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Posted on 01/05/2026 1:46:43 PM PST by Red6
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump declared Saturday’s military operation that led to the ouster of Nicolás Maduro a major success as he offered a vague plan for his administration “to run” Venezuela until a transition of power can take place.
While there are no visible signs of a U.S. presence on the ground in Caracas, Trump was demonstrating chutzpah that’s become the trademark of his foreign policy approach. It’s one marked by a grand confidence that his will on the international stage is an immovable force.
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More MSM TDS.
It's TRUE!!!
TDS is a real thing.
Little new is provided in this article. BUT reading between the lines the author tells us two points:
1.) Trump has no plan and insinuates that a lack of boots on the ground in Venezuela is an indicator of such.
***Actually unlike failed interventions prior, endless wars as in Ukraine, wars with massive scope creep and no goal post, this and Iran are MASTER PIECES of how it's done right. In Venezuela the government is still running the country, no massive boots on the ground necessary. We just decapitated the regime and make the appropriate course corrections without having to waste hundreds of billions playing police inside that country.
Trump is overly aggressive and arrogant is in his foreign policies.
***Trump "leads" and shows the level of confidence and resolve necessary if you want to lead a military. He says what he means and while flamboyant and over the top, don't think it's mere show, he backs it up.
https://www.facebook.com/AmericaFirstMovement/posts/trump-should-have-this-installed-on-air-force-one-24k-gold-truck-nuts-installed-/1391074006006522/
To AAMER MADHANI. Please actually report on something, give us the news and not a bunch of editorialized liberal TDS fluff pretending to be news.
What the flock is an AAmer Madhatter? Did we run out of American Caucasian reporter types? These jugheads aren’t Americans! What the hell do they know about OUR COUNTRY?
And he might check his sources for “immovable force”. It’s generally “an irresistible force meeting an immovable object...
At least it will be a lot easier for trump to keep an eye on things down there, and do more damage and “extractions,” since it’s a lot closer to us than the middle east is, for example.
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WTF is an AAMER MANHATI?? I have noticed that 90% of writers have VERY WEIRD FOREIGN NAMES!
I think I know where your heading with that.
I tend to be of the same persuasion.
Is it moral? No.
But does it serve our national interests? Yes.
Is it being executed in a way that is brilliant? Yes.
I’ve also noticed it takes 10 urinalists to write any story. Especially CNN.
Trump can’t just leave what’s left of the Maduro regime in power. He’s committed to regime change by removing Maduro.
Nope.
That was the mistake we made in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.
Regime change DOES NOT need to entail disbanding the intel service, military, police, courts and a de-bat’thifation process as in Iraq.
Nation building costs American lives and treasure.
Chop the head of the regime off and explain to the next guy in charge, so he understands what you expect of him.
Let them run their own country, but meeting the conditions you set.
They’ll get the point.
The only way to stop the drug boats is to eliminate the narco state. Columbia is the next likely target. Cuba will be begging for U.S. support since their buddy Putin is on the verge of collapse.
Regime change ≠ Nation building.
Boots on the ground: is very expensive, you end up with scope creep, it becomes open ended, and can be costly in blood.
It is NECESSARY where terrain is key and you must physically seize it to achieve the goal. In this case it is ridding Venezuela of Chinese and Russian influence (Monroe Doctrine still holds no matter what people say), and bringing Venezuela back into our domain.
To achieve that, you don’t need a Paul Bremmer running the place, 138,000 US boots on the ground as in Iraq once we reached our stable long-term manpower, and us writing them a new BS Constitution they won’t go by anyway.
I bet, we already had people picked to run the place and who we reached out to before we did this. We’re going to ensure US friendly folks are in key positions in Venezuela, no different than in Ukraine post revolution in 2014. We literally handpicked many of the key players in Ukraine’s government.
Most the cocaine comes from Columbia, Peru and Bolivia.
The main thoroughfare is Mexico.
The main place the money is laundered is in the US!
The US is itself a bigger producer of meth and pot than Venezuela by a HUGE margin. Most of that is made in USA.
Netherlands is where almost all your real ecstasy comes from.
Poppies come from elsewhere.
The chemicals to make fentanyl, and the drug itself come from elsewhere (used to be China): https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2020-03/DEA_GOV_DIR-008-20%20Fentanyl%20Flow%20in%20the%20United%20States_0.pdf
You do understand that the entire cartel and drug argument doesn't pass the common sense “smell test?”
It's just an argument so that people get on board with the cause. Iraq WMD, Libya human rights, Syria WMD and terrorism, Ukraine democracy and sovereignty... Venezuela is cartel and drugs. You have to have some simple and easy to understand cause that makes people feel good when we intervene.
Source CIA: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/CIA_Map_of_International_illegal_drug_connections.gif
Map: https://i.insider.com/54e4d58769beddaa3ebdd5e5?width=960
Not saying Venezuela wasn't a player, but they were a relatively small player on the world stage what cartels and drugs are concerned.
What Venezuela is not a small player at is proven oil reserves: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/worlds-biggest-crude-oil-reserves-by-country-1.jpg
Russian and Chinese influence (that poses a true national security concern: military/Intel presence) has been eliminated in South America. The influence that remains is non-threatening, i.e. simple trade.
We win.
His planned invasion of Mexico makes Sacramento and LA the first targets...
Fair enough. Out of curiosity there is some debate about whether the Venezuelan forces capitulated. Why no attempt to get their planes in the air for example? Did elements decide not to follow orders because they knew there was no hope against the USA?
From the little I see and hear, I suspect Maduro himself knew that if we go for him and he resists to hard, his and his wife’s safety will not be our top priority, regime change is.
I would like to know when the Russian tech personnel (Venezuela fly’s Migs and have some other equipment that likely has tech folks on site just like we have folks in Ukraine to support some of our high end equipment), Intel, and Wagner security folks pack up?
Keep an eye on Ukraine.
See how we behave there.
A deal could have been made. Could be. Maybe we just muscled it and there was no deal, but how we behave regards Ukraine and if the Russians pulled out earlier, those are indicators.
Fine by me. Ukraine has no value to us, zero. It’s just a money suck and alliance war like WWI.
A war where people get sucked into a conflict because like dominoes they make promises for mutual militarily assistance.
Venezuela on the other hand has a real value, both in terms of national security and economics.
—Close proximity (Caribbean rim) - don’t want foreign powers playing there.
—Venezuelan refugees caused by retard regime.
—Oil (energy is major industry for us and oil is a strategic resource)
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