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  1. https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/aviation-news/us-issues-security-notam-for-venezuelan-airspace/

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    • US FAA issues security NOTAM for Venezuelan airspace
    • US operators must now provide advance notice before flying through Venezuela
    • US airlines banned since 2019 from operating to/from Venezuela
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    On Friday, 21 November 2025, the US FAA issued a security NOTAM cautioning civil aircraft operators about potential dangers in Venezuelan airspace. The FAA says the NOTAM is the result of increased GNSS interference in Venezuelan airspace and military drills beginning in September. US operators must now provide 72 hours prior notice to the FAA before flying through Venezuela. As part of an order issued in 2019, US airlines are already prohibited from flying to/from Venezuela.

    Apparently 8 airlines have canceled flights into Venezuela.  

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  2. 45 minutes ago, notre dame joe said:

    Thus proving the 'Great Man Theory.'

    My problem with it is that there always has to be a supporting cast of sorts, and even a situation where members of that supporting cast are at the same level - one could make the case for Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, etc.

  3. On 11/22/2025 at 7:29 PM, billfromlaketravis said:

    I would suggest binging it. Just works better. Puts you fully in it. 

    Couldn't have been improved on but definitely would have liked to have binged it the first time, or at least 3 episodes at a time.

    Washington was definitely the real deal. He dealt with that mutiny, and he could have created a dictatorship of sorts, but he didn't.

    Like that one historian said, I'm not a fan of the Great Man theory, but I feel like Washington is one of a select few that could fall into that category.  I don't think anybody else could have done what he did.  Gates obviously blew it. Benedict Arnold proved that some things cannot be defeated.

  4. So one of the open-source intel folks has tried to lay out what they think happened with this peace plan (and remember, Witkoff was not qualified to do this stuff from the beginning)

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    It appears that somebody instructed Marco Rubio to go along with the story unfolding and it looks to me that this resulted from the following chain of events. I will lay it out here:

    Everything points to the direction that Witkoff and Kirill Dmitriev were hammering out this 28 point surrender paper, without informing the US Secretary of State or the Ukrainian government. It contains primarily Russian wishes and unrealistic Russian demands, but Witkoff basically took them over in the list.

    Kirill was then leaking this Russian wishlist to Axios, well-knowing what it is. Witkoff basically confirmed.

    The intent followed two objectives. First, maximalist wishlist of the Russians should be engraved cognitively in media sphere for everyone before any pushback occurred. Two, it should test the US government how it would react to the backlash which will inevitably follow.

    Rubio unaware of the contents of the talks was then confronted by a bipartisan group of US Senators and gave them his answer, which at this moment was truthful.

    The senators then went public quoting Rubio: “It is not our recommendation, it is not our peace plan.”

    At this point the US officials in the Trump administration must have started to realize that something is going wrong. As intended the leak totally blind-sided them. They completely lost control of the situation, but grudgingly decided to go along with it. Rubio was then compelled to go public and claim that it was indeed the plan, while watering down that it yet was just the Russian side, with some previous input from Ukrainian side.

    This is my assumption based on facts I see so far.

    This whole episode reveals that the current US negotiating team is completely out of its depth and that people involved in this "negotiation“ are absolute amateurs to say the least. Ukraine is well advised to push back hard and not leave any doubts that this surrender paper is dead in the water by countering it with a new peace proposal.

     

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  5. That power plant outside of Moscow, they really fucked it up.  Also, I feel confident that the power plant was catching plenty of strays from Russian "air defenses", given that the dumb motherfuckers were continuing to fire on the drones as they went into the plant. That was a lot of ammo fired in the direction of that plant. It's possible the "friendly fire" overshot the plant, but that was dumb as hell.

     

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    A CBS News survey from November 19-21 found 70% of Americans oppose U.S. military action in Venezuela, with support at just 30% and crossing party lines despite higher backing from Republicans. While 53% approve targeted strikes on drug boats, 56% doubt such moves would reduce drug flows into the U.S., and 75% say the administration needs to explain its plans more clearly. Three-quarters believe congressional approval is required first, highlighting public caution even as U.S. forces build up in the Caribbean and strike suspected traffickers.

  7. 1 hour ago, aggie08 said:

    Yes, he's way better than the alternatives, we've established that.

    And let’s be honest on the beating up the sex worker thing - what if he didn’t throw the first half-dozen punches, should we hold the whole incident against him?

    Suspicious Monkey GIF by MOODMAN

  8. 53 minutes ago, cactusflinthead said:

    It's time

    "I don't know anything about that new mayor guy in New York, he's a Muslim or Communist, right, but President Trump really likes him and his ideas so I may have to see what he's about.  Those photos and that press conference, I've never seen President Trump that happy to be around somebody, so there must be something to what he has to say.  Mandani is his name, right?"

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  9. 48 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

    Seems normal

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    Motherfucker is a Warhammer fan.

    Computers Eureka GIF by South Park

     

    It explains the incels and the MAGA women getting weird surgery and the obsession with violence.

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  10. 26 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

     None of them is getting it. Neither is Cruz nor Abbott 

    Yeah, I would be surprised if Abbott ran.  He blew it and he n ver could hold Daddy Trump’s attention for very long.  Cancun Cruz is a joke but he still think he’s a viable candidate.  

    3 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    And a lame duck

    Yeah, but his wife is not going to let him set around the house.  

  11. 7 minutes ago, SaucyJack said:

    Why anybody thinks most anything else has more than negligible effect is nuts.  How one  perceives their personal finances is the biggest emotional driver for most voters.

    At least since i've been tracking this the last 40yrs.

    And a nice little war with Venezuela and maybe in Nigeria will do wonders for oil prices.

    Edit: When do we stop pretending Venezuela is about drugs and more about the largest oil reserve in the world?

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