Maduro might be checking the train schedule

[Mik]

'Cause we seized his plane.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/venezuelan-president-nicolas-maduro-s-plane-seized-by-us-authorities-and-transported-to-fort-lauderdale/ar-AA1pRMqW?ocid=msedgntp&pc=LCTS&cvid=603ec5053b8e4a1cb74cec823db720f4&ei=32

[bachophile]

Time for a bump. seized more than his plane

[jon-nyc]

That’s interesting. Now what? Re Venezuela I mean.

[kluurs]

If I were Zelenskyy, I don’t think I would feel very safe

[jon-nyc]

Of all the things he feels, I doubt ‘safe’ is high on the list. Russia’s been trying to kill or capture him for four years.

[Tom-K]

I don't know what part of the US military/CIA, etc. did that but kudos to them. Right up there with bombing Iran from half way around the world. Maybe we would capture the Ayatollah and Putin too and have a collection of these guys.

[Mik]

I know we grabbed Maduro and wife, but not sure why there was a major attack on Caracas or exactly what was done. .

[jon-nyc]

Lol

[jon-nyc]

@Mik said in Maduro might be checking the train schedule:

I know we grabbed Maduro and wife, but not sure why there was a major attack on Caracas or exactly what was done. .

My initial thought is that’s just what it took to do it safely. Maybe some ‘shock and awe’ factor to limit resistance.

[jon-nyc]

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) said he spoke with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who told him that Maduro had been arrested by U.S. personnel to stand trial, and that the military action reported overnight was carried out to protect those executing the arrest warrant. Rubio, Lee added, anticipated no further U.S. action in Venezuela now that Maduro was in custody.

[jon-nyc]

Hi Tulsi, any updates?

[Mik]

Looks like it was airports and military. Further action is not expected.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01/03/world/trump-united-states-strikes-venezuela

[Mik]

Wait - does that not make him an illegal immigrant?

[jon-nyc]

Apparently it was a Delta Force operation with CIA involvement.

[jon-nyc]

Maduro has been arraigned in New York.

[jon-nyc]

[jon-nyc]

People are bringing up the parallels to the 1989 action against Noriega in Panama (also by Delta Force).

Oddly I remember the name Bush gave that - Operation Just Cause.

The reason I remember it is the late talk radio wag Bob Lassiter kept calling it “Operation Just beCause”.

Still makes me laugh.

[jon-nyc]

Caracas Bob?

[jon-nyc]

Funny, didn’t she win a national election?

Maybe she might get in the way of us taking ‘our’ oil.

[jon-nyc]

I guess they don’t need her.