At this point, it is not exactly clear what the Administration has accomplished.
That's for sure.
I suppose that, in time, we will have a show trial in New York City for the Maduros, its outcome fore-ordained; the very thing we condemned the Soviets for back in the bad old days. But then, this should not be surprising in what I have heard called our "post-Constitutional" age.
Depressing
... another soycucked dishonest article
You're not plan trusting, plan distrusters get it wrong every time.
Evidence points to cooperative capture. The "show trial" is most likely to be him naming names in the deep state, domestic arrests follow. He's in witness protection and not getting snuffed by his former handlers.
"Trust the plan". You know, it's pretty reasonable to have trust issues with political figures. Also pretty reasonable to ask questions when political figures make little sense.
"political figures" have nothing to do with it, if you think this is political you're really behind the times, trapped in a mental model of a world that doesn't exist.
What's happening aren't campaign promises, these are military and intelligence operations.
Trump is a political figure. His spokesmen are also.
I've said for a long time Trump is a realist. This is about strategic power. This is about military strength for sure. When you take a realist look at global power vs democratic ideology it makes sense that this action happened.
But the pitches being thrown are what confuse people and frankly they aren't great. Which is what I'm talking about here. Campaign promises are broken. Slogans make little sense. A lot of gas lighting is going on.
Trust the plan is all about trusting Trump. The trust the plan people seem to change their story to fit what Trump does next so I'm skeptical about their knowledge of said plan.
Are "leaders" only political figures when they're subject to elections? What about in countries where they dont even bother to have the pretense of elections?
I'm not confused, I also don't expect a play by play of classified information. So who's confused? Morons that can't extrapolate from incomplete information? Naives that think they know things the don't? Virtue signalers that'll find any reason to feel morally superior? Blackpillers who project their failures onto the world?
Such as? Over what time horizon?
To who?
It's about trusting the apparatus who got Trump installed has more information than you do, and recognizing the trend of creative destruction and pulling off what the blackpillers, virtue signalers, and naives said was impossible.
That's not plan trusting, that's plan speculation.
No one talking to us is going to layout the plan, that'd be terrible opsec and render the plan worthless. All we can do is speculate on next phases and extrapolate what we do know... which is appropriate to do to illustrate how lacking in situational awareness morons/naives/blackpillers are.
Author of this soy article:
Yea... he's got it all figured out.
I dont care about the article and most takes are bad and ignore the real power struggles.
I just think many Trump fans are just as clueless and Trump's pitch that he's against regime change and that this isn't about that is a weak argument.
I'm also very skeptical about this regime change op going well. We will see. I'm not trusting Trump or this so called plan.
One crime org took out another one. It's all power struggles and has always been that. There is less pretense about it now and Trump's op does seem to get it in ways previous crime op leaders didn't.
On the plan. plan speculation is what is happening over and over. People are told to trust the plan. Really trust the planner is a better frame. Since like you say the plan isn't being communicated. And yeah, that would be dumb.
Just saying this attitude about people being fools for not getting it is pretty weak. I agree the neoliberal world view is niave. And condemning Trump but not Obama or Biden is hypocritical but if you opposed all of it and don't buy the current spin you aren't a fool. It is just spin.
I think I get why this happened. I think the marketing and spin is hard to justify. Hard to square. That's not dumb. The reason this action tool place is simple. And Trump doesn't play by the old rules. That's what the old guard still pretends to not get.
I'd also add that he's far from the only President to work more in the power approach. Just the first since WW2. It had to come back eventually.
What’s the legal basis for the US having jurisdiction over actions taken in Venezuela?
The US is using the legal pathway set by the capture and conviction of Panama's Manuel Noriega.
I don’t know what that basis was either
In short
When it came to clams of immunity due to being the head of state
https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/dictator-drugs-and-diplomacy-indictment-head-state-immunity-united
got it
I remember you asking this right after the abduction. I still don't know.
I think the problem is that the people who are complaining about following the international law have lost all credibility, because they didn't care about enforcing laws when it comes to immigration or leftwing protests; and they didn't care about human rights violations during COVID.
So, yes, we live in an age of anarchy, but let's not let the moral posturers forget that their hypocrisy played its part in getting us here.
Very true
Reading the article I am not sure I agree that narcoterrorism is this generation WMD.... Narcoterrorism dates back to Pablo Escobar and his terror attacks on anti narcotics police. I mean essentially all narcoterrorism is is just labeling the reason of the terrorist attacks.
Tons of terror networks fund themselves via the drug trade as well. Cartels have increasingly moved to terrorism to keep or expand control of their territory I just see it as labeling what the terrorist reason is more than anything.
For Maduro his guilt in my opinion is in his facilitation of narcotics movement by organizations and people who engage in the terror attacks. Just like how the get away driver for a bank robbery is just as guilty as the person who committed the act.
Do you think the Cartel Of The Sun:
Looking at the history of it it was a journalistic term from the 1990s. I think it is kind of like the term Dixie Mafia. Did the military and upper levels of the government help facilitate trafficking?
Yes, and the former Venezuela intel spy chief admitted as much. Now I am not a lawyer so I do not know how one labels a group of people who informally work together like the Dixie Mafia so I guess its good?
I hope that makes sense.... I can see big parallels between Cartel of the Sun and the Dixie Mafia but I dont know how you legally speaking would label that.
I know some political prisoners were released. Oil is next, and who knows, maybe even a right-wing government!
Non-syndicated
This was never about democracy or human rights. It was a textbook resource-driven intervention built on sanctions, economic strangulation, and covert operations to remove a leader who refused alignment. The UN Charter exists to prevent exactly this kind of aggression, yet sovereignty means little when great powers act without consequence. Venezuela’s fate was sealed the moment its oil reserves became a strategic prize, and the pattern here mirrors Iraq and Libya. The danger is not just for Venezuela but for every non‑aligned nation now reminded that if America wants something, it will take it. That resignation you see in Paraguay is the world settling into a reality where the rules are applied selectively, and where regime change is simply another tool of foreign policy.