And hopefully treating the detainees as human beings rather than as third-rate beasts.
A false flag attack on our warships is an American tradition. It’s how we start our best wars.
Unless it’s the USS liberty.
The CIA knows that America doesn’t like it when people touch our boats
Did somebody say Boats and Touch?! DONT TOUCH OUR BOATS!!!
Don’t know if it’s true, but if it is, kinda funny that Trump’s CIA has been outsmarted by Venezuela.
South Americans broadly have been dealing with the CIA for a long time. Even the Romans knew not to fight the same people too many times because they’ll get hip to your fighting style and they’ll eventually beat you at your own game.
Yeah it’s a big claim, would be cool to eventually see evidence it was true but I’m not sure how they’d ever be able to prove it. I doubt anyone gets a wire transfer that just says it’s from the CIA
Hey man, DOGE cut us to the bone, there’s only 3 interns and a middle manager left
What exactly is funny? Do you have reasons to believe that the Venezuelan counter-spy bureau is ineffective? Or you’re just a USA chauvinist who thinks that everything Venezuelan is shittier than US-ian just because?
Venuzuelan budget: $22bn
CIA budget: $15bnWhen a single intelligence agency’s budget is comparable to an entire country’s, it’s reasonable to assume that agency will be able to persevere in almost any contest.
One trashcan for cia - 10000$ One trashcan for venezuela - idk maybe 10$?
They’ve also had decades of experience to back them up. They’re not just a newly spun-up agency who’s been given a multi-billion dollar budget.
That being said, South America in general has contended with CIA interference for decades. It’s not unreasonable to think they’ve grown wise to their playbook.
The situation, no, and no. Calm down.
Venezuelan agency budget, ~$200 million. CIA - 78 billion. When your budget is 365 times as much, I could understand why you’d think they would be more sophisticated.
Size, budget, experience and economic stability favors the Americans. Fuck the CIA anyway.
It’s okay and responsible to be skeptical of the Venezuela’s governments claims but given past evidence this is hardly an extraordinary claim and would be hardly surprising.
I think Trump would love to start a war: distraction from the Epstein files, a nice scapegoat for economic hardship, the possibility to grab even more power under the guise of wartime emergencies, …
Hell, if it takes long enough he could postpone the next election.
Don’t be naive. Trump isn’t running anything.
Trump struggled to name 20 animals in a row, dealer’s choice. Thought the dementia test was an IQ test, bragged that going past 10 animals was hard.
“I took– Those are very hard– They’re really aptitude tests, I guess, in a certain way, but they’re cognitive tests. Let AOC go against Trump.”
He continued, “Let Jasmine go against Trump. I don’t think Jasmine– The first couple questions are easy: a tiger, an elephant, a giraffe, you know. When you get up to about five or six and then when you get up to 10 and 20 and 25, they couldn’t come close to answering any of those questions.”
“It is the same imperial script as the Maine ship and the Gulf of Tonkin: fabricating a conflict to impose interests alien to our region,” Pinto wrote in an online post on Telegram, according to Google Translate. “Venezuela is acting firmly and responsibly: a CIA-funded criminal cell linked to this covert operation is being dismantled on our territory."
Staging a false flag attack on our own troops in order to manufacture consent for a war with the country holding the world’s largest oil reserves?
