover — that’s what. the billionaire psychopath globalists at the World Economic Forum and the Atlantic Council want everyone eating insects and lab-grown Franken-meat all day, and the only way humans would be dumb enough to succumb to this is if they were already going insane from cannibalism and mRNA clot shot syndrome. that’s why it is vital to eat organic food, filter your water, use natural medicine and read independent truth news. Otherwise, you might get in line with the sheeple in Kamala’s socialist bread lines and buy some Soylent Green that’s on sale now at every corporate food outlet in America. Watch the trailer from the movie Soylent Green, starring Charlton Heston, where this was all predicted, even down to the year 2022. Here in the UK we had the Tesco horse meat scandal where beef was contaminated with chicken donkey goat and horse meat, close analysis showed several humans had gone through, Terco apologies and said several palestinians had got mixed in and it would not happen again 1400 young UK white girls were systematically being sold for sex, several that did not comply went into kebabs
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