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Trump says US will 'run' Venezuela until 'safe transition can take place'

Started by RE, Jan 03, 2026, 09:54 AM

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RE

Shades of Hitler's takeover of the Sudetanland!  WWIII begins!  The Collapse has arrived in earnest!



OK, will snatching Little Nicky result in a nice quick takeover and theft of Vz oil?

"US oil companies will fix Venezuela's "broken infrastructure" and "start making money for the country", Trump added""[/color]

Will other countries simply stand by and accept it?  I mean really, he could  do the same thing to any country in South America.  Or the Canadians.

How about China?  Good time to invade Taiwan.

Will the UN show any backbone?

Duck & Cover!



https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c5yqygxe41pt
Trump says US will 'run' Venezuela until 'safe transition can take place'

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K-Dog

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Venezuela is a society where people are incredibly engaged in political life—far more than in the United States or Canada. Democracy is embedded in the revolution and is an ongoing process. It's not just about going to the polls every few years, it's a continuous exercise in education and participation to advance the Bolivarian project.

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The disinformation campaign on Venezuela

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The Bolivarian Revolution: Past, Present, and Future

The Bolivarian Revolution is the result of a historical process and a historical project.




News from a Marxist perspective presented by Alexander Mckay.

It starts 34 minutes in.


A comprador is a "person who acts as an agent for foreign organizations engaged in investment, trade, or economic or political exploitation.

Many $$$$ were involved in the kidnapping.






LIVE -- STOP TRUMP'S Venezuela War Protest in Minneapolis.

There are some who do not chat, Hail to the Thief.


Thief rapist and total P.O.S.


WIONEWS.COM2026-01-03

Who is Delcy Rodríguez, lawyer-turned Vice President of Venezuela?

Delcy Rodríguez is the Vice President of Venezuela and a key Maduro ally. Explore the lawyer's rise to power, her roles in the oil sector, and her impact on Venezuelan politics.

K-Dog

By Kidnapping the 'leader' Trump thinks the Bolivarian Revolution will suddenly crumble.

Trump is an idiot.  For one guy Trump lets the entire world know he is a dictator without any principles.  The amount of political capital spent on his pointless stunt far outweighs any benefit.  It will only distract from the pedophile files for a few days.

Benefit, hell there isn't any.  One guy and his wife equals an entire country.  Not.  This is a comparison which makes no sense.  Trumpthink is what it is.  Two meat packages and a country, are not the same thing unless you think you are what you 'own'.

It is interesting how Trump's narcissistic addled demented brain thought kidnapping could be a good idea.  In Trump's world most people are irrelevant, and without any value whatever.  But with Maduro Trump made an exception.  Gold on the man's desk don't you know.  Like to himself Trump assigned a value to Maduro that was unreasonable.  A value that simply was not there.  And now Trump has to deal with a very angry Venezuela.  All Trump has done is hasten his own demise because no, owning the body of a man does not own the country he is president of.

Trump often thinks that America now belongs to him,  he assumed the same must be true for Maduro.  If I own you, I own Venezuela goes Trump's fake logic.

The truth is all this has happened because Trump is deluded and has no working brain.  Trump is a trip without a destination.

Trump says US to run Venezuela after 'capture' of Maduro


Madness, snatching one guy is the same as invading a country since when?



K-Dog


RE

#4
#1 Venezuela, as well as Cuba and Nicaragua, are viewed by the Trump administration as key actors of the "axis of socialism" — with Colombia also under scrutiny. Trump warned last month that Colombian President Gustavo Petro needs to "watch his ass" over cocaine flowing to the U.S.

I'm really curious to see how they think they can now "run" Vz without parking a whole LOT of BOTG around all the Oil facilities, shipping facilities and Goobermint offices?  WTF is going to do all the clerical jobs and physical labor?  I hardly think the workers will welcome their new overlords, and there are lots of people with gunz very accustumed to shoooting people.  No shortage of RPGs or C-4 either.

Clearly, he's counting on this as a distraction from the Pedo Files (sic) and the Health insurance boondoggle.

I also caan't see the Chinese or Russians not responding.  At the very least they'll supply arms to any resistance.  The only question is how long it takes for this to develop into a total quagmire at best, or spiral into WWIII.

https://www.axios.com/2026/01/03/maduro-capture-reasons-us-venezuela
Why the U.S. went after Maduro

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K-Dog

AXIOS.COM2026-01-03

Why the U.S. went after Maduro

If you think about these six reasons, the actual factual reality of them, and their complexity.  You will see the American White House is as deluded as if Trump were hatched on Mars before his orange ass fell to earth.  There is no benefit to the American people in Trump's action.  This is another Trump distraction.  A fatal distraction.  One where people have died.  Sadly to cover the Epstein murder, many others must die.

WORKERS.ORG2026-01-03

Condemn the U.S. bombing of Venezuela!

Free President Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores NOW!

RE

Doesn't sound like Trumpolini is going to stop with Vz.  Mexico, Colombia and of course Cuba are all in the Crosshairs.  He's also reinforced his rhetoric about Greenland.  So far the Chinese & Ruskies are playing wait and see, but how many Dominoes do they let fall here?  Since he's not getting much more than a Perp Walk for Little Nicky, he's going to need more action to keep distracting from the PedoFiles.

2026 is shaping up to be an Action Packed year in Collapse! 🤪



https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/5/trump-threatens-colombias-petro-says-cuba-looks-like-its-ready-to-fall

Trump threatens Colombia's Petro, says Cuba looks 'ready to fall'

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K-Dog

#7
"The documentary The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, directed by Irish filmmakers Kim Bartley and Donnacha Ó Briain, provides a firsthand account of the April 2002 coup in Venezuela that temporarily ousted President Hugo Chávez. It critically analyzes the decisive role played by Venezuela's private media in shaping events—from the protest march and violent clashes that triggered the coup, to the swift rise and fall of the interim government under business leader Pedro Carmona. The film ultimately chronicles the collapse of that government and the dramatic restoration of Chávez to power."

This is my answer to the disgusting requirement that all Americans on the up, the down, the right, the left are required to say "Maduro was a bad man" <- rinse and repeat, before they talk about things in Venezuela which they know nothing about.  Ignorance blossoms.

K-Dog

STRUGGLE-LA-LUCHA.ORG2026-01-05

Oil wealth, class power, and imperialist siege in Venezuela

The political durability of the Bolivarian Revolution is grounded in material gains won by the working class and the poor.

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Vice President of Venezuela establishes National Defense Council: 'The only president of Venezuela Is Nicolás Maduro'

The vice president reiterated that the real objective of this operation is "regime change in Venezuela," which would allow the United States to take over "our energy, mineral, and natural resources." She called on the international community to stand up for justice.

K-Dog

JACOBIN.COM2019-01-11

Venezuela Party Politics "Escalation Could Lead to a Catastrophic Outcome"

For Venezuela, the worst-case scenario of a US military intervention remains a potent threat. A long-time advisor to Hugo Chavez offers his thoughts on the country's crisis.






In this video Temir Porras is interviewed.  This interview is from today.  Temir was interviewed for the article above six years ago. 



About : Temir Porras 

RE



Will we get a confrontation at sea between FSoA an Ruskie naval forces?  I can't see the Rusies allowing the oil to be taken in International Waters.  That's a blatant act of PIRACY, an ACT OF WAR.

How will Trumpolini react?  Will he order the captain to attempt to board if the Ruskies get there first and put troops on the ship?  Will the captain obey the order?  If the FSoA gets there first, will Putin send his sailors to take it back?

Mother Russia is an official ALLY of Vz.  This would be a good excuse for Vlad to send troops to Vz to help them  maintain independence.

Here's where the rubber meets the road.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7v0deypjl4o

Russia sends navy ships to guard oil tanker being pursued by US forces

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Game on!

OK, first off there is a really tight lid on reporting about this.  Other than FSoa State controlled MSM outlets, none of  the foreign media reports have been available since late last night.  From the little I have been able to glean, the "International Sanctions" the FSoA aren't international at all, they are unilateral.   Basically nobody is supposed to sell Oil to anyone the FSoA flags as an "enemy".  Clearly, the goal is to cut off energy supply to every country that doesn't kowtow to the FSoA.  This includes just about every 3rd world country with a Socialist goobermint.

Also apparent is that this strategy has been in place for weeks before Maduro was kidnapped.  By taking control of the shipping lanes, the FSoA is trying to make sure it controls the global energy trade.

Clearly longer term neither the Ruskies nor the Chinese can accept this situation.  The question is how they will protect future ships, since I doubt they will try now to board this one.  The ship likely has no oil, so there is some chance they might elect to scuttle the ship.

Looks like WWII has begun on the high seas.  We're looking at what amounts to a global embargo of the Oil trade.  To retaliate, the Ruskies might "sanction" FSoA LNG ships bound for Rotterdam.

Stay Tuned.

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K-Dog

It is sad that the majority of people will hear 'illicit oil' and immediately reifiy it as a real thing.

QuoteBasically nobody is supposed to sell Oil to anyone the FSoA flags as an "enemy".

Just like an immigrant who does not have blond hair and a pussy and who is instead dark skinned becomes defined as illegal.  Even if they come from an eastern European country, dark skin would make them illegal.  But blonde hair and a pussy under the right circumstances can get an immigrant an Einstein visa no matter where they might be from.  Even one of Trump's "Shithole Countries" would qualify.  To be sure a thick accent with staunch determination to not speak fluent English would help if they actually were from a shithole country.  A thick accent would certainly cancel out being from the shithole country.

Illegal now means 'that which assholes do not like'.  It fits with America's new authoritarian zeitgeist very well.






America no longer is sipping Fascism Lite. 

Now America gulps the Real Thing.






And anyone dark or who does not like it gets deported.