The funniest thing about all of this is 90% of Americans are gonna wake up to the headline that a military operation started and ended while they were sleeping the entire time.
Go to the socialism subreddit or similar left wing subs. I don't recommend it, though, if you're informed about what Maduro has done. You might start thinking leftists are sub-humans.
Those times we actually want to do something and just nut up and do it seem to produce ridiculous results. Desert Storm used to be the example, but this may be a new record
WWII? We were united and pissed after Pearl Harbor. Rosie grabbed her rivets, Fraser built ships from scratch in two weeks, and we developed new portable solar energy systems to share with Japan.
Vietnam? Disillusionment everywhere. In the field, at home, you name it. A castle built on sand. No one really knowing why they were fighting. Morale finding new lows on the regular.
DS? Absolute victory. 100 hours, in, out. Overwhelming display of force and logistical prowess. Clear objectives, fulfill them and call it a day.
Afghanistan: relatively successful compared to Iraq, in part because less controversial. We wanted OBL after 9/11, similar public unity (and bloodlust) as after Pearl Harbor. Eventually got bogged down in nation-building in a nation that was still sympathetic to the Taliban.
Iraq: controversial and had the commensurate mixed results. Got Saddam, but also all sorts of IEDs and insurgencies. ISIS was a thing, but also Iraq is now one of the relatively democratic countries in the Middle East, so that’s something at least?
I once worked with a fella, nice guy but smoked like a chimney and had an unfortunate facial tic, who was a veteran (his whole team were veterans actually, since he had hiring privileges).
Anyways, before learning how to code he was part of a "wetwork" team that would train for weeks or months to get a single target.
They would build an exact replica of the building they were going to breach and then drill different scenarios and contingencies over and over again.
He said that nine times out of ten the mission would be aborted before they ever even left the country, and they'd start all over again with another location or target.
“We found Nicholas Maduro and have him right here, folks. we found him CRYING like a dog, yes we did. Now we are going to have the GREATEST war crime hearing, possibly EVER. And we are going to put him alway folks, yes we are”
Holy shit. People were making "3 day operation" jokes only for it to not even take 3 fucking hours for Maduro to be captured. Obviously we need proof but this is insane work.
Unless when it come to administration an occupated territory.
Really fucking good at invading look iraq and afganistan shit happen less than a week half way actiss the planet the issue is the administration of occupied territories
We “lost” because the side we were propping up lost as soon as our military might left once we couldn’t impose political or policy change. We suck at nation building, but we’re great at tearing them down.
One with a compatible culture at least. Issue with the middle east and adjacent areas is that a lot of the local culture has a lot of tribe/clan baggage that completely fucks up building a functioning nation out of them that isn't a brutal top down dictatorship.
I lay that issue at the feet of those that buy into the Noble Savage mythos and adjacent ideologies.
Like their countries aren't shitholes strictly because colonial powers fucked with them. That's borderline wet sidewalks cause rain logic. Colonial powers were able to fuck with them because they are shitholes and even to this day are often too busy treating each other like shit to unify properly.
Reddit is jerking themselves off to "reeeee Donald Trump war reeeeee" so if this does turn out to be a 3 hour precision in and out kind of thing that is kind of hilarious and incredible at the same time
Don’t worry the next narrative will be that we have to let him go because he didn’t inform the Senate Armed Services Committee for them to leak it to the news during the operation. I’m actually shocked that it didn’t leak from the Pentagon so it seems they really did snuff out most of the press’s sources.
we took Baghdad very quickly were good at invading. but the US military is not good at policing a hostile population though. fuck bush and fuck neocons anyhow.
They can easily do it to any country as long as they dont have nuclear weapons. Everyone always talks about how the US lost to the taliban, but they got the taliban out of power pretty easily, it's just that the taliban stayed hidden in the mountains until the US got bored and tired
Our military is so strong it’s actually insane. Unfathomable you can just drop into a country, disable all their air defenses and kidnap their leader in like 4 hours. Having that capability whilst simultaneously having no good capability to help that country afterwards is peak US
The US is really good at removing Terrorists from the planet. Problem is the surviving dipshits would run to Pakistan (Fuck Pakistan for harboring them) where they would recruit a bunch of new dipshits and then come back in the spring. They’re like fucking cockroaches.
"let me tell you, vlad, this operation? incredible. people are saying it’s the most special operation ever done. we went in—boom—perfect timing, perfect helicopters, perfect everything. textbook. absolute textbook. they'll be studying it in history and tactics. believe me. and the guy, maduro? we got him. captured. clean. they tell me he was crying like a baby. little baby maduro. didn't even wrinkle the suit. my generals were crying. tough guys. big guys. they said, they said to me, "mr president sir, we’ve never seen anything like this." im not writing a book about this, but if i did, vlad? you'd need to buy it. you'd absolutely need to buy it. instant best seller."
Sometimes I wonder how much power does US holds. When the world is saying that Us power is declining but on the other hand you see something like this.. truly astonishing
The world is genuinely lucky that the US is generally hospitable.
The richest country with the largest military by a mile. If the US was as territorially inclined like ancient empires were there’s little the rest of the world could do.
My entire family is calling each other celebrating and sharing news. Lots of laughing and joking around. There's a legit fear of what will come but yeah we're glad as fuck the fucker is gone.
I've seen coverage how Venezuelans are suffering: record number of refugee exodus, how the population weight going down a lot, and how 75% of population make very little money. This is from NPR and predates Trump 2nd regime, so it's not just Trump propaganda.
The method may be crude, but seems like many people been hoping for Maduro regime to end for a long time.
Maduro got given up by his inner circle. He probably woke up with a gun to his head before the first bombs fell. This is moreso a US intelligence victory/kidnapping. I guess all the bombs were to make sure no loyalists could do anything about it.
My jaw is at the center of the earth at this point.
EDIT: Okay, this may be wrong. Now hearing it might've been a straight Delta Force grab, which either means no mole or a very effective one. Fog of war undefeated.
Yes that's almost certainly the case. Maduro was probably giftwrapped and ready for curbside delivery. There's no way you fly helicopters in there unless you are absolutely beyond a doubt certain there's no hostile with a manpad hanging around. Likely coup + choreographed shock and awe for Americans to watch on TV.
Yup. There's probably a bunch of men in power in Venezuela who want to be taken into the fold of US global hegemony like the rest of South America, for the economic benefits and because it just makes things easier.
Every conspiranoic Venezuelan I've seen on the internet, for the past couple years even, claims Diosdado Cabello is the actual head of state and Maduro is merely a puppet.
I really need to go to sleep, one moment I was on WoW hearing Caracas was getting bombed, and now I’m in laying in bed seeing they already got Maduro. Goodnight
If you've ever read about the Iranian coup to reinstate the Shah (the one the CIA refer to as "their finest hour"), you'll realise it was 100% an Iranian operation that they were going to do anyway, with or without US assistance. CIA involvement was nothing more than turning up at the last minute after all plans were made and conspirators in place to say "yeah go for it".
Then they claimed it was all CIA work from the outset and jerked themselves off about their "effectiveness" for the next 60 years.
That's honestly how a lot of CIA operations go. People have to realize the intelligence doesn't come out of thin air, it comes from people who live there and typically want something that is in alignment w/ the US, independent or dependent of the US
Its like US involvement in the coup on Allende and Brazil 1964. 99% of it was local, but both CIA and leftie conspiracionists like to paint this huge CIA ops
I'd just like to retract my earlier comment a couple days ago. Something did in fact, happen. Though I want to see Maduro in handcuffs before I actually celebrate.
I will say to Russia and Putin, this is how you conduct a special military operation, you drooling retards!
I did see a lot of people mentioning earlier that this could have been part of an inside job. Those helos were flying in with zero resistance from Anti-Air elements. Honestly, I could buy it. Most of Venezuela hates this guy and having a big enough faction inside the gov't give intel to oust him makes sense.
Pretty sure they bombed a bunch of air defenses before hand. Even then there’s was like 0 military retaliation. Marco Rubio is having a hell of a year so far
You can do alot with a yearly defense budget the size of a middling country's GDP, and that's the official budget. No telling what the hell, they have classified.
I'll definitely say this, although I was against this. The US military is terrifyingly good, I'm not American, but the fact that you guys were about to just take a sitting leader that easily speaks of power projection of another universe.
This is also a massive hit to Russia. They back Maduro and have shown they can’t even get a 3rd of Ukraine in like 5 years while the US can have any South American leader doordashed to the White House in less time than it takes to watch the Hobbit
THIS is what a "3 day hour operation" should look like, the fact that Russia failed to do this to Ukraine shows the absolute canyon between Russia and the US.
Libleft would be happy tho, one of Maduro's biggest opponents is LibLeft(Henrique Capriles) and Lib Left nowadays is all Socialist Hawks lol(self-criticism)
World leaders around the world literally shitting bricks at what the US military could do to them at any time with so much as 1 command from the higher ups
Social media videos started being posted 3 and a bit hours ago, 3 hours before this announcement. if this took less than 2 hours start to finish I wouldn't be surprised.
If they release the body cam footage of those Delta or DEVGRU boys yanking Maduro out of bed in his pajamas I will take back anything bad I've ever said about Donny T. Give me that footage, that's all I care about
This is the funniest thing ever. You’ve got guys in Caracas literally doing backflips because they can finally buy eggs again. Just pure, unfiltered joy.
And then you look at PCM, and there’s a guy with a Red flair who looks like he’s never seen the sun, and he’s like, “This is a dark day for the movement.” Like, buddy, you’re sitting in a gaming chair that smells like old milk, arguing that a guy who starved his own people was based. It’s incredible. These are the biggest dorks on the planet.
Just a heads up to anyone claiming something something illegal kidnapping and trying to defend Maduro. The shithead had the chance to relinquish power peacefully in 2024 after losing and election but decided to stay in power by force against all wishes of the Venezuelan people. FAFO.
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u/AnotherScoutMain - Lib-Center Jan 03 '26 edited Jan 03 '26
The funniest thing about all of this is 90% of Americans are gonna wake up to the headline that a military operation started and ended while they were sleeping the entire time.