[Opinionated Blowhard]

This is great news. There are articles about who the biggest loser is in the Maduro raid. My vote is China. They spent years trying to build him up as an ally in the Western hemisphere, including providing him with military equipment. Now he has been taken out and their equipment has been shown to be junk. There are questions about whether China’s much-vaunted military build-up is a paper tiger. This plays into the calculus of China invading Taiwan - are Taiwan’s Western-based military defense systems much better than China’s homegrown systems? China has a lot to think about.

[AZJeep]

We did great, but Maduro people are still in charge!
Communism is NOT a dictature of one.
Removing one did not make a difference.
The generals and the murderous interior minister are still in charge there!

[woodbutcher1963]

This also goes for Iran.
I believe Iran was using Russian radar systems. Which were easily defeated by the Israelis and US prior to bombing their nuclear sights.

FYI, Tousi this morning was reporting that Iran shot missiles are our base in Qatar and other Middle East neighbors across the gulf. Mostly as a show of strength at home. This is because they told the US they were going to do this prior to sending the missiles again.

This is because the Iranians seem to be very scared at this point. They know that the Israelis, USA, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain are now ready to destroy them completely. They are now scared that their own people may just decide to rip them to pieces. All they need to get is a little push from the outside.

[TexasGator]

Russia is the biggest loser. The dominos are falling.

[Carry_Okie]

This plays into the calculus of China invading Taiwan - are Taiwan’s Western-based military defense systems much better than China’s homegrown systems?

From the article:

Beijing’s “military-civil fusion” model can intensify those risks, Yu said. Profit-driven contractors pay bribes to obtain contracts, substitute inferior components, and still meet paperwork requirements as long as money moves and reporting looks clean. Mr. Yu has made it clear that China's problem is cultural, not technical, which makes it a tougher nut to crack. Whether AI can overcome that deficit for them is debatable. Would they submit themselves in order to win? Yeah, they might. They are inherently that desperate. To them, there is no thing as trust in G_d.

[shotgun]

Just wait until the Chicoms roll out their latest version of their hypersonic Tapeworm missile. The press will lap it up