Maduro might be checking the train schedule

[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.

[AndyD]

Staggering potential mess. Talk about not learning from history.

I wonder what George & Jolly think about this nation building abroad.

[Mik]

I suspect they have some cooperation from powers that be within Venezuela. Maduro was taken way too easily. It could go bad, but could turn out very well. Time will tell.