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Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriteerNg: 4:05pm On Jan 04
⚡Marco Rubio:

All of the problems we had with Maduro when Maduro was there. We still have those problems in terms of them needing to be addressed.

We are going to give people an opportunity to address those challenges and those problems. Until they address it, they will continue to face this oil quarantine.

They will continue to face pressure from the United States. We will continue to target drug boats if they try to run towards the United States.

We will continue to seize the the boats that are sanctioned with court orders.

We will continue to do that and potentially other things until the things we need to see addressed are addressed.

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriteerNg: 4:05pm On Jan 04
⚡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.

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriteerNg: 4:06pm On Jan 04
⚡Marco Rubio:

There's not a war. We are at war against drug trafficking organizations — not a war against Venezuela.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriteerNg: 4:07pm On Jan 04
⚡Ballistic missile trails seen in the sky over Karaj, Alborz Province, likely a missile test by Iran's IRGC

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Blakjewelry(m): 4:07pm On Jan 04
Mikasaobi:
It’s too early to judge. Maduro government is still in power, in the early days of the Ukraine War Russia was taking cities within weeks, Ukrainian army was transporting supplies with bikes and old trucks until NATO got involved with money, weapons, mercenaries and thousands of “instructors “.

Let’s give them time and I hope Venezuelans demand explanation from the new government. We need to know the collaborators in the government, with only assault rifles the security services can prevent choppers from landing in the government house. The betrayal is deep and everyone including the current president could be involved, so Russia and China needs time to navigate and detect the land mines in Venezuela.
Na. China and Russia dey Bleep up big time, the US openly support the enemy of these countries so why not do the same when when it is the other way round.

They fail to pump weapons to Iran now in Venezuela during the build up but the US is currently pumping weapons in Taiwan, they don't know Taiwan cant win a war against China but the plan is to at least cause someajor damage.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriteerNg: 4:07pm On Jan 04
⚡Netanyahu:

Four hundred kilograms of enriched material must be removed from Iran.

There must be strict, real supervision over all nuclear sites.

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriteerNg: 4:09pm On Jan 04
⚡UK Ministry of Defence:

The British Air Force and French aircraft carried out a joint strike on an underground facility near Palmyra, Syria.

Intelligence analysis revealed that the facility targeted near Palmyra was under the control of ISIS.

Preliminary indicators suggest the target was successfully destroyed, with no signs that civilians were put at risk.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriteerNg: 4:14pm On Jan 04
⚡Rubio to Venezuela’s new leader:

You cannot turn Venezuela into an operating hub for Iran, for Russia, for Hezbollah, for China, or for Cuban intelligence agents. That cannot continue.

You cannot have the largest oil reserves in the world under the control of adversaries of the United States.

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriteerNg: 4:17pm On Jan 04
⚡NBC News: Who’s going to run Venezuela? So is it you? Is it Secretary Hegseth?

Rubio: Well, it’s not about “running” the country in that sense. It’s about policy.

We want Venezuela to move in a certain direction.

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriteerNg: 4:19pm On Jan 04
⚡Multiple C‑17A Globemaster III aircrafts, along with KC‑135 air refuelling Stratotankers, have flown over the Atlantic Ocean from the U.S to various bases in Europe and the Middle East.

At least two of the C‑17s have landed at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, and several are arriving at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom.

These movements are very similar to the ones that took place before the 12-Day war began in June 2025.

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by LordAdam16: 4:24pm On Jan 04
petro deploys 30,000 troops to the border with venezuela
brazil also announced deployment of troops to the border with venezuela but kept mum on the number

combined population of brazil, colombia, and venezuela is 300 million
they are taking the trump administration threats to intervene in their countries seriously

if washington wants a regional war
their prayers will be answered

-Lord
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Mikasaobi: 4:39pm On Jan 04
WriteerNg:
⚡Rubio to Venezuela’s new leader:

You cannot turn Venezuela into an operating hub for Iran, for Russia, for Hezbollah, for China, or for Cuban intelligence agents. That cannot continue.

You cannot have the largest oil reserves in the world under the control of adversaries of the United States.
🤡🤡🤡😂😂😂 I thought you’re running Venezuela now. The new boss is same as the old boss, they’re all Chavista. Nice Hollywood script though.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Mikasaobi: 4:48pm On Jan 04
Blakjewelry:
Na. China and Russia dey Bleep up big time, the US openly support the enemy of these countries so why not do the same when when it is the other way round.

They fail to pump weapons to Iran now in Venezuela during the build up but the US is currently pumping weapons in Taiwan, they don't know Taiwan cant win a war against China but the plan is to at least cause someajor damage.
Russia and china can’t do anything about the kidnapped job. They are still supporting Venezuela , Maduro was betrayed by his security team. They allowed the choppers land and handed the couple to the USA.

Mistakes were made in Iran but it’s been corrected now and round 2 will be brutal for the chosen ones. Taiwan is all noise, china won’t attack, it’ll be a peaceful reunion in the long distant future.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by LordAdam16: 4:56pm On Jan 04
y'all need to watch rubio's interview

shalaye upon shalaye
has to win an award for the most lamba per minute

-Lord
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Masterviolence(m): 5:04pm On Jan 04
Alamkiir:
I will really like to know one use of having Russia & China as an ally? They never come true for anybody, even that group of theirs that called themselves BRICS is useless, with the highest population, gdp. They can't sanction or put a voice together for one of their own nor can they fight the dollar, what is their use actually?

I have been hearing it but I didn't believe it, I just read that China actually get 70% of their oil from Venezuela, and they just let it go. don’t want to hear anyone hype China as a superpower anymore. If it really were, by now it would be in Taiwan, kidnapping its president and announcing: We run taiwan now! Instead? A lot of noise, zero action. Weak as hell.

Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, Cuba, South Africa and Africa in general should never ever put reliance on these cowards.
Brother, the world has been divided into three spheres of influence.
The Russians can do whatever the fvkk they want in their region, which includes fighting NATO countries that border them. Likewise, the U.S. can do the same in the western hemisphere, and China in East Asia.

The only difference is that countries surrounding Russia and China are actually capable of putting up a fight, unlike those that border the U.S., who have been indoctrinated to not do things that'll threaten U.S. interests, or they'll be sanctioned to death or invaded.

This is the sad reality of how the world is right now. The strong rule over the weak.

My only problem with people on this platform is those who overrate China’s military capabilities. Of the three powers, China is the newbie and the timid one, which in turn makes them the weakest.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Saladdin: 5:15pm On Jan 04
LordAdam16:
y'all need to watch rubio's interview

shalaye upon shalaye
has to win an award for the most lamba per minute

-Lord
Yes o. The clown still thinks this is 2003 where you could spin narratives at will. Is it the oil or the drugs?

Anyways, we know their focus now is Iran, as any SMO in South America would not happen again. Any further attempt towards that now would result into American servicemen and their flying scraps being blown to smithereens all over Caracas.

It's either the megalomanics retrace their strps or it's a full-blown war all the way. Their choice is obvious.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by dvkot(m): 5:18pm On Jan 04
Alamkiir:
I will really like to know one use of having Russia & China as an ally? They never come true for anybody, even that group of theirs that called themselves BRICS is useless, with the highest population, gdp. They can't sanction or put a voice together for one of their own nor can they fight the dollar, what is their use actually?

I have been hearing it but I didn't believe it, I just read that China actually get 70% of their oil from Venezuela, and they just let it go. don’t want to hear anyone hype China as a superpower anymore. If it really were, by now it would be in Taiwan, kidnapping its president and announcing: We run taiwan now! Instead? A lot of noise, zero action. Weak as hell.

Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, Cuba, South Africa and Africa in general should never ever put reliance on these cowards.
dude, keep your emotions out of international politics.
BRICS is not a defensive alliance.
The only nation Russia has a military alliance with is not Korea, all the other are just agreements to sell weapons to.
China has a lot of economic cooperation with several countries and no they get less than 2% of oil from Venezuela
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Alamkiir: 5:23pm On Jan 04
Masterviolence:
Brother, the world has been divided into three spheres of influence.
The Russians can do whatever the fvkk they want in their region, which includes fighting NATO countries that border them. Likewise, the U.S. can do the same in the western hemisphere, and China in East Asia.

The only difference is that countries surrounding Russia and China are actually capable of putting up a fight, unlike those that border the U.S., who have been indoctrinated to not do things that'll threaten U.S. interests, or they'll be sanctioned to death or invaded.

This is the sad reality of how the world is right now. The strong rule over the weak.

My only problem with people on this platform is those who overrate China’s military capabilities. Of the three powers, China is the newbie and the timid one, which in turn makes them the weakest.
I like your perspective, really make sense
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by LordAdam16: 5:31pm On Jan 04
Saladdin:
Yes o. The clown still thinks this is 2003 where you could spin narratives at will. Is it the oil or the drugs?

Anyways, we know their focus now is Iran, as any SMO in South America would not happen again. Any further attempt towards that now would result into American servicemen and their flying scraps being blown to smithereens all over Caracas.

It's either the megalomanics retrace their strps or it's a full-blown war all the way. Their choice is obvious.
the interviewer asked him about trump's comments on running venezuela

i kid you not this was his response:

“Well, it’s not running — it’s running policy, the policy,”
english language don suffer

the hilarious part is that maduro wasn't completely averse to american concerns
he allowed chevron to continue operating and the $ inflow actually helped stabilize venezuela's runaway inflation

yesterday was an expensive movie production for a specific audience and that audience lapped it up
the more you look, the less you see
the silver lining is that they'll have to keep their armada in the caribbean for the foreseeable future
leaving israel more exposed to a more lethal iran than it was during the 12D war

the deadline for hezbollah's disarmament has passed but satanyahu is mute

-Lord
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriteerNg: 5:33pm On Jan 04
⚡Rubio on Venezuela:

We do not need Venezuela’s oil. We have plenty of oil in the United States.

What we are not going to allow is for the oil industry in Venezuela to be controlled by adversaries of the United States.

You have to understand: why does China need Venezuela’s oil? Why does Russia need it? Why does Iran need it? They’re not even in this continent.

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriteerNg: 5:35pm On Jan 04
⚡Rubio:

The ones who have sort of colonized Venezuela, at least inside the regime, are Cubans. It was Cubans that guarded Maduro.

He was not guarded by Venezuelan bodyguards. He had Cuban bodyguards.

In terms of their internal intelligence — who spies on who inside to make sure there are no traitors — those are all Cubans.

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by LordAdam16: 5:36pm On Jan 04
ballistic missile tests continue in iran with contrails visible in the sky

message to usrael, we can smoke your operatives and pound your cities/installations at the same time
na soft work

at least folks will put respect on iran's name
even with the incompetence of the mullahs, the persians are goated

-Lord
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriteerNg: 5:37pm On Jan 04
⚡Rubio:

Why have 8 million people left Venezuela? Eight million — the single largest mass migration probably in modern history — left Venezuela since 2014 because all the wealth of that country was stolen to the benefit of Maduro and his cronies in the regime, but not to the benefit of the people of Venezuela.

You know how destabilizing 8 million migrants is? Do you know the number one fear that Brazil has, that Colombia has, that all these countries in the region have about what’s happening in Venezuela and our involvement? They’re afraid of another mass migration event.

That’s what they fear. This is deeply destabilizing stuff.
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriteerNg: 5:40pm On Jan 04
Stealing is in their DNA.

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by LordAdam16: 5:42pm On Jan 04
WriteerNg:
⚡Rubio:

Why have 8 million people left Venezuela? Eight million — the single largest mass migration probably in modern history — left Venezuela since 2014 because all the wealth of that country was stolen to the benefit of Maduro and his cronies in the regime, but not to the benefit of the people of Venezuela.

You know how destabilizing 8 million migrants is? Do you know the number one fear that Brazil has, that Colombia has, that all these countries in the region have about what’s happening in Venezuela and our involvement? They’re afraid of another mass migration event.

That’s what they fear. This is deeply destabilizing stuff.
oga stop dey drop shalaye

ya'll did not care about destabilization with syria and libya
your troops are still in syria as we speak with an actual different regime
put body mk you collect
russia has been in ukraine for 4 years
na 3 hour operation b your limit
in your own backyard
mgbeke feeling funky!

-Lord
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Jtheo: 5:48pm On Jan 04
Russia really bleeped up with their invasion of Ukraine,the us won't try such in 2021,the invasion of Ukraine should listed as one of the biggest blunder in history nobody takes them seriously again.....and even if they win and occupy ukraine for what gain,you in a broken and destroyed country were most of it people don't want you,loss of prestige,most of your military equipment burnt,more than a million casualties,and severe sanctions
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Watcharena: 5:56pm On Jan 04
Jtheo:
Russia really bleeped up with their invasion of Ukraine,the us won't try such in 2021,the invasion of Ukraine should listed as one of the biggest blunder in history nobody takes them seriously again.....and even if they win and occupy ukraine for what gain,you in a broken and destroyed country were most of it people don't want you,loss of prestige,most of your military equipment burnt,more than a million casualties,and severe sanctions
it's the more than a million casualties for me
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriteerNg: 5:56pm On Jan 04
⚡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.

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by WriteerNg: 6:00pm On Jan 04
⚡Rubio:

Venezuela looks nothing like Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, or the Middle East — other than the Iranian agents running through there plotting against America.

These are Western countries. People need to stop ascribing apples to oranges.

Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Jtheo: 6:02pm On Jan 04
Watcharena:
it's the more than a million casualties for me
big Bleep up
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Rilwayne001: 6:02pm On Jan 04
WriteerNg:
⚡Marco Rubio:

There's not a war. We are at war against drug trafficking organizations — not a war against Venezuela.
Lord knows, I detest this Rubio more than Trump
Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by Rilwayne001: 6:04pm On Jan 04
Jtheo:
Russia really bleeped up with their invasion of Ukraine,the us won't try such in 2021,the invasion of Ukraine should listed as one of the biggest blunder in history nobody takes them seriously again.....and even if they win and occupy ukraine for what gain,you in a broken and destroyed country were most of it people don't want you,loss of prestige,most of your military equipment burnt,more than a million casualties,and severe sanctions
Putin really efffed up
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