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2026-01-05 -Land of the Free

The 'MAGA hat wearing' military maverick nicknamed Raizin Caine who delivered Trump Venezuela after telling him he 'loves him'

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Posted by Skidmark 2026-01-05 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1777 views ] Top
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1 They knew where Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores were living, when and where they traveled, what clothes they wore, what food they ate, even what pets they had, 'Raizin' revealed.

"...And finally, don't whack the chihuaua - he's one of ours."

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2026-01-05 05:56|| 2026-01-05 05:56|| Front Page Top

2 It looks like Venezuela isn’t over.

Posted by Super Hose 2026-01-05 06:12|| 2026-01-05 06:12|| Front Page Top

3 ^ what's your ref?

Posted by Skidmark 2026-01-05 07:06|| 2026-01-05 07:06|| Front Page Top

4 #1 -- LMAO, Mike

Posted by Matt 2026-01-05 09:17|| 2026-01-05 09:17|| Front Page Top

5 I have no idea what happens in Venezuela today, tomorrow, or next week, but between the Iran strike and the Venezuela strike, there is now a considerable body of evidence for the proposition that, no matter who you are or where you are, this iteration of the US military can put a JDAM up your butt. Which seems to me to be a useful negotiating tool.

Posted by Matt 2026-01-05 09:25|| 2026-01-05 09:25|| Front Page Top

6 Too many people patting themselves on the back, talking big stuff about JSOC, .10 cent media assessments, etc. Will we soon see former SEAL and UBL shooter Rob O'Neill penning a new book?

There's more to it than oil. Thanks for the pithy comments above.

Posted by Besoeker 2026-01-05 09:39|| 2026-01-05 09:39|| Front Page Top

7 Re: #5 Matt, I would even conjecture that China's evaluation of the effort to take Taiwan just got a reassessment

Posted by Frank G 2026-01-05 09:59|| 2026-01-05 09:59|| Front Page Top

8 Frank, I would guess that few divisions slated for the invasion have been re-assigned as bodyguards for the Politburo.

Posted by Matt 2026-01-05 11:11|| 2026-01-05 11:11|| Front Page Top

9 Being in the middle of an army base didn’t help the Maduros…

Posted by Snomose Sforza2141 2026-01-05 11:33|| 2026-01-05 11:33|| Front Page Top

10 There's more to it than oil
Not according to the BBC!

I'm curious as to why Maduro's wife got snatched too. Seems unusual and makes me suspect some sort of "arrangement".

Posted by SteveS 2026-01-05 12:46|| 2026-01-05 12:46|| Front Page Top

11 ^^^^
Perhaps she is as good an intel source of her husband, maybe even better?

Posted by NoMoreBS 2026-01-05 15:14|| 2026-01-05 15:14|| Front Page Top

12 Refused to leave without the wife. The dog had to stay at the compound.

Posted by Besoeker 2026-01-05 15:17|| 2026-01-05 15:17|| Front Page Top

13 If you were the wife, would you prefer to be protected by the Americans or by the very frustrated narco-communists who were left behind, after they had completely failed to protect your husband?

Since she was never going to step up and take over, this is very much a Whither thou goest situation.

Posted by trailing wife 2026-01-05 15:50|| 2026-01-05 15:50|| Front Page Top

14 I'm curious as to why Maduro's wife got snatched too.

Who is Cilia Flores, Venezuela's first lady seized by the US?

Flores met Maduro in the early 1990s, when - as a young up-and-coming lawyer - she took on the defence of the plotters of the failed 1992 coup attempt.

Chief among them: Hugo Chávez, the man who would later become president.

It was during those years that she met Maduro, who at the time was working for Chávez as a security guard.

He is her beard.

Posted by Skidmark 2026-01-05 15:50|| 2026-01-05 15:50|| Front Page Top

15 ^ That's a new one..I also heard he was a bus driver.

Posted by Ulailet+Thud3602 2026-01-05 17:05|| 2026-01-05 17:05|| Front Page Top

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