Maduro might be checking the train schedule

[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.

[jon-nyc]

We must have done something right.

[Mik]

Does anyone give a flying fuck about Hamas’ opinions?

[jon-nyc]

Mamdani?

[jon-nyc]

Poor Maggie still thinks the America First stuff was real.

[jon-nyc]

We might run Venezuela for years, but it won’t cost anything.

[Mik]

[jon-nyc]

Jeffries is doing the opposite - positioning himself for the 28 GOP primary.

[LuFins Dad]

How likely is it that the attack lined up with Venezuela’s strongest military ally (Iran) having their own problems? Coincidence?

[kluurs]

Should Mark Carney be worried? Another "major" source of fentanyl ( a pound a year, right?) and has oil.