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@MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net with several posts (1 and 2 and 3 and 4) on US military technology they believe was used to kidnap Maduro. the US has had a lot of practice doing door kicking night raids over the GWOT

A good thread on Vietnam's rising fortunes with commentary from @seaposting@hexbear.net and @xiaohongshu@hexbear.net, with particular focus on China's efforts with Hainan island

@CleverOleg@hexbear.net on the way recent aggression against Venezuela tightens the screws on Cuba

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Libs will be like "I don't support Trump's military action in Venezuela BUT (repeats every single justification for Maduro's kidnapping)"

They're the modern equivalent of "Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest"

The dialectics of history ------>

https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/venezuela-mobilizes-army--puts-oil-sector-under-military-con

Venezuelan authorities have announced the full mobilization of the armed forces across the country in response to the recent US military attack. In a newly issued decree, the government imposed a temporary military regime over the oil industry and other key sectors deemed vital to national stability.

In a parallel move, Venezuelan security services have been ordered to pursue and detain individuals suspected of involvement in the US attack. A second decree, also published on the official legal portal, directs police forces at all levels to carry out immediate arrests nationwide.

LMAO

PFLP:

The Popular Front condemns in the strongest terms the continued American bullying and blatant threats against Cuba, Colombia, and Mexico

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine condemns in the strongest terms the continued American bullying and blatant threats targeting sovereign states, particularly Cuba, Colombia, and Mexico.

America is the "mother of terrorism" in this world. The kidnapping of the free and progressive Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife is a criminal act that falls under the umbrella of organized state terrorism, and a clear declaration of the law of the jungle prevailing over international law. In light of this American rampage, international institutions and the United Nations lose their meaning and value unless they take action to deter this tyranny.

The Front expresses its full and deep solidarity with the Cuban and Venezuelan peoples, and with the fighters who have risen up against American crimes and confronted the brutal aggression targeting the president and Venezuela's sovereignty. The Front affirms that the blood of dozens of Cubans and Venezuelans who have risen up to resist American aggression, defending Venezuela's dignity and sovereignty, is a badge of honor for every free person in this world and a living embodiment of the unity of international destiny.

Confronting this American bullying is a major global responsibility. The peoples of the world and their living forces must rise up against the war criminals of the world, led by "Trump and Netanyahu", who continue to commit war crimes and piracy without accountability.

The Front affirms that Venezuela will remain free, and that its kidnapped president, Nicolás Maduro, will remain its legitimate president. Venezuela alone has the right to determine its own destiny, choose its representatives, and protect its wealth from colonial plunder. In the face of this piracy and aggression, resistance in all its forms becomes a moral duty and an existential necessity.

From Palestine to Venezuela, and from Cuba to Lebanon and Tehran, the battle is one, and the international struggle must continue and escalate to confront colonial, imperialist, and Zionist oppression, until rights are restored and imperialism and Zionism are defeated.

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Central Media Department

January 5, 2026

The most important thing if Trump annexes Greenland is that any Democrat that comes after won't give it back.

I know, liberals will be physically incapable of remembering the event, let alone processing the contradiction, but it will still be an extremely visible example of imperial interests superceding every trapping of the US's sham democracy.

And I also think, as the US gets more overtly brutal in winning its gains, even if the total body count is lower than in previous wars that had better PR, it will be harder to justify keeping those gains after the bloodied glove of the previous president is discarded and a fresh one put on, especially if they want to keep doing their cyclical Dem/Rep good cop/bad cop routine. Then again, we might just be heading towards the endgame now where the facade of pretending to care about international law is discarded by both parties.

The vibes are off folks. 2026 is gonna be a hell of a year. Feels like we're deep in the shit, 1937-type Nazi Germany seizing Czechoslovakia and Japan about to formally invade China, with no off ramp or end in sight, and nobody opposing any of it. I really have no idea what's gonna happen next, but there is a major shift underway. Another Israeli strike on Iran feels appropriate, they're usually quick to get in on any action, but who knows what this year has in store for all of us.

"Trumps regime" "Trumps government" "The US has become-" "Thanks conservatives"

MY BROTHER IN CHRIST YOUR COUNTRY WAS ALWAYS LIKE THIS, IT WAS JUST BETTER AT MASKING IT

EVEN OBAMA WAS BOMBING PEOPLE

YOU HAVE ALWAYS BEEN BAD

DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT

BBC bars use of ‘kidnapping’ to describe Maduro’s kidnapping

pree fress

Two people shot by border control agents in Portland: https://katu.com/news/local/ice-shoots-two-people-in-portlandoregon / https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-federal-agents-shot-two-people-portland-abc-affiliate-reports-2026-01-08/

(first URL says ICE, but apparently this was CBP for any pedants out there)

The rank and file has heeded the message. Their impunity will be defended by the full might of the administration and aligned media.

Who is President Delcy Rodriguez?

Her father was Jorge Antonio Rodríguez (1942–1976), a liberal turned Marxist revolutionary and founder of the Socialist League. He was arrested for his role in the 1976 kidnapping of American businessman William Niehous. He died at age 34 while under torture, he was killed by the goverment of neoliberal Carlos Andrés Pérez, the same guy Chavez would try to coup in 1992 and who escaped from Venezuela in 1994. Delcy and her brother, Jorge Rodríguez (President of the National Assembly), view their political careers as revenge for their father's death.

She graduated with a law degree from the Central University of Venezuela in 1992. She studied labor law in Paris in 1993 and later in London. She worked as a professor and was active in the Venezuelan Association of Labor Lawyers during this period. She joined the Chavista goverment in 2004 (she was living in London in 2002 and went to the Venezuelan embassy to protest the coup that had happened), first as Vice-Minister for European Affairs and then as General Coordinator to the Vice President under her brother Jorge who was Vice President at the time.

In 2013 Maduro appointed her as Minister of Communication and Foreign Minister shortly after he took power. Around that time she also took control of SEBIN, the Venezuelan inteligency service. She became Vice-President in 2018.

Trump just told Sean Hannity that the US is going to begin conducting strikes on ~~American workers~~ "cartels" in Mexico.

We are now going to start hitting land, with regard to the cartels. The cartels are running Mexico. It's very, very sad to watch and see what's happened to that country, but the cartels are running it. They're killing 250-300K people in our country every single year. The drugs, it's horrible, it's devastated families. You know, you lose a child, or a parent, I mean parents are dying too with drugs.

https://x.com/i/status/2009446503064949230

https://xcancel.com/i/status/2009446503064949230

I'm sure that, magically, everyone who isn't a right-wing psycho will end up being in the cartel.

After seeing so-called anti-imperialists online celebrating the murders of Iranian policemen, it is really important people read this article. Best english language article on the Islamic Republic that I have read in awhile.

Iran’s Indigenous Labor Movement and Working Class Sovereignty by Helyeh Doutaghi

The whole article is great but this excerpt is what I am referencing.

ICE agents in Minneapolis shot and killed a woman this morning, details are still coming out. Reports I've seen on Bluesky from people in the area say she was a legal observer driving away from the crowd and agents when an ICE pig got in front of her vehicle and shot her through the windshield.

First report from local news: Person fatally shot by ICE agents in Minneapolis during 'largest immigration operation ever'

Trump on Greenland: "The fact that they landed a boat there 500 years ago doesn’t mean they own the land"

Consent Manufacturing for Iran on reddit is in full swing and swarmed by CIA bots.

[CW: murder and grief. Family witnessing murder. Ignored pleas for help]

Probably already been said, but the victim that was murdered by ICE was a 37 year old woman. A mother. She was killed in front of her wife who was begging for help as the ICE bastards prevented medical attention from reaching her.

Official Danish statements reacting to American threats against Greenland are all going on and on about how Denmark and Greenland are protected by NATO security guarantees.

This is some magical thinking shit. Are they seriously expecting the US imperial enforcement team to protect them against American imperialism? That is like warning Al Capone that you are good friends with the mafia.

European elites have really drunk the kool-aid. They are incapable of imagining security from outside of the mind prison of Atlanticism.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro pleaded not guilty at his first hearing before the US justice system in the Southern District Court of New York, where he is accused of narco-terrorism. “I am innocent, not guilty, I am a decent man, I am still the president of my country,” said the president, who spoke through an interpreter before Judge Alvin Hellerstein.

The president mentioned that he had seen the indictment but had not read it and that he had discussed it partially with his lawyer. Maduro's defense attorney is Barry Pollack, an experienced litigator who defended WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

Previously, Maduro, who was brought into the courtroom without handcuffs, wearing a black T-shirt and headphones supposedly for simultaneous translation, told the judge: “I consider myself a prisoner of war. I was captured at my home in Caracas.”

Following the president's statement, his wife, Cilia Flores, proceeded in the same manner and pleaded before the judge: “Not guilty, completely innocent.”

The charges:

Maduro and Flores are facing their first hearing before the US justice system after being kidnapped in Caracas last Saturday.

The US government accuses the president of conspiracy to commit narco-terrorism, conspiracy to import cocaine, possession of machine guns and destructive devices, and conspiracy to possess these weapons in support of criminal activities. In short, he is charged with leading the alleged Cartel of the Suns.

Finally, the president and first lady of Venezuela face charges of collaborating with criminal organizations classified as “terrorists” in the US, including Mexican cartels. These and the rest of the crimes carry penalties ranging from 20 years to life imprisonment.

Source: RT

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NYT: Justice Dept. Drops Claim That Venezuela’s ‘Cartel de los Soles’ Is an Actual Group

https://archive.is/EbLvr

Prosecutors still accused Mr. Maduro of participating in a drug trafficking conspiracy but they abandoned the claim that Cartel de los Soles was an actual organization. Instead, the revised indictment states that it refers to a “patronage system” and a “culture of corruption” fueled by drug money.

Where the old indictment refers 32 times to Cartel de los Soles and describes Mr. Maduro as its leader, the new one mentions it twice and says that he, like his predecessor, President Hugo Chávez, participated in, perpetuated and protected this patronage system.

But they then snuck this in:

the indictment added as a defendant — and a supposed co-conspirator with Mr. Maduro — the head of a Venezuelan prison gang called Tren de Aragua.

Maduro is being held at the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center, the same detention center where Luigi Mangione is being held.

Washington bombed civilian housing during its criminal aggression against Venezuela:

https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/murad-apt:a

https://xcancel.com/trader_53/status/2008545328824549664

Gamblers, trying to collect their payout from Polymarket, left baffled as they learn that the US operation carried out in Venzuela does not meet Polymarket's definition of an invasion

"THERE WILL BE NO MORE OIL OR MONEY GOING TO CUBA - ZERO! I strongly suggest they make a deal, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE," Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform on Sunday.

The eye of Sauron turns to Cuba. This was always one of the goals of the Venezuela operation. This is Rubio's endgame.

expecting to see this story soon:

White Lesbian at Head of CBS News Refuses To Cover Police Execution of White Lesbian

Javier Milei’s Interior Minister attended an anti-Maduro celebration rally with Venezuelan immigrants in Argentina, just to tell them that they all have to leave now

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Petro is talking right now, he said he was on the phone with Trump. Petro said that one the one hand, they need continuous discussion "otherwise it's war". Which ok

But then he says that Trump invited him to the White House. WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING BRO

God I hate the nytimes so much “Details remain in dispute” brother there’s multiple videos at different fucking angles!!! You can’t even manage a god damn “video appears to contradict the federal account”

Fucking useless dipshits

Bolsonaro fell and hit his head today, according to his wife.

Back to the hospital!

China bans exports to Japan of dual-use goods that could enhance Tokyo’s military power

With vassal state Japan's economy already spiraling, is China's new ban on all exports of dual-use items to Japan going to be the final death blow? On a scale of fucked to fucked, how fucked is Japan? Will its fascist leadership choose to capitulate, or will they continue to dig their own grave while blaming foreigners for all of their problems?

Find out next time, on Dragon Ball Xi.

“I have seen in the faces of mothers the face of a woman, my mother, when my father was murdered. In the faces of the wives of the fallen, I have seen the face of my mother, who also lost a husband. And in the faces of the girls and boys who lost their parents, I have seen the faces of Jorge and myself when, as children, we also lost our father, who was viciously murdered. I tell you that these wounds will remain with us forever.”

“Honor and glory to the men and women who died in combat! No one surrendered here! There was combat here, and there was combat for this homeland!”

• President Delcy

Legal Opposition in Venezuela (democratically elected representatives who live in Venezuela) have stated that they are against the US attacks and believe that Maduro should have been tried by a Venezuelan court and should be released because he is the legal president.

There was story told by Vijay Prashad during one of his lectures that always stuck with me and elucidates the nature of Iranian state shortcomings

Vijay was once interviewing an Iranian official sometime in the late 90s I believe and he asked the official pointed questions about Iranian agricultural policy, specifically why Iran refused to buy high quality and cheaper wheat from India and instead insisted on buying low quality yet more expensive wheat from the United States, giving the US sanction leverage over the country's food supply

The answer the official gave shocked Vijay; the only excuse the official could come up with was "Everyone knows American wheat is better"

By the way, tomorrow the SCOTUS is expected to issue rulings on tariffs (probably a temporary ruling), Voting Rights Act and Birthright citizenship

Sixteen ships from BRICS (Brazilian, Chinese, South African and Russian) break through the United States blockade and extract oil from Venezuela, according to Reuters.

LMAO, Danish State media has been on a roll tonight after Trump and Miller's comments about taking over Greenland (again). They interviewed a bunch of people on the street, and while most were expressing anxiety and uncertainty, one old man just more or less threatened to shoot whatever yank decides to set foot near his home first.

Also, apparently Denmark is still trying to offer security guarantees to Ukraine, which is even funnier now that the yanks are coming to take our colony from us.

we gotta start a reading group on US DoD reports, there must be so many moments hiding out

https://xcancel.com/ripplebrain/status/2010169502730731876

I write thousands of words to prove this and they just... openly admit it in a public report

https://t.me/rnintel/50599

Lindsey Graham's "bone crushing sanctions on Russia" bill is a go. I don't expect there to be any issue getting the votes to pass it through congress.

If this actually goes into effect, it means negotiations on Ukraine are over, permanently.

These are the sanctions that mandate a 500% tariff on any country importing Russian oil/gas. Mostly aimed at China and India.

Anders Samuelsen (former far-right libertarian Danish foreign minister) being interviewed by state television as a neutral expert: "What happened in Venezuela will not happen in Greenland. Unlike Venezuela, Greenland is not run by a drug lord dictator, neither in Nuuk or Copenhagen. We are members of NATO"

These disgusting euro freaks never learn. They still think they are protected by their honourary Aryan status. They deserve to get black-bagged and to have their colony taken from them by force. The Greenlanders doesn't deserve it, they deserve economic development and national liberation, but NATO ghouls all do.

Tldr of the US-Denmark situation;

President Delcy just ordered the arrest and purge of all traitors who helped the US capture President Maduro. Maduro's Son, Nicolasito (Little Nicolas), is speaking as the legislative of Venezuela opens today.

The zionist entity bombed Lebanon over 10 times yesterday including destroying an entire apartment complex in Saida.

https://english.almanar.com.lb/article/8041/

Just a few hours ago the zionist child-murdering army raided Birzeit University in the West Bank.

In the raid on Birzeit University, the largest in the West Bank and most politically active:

41 students were injured; 6 of which were shot with live rounds and bullet ricochets; 1 student was detained; 8,000 students and staff were besieged inside during the hours of the raid, which only sought to assert dominance and remind Palestinians that they are under occupation

Injuries included tear gas suffocation, which is among the strongest toxic gas used worldwide; stun grenades and rubber (steel) bullets were also reported, and cars windows were smashed

https://xcancel.com/Globalwatchh/status/2008482651238527255

Iranian agencies release clip of a MOSSAD agent they captured during anti-regime protests in Iran after a tip off from Denmark Intel agency DDIS! Important here to note that Donald Trump threatened Greenland and Denmark strongly objected to it calling it disintegration of NATO

infinite inter-NATO conflict upon the 1st world

Maduro's wife, Cilia Flores, is a professional specializing in labor and criminal law. She was the lead attorney for Hugo Chavez following his imprisonment after a failed 1992 coup attempts and she was the first female president of the Venezuelan Congress. Maduro during the 1990s was just an Union Leader who wanted to meet Chavez, rumor says he kept begging Cilia to let him see and talk with Chavez and after that the two ended up going on dates (Maduro was at the time a tall young man with a mustache) and getting married in 2013.

Can someone help me out here? Russian authorities can issue a warrant and seize a Norwegian ship sailing in international waters? Is that legal? Can they just do that?

Oh, the US and UK just did that. It's all fine then.

US forces boarded the Russian-flagged Marinera after a pursuit lasting almost two weeks as it travelled through the waters between Iceland and Scotland. The UK Royal Navy gave logistical support by air and sea.