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Ceffer
2026 Jan 10, 12:53pm
Ceffer
2026 Jan 10, 12:53pm
Targeting also the City of London offshore banking nexus in the Caribbean that supports the criminal enterprises.
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Ceffer
2026 Jan 10, 1:00pm
Ceffer
2026 Jan 10, 1:00pm
A description of some of the advanced tech used in Venezuela. All defenses were unilaterally jammed. Just twenty soldiers took on the V defenses and rendered them helpless. It was a demonstration of force with massive fear and intimidation multipliers. Those twenty took on hundreds without getting touched.
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Tenpoundbass
2026 Jan 10, 1:04pm
Tenpoundbass
2026 Jan 10, 1:04pm
The_Deplorable says
I have been waking up every day since Chavez came in power and year after year, the sitting president tolerates it as the new normal. While Venezuela isn't my business. Communism creeps, and the more Venezuela has festered the more it has creeped into the United States. Now my biggest fear is Trump wont or wont be able to finish the job(if Rand Paul gets his way).
Trump should have had his CIA and special forces feeding a real resistance information and had air drops while the radar system was down and the Communist regime was hiding and reeling. There not being a resistance to capitalize on the communist regime being shell shocked for the first 48 hours, and they WERE. They laid low and didn't make a sound for two days. A well planed organized resistance that retrieved the airdrop weapons and hardware could have stormed the bases and armories and cleaned up.
We must always be vigilant and on the ready against Communism in this hemisphere.
I'm still not happy that Cuba wasn't met with a ass whooping for having Russian submarines moor in their ports.
I have been waking up every day since Chavez came in power and year after year, the sitting president tolerates it as the new normal. While Venezuela isn't my business. Communism creeps, and the more Venezuela has festered the more it has creeped into the United States. Now my biggest fear is Trump wont or wont be able to finish the job(if Rand Paul gets his way).
Trump should have had his CIA and special forces feeding a real resistance information and had air drops while the radar system was down and the Communist regime was hiding and reeling. There not being a resistance to capitalize on the communist regime being shell shocked for the first 48 hours, and they WERE. They laid low and didn't make a sound for two days. A well planed organized resistance that retrieved the airdrop weapons and hardware could have stormed the bases and armories and cleaned up.
We must always be vigilant and on the ready against Communism in this hemisphere.
I'm still not happy that Cuba wasn't met with a ass whooping for having Russian submarines moor in their ports.
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Patrick
2026 Jan 10, 4:45pm
Patrick
2026 Jan 10, 4:45pm
https://www.chrisbrunet.com/p/the-biggest-winner-in-venezuela-paul
https://www.commondreams.org/news/paul-singer-venezuela
Huh.
How Paul Singer Stole Venezuela’s Crown Jewel
About a month ago, on November 25, 2025, a US judge approved the sale of Citgo Petroleum Corporation (CITGO), a subsidiary of Venezuela’s a state-owned oil company, to Amber Energy, a subsidiary of Paul Singer’s Elliott Management.
Venezuela rejected the legitimacy of the sale, with the Maduro administration calling it “fraudulent process,” a “barbaric theft, ”and “the theft of the century.”
The sale price for CITGO was $5.9 billion, with the proceeds flowing to creditors of the Venezuelan state. The acquisition is expected to be finalized sometime next year, pending regulatory approval... Maduro was the obstacle blocking that approval, but now he’s gone.
On a fundamentals basis, CITGO is worth far more than what Singer paid for it. Valuations during the auction ranged from $10 billion to $20 billion, depending on methodology and assumptions. Evercore, the investment bank advising the court-supervised sale, placed CITGO’s value at roughly $13 billion, while the Venezuelan government has argued the company is worth north of $20 billion.
The reason CITGO sold for a fraction of its real value is simple: U.S. sanctions and non-recognition of the Maduro government made Venezuela radioactive to investors. Most serious buyers would not touch the asset. Financing dried up. The auction never became competitive. What should have been a sale turned into a clearance event, with one vulture left standing.
What great luck for Paul Singer, then, that only one month after his purchase was approved, Trump invaded Venezuela and turned it into a puppet state, declaring that all the oil now belonged to American investors!
https://www.commondreams.org/news/paul-singer-venezuela
Singer himself has acted as a financial attack dog for Trump during his first year back in office. In June, he contributed $1 million to fund a super PAC aiming to oust Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), who'd become Trump's leading Republican critic over his Department of Justice's refusal to release its files pertaining to the billionaire sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Huh.
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AD
2026 Jan 10, 11:27pm
AD
2026 Jan 10, 11:27pm
Ceffer says
Yep, there is a lot more to this then cutting the snake's head off (i.e., extradite Maduro and his wife).
This tells me how much the Chavezistas are entrenched in Venezuela such as its military and government since Chavez came into power around 26 years ago.
Same with Iran as likely at least 30% of that country are militant Islamists.
You have to go in and deNazi-like fumigate those countries.
Yep, there is a lot more to this then cutting the snake's head off (i.e., extradite Maduro and his wife).
This tells me how much the Chavezistas are entrenched in Venezuela such as its military and government since Chavez came into power around 26 years ago.
Same with Iran as likely at least 30% of that country are militant Islamists.
You have to go in and deNazi-like fumigate those countries.
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Ceffer
2026 Jan 11, 6:47pm
Ceffer
2026 Jan 11, 6:47pm
Question is, who were the Cubans who were killed? Maduro's handlers and their Deep State shadow governers of Venezuela posing as a Praetorian? Was it a shot over the bow that took out three targets, Venezuela, Cuba and the CCP, with one raid? Did Trump wipe out Venezuelas "Cuban (CCP) Cabinet"?
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Ceffer
2026 Jan 12, 12:16am
Ceffer
2026 Jan 12, 12:16am
Trump musta wiped out more than just soldiers. To make such a claim, he had to have also taken out an entire top governing layer(s). Jail yard dominance.
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Tenpoundbass
2026 Jan 12, 8:27am
Tenpoundbass
2026 Jan 12, 8:27am
Yeah that guy knows more than you.
For the love of God please stop listening to prognstticators and armchair pundits.
The most qualified person to say "this is what's going to happen" and "this is what's going on" was actually put in place to do something but came back out throwing heat on Trump supporters for being suspicious of asking questions about the veracity of what's really going on. If Bonghitamigo is full of shit, what is this guy full of.
For the love of God please stop listening to prognstticators and armchair pundits.
The most qualified person to say "this is what's going to happen" and "this is what's going on" was actually put in place to do something but came back out throwing heat on Trump supporters for being suspicious of asking questions about the veracity of what's really going on. If Bonghitamigo is full of shit, what is this guy full of.
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Patrick
2026 Jan 12, 12:19pm
Patrick
2026 Jan 12, 12:19pm
https://x.com/nettermike/status/2009843044028428714
This account from a Venezuelan security guard loyal to Nicolás Maduro is absolutely chilling—and it explains a lot about why the tone across Latin America suddenly changed.
Security Guard: On the day of the operation, we didn't hear anything coming. We were on guard, but suddenly all our radar systems shut down without any explanation. The next thing we saw were drones, a lot of drones, flying over our positions. We didn't know how to react.
Interviewer: So what happened next? How was the main attack?
Security Guard: After those drones appeared, some helicopters arrived, but there were very few. I think barely eight helicopters. From those helicopters, soldiers came down, but a very small number. Maybe twenty men. But those men were technologically very advanced. They didn't look like anything we've fought against before.
Interviewer: And then the battle began?
Security Guard: Yes, but it was a massacre. We were hundreds, but we had no chance. They were shooting with such precision and speed... it seemed like each soldier was firing 300 rounds per minute. We couldn't do anything.
Interviewer: And your own weapons? Didn't they help?
Security Guard: No help at all. Because it wasn't just the weapons. At one point, they launched something—I don't know how to describe it... it was like a very intense sound wave. Suddenly I felt like my head was exploding from the inside. We all started bleeding from the nose. Some were vomiting blood. We fell to the ground, unable to move.
Interviewer: And your comrades? Did they manage to resist?
Security Guard: No, not at all. Those twenty men, without a single casualty, killed hundreds of us. We had no way to compete with their technology, with their weapons. I swear, I've never seen anything like it. We couldn't even stand up after that sonic weapon or whatever it was.
Interviewer: So do you think the rest of the region should think twice before confronting the Americans?
Security Guard: Without a doubt. I'm sending a warning to anyone who thinks they can fight the United States. They have no idea what they're capable of. After what I saw, I never want to be on the other side of that again. They're not to be messed with.
Interviewer: And now that Trump has said Mexico is on the list, do you think the situation will change in Latin America?
Security Guard: Definitely. Everyone is already talking about this. No one wants to go through what we went through. Now everyone thinks twice. What happened here is going to change a lot of things, not just in Venezuela but throughout the region.
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HeadSet
2026 Jan 12, 3:01pm
HeadSet
2026 Jan 12, 3:01pm
Patrick says
I wonder if this was coordinated by Maduro insiders who helped the US. I can see how even higher ups would tire of Maduro and his Cubans destroying Venezuela.
all our radar systems shut down without any explanation
I wonder if this was coordinated by Maduro insiders who helped the US. I can see how even higher ups would tire of Maduro and his Cubans destroying Venezuela.
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Venezuela has greater oil stores than any other country. But after years of corruption, mismanagement and more recently U.S. sanctions, its oil output has dropped to a tenth of what it was two decades ago.
From Lake Maracaibo in the west to the Orinoco oil belt in the east, abandoned wells rust in the sun as looters scavenge the metal. The last drilling rig still working in Venezuela shut down in August. The country is on course, by the end of this year, to be pumping little more oil than the state of Wyoming.
“Twenty percent of the world’s oil is in Venezuela, but what good is it if we can’t monetize it?” said Carlos Mendoza, an ambassador under the late socialist president Hugo Chávez, who enjoyed an oil bonanza when prices were high but starved the industry of investment and maintenance funds.
“We’re entering a post-oil era,” Mr. Mendoza said.
While petroleum is under stress world-wide from climate-change concerns and the rise of wind and solar power, what is happening to oil in Venezuela goes far beyond the global industry’s troubles. It is an existential crisis for a country long dependent on oil for nearly all of its hard-currency earnings.
This year, Venezuela’s oil income will probably fall below the limited funds coming in from other sources such as gold mining and overseas workers’ remittances, said Luis Vicente León, an economist and pollster. Venezuela’s economy is likely to shrink more than 30% this year from the oil collapse plus the pandemic, says Ecoanalitica, a Caracas business consulting firm.