Venezuela - US Conflict: News, Updates

[VCheng]

The US now owns Venezuela’s future – for better or worse.

The good old "you break it, you buy it" rule.

 

[Shakehands]

The way he's talking you would think they defeated a super power and not some 3rd world banana state.

They captured a sitting president alive from his own country in just three hours, and you think it’s a joke? You may have an issue with America, but credit should be given where it is clearly due.”

 

[ghazi52]

US ready to stage second 'much larger' attack on Venezuela if needed, says Trump
BBC​

Trump now turns now to oil. He claims the oil business in Venezuela has been a "bust", and that large US companies are going to go into the country to fix the infrastructure and "start making money for the country".

He adds the US is "ready" to stage a second "and much larger" attack on the country if needed.

He says they were initially prepared to do a "second wave" and had assumed it would be necessary, that but given the success of last night's attack, it probably would now not be.

 

[HAIDER]

Seems Maduro Generals betrayed him and his security staff.

 

[F-22Raptor]

Cuba may be next

 

[Shakehands]

What exactly is so funny about that?

Don’t talk loud when you surrounded by bunch of pus**s !

 

[ghazi52]

US president describes achievements with typical bravado
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Anthony Zurcher
BBC North America correspondent

Donald Trump is describing the successful military operation in Venezuela with typical bravado. It was a display of “overwhelming military power” and a “spectacular assault”.

He called it “one of the most stunning, effective and powerful displays of American military might and competence in American history”.

Supporting those boasts is the fact that no American military personnel were killed and, by Trump’s account, no US military equipment was destroyed, while the objective – capturing Nicolas Maduro and his wife – was achieved.

 

[RocketLaw]

Either Russia or Cuba that US is going to invade next!

 

[Beijingwalker]

Taking over a neighbouring country to extract oil and rape their coffers is beyond comprehension. All allies including the UK have made statements -
“This has NOTHING to do with us nor did we participate in this. International law must be obeyed. “
Disgraceful

China hasn't fired a single shot to another country during the past 40 years and they claim China a threat to the world order and peace. And for a hundred years they just run free to bomb and kill around the world, invading other nations , kidnapping and killing foreign states leaders at will.

 

[ghazi52]

America 'safer' and 'prouder' today - Trump
BBC​

All political and military figures in Venezuela should understand that what happened to Maduro could happen to them, Trump says.

"Venezuelan people are free again," he adds. He also says America is a "safer" and "prouder nation" today.

He then hands over to Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, who begins by describing the operation this morning as "a massive joint military and law enforcement raid, flawlessly executed".

Maduro "had his chance, just like Iran had their chance", Hegseth says, but adds that he "effed around" and found out.

 

[Shakehands]

China hasn't shot a single shot to another country during the past 40 years and they claim China a threat to the world order and peace. And for a hundred years they just run free to bomb and kill around the world, invading other nations , kidnapping and killing foreign states leaders at will.

Alright we didn’t know that!

 

[ghazi52]

Months of intelligence work to uncover where Maduro lived, Gen Caine says
BBC​

Reuters

General Dan Caine now takes the podium. He shares some details of the planning for the operation, dubbed "operation absolute resolve".

He calls it "discreet" and "precise", and says it required "every component" of the joint forces, including soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines and others "working in unison" with intelligence agencies and law enforcement.

He adds the operation leveraged "unmatched" intelligence capabilities and "years of experience in hunting terrorists".

Gen Caine says the "extraction" was so precise it required more than 150 aircraft all coming together in the right place and time.

On the preparation work, he refers to "months" of intelligence work uncovering details about Maduro, including where he lived and what he ate.

 

[RocketLaw]

Venezuela President Maduro on Israel:

“They have sown an ideology more dangerous than Nazism.

They justify raids, extermination, genocide, and atomic bombs"

they'll come for the Christians, Catholics."

This is why he had to go.





^Fake AI picture - just let you know.

 

[ghazi52]

Maduro and his wife 'gave up' before being taken into custody - Gen Caine
BBC​

The US military maintained "totally the element of surprise", having dismantled and disabled Venezuelan air defence systems, says General Caine.

He says they arrived at Maduro's compound at 01:01 ET and isolated the area. On arrival there, the helicopters "came under fire", and they responded with "overwhelming force", he says.

One helicopter was hit but all US aircraft have been able to return home, he says.

Maduro and his wife then "gave up" and were taken into custody by the Department of Justice, says Caine, and at 03:29 ET they boarded the USS Iwo Jima.

 

[GoatsMilk]

They captured a sitting president alive from his own country in just three hours, and you think it’s a joke? You may have an issue with America, but credit should be given where it is clearly due.”

Yeah its a joke. Its an embarrassment. When you got shit leadership, you get humilated. Doesn't matter who you are.