Who knows, but it actually makes more sense that they would make it up since that would undermine Cabello with Venezuelans. Presumably they wouldn't want to do that if he was cooperating to further their aims - not that I credit them with the intelligence to see that far ahead.
So there’s three possibilities. Number 1: it really happened. Number 2; the media made it up or Number 3: Americans leaked a false rumor to discredit him.
Does the media do anything without marching orders from someone in a position of power, would they just make something up? Doesn't seem like it to me though I could be wrong.
Transparency, John Leake, is important to the people in Venezuela as well as us. Admitting the collaboration of Cabello with America now, rather than having it discovered later, is a wise move, especially since folks are now benefitting from the regime change, and Trump cannot be accused of the HRC type of regime changes that cause chaos and ensuing terrorism against the West and even worse abuses of the citizens of Venezuela, had Maduro stayed in power. I would stay with the opinion of "a skilled move", my friend, and rest assured.
Even as Canadians, it’s difficult not to feel a warm, vicarious pride in all the winning our American neighbours managed to rack up—watching, from a safe distance, as President Trump, acting conspicuously in alignment with Israeli strategic interests, allegedly green-lit the CIA to remind the world that national sovereignty is less a rule than a flexible suggestion.
In one decisive flourish, a foreign president and his wife were removed for safekeeping, a regime change pencilled neatly into the schedule, and an oil-rich nation’s resources politely earmarked for redistribution under a more agreeable leadership—one reliably aligned with U.S. and Israeli regional priorities.
The $1 billion cost of the operation, of course, will be graciously covered by American taxpayers. A trivial inconvenience, really—especially in a country that somehow never seems to have that same $1 billion available for healthcare, education, or addressing domestic crises. But priorities must be respected.
More impressive still is the efficiency of it all: a government that can bypass Congress to apprehend a foreign head of state halfway across the globe, yet remains curiously powerless to pursue well-documented figures on the Epstein list at home. Sovereignty abroad, paralysis at home—a truly remarkable balance.
And how comforting it is to know the estimated $17 trillion in newly liberated oil wealth will be shared so equitably with the public—by which we naturally mean the billionaires, who will now enjoy the rare honour of graduating into the exalted ranks of multi-billionaires.
Yes. The winning.
So much winning. One almost forgets to ask who’s paying for it—and who’s cashing in.
Well, what is Diosdado Cabello (or the Venezuelan people, for that matter) going to do when the U.S. announces that whatever oil they produce, and its revenue, belongs to wronged U.S. oil companies and not them?
That is not going to be the case. Trump already addressed that. However, they are due payback for what they had invested in VZ before everything was nationalized (stolen) under Chavez.
Unless they are running psyop because they truly fear him … time will tell and I’m sure if he is a Judas he will be dealt with accordingly… deservedly so, albeit it’s likely he would not have ceded Maduro on his own to the U.S doubtless it was a political decision and one that might even had included Maduro himself.. I guess we will never know … there but for the greater good goes…..the old maxim, perhaps that’s how it played… just saying
If a powerful member of the establishment aided the event, then it gives Trump the inside advantage and undercuts the left narrative of swashbuckling. It also lends credit to the natives for arranging for their own destiny with a strategic foreign alliance. Where has that happened in history?
The South American drug lords have been trying to get the Evil out of South America's rich drug/oil industry for years. So the Evil sent in their private military force, the U.S., to do some regime-changing and Venezuelan land-grabbing.
Actually Thomas, its the Bush family that handle the drugs. The Clintons handle the wet work and the human trafficking, and the Bushes handle the drugs. Because if you're bringing in TONS of drugs every year, you need....oil tankers! Oil tankers that can sail right past the checkpoints and Customs with just a nod and a wink. ;)
Who's next?, us?, because, we are just as piss weak these days. We bow down to the US like this idiot did in Venezuela as well, worse actually, yet we don't have to. Everybody MUST remember, the yanks are BROKE, so that means, somebody else, is bank rolling them, and, this sort of sh...t. So, because we have a piss weak bunch of puppet 'leaders' here as well, who knows????.
I agree, and, understand that, however, that money aint the yanks or Trumps, and that, along with DFET, is a very scary scenario for the young. What a pack of insane bastards. As i have said, take away 'their' money, which has been accumulated by ill gotten means, deception, lies, etc, and what are you left with?, a pack of assh...es wth the IQ of a house plant, and, throwing tantrums because they can't get 'their' own way.
Yep but how to take it away, military on their side with advanced space weapons , geoengineering, and global food famine well under way, rigged elections , and advanced mind control quelling population?
Yes, i'm buggered if i know, but your right on the money I blame those idiotic mobile phones as a brain washing tool. They were never originally designed as a surveillance tool, or a brain washing tool neither. I don't own one, and, haven't now for two years. People are absolutely amazed, i don't know why, but they are. I get by just fine, like i did in the first 40 years of my life before i was forced to have one for work. I believe it's going to get really ugly in the next couple of years, and, i am stunned by the amount of people who think all is good. Amazing.
I have never owned or used a dumb phone or ever will , or a TV , yes they were originally designed for surveillance and mind reprogramming, originally top secret military tech , 2g ,3g ,4g 5g 6g are ALL DEADLY to all biophysical life and can create ALL disease SYMPTONS and all diseases can be transmitted through frequency with this tech. The plandemic was also transmitted through HUMAN RESONANCE . When 5g reaches 30 gighz, hemoglobin in blood CANNOT ABSORB OXYGEN, 60 ghz everyone dies. Palantir system and FLOCK cameras tracking everyone everywhere in America now , no one fighting back against this unlawful tracking YET.
Oh Thomas, how frightening is it that so many people are oblivious to what you say here, why?. I just can't believe that people have been 'dumbed' down so much, they have no idea what reality is any more. I'm sure you are aware that these idiots who invent these thing's also have a 7G in existence right now. Weather or not, we have time for that to come to fruit, is anybody's guess, however, i am led to believe that the 'brains' of certain Countries, already use a system(old) to contact each other. Nobody can really believe that Trump rings Putin on a 5G phone, do they? If you ever see a paper called 'Corruption Whistleblower', have a go at that. You can purchase them, and, there are three editions, but, very enlightening. Explains just how long
Good on you. Sooner or later, you'll realize that, you can survive quite comfortably with out one at all. Its just the 'con' artists, and the perverts that want to watch, listen, etc, to all our PRIVATE info, not to mention the idiots running this show, that sell the so called 'service' that runs them, want you think otherwise. Truly astounding at how 'addicted'(and there's no other word for it) people have become. I know people that would rather kill their first born than give up that phone.
John, hats off putting this international Trump treachery in context, but let's face it, we Trump blieveers and supports for over a decade, cannot abide by Tyrnanical behavior, ie, Venez. only accounts for about 8% of drug use in USA...This is nothing more then empire building, Greater USA, ahmen, not much differenct than Israel slaughter to expand Israel, whom Trump follows and is in bed with, and appears to follow in execution of foreign policy. His successes, and lack of third term has gone to his head, surrounded by fearful syncophants.. We know it has begun, but where does it end, and God save us from the consequences.
One small upside of www is info gets out more quickly. But General Butler take away is things do not always go as "smoothly" as the elites would like us to believe.
Take the "color revolutions" of last 20 + yrs and now going fwd in Iran. Many innocent people are destroyed and destabilization is (planned?) end result.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Maduro didn’t successfully execute an El Chapo Guzman type escape from wherever he ends up, assuming he is convicted and sentenced to a long prison term, which isn’t guaranteed by any means. But if that occurs I personally don’t expect him to stay behind bars for long. We know that just about everyone can be bought, including prison officials and guards. Who knows, there could even be a fake suicide complete with deep fake photos of the deed. There’s lots of options in a corrupt world if you have money and a few competent friends on the outside. Maduro surely would have planned for an event like what occurred(if he is smart), much like Guzman did. Guzman escaped from a Mexican prison through a mile long tunnel that went right to his shower stall. How’s that for an inside/outside plan? The trip wires for such a plan had to have been in place before his capture. I expect nothing less from Maduro, and the fact that he may be in a US prison instead of a Mexican one doesn’t change the calculus one bit in my estimation.
The Venezuelan oil industry was nationalized over several years. They did it legally. Nothing was stolen. The real steal was when Paul Singer bought $21 billion of Venezuela’s debt for a few million, gave a few million more to Trump’s campaign, and then talked Trump into taking Venezuela, so he could get the whole $21 billion. There’s nothing actually hidden here. Listening to and reading the MSM is not looking for the truth.
Or this is all a lie and they are ruining Cabello's reputation to divide and conquer. There is little doubt in my mind they paid the military off to stand down though. The problem is if the Western press releases some information it is almost always false so I would take this with a grain of salt. Who was actually in charge of air defense? Padrino at least held the title of defense minister so is ultimately responsible but I suppose it could have been some general beneath him. It was funny to see the machine gun chaff taking down their own drone a few days later. My first thought was were was that chaff when helicopters were lazily turning into position to fire off a couple missles? Those helicopter pilots didn't have a care in the world. 😂😂😂... not to even mention the 5000 russian manpads they had. They did come up with a video several days later of a supposed random manpad being launched..my first thought to that was is this AI generated and was this a response to everyone asking how those helicopters could just hover around Caracas? They also suddenly claimed a helicopter suffered some damage and a couple soldiers were injured but no details (did they break a fingernail grabbing Maduro?)
Always got wonder about those "multiple sources familiar with the matter."
It is The NY Times afterall. They are known to just make shit up!
Reuters
OK Same deal!
Who knows, but it actually makes more sense that they would make it up since that would undermine Cabello with Venezuelans. Presumably they wouldn't want to do that if he was cooperating to further their aims - not that I credit them with the intelligence to see that far ahead.
So there’s three possibilities. Number 1: it really happened. Number 2; the media made it up or Number 3: Americans leaked a false rumor to discredit him.
i’m still going with number two!
Does the media do anything without marching orders from someone in a position of power, would they just make something up? Doesn't seem like it to me though I could be wrong.
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Sure. They take orders from the Deep State or the leaders of the Democrat party. What I meant was, there could be no truth in the story!
3 sounds possible and useful.
Worse. It is British bullshit rather than American. 😂
Hear ya, the NY Time reflect pretty well 90% of the Amerikan Intellect !!!!!
i’m glad you spelled that with a K!
Transparency, John Leake, is important to the people in Venezuela as well as us. Admitting the collaboration of Cabello with America now, rather than having it discovered later, is a wise move, especially since folks are now benefitting from the regime change, and Trump cannot be accused of the HRC type of regime changes that cause chaos and ensuing terrorism against the West and even worse abuses of the citizens of Venezuela, had Maduro stayed in power. I would stay with the opinion of "a skilled move", my friend, and rest assured.
Even as Canadians, it’s difficult not to feel a warm, vicarious pride in all the winning our American neighbours managed to rack up—watching, from a safe distance, as President Trump, acting conspicuously in alignment with Israeli strategic interests, allegedly green-lit the CIA to remind the world that national sovereignty is less a rule than a flexible suggestion.
In one decisive flourish, a foreign president and his wife were removed for safekeeping, a regime change pencilled neatly into the schedule, and an oil-rich nation’s resources politely earmarked for redistribution under a more agreeable leadership—one reliably aligned with U.S. and Israeli regional priorities.
The $1 billion cost of the operation, of course, will be graciously covered by American taxpayers. A trivial inconvenience, really—especially in a country that somehow never seems to have that same $1 billion available for healthcare, education, or addressing domestic crises. But priorities must be respected.
More impressive still is the efficiency of it all: a government that can bypass Congress to apprehend a foreign head of state halfway across the globe, yet remains curiously powerless to pursue well-documented figures on the Epstein list at home. Sovereignty abroad, paralysis at home—a truly remarkable balance.
And how comforting it is to know the estimated $17 trillion in newly liberated oil wealth will be shared so equitably with the public—by which we naturally mean the billionaires, who will now enjoy the rare honour of graduating into the exalted ranks of multi-billionaires.
Yes. The winning.
So much winning. One almost forgets to ask who’s paying for it—and who’s cashing in.
#sarcasm
Well said!
Lots of experience analyzing coming collapse in Canada? We are close behind. USA will just make a worldwide tidal wave
Total Truth you just said
Well, what is Diosdado Cabello (or the Venezuelan people, for that matter) going to do when the U.S. announces that whatever oil they produce, and its revenue, belongs to wronged U.S. oil companies and not them?
That is not going to be the case. Trump already addressed that. However, they are due payback for what they had invested in VZ before everything was nationalized (stolen) under Chavez.
It is our oil damn it!!!!
paid back by American tax payers looted again
Had you heard that ANY oil being produced is being allowed to be exported?
They do not want to destabilize (ala Iraq) the government or the society.
Your joking right ? when have we not destabilized anywhere we attacked ?
Tell it to the people of VZ, Bubba
Unless they are running psyop because they truly fear him … time will tell and I’m sure if he is a Judas he will be dealt with accordingly… deservedly so, albeit it’s likely he would not have ceded Maduro on his own to the U.S doubtless it was a political decision and one that might even had included Maduro himself.. I guess we will never know … there but for the greater good goes…..the old maxim, perhaps that’s how it played… just saying
Kia Kaha (stay strong) from New Zealand
If a powerful member of the establishment aided the event, then it gives Trump the inside advantage and undercuts the left narrative of swashbuckling. It also lends credit to the natives for arranging for their own destiny with a strategic foreign alliance. Where has that happened in history?
Or...maybe they wanted to undermine him and turn him into a Judas figure..."Who, us? Did we say something?" 😇
You said it better than me.
.
It is so much simpler.
The South American drug lords have been trying to get the Evil out of South America's rich drug/oil industry for years. So the Evil sent in their private military force, the U.S., to do some regime-changing and Venezuelan land-grabbing.
Simple.
The drug cartels already moved to other places , American CIA and military still bringing in drugs .
Actually Thomas, its the Bush family that handle the drugs. The Clintons handle the wet work and the human trafficking, and the Bushes handle the drugs. Because if you're bringing in TONS of drugs every year, you need....oil tankers! Oil tankers that can sail right past the checkpoints and Customs with just a nod and a wink. ;)
And they ALL serve the Evil.
Who's next?, us?, because, we are just as piss weak these days. We bow down to the US like this idiot did in Venezuela as well, worse actually, yet we don't have to. Everybody MUST remember, the yanks are BROKE, so that means, somebody else, is bank rolling them, and, this sort of sh...t. So, because we have a piss weak bunch of puppet 'leaders' here as well, who knows????.
The GLOBALIST OWNERS are not broke trillions in offshore tax free havens
I agree, and, understand that, however, that money aint the yanks or Trumps, and that, along with DFET, is a very scary scenario for the young. What a pack of insane bastards. As i have said, take away 'their' money, which has been accumulated by ill gotten means, deception, lies, etc, and what are you left with?, a pack of assh...es wth the IQ of a house plant, and, throwing tantrums because they can't get 'their' own way.
Yep but how to take it away, military on their side with advanced space weapons , geoengineering, and global food famine well under way, rigged elections , and advanced mind control quelling population?
Yes, i'm buggered if i know, but your right on the money I blame those idiotic mobile phones as a brain washing tool. They were never originally designed as a surveillance tool, or a brain washing tool neither. I don't own one, and, haven't now for two years. People are absolutely amazed, i don't know why, but they are. I get by just fine, like i did in the first 40 years of my life before i was forced to have one for work. I believe it's going to get really ugly in the next couple of years, and, i am stunned by the amount of people who think all is good. Amazing.
I have never owned or used a dumb phone or ever will , or a TV , yes they were originally designed for surveillance and mind reprogramming, originally top secret military tech , 2g ,3g ,4g 5g 6g are ALL DEADLY to all biophysical life and can create ALL disease SYMPTONS and all diseases can be transmitted through frequency with this tech. The plandemic was also transmitted through HUMAN RESONANCE . When 5g reaches 30 gighz, hemoglobin in blood CANNOT ABSORB OXYGEN, 60 ghz everyone dies. Palantir system and FLOCK cameras tracking everyone everywhere in America now , no one fighting back against this unlawful tracking YET.
Oh Thomas, how frightening is it that so many people are oblivious to what you say here, why?. I just can't believe that people have been 'dumbed' down so much, they have no idea what reality is any more. I'm sure you are aware that these idiots who invent these thing's also have a 7G in existence right now. Weather or not, we have time for that to come to fruit, is anybody's guess, however, i am led to believe that the 'brains' of certain Countries, already use a system(old) to contact each other. Nobody can really believe that Trump rings Putin on a 5G phone, do they? If you ever see a paper called 'Corruption Whistleblower', have a go at that. You can purchase them, and, there are three editions, but, very enlightening. Explains just how long
I do not have an "I phone"....I have a little flip phone. I also own a laptop....with the little camera at the top taped over....
I only use laptop with camera covered and TESLA PURPLE PLATE UNDER
Good on you. Sooner or later, you'll realize that, you can survive quite comfortably with out one at all. Its just the 'con' artists, and the perverts that want to watch, listen, etc, to all our PRIVATE info, not to mention the idiots running this show, that sell the so called 'service' that runs them, want you think otherwise. Truly astounding at how 'addicted'(and there's no other word for it) people have become. I know people that would rather kill their first born than give up that phone.
John, hats off putting this international Trump treachery in context, but let's face it, we Trump blieveers and supports for over a decade, cannot abide by Tyrnanical behavior, ie, Venez. only accounts for about 8% of drug use in USA...This is nothing more then empire building, Greater USA, ahmen, not much differenct than Israel slaughter to expand Israel, whom Trump follows and is in bed with, and appears to follow in execution of foreign policy. His successes, and lack of third term has gone to his head, surrounded by fearful syncophants.. We know it has begun, but where does it end, and God save us from the consequences.
One small upside of www is info gets out more quickly. But General Butler take away is things do not always go as "smoothly" as the elites would like us to believe.
Take the "color revolutions" of last 20 + yrs and now going fwd in Iran. Many innocent people are destroyed and destabilization is (planned?) end result.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Maduro didn’t successfully execute an El Chapo Guzman type escape from wherever he ends up, assuming he is convicted and sentenced to a long prison term, which isn’t guaranteed by any means. But if that occurs I personally don’t expect him to stay behind bars for long. We know that just about everyone can be bought, including prison officials and guards. Who knows, there could even be a fake suicide complete with deep fake photos of the deed. There’s lots of options in a corrupt world if you have money and a few competent friends on the outside. Maduro surely would have planned for an event like what occurred(if he is smart), much like Guzman did. Guzman escaped from a Mexican prison through a mile long tunnel that went right to his shower stall. How’s that for an inside/outside plan? The trip wires for such a plan had to have been in place before his capture. I expect nothing less from Maduro, and the fact that he may be in a US prison instead of a Mexican one doesn’t change the calculus one bit in my estimation.
The Venezuelan oil industry was nationalized over several years. They did it legally. Nothing was stolen. The real steal was when Paul Singer bought $21 billion of Venezuela’s debt for a few million, gave a few million more to Trump’s campaign, and then talked Trump into taking Venezuela, so he could get the whole $21 billion. There’s nothing actually hidden here. Listening to and reading the MSM is not looking for the truth.
Imagine that ?
Or this is all a lie and they are ruining Cabello's reputation to divide and conquer. There is little doubt in my mind they paid the military off to stand down though. The problem is if the Western press releases some information it is almost always false so I would take this with a grain of salt. Who was actually in charge of air defense? Padrino at least held the title of defense minister so is ultimately responsible but I suppose it could have been some general beneath him. It was funny to see the machine gun chaff taking down their own drone a few days later. My first thought was were was that chaff when helicopters were lazily turning into position to fire off a couple missles? Those helicopter pilots didn't have a care in the world. 😂😂😂... not to even mention the 5000 russian manpads they had. They did come up with a video several days later of a supposed random manpad being launched..my first thought to that was is this AI generated and was this a response to everyone asking how those helicopters could just hover around Caracas? They also suddenly claimed a helicopter suffered some damage and a couple soldiers were injured but no details (did they break a fingernail grabbing Maduro?)