Posted on 11/25/2025 11:03:47 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
As U.S. gunships patrol closely to Caracas, Venezuela's narcodictator, Nicolas Maduro, is seeing few efforts to help him from his big-gun friends, such as Russia, China, and Iran.
His little-gun friends, though, e.g., Cuba, are where his real problems are. They're out to kill him.
According to Axios (emphasis added):
Oil-rich Venezuela has long been an opponent of the U.S. and has helped prop up Cuba's dictatorship, which furnishes security that helped install Maduro in 2013 and keep him in power. Venezuela also is an ally of Iran, China and Russia.
Part of the challenge of persuading Maduro to leave, U.S. officials say, is that his Cuban handlers might execute him if he yields to American pressure and quits.
Self-imperialism has its drawbacks. And Venezuela has been a colony of Cuba since at least 2004, when Hugo Chavez invited Cuban agents into the country, placing them inside the ministries, including the critical infrastructure ones, such as water and electricity, as well as the likely ones, such as the secret police, barking orders.
When I visited Venezuela in late 2005, Cubans were all over the agriculture ministry dictating which cows to raise, filling up the hotels with troops guarding them outside the buildings, and manning medical kiosks (often empty) in the shantytowns. Ministries displayed "Cubazuela" portmanteau flag and some made murals of it. Reporters stood outside the airports and counted Cuban officials rolling in.
Obviously, they wouldn't take kindly to Maduro fleeing the country to save his skin from potential airstrikes. They'll be left holding the bag when the U.S. accomplishes its mission. And if history is any indication, they'd fight back with no surrender allowed, as was the case when the U.S. invaded Grenada, another country they effectively took over, in 1983. They took 25 casualties, 59 wounded, and 638 captured after President Reagan sent...
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Am I supposed to believe this propaganda the type of stories Israel leaks about Iran all the time.
Remember the Bay of Pigs. Cuban Communists will fight the Yankees no doubt.
And Venezuela has been a colony of Cuba since at least 2004, when Hugo Chavez invited Cuban agents into the country, placing them inside the ministries, including the critical infrastructure ones, such as water and electricity, as well as the likely ones, such as the secret police, barking orders.
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“Welcome to the Hotel Venezuela....”
Kinda seems ars backwards
What “bag” are we talking about? We aren't blocking Cuba's drug shipments like Venezuela's.
We also wouldn't start bombing Cuba if Venezuela has a coup. We also won't hold Cuba responsible for helping Venezuela in 2005.
What am I not understanding?
This dudes in a tight spot.....get out the popcorn.
Might wanna just go out like Frankie “Five Angels” 😏
I really don’t care what the US’ latest label for President Maduro is. I am sick of forever wars to benefit MIC, Corporations, and to steal resources from other Countries.
President Trump stating a few days ago about straightening out Latin America (paraphrasing his words) had about the same effect as when I heard his brilliant, “Let’s go over to the Capital.”
My “WTF is he thinking?” meter registered as high as it could go.
How about this:
Maduro is easily the smartest leader of any country in the entire world. Look at the obstacles he faces and how long he has withstood them.
How about this, too:
Venezuela is not oil rich. The stuff called oil got re-defined as that so Canada’s oil sands could qualify for enormous reserves quotes, all while it only produces less than 5 million barrels/day of crude from those monumental reserves quotes. Venezuela’s “oil” will be 10-20X more difficult to make flow than Canada’s. So when they have spent the same time as Canada trying to get Orinoco SuperHeavy to flow they’ll get maybe 250K bpd.
The US has about 3000 amphibious troops offshore. The big number quotes are navy crew of all those ships, not ground troops. The number that might invade is 3000. Venezuela’s army is 63,000 men. Men who are armed and didn’t spent the last 4 yrs persuading themselves that the male officers leading them are actually women. All those who think 3000 can invade vs 63,000 and escape any deaths, raise your hands.
Obama started the National Emergencies in Venezuela.
Let’s hope they end before Trump’s term is over.
Partly, in terms of Venezuela, on January 20, 2025 President Trump declared an invasion, closed the border, and concentrated on finding foreign terrorist orgs like those from Venezuela, and getting them the hell out of this country.
And apparently part of this operation is the blowing of boats with illegal goods that are eventually due for our closed border, blown to bits.
Tell Venezuela to stop FA..
Tell Narcoterrorists they are in the FO portion of the equation.
There’s someone in the White House that didn’t start this fire, or the FA.
He’s trying to extinguish it and hopefully end some, if not all, the endless National Emergencies that seem to drag out over multiple Administrations.
Not accurate.
Venezuela has been exporting crude oil to the U.S for many decades. It’s just heavy, sour crude. Where do you think Citgo came from? It’s owned by the Venezuelan oil company.
U.S. refineries, mostly on the gulf coast, import about 217,000 barrels per day. Not a lot, but there you go.
Oh Ven is producing oil. It’s just not much in comparison to hundreds of billions of barrels of quoted reserves. Those are in the Orinoco belt.
There are old fields elsewhere that still produce less than 1 mbpd. Mexico produces 1.8 million bpd and nobody calls them oil rich.
China produces about 4.5 million bpd. Nobody calls them oil rich either.
They are more accurate than your stories.
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