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The Invoice of Power

For all the crying haters of U.S. power projection. You mistake American peace for a donation.

Peace is not mailed out like aid packages. It’s underwritten. By carriers you don’t build, by logistics you don’t maintain, by men and women you didn’t raise, and by a debt of blood you never agreed to pay.

You mortgaged your future and outsourced your security. Now you project morality instead of power and call it “sovereignty.”

You cry foul when America decides the bill is due. When we choose to remove a parasite like Nicolás Maduro from the bloodstream of a hemisphere we’ve kept stable for generations. You say it’s illegitimate, unfair, and that it violates norms.

Norms are written by those who can enforce them.

You ask if we think peace is benevolent. No. Peace is transactional. The price is alignment, stability, and order. If you don’t pay it, someone else will, eventually with interest.

This is the sickness of the postwar world: a civilization feminized by safety it did not earn, mistaking feelings for force and outrage for deterrence. You boo and hiss about sovereignty while cheering mass migration, institutional decay, and the slow motion rape of the West. Your moral vocabulary is loud; your martial vocabulary is empty.

So understand this clearly: If you disagree, do something about it. Because your boos mean nothing to a nation that has seen what you applaud.

This is a mask off moment. You don’t have to respect America. Fear will suffice.

We are not cruel, merely structural. Gravity does not apologize to the weak for pulling them down. Fire does not explain itself to straw.

America is strong. You are not. That’s not personal. That is simply the way of things.

Power is the rent you pay to exist unmolested in a violent world. If you refuse to pay it, don’t be shocked when the landlord shows up.

I sometimes blackpill too hard. But lately, I’m starting to see America might not be in total decline, just hitting puberty. So yea, it’s about to get weird. But we aren’t going anywhere.

For the soft among you out there, I guess you’re just gonna have to deal.

Patrick says

You know the saying “if it’s free, you are the product”.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has publicly responded to Moscow's outrage over the arrest of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro. He made it clear that the Kremlin's opinion on the matter was of no concern to the White House.

The response was published by the U.S. State Department. Rubio made it clear that Moscow, bogged down in its war against Ukraine, is now capable of nothing but words.

"We don't care about escalating conflict with Russia over Venezuela. We thought they would give rhetorical support to the Maduro regime. I think they have enough on their plate in Ukraine as it is. And if Lavrov is watching, Sergei, Merry Christmas. At the end of the day, I expected exactly what they said. The rhetoric that we heard (...) is not a factor in our understanding of everything that's going on," the US Secretary of State said.

FortWayneHatesRealtors says

Patrick says

You know the saying “if it’s free, you are the product”.

As if your current interwebz provider who charges you $50-80 per months doesn't treat you as such.

RWSGFY says

FortWayneHatesRealtors says

Patrick says

You know the saying “if it’s free, you are the product”.

As if your current interwebz provider who charges you $50-80 per months doesn't treat you as such.

I don’t get direct CIA/KGB propagandas beamed into my brains like Starlink does to its “clients”.

Russia has publicly declared its readiness to supply hypersonic missiles to Venezuela, a move that could significantly escalate geopolitical tensions in the Western Hemisphere.

As reported by seekingalpha.com (5 November), citing Russian state news agency TASS, the statement came from a senior figure in the Russian parliamentary defence committee.

Alexei Zhuravlev, First Deputy Chair of the Russian Defence Committee, confirmed to Gazeta.Ru that Moscow is “prepared” to consider supplying next-generation weaponry should Caracas (the Venezuelan government) express “relevant interest.”

Zhuravlev specified that the missiles in question include the Oreshnik, Russia’s medium-range hypersonic ballistic missile designed to carry nuclear warheads, and the Kalibr, a cruise missile capable of delivering either conventional or nuclear payloads.

“I see no obstacles to supplying a friendly nation with new developments such as the Oreshnik or Kalibr missiles,” he said, adding that Russia is not bound by any international obligations that would prohibit such transfers.

He also emphasised that all military-technical cooperation between the two countries is “progressing steadily.” He noted that the volume and type of weaponry imported from Russia remain confidential, “so the United States may be in for a few surprises.”

That is some Ceffer-level
loony shit.

Corporate media won’t touch this point, but MAGA folks are aware of the strong evidence —including witness testimony— that Venezuela was involved in stealing the 2020 U.S. election. In other words, Maduro almost certainly helped overthrow our government. Turnabout, as the Australians say, is fair dinkum.

@RealFreedomTalk
The Left will whine about "regime change" because Trump struck the
nerve center of regime installation.
Venezuela has long been an international hub of election fraud-the
birthplace and sponsor of election-machine schemes. Smartmatic,
founded by Venezuelan Roger Piñate, is just one example.
Piñate was previously indicted by a U.S. federal grand jury in the
Southern District of Florida on corruption and money-laundering charges
-accused of bribing a senior Philippine election official, Juan Andres
Donato Bautista, to secure voting-machine contracts through over-
billing, slush funds, and offshore accounts.
Smartmatic sits behind the incarceration of Tina Peters and the
persecution of Mike Lindell, Rudy Giuliani, and many others.
This isn't "regime change."
It's cutting off the pipeline of election fraud.

The capture of Nicolás Maduro is driving the Lefty-left batshit crazy for a very good reason: it portends the extinction of their financial life-support, since Señor Maduro used his country as a money laundry for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and, in turn, cartel drug money, to funnel gazillions through Cuba to America’s Democratic Party and its political satellites. Not even George and Alex Soros can fill that hole.

For a nearly failed state, Cuba has been able to exert undue influence on US political life through the decades. Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles was trained-up in Marxist revolution there in the 1970s and traveled to Cuba many times during her stint in Congress. Reps. Ilhan Omar and Pramila Jayapal dropped into Havana during the last election year. NGOs such as the Center for Democracy in the Americas act as distribution nodes for money that comes through Cuba and supports Lefty-left activists around the USA. Don’t be surprised if a lot of this laundered money ended up in the bank accounts of US congresspersons and senators, too. Remember this when you watch them howl on your screens.

Alas, Communist Cuba is about to expire of strangulation. Cuba has depended on Señor Maduro’s oil since the Soviet Union dissolved, and now that the supply is cut off, the island nation enjoys only a few hours-a-day of electricity. Soon it will be dark there. . . and things political start stirring and moiling in the dark. Odds are they won’t shake out so well for los communistas. So, that’ll be two down with a few more to go. Anyway, the Castro brothers are long gone and the old charisma with them. The current president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, is a nobody. ...

The oil is obviously a big part of the picture. But it’s a little more complicated than might appear superficially. Before Sr. Maduro, President Hugo Chávez seized the assets of ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips in 2007 and then reneged on compensation. The nationalized oil industry, Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA), entered a long and disastrous production decline, from 3.5-million barrels-a-day to about 1-million in 2025. The equipment is ancient and PDVSA has lost most of its technical expertise. Here’s why Mr. Trump is so hot to revive production there:

Venezuelan oil is generally heavy oil. America needs heavy oil because US shale oil, which is about 64 percent of total US output, is extra light, mostly gasoline. American oil refineries, built long ago, are calibrated for heavier oil. For years, the US has had to import heavy crude to mix with our shale oil to produce an adequate supply of heavier distillates, especially diesel and aviation fuel, which are critical to the US economy.

Federal Council freezes any assets held in Switzerland by Nicolás Maduro

Bern, 05.01.2026 — On 5 January 2026, the Federal Council decided to freeze any assets held in Switzerland by Nicolás Maduro and other persons associated with him with immediate effect. In doing so, the Federal Council aims to prevent an outflow of assets. The asset freeze does not affect members of the current Venezuelan government. Should future legal proceedings reveal that the funds were illicitly acquired, Switzerland will endeavour to ensure that they benefit the Venezuelan people. The asset freeze is in addition to the sanctions against Venezuela that have been in place since 2018 under the Embargo Act.

Federal Council freezes any assets held in Switzerland by Nicolás Maduro

Make no mistake - what the Trump Admin has done here is not ‘judicial’ or legal by any U.S. or international standard, it is extraordinary rendition - a Neocon policy requiring no real evidence other than innuendo & fabricated ‘intelligence’ which US never presented, even now,… pic.twitter.com/ZVELupSh7h

— Patrick Henningsen (@21WIRE) January 3, 2026