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In Maduro Capture, Trump Takes History Into His Own Hands
Well, he did it: Donald Trump deposed Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela.
In a spectacularly brazen milita
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The rules based internal order is well and truly over. Though I suspect it was just a charade anyway.
The strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must… as a smarter man once said.
Extra points for Trump if he says “Mission accomplished” in his 11 AM speech!
If you had “Biggest since World War II” on your Trump speech BINGO card, you’re a winner!
Haha. Trump will clear things up at a news conference.
How quickly Trump (and probably the US) will pay a price for his greed motivated misadventure remains to be seen. Ukraine, Taiwan, and Iran may pay a related price along the way to Trump’s and, unfortunately, the US’s comeuppance. Icarus Trump continues his ascension toward the sun.
I wonder to what extent all of his foreign adventurism is designed to deflect attention from how things are going domestically.
I don’t think isolationist means what he thinks it does.
With Trump being buddies with Putin, he and Israel do make life difficult for Russia. As noted before, Syria, Iran, Lebanon and now Venezuela have fallen out of reach of Russia.
On another note, how would the world have looked today if the raid had turned bad, with US forces annihilated in Caracas trying to stage a coup in Venezuela. Soldiers’ bodies carried through the street by Maduro puppets. Would Trump have been able to hold on to power then?
Trump took a huge gamble and must have had excellent intel, or the risk would have been too great.
Get ready, Taiwan. China just got the blessing it needed.
We do know one thing … Biden had nothing to do with this one.
This operation seems to have gone far too well not to have been coordinated ahead of time. It seems likely the US worked this out with elements within the regime.
Absolutely!! I’m surprised to not have seen more of this already in the press. How does even a tiny, unsophisticated military allow multiple helicopters into sovereign airspace without warning or resistance?? Even one radar and one shoulder launched missile or even a damn machine gun can take down a helicopter flying at low altitude over a city. And they were able to find and pinpoint Maduro easily enough to abduct him! Either Mossad helped or someone inside did, though probably both. Not to imply that our military couldn’t pull that off, but without one fatality seems unlikely.