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DarkRange55

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Holy Mackerel 🇻🇪

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Summary Updates:
  • Operation 'Absolute Resolve': US forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife in an early morning raid and sent him to the US to face criminal charges.
  • No servicemembers or military equipment was lost
  • US Attorney General Pam Bondi said on X that Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, have been indicted.
  • Trump: "We're going to stay [in Venezuela] until such time as the proper transition can take place."
  • Caine: "Operation Absolute Resolve, was discreet, precise, and conducted during the darkest hours of January 2nd"
  • Hegseth: Maduro "effed around and found out"
  • Trump: "[Colombia's Pedro] is making cocaine and they're sending it into the United States, so he does have to watch his ass,"
  • Rubio: "if I were in power in Cuba, I'd be very worried right now"



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Maduro "Effed Around & Found Out"; Trump Says 'We Will Run Venezuela' Until Safe Transition After Operation 'Absolute Resolve' | ZeroHedge

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Wow, America is fucking up Latin America again, what a suprise
 
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Dejected 55

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There is a certain irony here with Trump heading up the rhetoric and charge to go after the leader of Venezuela on purported drug charges... meanwhile, Trump has pardoned other convicted drug traffickers.

Is he for or against the drugs? Or is it that the drugs are a smokescreen for other interests?

Or maybe we (the US) just kind of suck.
 
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Five Takeaways From The US’ “Special Military Operation” In Venezuela

It was astoundingly successful and will likely serve to coerce the rest of the hemisphere into strategically capitulating to the US.
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Dejected 55 said:
There is a certain irony here with Trump heading up the rhetoric and charge to go after the leader of Venezuela on purported drug charges... meanwhile, Trump has pardoned other convicted drug traffickers.

Is he for or against the drugs? Or is it that the drugs are a smokescreen for other interests?

Or maybe we (the US) just kind of suck.
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Trump has always pushed the drug thing to try (and fail) to bring attention away from the Epstein files. I believe that Trump would completely topple another country before apologising for his actions that he definitely did
 
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Regime Tweaking, Not Regime Change, Is What The US Just Achieved In Venezuela

This refers to keeping the targeted state’s power structure in place but after some (at times significant) changes that advance the meddling state’s interests.
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noname223

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DarkRange55 said:
Holy Mackerel 🇻🇪

for SS International News Commentary, please see our favorite geopolitical analyst: @noname223

Summary Updates:
  • Operation 'Absolute Resolve': US forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife in an early morning raid and sent him to the US to face criminal charges.
  • No servicemembers or military equipment was lost
  • US Attorney General Pam Bondi said on X that Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, have been indicted.
  • Trump: "We're going to stay [in Venezuela] until such time as the proper transition can take place."
  • Caine: "Operation Absolute Resolve, was discreet, precise, and conducted during the darkest hours of January 2nd"
  • Hegseth: Maduro "effed around and found out"
  • Trump: "[Colombia's Pedro] is making cocaine and they're sending it into the United States, so he does have to watch his ass,"
  • Rubio: "if I were in power in Cuba, I'd be very worried right now"



Read more below:


Maduro "Effed Around & Found Out"; Trump Says 'We Will Run Venezuela' Until Safe Transition After Operation 'Absolute Resolve' | ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
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My prediction is we will soon have human trafficking of global leaders. Medvedev speculated Friedrich Merz could be abducted next. He also called him a neo-nazi. Then governments will blackmail each other and use high politicians like trading cards. I am not sure who actually will be in power then. Maybe Merz will lead Russia. Putin the US. And Trump as a punishment that he started all of this will govern one of his beloved shithole countries.
 
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Dejected 55

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We have been part of regime changes in the past. Interestingly enough, Iran for a while (go back and look at 1960s/1970s Iran) was fairly democratic and modern in terms of dress and sensibilities... but the leader we supported there was corrupt and taking advantage of his people... and there was a rebellion, we kept supporting the overthrown leader which just made it worse... and a more religious zealot type of leadership took the place of a corrupt democratic one... and there you go. Had we not supported the previously corrupt leader OR at least denounced him when the people revolted, then things could have been a lot different in the middle east.

There was similar problems in the Philippines in the 1980s where we supported a leader who was corrupt and greedy even when the people had enough and said so.

In the US our government tends to care less about how foreign government actually treat their people or neighboring countries and more about favors they will do for us. Outside of countries like Great Britain and France and such that have their own sense of things and tend to not be brow-beaten by us... look at many of our foreign allies and note how their leaders tend to be more in our pocket and those leaders we support unconditionally, and only question their leadership or bad deeds when they stop doing things that we want them to do.

It's really kind of sick when you dig into it all.

I know Cuba is not a great place and lots of people there don't like things... but consider how back in the day we 100% supported Castro in overthrowing the bad leadership in Cuba at that time... only to have Castro say "fuck you" to us and then we suddenly hated him. I don't at all like the things Castro did in his country after that, but you have to admire in a way that he used the USA to overthrow the previous leaders and then didn't become our lapdog like we thought he was going to do. He erases all that goodwill by being a dick dictator until his passing... but he wasn't our puppet.
 
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The official narrative seems to crumble more and more considering some reports. Not sure how trustworthy they are though.

I had doubts whether the CIA and elite soldiers under Trump were capable of such an operation. But maybe there was a secret deal between the vice president of Venezuela and Trump.
 
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www.theguardian.com

US seizes Russian-flagged oil tanker in Atlantic after two-week pursuit

US coastguard reportedly boards Marinera, facing no resistance but risking confrontation with Moscow
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

WW3 incoming? Lol.

Edit: The big bang doesn't seem to happen. But don't take the dreams of an old man...jk.

We (Europe) need Trump on our side against Putin. And if the Neocons take over the administration why should the troops leave Europe. They want to control the Western hemisphere. I know they have something different in mind. But it just stupid to sell us to Russia.
 
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DarkRange55

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Where in the world is John Galt? 🥞
Oct 15, 2023
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noname223 said:
www.theguardian.com

US seizes Russian-flagged oil tanker in Atlantic after two-week pursuit

US coastguard reportedly boards Marinera, facing no resistance but risking confrontation with Moscow
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

WW3 incoming? Lol.

Edit: The big bang doesn't seem to happen. But don't take the dreams of an old man...jk.

We (Europe) need Trump on our side against Putin. And if the Neocons take over the administration why should the troops leave Europe. They want to control the Western hemisphere. I know they have something different in mind. But it just stupid to sell us to Russia.
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Do you think Europe should have been meeting its NATO spending targets for decades?
 
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noname223

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DarkRange55 said:
Do you think Europe should have been meeting its NATO spending targets for decades?
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Retrospectively, yes. Lol.
The US is spending roughly 3,5% of the GDP on the military I think. And Trump wants Europe to spend 5% to make up for the low spending in the past. Although, the NATO target is 2%. At least Germany tricks and spends part of it on infrastructure and they claim that tanks also need roads. This is why the infrastructure counts too.

I was okay with the way Angela Merkel handled the military. Under her the compulsory military service was suspended. And we decreased the spending for our military. On Russia I always was ambivalent because "experts" had diametrical positions on it. I think I went with the zeitgeist. I also considered high military spending as unnecessary. I wasn't content with Scholz's foreign policy after 2022 though.
 
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The problem with the argument on the NATO spending thing is most people don't understand it... and the US doesn't really mean it the way they say it either.

The NATO spending isn't that each member is supposed to pay NATO's coffers or something... rather, the deal is every country in NATO agreed to spend a particular percentage of their GDP on defense... with the notion that each member having a robust defense means they are each in a good position to help defend their fellow NATO members when needed. So, on the surface this is a good policy and any member nation should have been keeping up with this, frankly, for their own good and not just the good of NATO.

BUT... here's the rub... The US, and Trump in particular, don't really care... because whenever the US gets involved in a NATO thing, we want to dominate... we want to be able to say "we pay more than anyone" on defense... we want to be in control and call the shots... IF the other NATO nations didn't need us, they would tell us to fuck off and we wouldn't know what to do with that because who are we going to boss around if no one needs us?

So... it's a fine thing for Trump to point out the other NATO members slacking off... but IF they all met their goals, the US would still jump in and send most of the troops and spend most of the money and lord it over on them... so in the end, we just want to be "the man" and have control and pressure.
 
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When they say "NATO," they mean the US intelligence agencies. Because its quite clear that the US intelligence agencies and embedded bureaucracy runs the federal government of the United States. And the federal government of the United States is what runs NATO…
…Warmongering factions within the US government. Of course supported by other European states but it doesn't really matter whether they go along with it voluntarily or if the US forces them into it.


Force projection - Trillions of dollars have been spent building up this military infrastructure with good reason because it supports your free trade. Its the thing that allows free and fair trade for our country at least. We would not be the power as rich as we are now if it were not for that military might.
Look into the Barbary pirates of the Med sea...if my memory is correct the infant US was the only seafaring country that refused to pay the "protection" and fought to protect their ships. During Jefferson administration.
The US was one of the first to use its navy to protect and secure its merchant fleets. By doing so it was the start of protecting the seaway trading. Look at the Marine Corp hymn. "The halls of Motezuma to the shores of Tripoli"

I actually did an internship with NATO in university (separate from my other government experiences).
 
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The thing of it is... there was a time (and there still are every now and again) where the US has intervened for the good of the world... as in keeping the oceans safe from pirates for a time... but we haven't really been doing that for a while, hence the recent resurgence of pirate operations in some areas that have made news in recent years.

And, one could argue, we are acting as pirates with how we are behaving in Venezuela right now seizing oil freighters...

But, yeah, if we were helping people and people wanted us to help in the way we were helping... that would be a cool thing. But all too often in my lifetime it has been more like a protection racket than actual protection... as in... "Hey, you've got a nice oil export business there... be a shame if something happened to it... you should do favors for us and we'll protect you from us taking your oil... ahem... from 'others' who might take your oil."
 
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