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Did The CIA Really Strike A Dock In Venezuela?
CNN claims that the CIA bombed Venezuela.
Exclusive: CIA carried out drone strike on port facility on Venezuelan coast
The CIA carried out a drone strike earlier this month on a port facility on the coast of Venezuela, sources familiar with the matter told CNN, marking the first known US attack on a target inside that country.
The drone strike, the details of which have not been previously reported, targeted a remote dock on the Venezuelan coast that the US government believed was being used by the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua to store drugs and move them onto boats for shipping, the sources said. No one was present at the facility at the time it was struck, so there were no casualties, according to the sources.
Two sources said US Special Operations Forces provided intelligence support to the operation, underscoring their continued involvement in the region. But Col. Allie Weiskopf, a spokesperson for US Special Operations Command, denied that, saying, “Special Operations did not support this operation to include intel support.”
President Donald Trump appeared to first acknowledge the attack in an interview last week that initially attracted little notice, though he offered few specifics, including when reporters asked directly about it on Monday.
The NY Times has a similar report (archived) which additionally claims that the strike has happened last Wednesday.
There is however zero evidence that any strike took place. Venezuela Analysis has found no mention of it or of any damage in Venezuelan media, open source data or Venezuelan government statements. Neither have I.
Did this strike even happen? Or is it part of a miscalculated psychological operation to convince the Venezuelan government that it is under immediate threat and needs to get out?
Not entirely OT as this David Stockman article discusses the meglomania afflicting DC’s angliphiliacs…and their masters in London/Jerusalem…which gives rise to sociopaths like Rubio and his antics to maneuver himself into the Presidency in 2028:
“The Ukraine War saga amounts to a Cuban Missile Crisis in reverse…the fact that official Washington does not see the irony is due to the fact that the War Machine on the banks of the Potomac has so thoroughly polluted the intellectual waters with the incipient Hitler/Stalin canard that it has just slotted “Putin” into the latest incarnation without even a tinge of embarrassment…That this canard is a valid argument for the mayhem Washington is now conducting in Ukraine is a veritable affront to adult reasoning.How in the world did the notion that the planet is teeming with incipient monsters that can only be tamed by the global presence and continuous vigilance of a Washington-led and -kitted planetary gendarme ever take such deep roots and persevere for so long?Alas, the answer lies in the truth that much of the 20thcentury was an unforced error—a giant mistake that reaches back to Woodrow Wilson’s utter folly in bringing America into World War I, thereby ignominiously extinguishing the wisdom of John Quincy Adams in the mud and blood of northern France.Wilson’s unforgivable error was to put the United States into the Great War for utterly no good reason of homeland security, which is the only valid basis for foreign policy in a peaceful Republic. The European war posed not an iota of threat to the safety and security of the citizens of [the US].In that respect, Wilson’s putative defense of “freedom of the seas” and the rights of neutrals was an empty shibboleth; his call to make the world safe for democracy, a preposterous pipe dream.Actually, his thinly veiled reason for plunging the US into the cauldron of the Great War was none of the above. Instead, what he really sought was a big seat at the peace conference table—so that he could remake the world in response to God’s calling. But this was a world about which Wilson was blatantly ignorant; a task for which he was temperamentally unsuited.
America thus plunged into Europe’s carnage, and forevermore shed its century-long Republican tradition of anti-militarism and non-intervention in the quarrels of the Old World. John Quincy Adams’s wisdom got shit-canned in one fell swoop…There was absolutely nothing noble that came of Wilson’s intervention. It led to a peace of vengeful victors, triumphant nationalists, and avaricious imperialists—when the war would have otherwise ended in a bedraggled peace of mutually exhausted bankrupts and discredited war parties on both sides. By so altering the course of history, Wilson’s war bankrupted Europe and midwifed 20th century totalitarianism in Russia and Germany. That is, it gestated the sheer historical aberrations of Hitler and Stalin–neither of which would have materialized absent Wilson’s feckless intervention in April 1917.The present-day Washington hegemons, therefore, are not fighting the perennial battle of mankind’s better angels against the totalitarian darkness that is always incipient in the geo-political intercourse of nations. To the contrary, Hitler and Stalin were sheer accidents of history, whose evil interludes can be traced not to mankind’s collective DNA, but to that of the vainglorious fool who lied to the American public in the 1916 election about keeping the nation out of war, and promptly plunged it into the cauldron that made Hitler and Stalin possible.Moreover, Wilson’s intervention in the Great War and the deplorable aftermath at Versailles, in turn, eventually led to the Great Depression, the Welfare State and Keynesian economics, World War II, the Holocaust, the Cold War, the permanent Warfare State, and today’s malignant military-industrial complex. They also spawned Nixon’s 1971 destruction of sound money, Reagan’s failure to tame Big Government, and Greenspan’s destructive cult of monetary central planning. So, too, flowed the Bushes’ wars of intervention and occupation, their fatal blow to the failed states in the lands of Islam foolishly created by the imperialist mapmakers at Versailles and the resulting endless waves of blowback and terrorism that afflicted the world 70 years later.So let us briefly review the building blocks of that lamentable detour of history. None of it was inevitable or unavoidable. And all of the claims about stopping still another Hitler or Stalin which have kept it alive are bogus to the core. That is to say, once you grasp the utter perfidy and senselessness of Wilson’s plunge into the Great War in April 1917—then all of the mythical 20th century justifications for the Great Hegemon on the Potomac—Lenin, Hitler, Munich, Stalin, the Iron Curtain, world communism on the march—vanish with alacrity. At length, there was and is no need to seek monsters to destroy because America’s homeland security has never been seriously imperiled.So let us amplify on the contrafactual history upon which this proposition rests.First, had the Great War ended without American intervention in the spring of 1917 by a mutual withdrawal from the utterly stalemated trenches of the Western Front, as it was destined to, there would have been no disastrous summer offensive by the Kerensky government, or subsequent massive mutiny in Petrograd that enabled Lenin’s flukish seizure of power in November. That is, the 20th century would not have been saddled with what metastasized into the Stalinist nightmare or barnacled with a Soviet state that poisoned the peace of nations for 75 years. Even as the nuclear sword of Damocles hung over the planet.Likewise, there would have been no abomination known as the Versailles peace treaty; no “stab in the back” legends owing to the Weimar government’s forced signing of the “war guilt” clause; no continuance of England’s brutal post-armistice blockade that delivered Germany’s women and children into starvation and death and left a demobilized 3-million-man army destitute, bitter, and susceptible to a permanent political rampage of vengeance.So too, there would have been no acquiescence in the dismemberment of Germany and the spreading of its parts and pieces to Poland, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Austria, and Italy—with the consequent revanchist agitation that nourished the Nazis with patriotic public support in the rump of the fatherland.Nor would there have materialized the French occupation of the Ruhr and the war reparations crisis that led to the destruction of the German middle class in the 1923 hyperinflation; and, finally, the history books would have never recorded the Hitlerian ascent to power in 1933 and all the evils that flowed thereupon. In short, on the approximate 111th anniversary of Sarajevo, the world has been turned upside down.First and foremost, the Great War and then most especially the “peace of victors” made possible by Woodrow Wilson’s intervention destroyed the classic liberal international economic order of the late 19th century. Honest money, relatively free trade, rising international capital flows, and rapidly growing global economic integration had all blossomed during the 40-year span between 1870 and 1914. That golden age had brought rising living standards, stable prices, massive capital investment, prolific technological progress, and pacific relations among the major nations—a condition that was never equaled, either before or since.Now, owing to Wilson’s fetid patrimony, we have the opposite…Wilson has a lot to answer for. So let us try to summarize his own “war guilt” in the eight major propositions below…why the Washington Hegemon which has falsely arisen to contest it is the ultimate barrier to peace on earth in the year 2025”
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-great-war-was-the-great-error/
Those who read my posts know well of my hatred of Woodrow Wilson under whose tutelage rose the body of English*/angliphiliacs dominating DC today. While I don’t agree with all of Stockmans economic conclusions, his treatise is far closer to the dark truth than any mainstream character dare utters. Again, credit is due to my -Z-H-Newsfeed.
Posted by: S Brennan | Dec 30 2025 19:17 utc | 25
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