Lots of airstrikes and helicopters. Bluesky is suggesting it’s likely to be a snatch and grab attempt on Maduro. Fucking wild.
Puzzlegal edited to add:
This is a general discussion thread. A breaking news thread has been created here
I expect P&E and Pit threads will likely be opened as well, and if so, i will link them here.
Well what else would you expect from the bestest everest Nobel Peace Prize candidate?
You gotta think bigger than a New York street gang.
You can’t just knock over a couple of fruit stands to get the attention of TPTB.
If blockading their ports isn’t causus belli, I presume kidnapping their President must up the ante a little?
CNN correspondents in Caracas are eyewitnesses to explosions occurring in the city.
Un-freaking-believable. This guy is certifiable. If congress had any balls at all, they’d impeach him tonight.
FIFA is gonna want that peace prize back.
I don’t think attacking what is reported to be a civilian airport can be considered a military objective.
We’re going to get kicked out of the UN. We’re already losing all of our allies. Nobody trusts us now. And we now have more war crimes chalked up to our military.
We need a “Tehran” in America.
Is there a way to kick out a permanent member of the security council?
Colombia (that is Venezuela’s neighbour) is member of the Security Council of the UN since the 1st of this month. Gustavo Petro, the President, shows explosions in Caracas this night and calls for the Security Council to investigate this aggression (link to Xit, sorry):
There is no mechanism forseen for that.
Manolo De Los Santos, the co-executive director of the People’s Forum and researcher at Tricontinental (Institute for Social Research), sends some xits too:
Fuerte Tiuna, the biggest military base in Venezuela, is burning after several explosions:
Peace in our time! Learning from the Soviet Union Russia is learning to be victorious!
Yeah. So the General Assembly will condemn the United States. Wow. What a wonderful start to the new year. And the mid-term elections are still ten months away.
We gonna get bombed.
Yep, Trump gonna clean up D.C. , alright. Maybe the hard way.
I don’t hate easily. But I hate that idiot.
Please let them bomb Maralago and not some childrens hospital.
Oh, God
el donald needs an excuse to cancel those.
They can condemn all they want, if the General Assembly tries to impose sanctions the USA has veto power in the Security Council.
We really need a hero.
I just remembered the United States of America and Venezuela are both members of the Organization of American States. As such, they’re not supposed to be bombing other members. See Article 28 of the OAS charter.
So the menace is trying to get us into a war with the entire Western Hemisphere.
No. And it’s a puzzling take to be honest in context to the number and severity of conflicts that have occurred since the formation of the UN that this would be the one that would result in the boot of a member. I’m curious how much Venezuelan support exists for this sort of action though.
Who gives a shit? What’s the justification for the initiation of hostilities against a sovereign state?
@Cervaise, it’s easy.
Said out loud: “Drugs! Criminals! Drug cartels! Murderers! Rapists! Drugs!”
Said sotto voce: “We need to get back to the time when the US could depose South American rulers at will to further its ends. If we get rid of Maduro, we get oil.”
I haven’t found the original source but on my feed from NYT:
It’s not up to the president whether to hold elections or not.