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Venezuelan VP Delcy Rodriguez speaking on Telesur.
VP Delcy Rodriguez, whom Trump indicated earlier today was collaborating with the US government, is live on television right now.
Earlier reports that she's in Russia are false. She's in Caracas with the rest of the cabinet.
Rodriguez: "We will never again be a colony for any empire"
The United States has invaded and is militarily occupying the country of Venezuela. Trump says we will “run it.”
It is worth checking out Jon Stewart’s Daily Show episode from last month if you haven’t seen it.
Trump just started Iraq War 2.0
youtu.be/C5QGzYFjVaU?...
FOX & FRIENDS: What do you think is next for the Venezuelan people now that you have removed Maduro so he can face American justice?
TRUMP: Well, we're making that decision now. We can't take a chance on letting somebody else run it, just take over where he left off. So we're making that decision
And there ya have it…
Officials from top Wall Street firms will be traveling to Venezuela to investigate “investment prospects” of the country. “The trip will feature about 20 officials from the finance, energy and defense sectors.”
It can be both!
You can make two L's out of a W, and still basically lose the overall political game because everyone sees you abruptly attacking your neighbors after accusing them of smoking your crack (the crack you just smoked).
That's not a good look, there's hardly any fentanyl I bet.
Basically, if this was an oldschool 2000's era World Police action like what we pulled over in Iran, it undermines the credibility of the global rules-based order.
If it is the start of a bigger conflict where the US muscles in on uncooperative shoreline-havers, it's a hideously expensive blowout.
My guess is Venezuela lacks military capabilities and economic options, and will have to play a rhetorical game to 'save face' as part of the performative global political game.
Since UN Charters are being torn up left and right, this is superfluous rhetoric mostly good for condemning the action.
The end point to this ramble is that we don't know what we don't know; but what we do know is that Venezuela's government is very :/ about the whole situation.
It turns out, Maduro is just y'know, the top dog in a very layered rat-race, runners-up have to keep their lackies in order for privileges.
Peak lmao is Russia going "oh no stop you're not allowed to do that" while Russian milbloggers pass the mug that says 'liberal tears' around the pitch black, ice cold apartments in Moscow because there isn't any running water and they can't afford to cry wastefully.
Pour some hotdog water out ya'll
Like, if Venezuela's opposition party was ready for this right? Would it have played out like this? I can't imagine they'd have gone "yeah why don't you blow up half of town" behind a Denny's in DC over 7/11 coffee cups.
That kinda thing requires coordination we don't know of at this time anyway.
I see a probably fake photo running around:
fixupx.com/Gerashchenko...
Suffice it to say, I don't buy for even a second that the DEA is coordinating with special forces to pose for a photo-op. So make of that what you will.
As one pal put it "it isn't 1100 anymore, its not over if you get a king"
Is this the end of strikes? Probably not? Unless there's nothing else for the US to violate on their way out.
Is this the end of Maduro? Maybe? I haven't seen actual confirmation he's been captured, but people are running with it I guess, so that's something you can salt once its outta the fryer.
You could almost say that was "textbook", insofar as military force textbooks are concerned.
In political terms well, I guess we find out if a whole nation just shrugs after its president is abducted and goes on with its merry business.
Or a bloody powerstruggle washes over the capitol, y'know.
As everyone catches up with the incredibly narrow timetable the USN just ran that operation on, let's take score.
It looks like the US just did a fireball run on the air defense and command/control centers, shit some special forces dudes around Maduro's compound, and then took him into custody.
Heya Jake, do you think this is the 'one and done' precision strike that kicks off more tension just for lols like our strikes in Iran, or is this the start of something bigger and more prolonged?
A post is going around where maybe Trump claims to have Maduro in chains, proclaiming victory is why.
Three million people live in Caracas, five million in the metro area. It's one of the densest cities in South America. Remember this in the morning when they try to spin this as anything other than a cold-blooded attack on a major civilian center.
03.01.2026 07:20 — 👍 12389 🔁 4818 💬 79 📌 63It's always something with this fucking company lmao
03.01.2026 08:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0(Okay imagine if the Dubai thing wasn't because of lapses on car payments and the criminal charges that comes with in Dubai)
Point being, until that old coot is out of office, the most he can do is point the gun at things that he shouldn't. Congress isn't even clearing the range to set targets up.
The worst part of this is the US military is far too effective to really like, dunk on? We fuck up now and then and dump a F35 into the ocean.
Imagine all of the guys who leave luxury cars on the side of the road in Dubai because it ran out of gas. They can just do that, they have that kinda money
I totally vibe here right, like, yes that's part of the motivation.
But the other part is cutting a corner off the current Energy Market, emphasized by the Tanker Interceptions.
Venezuela's dictatorship didn't do much to earn the sympathy it is going to get; simultaneously, we invaded like idiots.
Unknown vessel burning up in La Guaira port. This is the Country's main port. From what I can find the Bolivarian coast guard has a presence here
03.01.2026 08:13 — 👍 40 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 0We seem to mostly be in the business of supplying, conducting, or enabling mass misery via formerly preventable armed conflicts.
"Peace through deterrence" kids when the Funne happens and it's your own goddamn fault this time. Again. Again Again. In your neighbor's backyard of course.
...South Hemisphere. HAH. Well aside from a scenic military misadventure to go spread democracy to The Thing, I don't think much of the news that will be worth spreading is gonna be anything else but aid requests, humanitarian and charity organization chatter, and of course exported human suffering.
03.01.2026 08:26 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0In the South Pole it's of course, the middle of Summertime. For fellow North Americans, right now kids should be resting in their beds after a long day of playing outside.
It's important to note that none of the true wreckage and human cost will make it onto US Mainstream Media, it's on us morons.
Anyway, it finally is here, the big show of force meant to signal to the world we're not a dying empire with a sucking chestwound and syphilis. I'm not sure how long operations will run, there's signs of street to street, boots-on-the-ground operations that look more like they belong in Vietnam.
03.01.2026 08:20 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0God I need to proofread before hitting post.
This operation almost certainly is being done out of a combination of spite and practice of 'might makes right' oldschool imperial concepts of 'spheres of influence'.
IDK how many times we have to do this shit to South America before we learn, man.
If things play out like they did in Russia circa 2022, it'd be shocked, but something to watch for domestically is our Media getting handed prescribed narratives.
The pentagon was already set up for this when it cleaned out most of the press corps last year, plus the manipulation of mainstream news
Echoing countless folks here but seriously best of luck and safety over there. Do your best for yourself, its far from our worst. Sincere fucking apologies from a US Taxpayer.
Not voting for him doesn't make me not part of the problem, I'm scrambling to let my fellows know what's happening.
