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  1. AP NewsCuba says 32 Cuban officers were killed in US operation i...The statement on official media late Sunday said the Cuban military and police officers were on a mission the Caribbean country’s military was carrying out at the request of Venezuela’s government.https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2026/01/05/operation_absolute_resolve_anatomy_of_a_modern_decapitation_strike_1156732.html https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/i-was-cia-chief-in-venezuela-here-are-a-few-hard-truths/ss-AA1TGVqC?uxmode=ruby&cvpid=5d98d48a6af74b428656e6b038915dcc#image=1 THE MEDVEDEV COROLLARYHow 150 Minutes Over Caracas Rewrote the Physics of Global Power and Triggered the Second Nuclear Age
  2. He was great in The Whole Nine Yards
  3. https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/03/business/oil-gas-venezuela-maduro
  4. Yes, by Latin American standards, and relative to it's neighbors, Venezuela was stable and prosperous democracy. Why is that hard to accept?
  5. Interesting word salad.
  6. https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/inside-operation-absolute-resolve-the-u-s-incursion-that-deposed-venezuelas-maduro-fa812617?st=Xwnxgv&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
  7. Before the socialists took over, ending democracy, and wrecking the oil industry, Venezuela was considered one of the most stable and prosperous democracies in Latin America. Why wouldn't they have a chance to return to that?
  8. Sorry about your populist/leftist heroes taking the L. They'll survive... maybe. No, it means I'm pointing out the illogic in the previous point by asking valid questions, that if answered in good faith, reveal the fallacy of the position. I agree. Both administrations have handled the Ukraine war about as poorly as possible.
  9. You're not wrong, and I'm not a fan of moving away from NATO etc. Unfortunately, through incompetence and atrophy, the world has moved away from following "international law" and the consequences of not doing so have severely weakened. In the current day, we must advance our interests as best we can. What logically follows if we don't? What happens if we don't advance our interests, in the name of optics and legalities, while the Chinese and Russians do? We weaken ourselves just so we feel better about it?
  10. I'm not sure, Immaac and the cloak room think it was "illegal". Drug smugglers until they're pulled over, then they're fisherman. The indictment is longstanding, involves multiple members of his family, and has been upheld through multiple administrations, both Republican and Democrat. Sorry for your loss, T&Ps for the arrested. Does that world exist in the year 2025? Public opinion matters of course, just not as much as you would like it to. Nothing he wrote is out of line, or untrue. This is the way wars are fought, and foreign policy is advanced now. No more declarations of war, or multilateral international law unfortunately.
  11. What makes you think I agreed with him? I didn't, and isolationism is dumb, not viable, and never really has been. He can be a moron, and still do useful and good things, like kill Solemani, damage Iran's nuclear program, and depose Maduro. It's possible for both to be true. I am generally not a fan, but I'm also not such a dumb political cultural warrior that I overlook actions that advance my countries' interests. Venezuelan socialism specifically, and Latin American leftism generally, have been a bleeding sore in the western hemisphere for far too long. Cuba should fall soon, and other erstwhile populist leftists like Columbia and Nicaragua's leaders will be weakened. Only Lula has a chance at maintaining his stance... till he's dead or voted out. Any chance China and Russia thought they had at causing trouble in our back yard just took a huge hit, not to mention Iran and their Hezbollah tools. Good Were they looking for ammo? Did they need ammo? Does it matter? There is not a classroom, nor courtroom, that exists where such "ammo" matters.
  12. Was China looking for justification? Is this the trigger for an invasion they weren't going to do, until just now? Wow! Were you expecting that US companies weren't going to be involved resuscitating the Venezuelan industry and fields? We're the only ones with the technology to fix their fields, with refineries that can handle their crude uncut. We're the ones that made it viable in the 80s and 90s. To think otherwise is naive.
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