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0 pointsmonerozcash2mo ago0 comments

Maduro arrested https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1158304287678...

Considering the general incompetence of this administration, this level of success with such a surgical operation seems completely out of character.

Incredibly impressive operation, whether or not you agree with it. Although the ability to operate helos over Caracas with such impunity may very well suggest high-level collaborators in the local military.

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lm284692mo ago

The army is full of very competent people regardless of who's in charge for the last 4 years, it's not like they start from scratch at every new administration. And most of them just like to blow shit up regardless of the moral aspect of it, as we've seen in the past

monerozcashOP2mo ago

I certainly don't doubt the competence of the US army, but the fact that they spent only minutes on active SEAD bombing raids to enable this operation suggests that it wasn't just cool tech or super competent SOF operators that truly enabled this operation.

lm284692mo ago

We're talking about the top #1 military power VS one of the most corrupt country in the world, lead by a dude who has a sub 20% approval rating, and a tiny ass army equipped with last century russian surplus equipment which hasn't been in any hot conflict since the 60s...

hnarn2mo ago

Maduro is extremely unpopular so I don’t think it’s incredibly difficult for the CIA to recruit.

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pxmpxm2mo ago

> suggest high-level collaborators in the local military

This - almost guaranteed that this was a negotiated outcome/coup from the military.

Also it's telling i had to scroll halfway down the page to find the first non "trump therefore bad" comment. The cognitive dissonance of the posters vis a vis Machado is pretty astounding.

monerozcashOP2mo ago

It's really a shame topics like this attract such lazy ideological struggle on HN. Reiterating Trump=bad over and over simply doesn't make for interesting conversation regardless of how true it may be.

Even on this particular story, there are so many interesting HN-worthy details to discuss. Instead we're stuck lazily debating whether this was right or wrong.

You can find higher-quality, much more aggressively moderated conversations on topics like this on r/CredibleDefense. However, even that subreddit struggles with the traffic from high-profile events like this.

raybb2mo ago

If you wanna stay up to date on this one just refresh the Wikipedia page. They are on it like crazy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_United_States_strikes_in_...

monerozcashOP2mo ago

I'd suggest twz, they'll have much better informed takes than wikipedia https://www.twz.com/news-features/explosions-ring-out-across...

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lm284692mo ago

monerozcashOP2mo ago

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hnarn2mo ago

Maduro is extremely unpopular so I don’t think it’s incredibly difficult for the CIA to recruit.

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pxmpxm2mo ago

> suggest high-level collaborators in the local military

This - almost guaranteed that this was a negotiated outcome/coup from the military.

Also it's telling i had to scroll halfway down the page to find the first non "trump therefore bad" comment. The cognitive dissonance of the posters vis a vis Machado is pretty astounding.

monerozcashOP2mo ago

Even on this particular story, there are so many interesting HN-worthy details to discuss. Instead we're stuck lazily debating whether this was right or wrong.

raybb2mo ago

If you wanna stay up to date on this one just refresh the Wikipedia page. They are on it like crazy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_United_States_strikes_in_...

monerozcashOP2mo ago

I'd suggest twz, they'll have much better informed takes than wikipedia https://www.twz.com/news-features/explosions-ring-out-across...

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse