Maduro might be checking the train schedule

[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.

[jon-nyc]

More on Trump’s would-be Señora Quisling:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/world/americas/trump-venezuela-leader-rodriguez-machado.html?unlocked_article_code=1.B1A.Gbqu.2Ej87egugM-P&smid=url-share

[jon-nyc]

Looks like Trump has a new hobby.

[Renauda]

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

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

Carney need not be worried.

Danielle Smith in the other hand should be concerned. Her precious Western Canada Select synthetic crude will soon be worthless on any given global market.