AP has photographs At least 7 explosions and low-flying aircraft are heard in Venezuela's Caracas | AP News Pedestrians running after hearing explosions. La Carlota airport That just does not seem like much of an attack to me. This whole thing is fucking weird, @RPM you're up late posting about it, you feel this is the real deal?
I'm not going to repost the DT stuff here, but there's a chance we are going at Venezuela hard right now. There's also a chance somebody released a bunch of altered/AI videos on the internet and fooled some decent media organizations.
I'm still like 50/50 that this is real vs somebody releasing a bunch of AI/altered stuff out there on the internet. If I were releasing AI videos of fake attacks on Caracas, last weekend or this weekend would have been the best timing, because a lot of people are on vacation. Last weekend, you might have had media crews on location in various capitals preparing for various New Year's celebrations, but they would have been breaking things down and getting back home/going on vacation yesterday and today. Obviously, your Caracas citizens could verify this with cell phone footage, which that's all we've seen, but I want to see a lot more of it from different locations before I'm ready to buy it. Or Whiskey Pete or Trump out there saying "hell yeah we're going to war".
I keep thinking this has to be somebody that took a few videos and added some explosions and turned them loose on the internet, but it seems like more stuff is coming in. Reuters seems to believe it's real. NOEL Reports does as well.
If this looks like what it sounds like and we wake up tomorrow to Trump trying to justify invading Venezuela, I'm going to enjoy CBS News interviewing Cletus Kinfucker out of Backwoods, Louisiana.
I'm having a hard time believing some of this, because there are claims that there are US Army helicopters flying over Caracas, and I don't buy that without A) a massive "shock & awe" campaign that eliminates most/all air defenses and anything larger than 7.62mm. Chinooks are not stealthy or fast, and it only takes one RPG or one Dushka to take one out. B) A staging area near by - if they were flying those helicopters from the US Navy ships as they were positioned recently, that's a helluva long way, and the Venezuelan military would have picked up on them long before now and be waiting for them.
It is slowly dawning on some Russian bloggers what an absolute devastating loss the war is for Russia. Not a single strategic goal has been achieved, but a trillion USD wasted, plus more a million Russian casualties. The worst is even yet to come. The gap between Russia and the major economies in terms of technology is far greater than it was when the Soviet Union collapsed. Russia future is bleak and even some ardent Russian nationalists cannot mince words for what is coming.
So how many tax breaks did we give away, and how much water and electricity were wasted, for dudes in Indonesia to make these videos to get millions of views?
The list of nations in the Middle East/Southwest Asia where they could be safe/would be welcomed is basically...nobody. A few spring to mind, but they would be too close to the Israelis or the Saudis (or one or the other could reach out and get them).
Couldn't steal the 2016 and 2024 elections even though a Democrat controlled the White House and DOJ. But stole it in 2020 when Trump controlled the White House/DOJ. Wait, are they saying Trump willingly gave up the Republic to somebody who stole the election? This is going to be glorious to watch their ratings go into the shitter as they turn into NewsMax.
Most of the cast has remained quiet for various reasons. Jay Chandrasekhar (Super Troopers) who directed a lot of Community episodes, has publicly stated he was there when Chase quit/was fired and has talked about Chase’s meltdowns. I’m not sure if Jay was the one who fired him, more likely the show runners/producers, but he was pissed. He witnessed some of the bullshit directly, while some of it happened while he was elsewhere but then he was told immediately about it.