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Defying Trump Warning, Iran’s Supreme Leader Says Protesters Must Be ‘Put in Their Place’

Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, is speaking out for the first time about the violent unrest spreading across his country with a defiant rejection of theats from America.

Street protests that started almost a week ago are growing and numerous deaths have been reported.

In remarks aired on Iranian television on Saturday, Mr. Khamanei said rioters should be “put in their place” and pledged that the Islamic Republic “will not yield to the enemy.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran, USA

JD Vance Takes on Lefty Claims About Venezuelan Drug Trafficking

American leftists, who never met an anti-American dictator they didn’t like, are protesting the U.S. capture of Venezuelan dictator and narcoterrorist Nicolás Maduro. Part of their noisy hysteria includes highly deceptive claims about the drug war Venezuelan cartels wage on America.

Vice President JD Vance wrote on X Sunday, “You see a lot [of] claims that Venezuela has nothing to do with drugs because most of the fentanyl comes from elsewhere. I want to address this.” He not only explained the reality of Venezuelan drug trafficking that was backed by Maduro, he also took on false claims about the Venezuelan oil industry and its new American takeover.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, Venezuela

‘A million WhatsApp messages’: Venezuelans in N.S. react to Maduro’s capture after U.S. strike

Verónica Gutiérrez woke up what seemed like “a million WhatsApp messages” from her family in Venezuela after the U.S. launched a strike on the capital of the country that led to the capture of President Nicolás Maduro on Saturday.

In the early hours of Saturday, the U.S. launched a “large-scale strike” in Caracas and took Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, out of their home within the Fort Tiuna military installation.

Gutiérrez, who left Venezuela in 2015, describes feeling a mix of optimism and confusion at the news.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA, Venezuela

Rubio says Cuba ‘in a lot of trouble’ when asked about Trump’s next move in region

Secretary of State Marco Rubio didn’t divulge details on what the future holds for Cuba after the United States captured former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, only saying the Trump administration isn’t “big fans” of Cuba’s regime.

Rubio dismissed the idea of the U.S. being at war with Venezuela, suggesting the U.S. is actually at war against drug trafficking organizations. In the wake of Maduro’s capture and detention in New York City, Rubio said Cuba’s government has been “a huge problem” for the U.S. when asked if the Trump administration would go after its government next.

Poor Justin will cry forever!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCuba, USA

‘Hands off Venezuela’: Demonstrators rally in Toronto following U.S. seizure of President Nicolás Maduro

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the U.S. Consulate in downtown Toronto Saturday afternoon, condemning a military operation in Venezuela that resulted in the capture of President Nicolás Maduro.

The Toronto protest, which began at around 3 p.m. unfolded hours after the United States seized Maduro and his wife, announcing plans to prosecute them in New York, while also declaring it would run Venezuela during a transitional period.

For the most part the usual cranks who show up at any anti-American pro-tyranny demo.

I get the impression Carney’s media is deeply disappointed normal people and especially the majority of Venezuelans aren’t in a TDS frenzy over Maduro’s toppling.

h/t patthedog

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA, Venezuela

What role could the US play in Venezuela’s ‘bust’ oil industry?

The Venezuelan oil industry has been “a total bust” for a long time, according to Donald Trump. After attacking Caracas and taking the country’s leader captive, Trump promised to take control of Venezuela’s oil industry with the help of America’s biggest oil companies.

Venezuela’s beleaguered oil industry could “make a lot of money” with the might of the US behind it, Trump told the press, claiming that the new regime would invest billions to revive its fortunes.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, Venezuela

A new ‘cold’ war? Canada aka Venezuela North looks to bolster Arctic security, sovereignty

An increasingly aggressive Russia coupled with China’s growing influence have renewed Canada’s focus on Arctic defence and sovereignty — and how to assert control over its remote northern geography.

The focus is on both increased surveillance — knowing what and who is poking around up there — and having military assets in place to deter any aggressor before they consider operating in Canada’s North.

Venezuela North aka Canada can’t or won’t ensure arctic sovereignty leaving it wide open for incursion by our CCP shadow rulers and their Russian pals.

When the US intercedes to stop this massive threat they will be declared Imperialist Aggressors worse than Hitler etc.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", Arctic, Canada, Russia, USA

Republican claims of ‘terrorism’ leave everyone unsafe, Muslim leader of terrorist front group warns

The deputy director of the US’s biggest Muslim civil rights and advocacy group warns that Republican governors’ steps to declare his organization a “terrorist organization” won’t stop with the Muslim community.

“No governor should have the power to unilaterally declare a civil rights or advocacy group he disagrees with a terrorist organization, take punitive action against them, all in violation of due process and free speech,” Edward Ahmed Mitchell, the deputy director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, told the Guardian this month. “If any governor can get away with abusing that kind of power, then no organization is safe.”

In November, the Texas governor Greg Abbott designated Cair and the Muslim Brotherhood, the century-old movement founded in Egypt and active through chapters overseas, “foreign terrorist and transnational criminal organizations”. The Florida governor Ron DeSantis issued a similar order in early December.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", CAIR, Canada, Islam, Islamization of the West, USA

In Venezuela, Trump’s Donroe Doctrine is now in action. Canada can’t sit on its hands

The Donroe Doctrine has been put into action and the United States has re-entered the business of regime change in the Americas. Canada can’t keep sitting on our hands and hoping it will all work out.

Late Friday night, American might pounded military installations across Venezuela while helicopters full of special forces descended on Caracas to snatch dictator Nicolas Maduro.

It is the culmination of a pressure and extrajudicial killing campaign targeted at the Venezuelan state, and the best illustration yet that America is fully committed to enacting the “Trump Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine it unveiled late last year.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

The Maduro Defenders Come Out

The woke left and woke right are coming out in force to defend Nicholas Maduro and to attack Donald Trump for his operation to arrest him and bring him to the United States.

There is still much to learn about the operation, but by all accounts, it was one of the most audacious and successful operations in memory. Venezuela was warned ahead of time that the US intended to depose Maduro, and there has been a massive military buildup over the past several months. Russia and China have been sending weapons and advisors, yet despite all the help of our adversaries and prior warning, the US went in, captured Maduro, and left with hardly a scratch.

Carney is getting hammered in the comments

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, Venezuela

Energy Win: Venezuela Has the Biggest Global Oil Reserves, and the U.S. Is Now in Charge

The nation of Venezuela is estimated to have the largest oil reserves in the entire world, and Donald Trump announced today that the United States not only captured Venezuela’s dictator, it will be taking over the country’s oil infrastructure.

The swift and sudden collapse of the Maduro regime is a massive punch to the nose for China, Russia, Iran, and all of our most violent enemies. But more practically for millions of Americans, it could also have a huge impact on our global energy dominance and gas prices. And that also, of course, is a source of concern to our enemies.

Trump is backing regime change in oil-rich Venezuela. Canada, beware

Donald Trump doesn’t want Canada’s aluminum, steel, lumber or cars. Could oil emerge next on this tariff-fuelled northern hate list? It might if he can find substitute supplies. How about Venezuela’s? Going after Venezuela’s alleged narco-traffickers alone does not justify the formidable U.S. military buildup off the country’s waters; going after its oil might.

The biggest U.S. armada assembled since the 1991 Gulf War is steaming off Venezuela’s coast. The array of weapons in the southern Caribbean and on nearby military bases includes the USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s largest aircraft carrier, guided-missile destroyers, amphibious assault ships and – ominously – equipment, including Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft, that is used by elite special forces. Various reports say those forces might include soldiers trained in risky infiltration missions, seizing airfields among them.

h/y Patti Jo

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA, Venezuela

General ‘Razin’ Caine divulges details on Trump Venezuela operation that captured Maduro

The United States’s highest-ranking military officer on Saturday briefed the country on the lightning attack Washington carried out on Venezuela overnight.

General Dan Caine, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, revealed details about the elite operation that successfully captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro during a press conference alongside President Donald Trump.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, Venezuela

Satellite images raised speculation about Venezuela’s military capability against the U.S.

A stunning U.S. raid to capture Venezuela’s president came after a group of amateur intelligence analysts argued that satellite images reveal a Venezuelan launch site that could send ballistic missiles as far north as Washington, D.C.

There was no indication that the American attack had anything to do with the subject of the group’s claims, which the U.S. military dismissed earlier as “speculative” and one top expert rated as plausible but unproven by the evidence.

Sounds a bit like Canada …

h/t Clink9

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, Venezuela

World leaders gripe over US arrest of tyrant Nicolás Maduro, despite legal precedent: ‘Deeply alarmed’

Many world leaders whined Saturday over the capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and his wife, claiming the clandestine US mission was an unnecessary use of force — despite a legal precedent for it.

Allies Russia, Iran, China and Colombia were among the nations lining up Saturday to demand the Trump administration release Maduro and first lady Cilia Flores, who were headed to New York City to face federal charges of narcoterrorism.

Trump’s toppling of Maduro is fraught with risk – what happens next is unclear

The US may want many of its foes gone from power. It doesn’t usually send in the military and physically remove them.

Venezuela’s abrupt awakening took two forms.

Its residents were woken abruptly to the sound of deafening booms: the sound of its capital Caracas under attack from US strikes targeting military infrastructure.

Which world leaders have been captured by US previously

The reported capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has placed him among a small and controversial group of world leaders seized by the United States, reviving memories of past U.S. intervention that reshaped entire regions.

With his capture, Maduro would join figures such as Iraq’s Saddam Hussein and Panama’s Manuel Noriega, whose arrests marked defining moments in US foreign policy.

Maduro Perp Walk

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, Venezuela

Trump Got Interviewed Just After the Maduro Raid and It Was Eye-Opening

President Donald Trump joined Fox & Friends Saturday morning to discuss the U.S. operation to capture Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro.

President Trump praised U.S. forces who participated in the execution and planning of the operation, saying that “no other country on Earth could pull it off”

… After Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum condemned the U.S. operation, President Trump issued a stern rebuttal.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, Venezuela