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LordAdam16:
after all the braggadocio, they are back to earth

i wonder if airplanes can no longer land in venezuela
bring your troops and bring your puppets

all this lamba because their mouths were writing checks that their $1T military can't cash

-Lord

WriteerNg:
⚡Venezuelan Defense Ministry:

The Bolivarian National Armed Force strongly rejects the cowardly kidnapping of citizen Nicolás Maduro Moros, Constitutional President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, our Commander-in-Chief, and of his wife, the First Lady Dr. Cilia Flores de Maduro; an act carried out yesterday, Saturday, January 3 of the current year, after cold-bloodedly murdering a large part of his security team, soldiers, and innocent civilians.

We activate, across the entire national geographic space and in perfect civil-military-police fusion, the Full Operational Readiness, in order to ensure the freedom, independence, and sovereignty of the Nation.

WriteerNg:
⚡Marco Rubio:

There's not a war. We are at war against drug trafficking organizations — not a war against Venezuela.

WriteerNg:
⚡NBC News: Why do you oppose working with the opposition leader, María Corina Machado. She’s a Nobel Peace Prize winner as well.

Rubio: The vast majority of the opposition is no longer present inside Venezuela. We have short-term issues that have to be addressed right away.

We expect to see more compliance and cooperation.

dermmy:
Honestly I don't trust that woman I think she's just acting so she won't be seen as a collaborator. This is well scripted.

WriterrNg:
The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974.

And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself.

Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy."

This is about the petrodollar system that has kept America the dominant economic power for 50 years.

And Venezuela just threatened to end it.

Here's what really just happened:

Venezuela has 303 billion barrels of proven oil reserves.

The largest on Earth.

More than Saudi Arabia.

20% of the entire world's oil.

But here's the part that matters:

Venezuela was actively selling that oil in Chinese yuan. Not dollars.

In 2018, Venezuela announced it would "free itself from the dollar."

They started accepting yuan, euros, rubles, anything BUT dollars for oil.

They were petitioning to join BRICS.

They were building direct payment channels with China that bypass SWIFT entirely.

And they were sitting on enough oil to fund de-dollarization for decades.

Why does this matter?

Because the entire American financial system is built on one thing:

The petrodollar.

In 1974, Henry Kissinger made a deal with Saudi Arabia:

All oil sold globally must be priced in US dollars.

In exchange, America provides military protection.

This single agreement created artificial demand for dollars worldwide.

Every country on Earth needs dollars to buy oil.

This lets America print unlimited money while other countries work for it.

It funds the military. The welfare state. The deficit spending.

The petrodollar is more important to US hegemony than aircraft carriers.

And there's a pattern of what happens to leaders who challenge it:

2000: Saddam Hussein announces Iraq will sell oil in euros instead of dollars.

2003: Invaded. Regime change. Iraq's oil immediately switched back to dollars. Saddam lynched.

The WMDs were never found because they never existed.

2009: Gaddafi proposes a gold-backed African currency called the "gold dinar" for oil trade.

Hillary Clinton's own leaked emails confirm this was the PRIMARY reason for intervention.

Email quote: "This gold was intended to establish a pan-African currency based on the Libyan golden Dinar."

2011: NATO bombs Libya. Gaddafi sodomized and murdered. Libya now has open slave markets.

"We came, we saw, he died!" Clinton laughed on camera.

The gold dinar died with him.

And now Maduro.

With FIVE TIMES more oil than Saddam and Gaddafi combined.

Actively selling in yuan.

Building payment systems outside dollar control.

Petitioning to join BRICS.

Partnered with China, Russia, and Iran.

The three countries leading global de-dollarization.

This isn't coincidence.

Challenge the petrodollar. Get regime changed.

Every. Single. Time.

Stephen Miller (US homeland security advisor) literally said it out loud two weeks ago:

"American sweat, ingenuity and toil created the oil industry in Venezuela. Its tyrannical expropriation was the largest recorded theft of American wealth and property."

He's not hiding it.

They're claiming Venezuelan oil BELONGS to America because US companies developed it 100 years ago.

By this logic, every nationalized resource in history was "theft."

But here's the DEEPER problem:

The petrodollar is already dying.

Russia sells oil in rubles and yuan since Ukraine.

Saudi Arabia is openly discussing yuan settlements.

Iran has been trading in non-dollar currencies for years.

China built CIPS, their own alternative to SWIFT with 4,800 banks in 185 countries.

BRICS is actively building payment systems that bypass the dollar entirely.

The mBridge project lets central banks settle trades instantly in local currencies.

Venezuela joining BRICS with 303 billion barrels of oil would accelerate this exponentially.

That's what this invasion is really about.

Not stopping drugs. Venezuela accounts for less than 1% of US cocaine.

Not terrorism. There's zero evidence Maduro runs a "terror organization."

Not democracy. The US supports Saudi Arabia, which has zero elections.

This is about maintaining a 50-year-old agreement that lets America print money while the world works for it.

And the consequences are terrifying:

Russia, China, and Iran are already denouncing this as "armed aggression."

China is Venezuela's biggest oil customer. They're losing billions.

BRICS nations are watching a country get invaded for trading outside the dollar.

Every nation considering de-dollarization just got the message:

Challenge the dollar and we will bomb you.

But here's the problem...

That message might accelerate de-dollarization, not stop it.

Because now every country in the Global South knows what happens if you threaten dollar hegemony.

And they're realizing the only protection is to move FASTER.

The timing is insane too:

January 3rd, 2026. Venezuela invaded. Maduro captured.

January 3rd, 1990. Panama invaded. Noriega captured.

36 years apart. Almost to the day.

Same playbook. Same "drug trafficking" excuse.

Same real reason: control of strategic resources and trade routes.

History doesn't repeat. But it rhymes.

What happens next:

Trump's press conference at Mar-a-Lago sets the narrative.

US oil companies are already lined up. Politico reported they've been approached about "returning to Venezuela."

The opposition will be installed. Oil will flow in dollars again.

Venezuela becomes another Iraq. Another Libya.

But here's what nobody's asking:

What happens when you can no longer bomb your way to dollar dominance?

When China has enough economic leverage to retaliate?

When BRICS controls 40% of global GDP and says "no more dollars"?

When the world realizes the petrodollar is maintained by violence?

America just showed its hand.

The question is whether the rest of the world folds or calls the bluff.

Because this invasion is an admission that the dollar can no longer compete on its own merits.

When you have to bomb countries to keep them using your currency, the currency is already dying.

Venezuela isn't the beginning.

It's the desperate end.

What do you think?

LordAdam16:
this speech by acting president rodriguez is a humiliation for trump

how do you announce to the world that you now run venezuela
then a few hours later the legitimate acting president calls out your BS to the entire planet
na mouth dem tk dey run country

they should start preparing for another attack
and this time they should be ready to admit their losses not that crap about bullet and shrapnel injuries

eventually he will have to deploy those troops and start welcoming body bags
axis will collect their pound of flesh
e no get as the 🤡🤡🤡 1 avoid am

now i get why france is pissed
this was not a regime change
it was a kidnapping operation
with zero impact on chavista control of venezuela

-Lord

WriterrNg:

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LordAdam16, Appleyard, Alamkiir please explain.

lanre316:
Na lie. Russia would have taken out Zelensky if they could. Russia hasn't because they couldn't. Stop living in delusion

dvkot:
This is why I like how America projects power...
As a world power, you can do whatever you want and no nation will do anything. Go BIG as in really BIG or GO HOME.
Sadly Putin didn't get this memo.

WriteerNg:
⚡U.S. sources report that the Delta special forces operation in Caracas is now in its most critical stages. The mission, focused on detaining Nicolás Maduro and several senior Venezuelan officials, is actively underway.

The U.S. military helicopters are operating at low altitude which make them an easy targets for air defense systems but there is no defensive response from the Venezuelan air defense forces..

WriteerNg:
Thank you.

I don't even think air defense systems can detect helicopters.

shoodboi2:
There’s a reason the US is using helicopters rather than airplanes for its assault.

Shooting at helicopters is different from airplanes. Most ADs are optimized for airplanes and helis can easily bypass them by flying low or flying around mountains. When detected, the helicopters can just remain in hover position which makes them hard and sometimes impossible to zero on.

The script here is to use low flying helicopters to take out the ADs. Thereafter, the jets will be able to fly freely across the Venezuelan skies.

LordAdam16:
don't worry
there will be repercussions to this

we await results of day 1 of the venezuela war
day 6 has been largely uneventful on the iran front

a dying hegemony lashing out

-Lord

mojounited:
Sneaky move by the Zionists and U$. Hide behind the protests in Iran to again cause chaos and sabotage while planing another military attacks.

I'm just waiting to see what the blowback will look like in both Iran and Venezuela.

China, we await your next move on the chess board.

Hamxas:
I have check all eyewitness report from people in iran and it seems only u is protesting for them, dude u well so

usmanpogo:
Finally, someone sees it
The UAE supports terrorist elements even on the African continent.
We have new players who have chosen the African continent as the next theater to settle geopolitical disputes.
The Arabs and the Turks are here and not a lot of people see how this will end.
Well, Israel has always wielded influence around the horn of Africa.
Turkey's 400 hectares military base in Mogadishu was definitely gonna have consequences, I think we all saw that recently, surprised the Israelis waited this long.

At this point one can't help but wonder what the AU is doing to prevent and secure the continent from these foreign influences.

So far, all of West Africa is fair game to terror groups backed by these new players.

LordAdam16:
persia will conduct missile and AD drills tonight

one can walk and chew gum at the same time

-Lord

WriteerNg:

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Say this prayer with me, my people:

Make God no let us see that kind hunger wey make U.S chase tanker from Venezuela reach Atlantic Ocean.

These mfs are flat broke. 😂 🤣 😭

LordAdam16:
they also terminated three infiltrators that were trying to seize weapons from an armory
this is providing the perfect opportunity to delete the foreign and domestic agents satanyahu and co had been keeping on ice for later activation

you claim you are a protester, you left the roads and squares to attempt to raid an armory
normal people write or print placards, those ones are producing incendiary devices
the axis has learned from the ukraine fiasco

they will keep trying and the security services will be punching their tickets to the after life
after all when the hot war starts, these are the same elements they will seek to use for intelligence gathering and assassinations

-Lord

FoolishBoy419:
🇮🇷| NEW: Iranian Police uncovered a Molotov cocktail manufacturing workshop in Alborz and arrested 14 individuals

The commander of Alborz province police announced the arrest of 14 trained & organized individuals who were producing explosives & Molotov cocktails in a workshop.

These Molotovs were meant to be

The missiles need to start flying soon

Watcharena:
this protest is very funny sha, Iran is not an English speaking country but the protesters are keen in flying English written fliers,I don't know who the message is meant for

LordAdam16:
iran announces that it repelled a massive cyberattack on its communications infrastructure over the weekend

-Lord

LordAdam16:
IRAN PROTEST SITREP

it is clear that satanyahu, pahlavi, and co are trying to see if they can carry out a ukraine style maidan revolution
they were hoping for an organic unrest
but most iranians are not biting

so now they're trying to trigger an uptick in violence and fatalities
but the iranian security services have a lot of experience from previous riots, are exercising a great deal of restraint after the 12D war, and pezeshkian, to his credit, has avoided the combative posture of his predecessors

first a basij member was killed
then a cop was set on fire
both happened in tier 2/3 cities
today, opposition/MEK remnants organized a group of about 50 to try to forcefully take over government installations in lordegan
they were armed and engaged in a shootout
they tried three times to breach. two assailants were killed.

the authorities did not crack down on the protests that these elements tried to subvert
when you're tired of exercising, you go back home

the increase in frequency of russian cargo deliveries suggest the axis considers this unrest to be the opening salvo of the regional war
nothing will come of it ultimately because the internal enemies simply cannot achieve critical mass
but the 🤡🤡 will try to use the chaos to redeploy and stage saboteurs and infiltrators for the imminent hot war

perhaps if the afghans had not been deported, this would have already become an inferno
😃 the foreign governments and media that would have been issuing press releases by the hour warning against crackdown and highlighting the number of fatalities have nothing to report
after this fizzles out, then it's time for boom boom tel aviv
no deity is stopping that inevitability

-Lord

LordAdam16:
one important point that often doesn't get enough attention is that iran's volatile domestic security situation has heavily impacted the efficacy of its counterintelligence

firstly, unlike the us, russia, even nigeria, iran's two prime counterintelligence nodes do not have a clear scope of responsibilities
the mullahs always want to have a duplicate of everything, so the irgc has its own counterintelligence apparatus
they do not focus squarely on foreign threats
this duplication and overlap between the ministry of intelligence, irgc intelligence, and artesh intelligence has had an impact on performance

secondly, iran is the france of the middle east
protests are a national pastime
any intelligence agency will struggle with a population that is that restive
persians are born different sha

-Lord

WriteerNg:
⚡Iran's IRGC Intelligence units conduct a night time raid arresting foreign-backed elements at the dormitory of Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran.

Several students were arrested on suspicion of being in contact with foreign agencies and planning riots during the upcoming days.

Alamkiir:
Kremlin:

Trump said that the drone attack on the residence of the Russian president would affect U.S. approaches in its dealings with Zelensky.

LordAdam16:
your third point is a luxury they've taken for granted that is beginning to disappear
the resistance axis is just about done with localized fires
so a confrontation in early 2026, while seemingly inevitable, will deviate from the typical

on us participation, the us does not have infinite appetite for hot conflict against foes that can hit back
besides, israel is as needy as ukraine but does not have the high pain tolerance of ukraine
ukraine has lost more than a million men and 20% of their territory, they'll fight until the spigot is turned off
israel asked for us intervention within 4 days

satanyahu sold the yankees a false bill of goods and he'll be very surprised by how his latest demands are received
americans dying in the me because israel decided to start sh*t it can't finish is not a domestic winning position
and the gulf arabs don't hate iran enough to sacrifice their economy and leisurely lifestyle for hot conflicts that repeat every 3-6 months
the yemen war effectively ended when saudi oil terminals were struck
so the resistance axis can turn the pain dial for all of the genocidal wart's must-have partners until they're forced to come to terms with their diminished position in the region

knowing satanyahu, he'll stubbornly move forward because of his demented belief that when shtf, america will always show up regardless of whatever reservations they may have
well, the americans will show up. but they'll bring gifts he wouldn't like
because at the end of the day, the entire israeli (tel aviv) stock exchange is less than 2% of the market cap of nvidia

-Lord

LordAdam16:
the anglo-saxons are kleptomaniacs

the us is the largest oil producer on the planet
almost all (97%) of canada's oil is funneled to the us for refining
likewise mexico's oil (over 70%)

you have an entire continent of oil
more oil than all of africa and europe combined
but their gluttony demands more, more, more

-Lord

LordAdam16:
satanyahu is trapped

he should have accepted the ceasefire with hez
but he got greedy and believed his own BS about reshaping the ME
so he escalated against hez and started threatening every resistance group with the same treatment

now he can't back down
the lessons from that miscalculation with hez is why he has not attempted to bomb yemen like he has been doing in syria and lebanon
nothing is physically stopping iaf jets from going to yemen to bomb ansarullah security targets or even in iraq

unfortunately for him, hez is the flagship resistance paramilitary force and iran needs to be on israel's border
iran is expanding its arsenal not for deterrence but for usage
so even if israel cannot afford to take on iran and the entire axis, they also cannot afford to wait as lambs waiting for slaughter
they've been begging persia non-stop since the end of the 12d war to come to some sort of understanding
all of the pleas fell on deaf ears
persia wants blood

if you read the news reports, this is framed as israel going to the us seeking to inflict a final blow on iran's ability to mount an effective attack
that is the western propaganda spin like they use in ukraine
the reality is that they're going to the us because the resistance axis is gearing up to end israel's status as a regional power
and only the us can conceivably do anything about it
so the question now is how many american lives the trump administration is willing to sacrifice to thwart this objective of the resistance axis

-Lord

WriteerNg:
I think they depleted their strategic petroleum reserve trying to stabilize oil prizes.

Now they're stealing oil in international waters to replace their reserves.

WriteerNg:
Many people back home are saying it doesn't feel like Christmas at all. That the atmosphere isn't festive.

Some said it rained even on Christmas day.

How true is that?