Trump Captures Nicolas Maduro

[ll74]

^^^^^ 'Shit for Brains' posting appears to be spreading among the "progressive" community.

Yes, the Vice President, who was handpicked by Maduro illegitimately, is running the country along with her loyal.military.

And the President of our country is sending Americans there.

The facts are spreading among people who like facts.

 

[Wilson23]

So are we going to send in troops or not?

 

[Rebel5soul]

Yes, the Vice President, who was handpicked by Maduro illegitimately, is running the country along with her loyal.military.

And the President of our country is sending Americans there.

The facts are spreading among people who like facts.

You and the piece of shit I quoted don't have a fucking clue as to what's happening...........NONE.

 

[Wilson23]

You and the piece of shit I quoted don't have a fucking clue as to what's happening...........NONE.

Neither does Trump. Are we sending in troops or not? He can't seem to decide.

 

[Rebel5soul]

Neither does Trump. Are we sending in troops or not? He can't seem to decide.

^^^^ Yet another fucking moron runs their mouth.

 

[Wilson23]

^^^^ Yet another fucking moron runs their mouth.

No TRUMPER gets to call anyone a MORON!

 

[Lazaran]

You and the piece of shit I quoted don't have a fucking clue as to what's happening...........NONE.

Racist5soul aka Shit4braims "thinks" DonOld "has a plan"…



Meanwhile:

• Americans are being advised to leave Venezuela.

• Armed Maduro loyalists are cracking down on opposition wishful thinkers (See also: Iran).

• Maria Machado & Edmundo Gonzalez have been sidelined.

• The truth has come out that “IT’S ALL ABOUT THE OIL”(and other natural resources) for DonOld (See also: Greenland & Ukraine & Iran & Nigeria & etc, etc, etc…).

• Oil company executives are saying Venezuela is “uninvestable”.

• The oil market is already glutted, and oil is a fading commodity with weakening demand and competition from cleaner sustainable sources.

• Venezuelan oil IS exceptional heavy, and DOES bring refining & pollution problems (DonOld once parroted that fact).

• America has spent ONE BILLION dollars (and counting) on DonOld’s “Dumbroe Doctrine” (and DonOld wants to INCREASE DEFENSE SPENDING TO ONE AND A HALF TRILLION DOLLARS).



Yeah, DonOld "has a plan" (more like “a concept of a plan”)…



Racist5soul aka Shit4brains



We. Told. Them. So.

 

[Wilson23]

• The oil market is already glutted, and oil is a fading commodity with weakening demand and competition from cleaner sustainable sources.

I WISH!
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Peak_oil

 

[Wilson23]

So, what's up with Maduro, now?

 

[RoryN]

Oh my, notice the exclamation mark from Ed Martin:

From who?

Ed Martin out as leader of DOJ's 'weaponization' group, sources say​

 

[Wilson23]

What happens to Maduro now?

 

[RobDownSouth]

From who?

Ed Martin out as leader of DOJ's 'weaponization' group, sources say​

Absolutely gothic....

"Eagle Ed Martin" is a dead man walking. His career as a MAGA attorney is over.

Trump personally hired him for his combativeness, Martin clashed with virtually every attorney at the DOJ.
Trump enjoys that sort of chaos.

Martin insisted that because Trump personally hired him, he needed to report directly to Attorney General Pam Blondi.
Blondi, for all of her faults, recognized that Martin was more than a bit psycho. She directed that he report to her deputy, the execrable Todd Blanche.

Martin went gunning for Blanche, thinking he could replace Blanche as Blondi's #2.
When Blanche announced the DOJ priorities for 2026, Martin blew a fuse.
Martin has a Rightguide-like pathological hatred for female attorneys of color, specifically Letitia James.

When Blanche announced that prosecution of Letitia James was going to be a low priority in 2026, Martin decided to teach Blanche a lesson in REAL politics.
Martin leaked classified confidential Grand Jury testimony about Letitia James to news outlets. He not only leaked to the usual suspects (OAN, Breitbart, Fox News) but also to news outlets not "friendly" to the Trump administration (NY Times, Washington Post, Axios) to get the spotlight back on Martin's pet cause.

It worked for about 24 hours....

Bondi and Blanche called Martin on the carpet as they quickly deduced that Martin was the source of this stunt. Martin swore on a Christian Bible that he never leaked ANYTHING EVER! He was a perfect loyal Trump attorney.
Bondi ordered DOJ IT experts to scan Martin's DOJ email account and personal email account. Nothing incriminating found.

Blanche "knew" something smelled wrong here, so he took an additional step outside of normal procedures and ordered DOJ to retrieve offsite month old backup files of DOJ emails. The IT experts scanned the backups and lo 'n behold there was a trove of emails from Eagle Ed to every single news outlet detailing EXACTLY what he had denied a few days earlier.

Oh-so-clever Eagle Ed thought deleting emails made them unrecoverable. Silly Eagle Ed!

Sooooo.....Eagle Ed was then publicly humiliated and his demotion announced by a press release (!!!) authorized by Pam Blondi, basically saying in MAGA code "this guy is disloyal". Martin lost his Washington DC office and shuffled to a Virginia office to continue being pardon attorney. He was no longer in the "inner circle". The troops got the message and NOBODY returns Martin's phone calls any longer.

Yesterday Martin gave an exclusive.....to CNN!...that he was wrapping up his work for the Trump administration, having accomplished everything he had set out to do.

 

[Lazaran]

Absolutely gothic....

"Eagle Ed Martin" is a dead man walking. His career as a MAGA attorney is over.

Trump personally hired him for his combativeness, Martin clashed with virtually every attorney at the DOJ.
Trump enjoys that sort of chaos.

Martin insisted that because Trump personally hired him, he needed to report directly to Attorney General Pam Blondi.
Blondi, for all of her faults, recognized that Martin was more than a bit psycho. She directed that he report to her deputy, the execrable Todd Blanche.

Martin went gunning for Blanche, thinking he could replace Blanche as Blondi's #2.
When Blanche announced the DOJ priorities for 2026, Martin blew a fuse.
Martin has a Rightguide-like pathological hatred for female attorneys of color, specifically Letitia James.

When Blanche announced that prosecution of Letitia James was going to be a low priority in 2026, Martin decided to teach Blanche a lesson in REAL politics.
Martin leaked classified confidential Grand Jury testimony about Letitia James to news outlets. He not only leaked to the usual suspects (OAN, Breitbart, Fox News) but also to news outlets not "friendly" to the Trump administration (NY Times, Washington Post, Axios) to get the spotlight back on Martin's pet cause.

It worked for about 24 hours....

Bondi and Blanche called Martin on the carpet as they quickly deduced that Martin was the source of this stunt. Martin swore on a Christian Bible that he never leaked ANYTHING EVER! He was a perfect loyal Trump attorney.
Bondi ordered DOJ IT experts to scan Martin's DOJ email account and personal email account. Nothing incriminating found.

Blanche "knew" something smelled wrong here, so he took an additional step outside of normal procedures and ordered DOJ to retrieve offsite month old backup files of DOJ emails. The IT experts scanned the backups and lo 'n behold there was a trove of emails from Eagle Ed to every single news outlet detailing EXACTLY what he had denied a few days earlier.

Oh-so-clever Eagle Ed thought deleting emails made them unrecoverable. Silly Eagle Ed!

Sooooo.....Eagle Ed was then publicly humiliated and his demotion announced by a press release (!!!) authorized by Pam Blondi, basically saying in MAGA code "this guy is disloyal". Martin lost his Washington DC office and shuffled to a Virginia office to continue being pardon attorney. He was no longer in the "inner circle". The troops got the message and NOBODY returns Martin's phone calls any longer.

Yesterday Martin gave an exclusive.....to CNN!...that he was wrapping up his work for the Trump administration, having accomplished everything he had set out to do.

The real revelation is that Bondi and Blanche, etc didn’t put the mark of Eric on Ed Martin’s forehead because of his racist, fascist, misogynistic, corrupt motives and behavior, Bondi & Blanche, etc did it because Martin had deviated from the party-approved politically convenient / sanitized game plan.



We. Told. Them. So.

 

[Wilson23]

So when is Maduro going to be tried?

And with what will he be charged? There is no such crime as "narco-terrorism."

 

[Iluv17]

Who's gonna take on our great military! Answer: NOBODY!

https://wltreport.com/2026/02/13/wa..._source=PTN&utm_medium=mixed&utm_campaign=PTN

 

[Wilson23]

Who's gonna take on our great military!

The Iranians.

 

[Rightguide]

The Iranians.

The Iranians are not pushovers. They field roughly a 500,000–600,000-man ground force split between the regular army and the IRGC, and it’s structured for asymmetric, decentralized defense. Urban warfare, missile forces, proxy networks, and regional escalation are all built into their warfare doctrine. A conventional invasion of Iran’s terrain, mountains, dense cities, chokepoints would be enormously costly. No serious planner assumes we’d be marching armored divisions to Tehran through all of that geological complexity.

Their air force is aging and can't stand toe-to-toe with U.S. air power. But that’s not the real issue. The issue is their integrated air defense network, layered SAM systems, mobile launchers, hardened sites, and radar redundancy. Air superiority wouldn’t be automatic; it would require a sustained suppression campaign before control of the skies could even be assumed. Maybe weeks, depending on the levels they've been able to achieve since the twelve day war and Midnight Hammer.

And if the objective shifts from deterrence or limited strikes to regime change, the equation changes dramatically. Neutralizing radar sites won't be near enough; we'll inherit a nation of 80+ million people, deep nationalism, and a regime built for internal security and insurgent-style resistance. Regime change would mean neutralizing missile forces capable of regional retaliation, securing nuclear infrastructure, managing proxy escalation across the Middle East, preventing state fragmentation, and above all, avoiding a prolonged insurgency.

History has shown that toppling a government is often the easy phase. Stabilizing what comes after is the hard part. Any serious discussion has to move past slogans. Iran is not Iraq in 2003. It is larger, more populous, more industrialized, more regionally embedded, and strategically prepared for confrontation. If the strategy is containment, that’s one thing. If it’s punitive strikes, that’s another. If it’s regime change, that’s a generational commitment for the long haul. I'm not sure if that is what we want shoulder. Remember Afghanistan.

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

The Iranians are not pushovers. They field roughly a 500,000–600,000-man ground force split between the regular army and the IRGC, and it’s structured for asymmetric, decentralized defense. Urban warfare, missile forces, proxy networks, and regional escalation are all built into their warfare doctrine. A conventional invasion of Iran’s terrain, mountains, dense cities, chokepoints would be enormously costly. No serious planner assumes we’d be marching armored divisions to Tehran through all of that geological complexity.

Their air force is aging and can't stand toe-to-toe with U.S. air power. But that’s not the real issue. The issue is their integrated air defense network, layered SAM systems, mobile launchers, hardened sites, and radar redundancy. Air superiority wouldn’t be automatic; it would require a sustained suppression campaign before control of the skies could even be assumed. Maybe weeks, depending on the levels they've been able to achieve since the twelve day war and Midnight Hammer.

And if the objective shifts from deterrence or limited strikes to regime change, the equation changes dramatically. Neutralizing radar sites won't be near enough; we'll inherit a nation of 80+ million people, deep nationalism, and a regime built for internal security and insurgent-style resistance. Regime change would mean neutralizing missile forces capable of regional retaliation, securing nuclear infrastructure, managing proxy escalation across the Middle East, preventing state fragmentation, and above all, avoiding a prolonged insurgency.

History has shown that toppling a government is often the easy phase. Stabilizing what comes after is the hard part. Any serious discussion has to move past slogans. Iran is not Iraq in 2003. It is larger, more populous, more industrialized, more regionally embedded, and strategically prepared for confrontation. If the strategy is containment, that’s one thing. If it’s punitive strikes, that’s another. If it’s regime change, that’s a generational commitment for the long haul. I'm not sure if that is what we want shoulder. Remember Afghanistan.

Didn’t we just obliterate their nuclear capabilities a few months ago?

 

[Rightguide]

Didn’t we just obliterate their nuclear capabilities a few months ago?

Yes, we took out a significant portion of their capability, but not all of it. Iran continues enriching uranium, which means whatever residual infrastructure remains is almost certainly being evaluated in ongoing targeting and contingency planning. What’s unclear, and what matters most, is the actual objective. Is this about restoring credible military deterrence? Is it about degrading nuclear breakout capacity? Is it laying groundwork for some kind of coercive leverage? Or is it part of a broader pressure campaign, economic, strategic, or even aimed at destabilizing the regime itself? Without knowing the end state, it’s impossible to assess whether the current actions are tactical signaling or the opening moves of something larger. Targeting decisions only make sense in light of strategic intent, and right now, the intent hasn’t been fully articulated. At least not to my satisfaction.

 

[Baztrachian]

The Iranians are not pushovers. They field roughly a 500,000–600,000-man ground force split between the regular army and the IRGC, and it’s structured for asymmetric, decentralized defense. Urban warfare, missile forces, proxy networks, and regional escalation are all built into their warfare doctrine. A conventional invasion of Iran’s terrain, mountains, dense cities, chokepoints would be enormously costly. No serious planner assumes we’d be marching armored divisions to Tehran through all of that geological complexity.

Their air force is aging and can't stand toe-to-toe with U.S. air power. But that’s not the real issue. The issue is their integrated air defense network, layered SAM systems, mobile launchers, hardened sites, and radar redundancy. Air superiority wouldn’t be automatic; it would require a sustained suppression campaign before control of the skies could even be assumed. Maybe weeks, depending on the levels they've been able to achieve since the twelve day war and Midnight Hammer.

And if the objective shifts from deterrence or limited strikes to regime change, the equation changes dramatically. Neutralizing radar sites won't be near enough; we'll inherit a nation of 80+ million people, deep nationalism, and a regime built for internal security and insurgent-style resistance. Regime change would mean neutralizing missile forces capable of regional retaliation, securing nuclear infrastructure, managing proxy escalation across the Middle East, preventing state fragmentation, and above all, avoiding a prolonged insurgency.

History has shown that toppling a government is often the easy phase. Stabilizing what comes after is the hard part. Any serious discussion has to move past slogans. Iran is not Iraq in 2003. It is larger, more populous, more industrialized, more regionally embedded, and strategically prepared for confrontation. If the strategy is containment, that’s one thing. If it’s punitive strikes, that’s another. If it’s regime change, that’s a generational commitment for the long haul. I'm not sure if that is what we want shoulder. Remember Afghanistan.

Iran's defense posture and specifically their air defense posture is Russian-based and similar to that of Venezuela.

In short, the US capability to nullify the Iranian air defense and their entire air force is merely a factor of how tired US forces get from destroying it all.

In theatre right now we have F-22, F-35, and other advanced assets potentially up against Iranian F-4 Phantoms, F-14 Tomcats, and a scattershot of Soviet-era platforms.

The USAF will achieve air superiority at the outset of any conflict and air dominance within 24 hours. If not sooner.

 

[Wilson23]

Yes, we took out a significant portion of their capability, but not all of it. Iran continues enriching uranium, which means whatever residual infrastructure remains is almost certainly being evaluated in ongoing targeting and contingency planning. What’s unclear, and what matters most, is the actual objective. Is this about restoring credible military deterrence? Is it about degrading nuclear breakout capacity? Is it laying groundwork for some kind of coercive leverage? Or is it part of a broader pressure campaign, economic, strategic, or even aimed at destabilizing the regime itself? Without knowing the end state, it’s impossible to assess whether the current actions are tactical signaling or the opening moves of something larger. Targeting decisions only make sense in light of strategic intent, and right now, the intent hasn’t been fully articulated. At least not to my satisfaction.

Well, we do know what Iran wants. They want to be the regional hegemon in the MENA like the U.S. is in the Western Hemisphere.

 

[Rightguide]

Well, we do know what Iran wants. They want to be the regional hegemon in the MENA like the U.S. is in the Western Hemisphere.

Yes, but they have nuclear ambitions that are unacceptable to the free world.

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

Yes, we took out a significant portion of their capability, but not all of it. Iran continues enriching uranium, which means whatever residual infrastructure remains is almost certainly being evaluated in ongoing targeting and contingency planning. What’s unclear, and what matters most, is the actual objective. Is this about restoring credible military deterrence? Is it about degrading nuclear breakout capacity? Is it laying groundwork for some kind of coercive leverage? Or is it part of a broader pressure campaign, economic, strategic, or even aimed at destabilizing the regime itself? Without knowing the end state, it’s impossible to assess whether the current actions are tactical signaling or the opening moves of something larger. Targeting decisions only make sense in light of strategic intent, and right now, the intent hasn’t been fully articulated. At least not to my satisfaction.

Hang on, Trump and Hegseth said the opposite of that. They said we obliterated it, their words not mine.

If we only took out a portion that’s not obliterating. Were they lying then or are they lying now?