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Politics aside: If this is all true and was a snatch and grab, it will go down as one of the most impressive military operations in the 21st century.
This is illegal, immoral, unsupported by the vast majority of the US population and requiring immediate action by every US citizen and elected official.
A lot of talk about how the administration didn't even try to justify this, but I think that the administration actually believes they did justify it. They exist in some bubble completely un-tethered from reality. I don't know what that means for the future but it's terrifying.
https://www.state.gov/nicolas-maduro-moros/
[edit] Maduro remained under US federal indictment on narco‑terrorism and related cocaine trafficking conspiracy charges throughout the Biden administration.
How does this differ from Russia invading Ukraine? We have to wake up to the world where USA no longer cares about ideals like liberal democracy or allies, but is a warmongering corporatist autocracy.
If you’re tracking signals around geopolitical events, there’s a quirky one a few folks like to watch: the Pentagon Pizza Index. It’s a real-time dashboard that monitors pizza shop activity near the Pentagon as an informal indicator of unusual late-night activity. Historically people have pointed to spikes in food orders before major operations as a sort of low-tech OSINT signal. https://www.pizzint.watch/ Obviously…
(jk, Pentagon OPSEC is TIGHT from what I've been told)
Notice the hypocrisy of the "explosions reported" title instead of "US bombs Venezuela".
"Venezuela’s authoritarian government has accused the US ..." should be "Venezuela’s authoritarian government has accused the US authoritarian government ..." or (better, really) "Venezuela has accused the US ..."
Good riddance! But there are other key figures that need to be captured.