How America Grabbed Venezuela's Drug Lord Dictator

Good morning everybody. So the breaking news is that Nicolas Maduro, the dictator of Venezuela, has been captured in a massive military operation. We'll be reviewing some of the initial footage of the strikes in Caracas and throughout Venezuela. Some of the different airports have been struck, some of the Su-30 bases have been struck. President Trump released this on Truth Social. The United States of America has successfully carried out a large-scale strike against Venezuela and its leader, President Nicolas Maduro, who has been, along with his wife, captured and flown out of the country.

This operation was done in conjunction with U.S. law enforcement. Details to follow, there will be a news conference today at 11am at Mar-a-Lago. Thank you for your attention to this matter, President Donald J. Trump. So it happened. It went down around 2am this morning in Caracas, the sky is lit up with low-flying helicopters slicing through the darkness like they're late for a meeting.

But their meeting was with Nicolas Maduro in his bedroom, seizing him and flying him likely to the United States. Let's do a quick review of some of the footage we're seeing with the helicopters that went in and the operations that went down with these likely Delta Force teams. But this is the real image of them going into Caracas. You can see that there's Chinooks, there's MH-60 Blackhawks,

there's likely attack helicopters as well for close air support. But to pull this off, to get this many helicopters flowing in, these Delta teams going in, you've got to have air support. So F-35Bs from the Marines, F-35As from the Green Mountain Boys in Vermont, and then F-18s flying off of the USS Ford. You can see explosions happening throughout the country, strategic targets being hit,

likely a lot of these being hit with Tomahawks launching from different naval assets. And then this image here looks to be some sort of command and control, potentially even an ammo dump being hit next to a command and control center because of the secondary explosions that are rocketing off of this target.

So they snagged President Nicolas Maduro right out of his bed. We're talking Delta Force operators, fast roping in, backed up by night stalker pilots who own the night with these special aviation units. And then you team those up with the different jets

that are in this theater right now. And this isn't some movie plot, this is the real deal from what actually went on earlier this morning. So in this video, I'll be walking you through the different targets.

So now the script has been flipped on all the different narco states and everybody is on notice who's supporting these different narco operations. So now we're gonna potentially be looking at hybrid threats from Maduro's regime.

So think sleeper cells, but clearing out the top thousand of that regime is gonna be huge because those are just cartel bosses in themselves who have been legitimized as military members or top members of the actual government. So just like that, the regime's top guy gets yanked out

faster than you can say extradition. And at the end of the day, we've been following this for months, about two months now, and now this is the culmination. Maduro's gone and we'll see who takes the place of Maduro. But let's start with the person at the center of this mess.

So now we can kind of unravel and see what's going to need to be done to actually solve this situation and get someone in there who can be democratically elected. That's likely the goal. But Maduro stepped into power back in 2013 after Hugo Chavez died. He basically inherited a playbook of oil-funded socialism mixed with iron fist control and then teaming up with the cartels to make it all happen.

That was kind of the number one part of what was passed down. It was like a little book that Chavez passed down and he was like, hey, this is how you can lead the Cartel de los Soles. That's the cartel of the sun and it's named after the regime's actual military insignia. That shows you how deep this cartel has been embedded into the Venezuelan military. And their whole goal was to team up with Cuba and Russia to flood

America with cocaine and fentanyl. But the timing here is perfect. So Trump's team had been ramping up pressure on this for months. Drone strikes just happened a few days ago on those cartel boat docks, and now all the different strikes happening on the cartel boats,

likely strikes happening at some of the inner islands where the cartel boats will stop to fuel up, and then that $50 million bounty on Maduro's head since August of 2025. I wondered who got to collect that. Hopefully Delta Force got to collect that

and they can just throw a big Christmas party next year for themselves. But revelations are pouring out right now showing that his inner circle was wiring millions in drug cash to Miami safe houses just before this actually went down.

So they knew something was gonna happen and they were trying to get out a lot of their cash so that they knew they would try to escape the country, but likely this came too soon for them to actually enjoy those drug houses. So now we can see that this hybrid war is going to kick off.

So Venezuela, that narco hub that also has S300s, that also has Su-30s, it also has F-16s. So to go in and perform an operation like this, you really have to focus in on getting that first wave being F-35s. Having those F-35s lead the charge to take down those integrated air defenses and then start to take down any of the radars that are turning on that would try to strike these

helicopters that are going to go in and do these raids. So a lot of these helicopters will be going in and securing very sensitive nodes of the Venezuelan military to basically take control of the entire country. If you look at that force,

that is a massive US force that is going in now to take the country. So some of the places where they likely went, those rotary wing assets filled with special operations forces. So likely La Guarra port was one of the main places that was used to choke the logistics of anyone trying to escape. And then Higuerote airport in Miranda state was also likely on the target list. And then a

key update in the last hour is Attorney General Pam Bondi just unsealed more documents saying that Maduro's wife, Celia Flores, was the money launderer in chief who laundered most of the money routing funds through Turkish banks to buy loyalty from Cuban advisors. So this goes really deep into Cuba trying to take down the United States, kill young people with fentanyl. Cuba is really at the heart of a lot of this operation with Maduro.

So to me this isn't just a capture, it's the endgame on a decade long of letting this dictator play both kingpin and general. Basically blending state terror with cartel greed. So now let's talk about the birds that made this happen, the birds that paved the way to get Maduro snatched in his undies in the middle of the night. So we'll start with the F-35-2s. Those likely cleared the skies a few hours ahead, and then those helos dropped in for that grab. So

first up, the F-35B from the Marine Corps, VMFA F-42 squadron off of the USS Bataan in the Caribbean. Short takeoff, vertical landing variant with a combat radius of about 500 nautical miles, powered by a Pratt & Whitney F-135 PW600 turbofan. That thing is really good for any close air support that needs to be done. So that thing can go really close to the shores of Venezuela

once some of the initial systems are taken down, and then it can be the close air support star to back up all these different teams. It's got an ANAPG-81 radar. It likely sniffed out some of these SAM sites from over 100 nautical miles away.

And then the distributed aperture system of this jet gave 360 degree infrared views to spot any threats at La Corlada's hangars or any of the Su-30s that might be taking off from Venezuela, and then teaming up with that. So if that wasn't enough, that wasn't cool enough,

14 F-35A conventional models from the Vermont Air National Guard's 158th Fighter Wing, the Green Mountain Boys out of Burlington, Vermont. They were in Puerto Rico. If it was my bet, I would say they were in this action at the tippy point of the spear with those F-35Bs. They've got about an 800 nautical mile combat radius.

They've got that same F-135 massive engine pumping out about 45,000 pounds of thrust. They can carry a little more bombs than the other variant just because they don't have a lot of the complications of that swing jet in the middle. And they fuse sensor data via a mattle. So those help connect everybody.

It's an advanced data link system, multi-advanced data link system that helps connect everybody to jam these radars and down any of the Su-30. So that's gotta be the leading edge of the spear for all you acronym lovers out there. Also link 16, that helps tie everybody together as well.

But if you have these F-35s flying out as a wall formation looking for any of the Su-30s that might take off with their anti-ship weapons, by the way from Russia, KH-101s, now these F-35s can really strike a blow at the different airfields that the Su-30s could be taking off on because initially you're just looking for them to take off. As soon as you see them take off, boom, amram to the face. But then you can also do follow-on attacks with JDAMs and that's the beauty of the F-35, the multi-role situation.

But then they probably had some electronic backup from a few different sources. So one of the ones that might have been in the theater that would be smart to have there would be the EC-130H compass call jet for jamming all of Venezuela's IADs across hundreds of mile swaths of their coast. So with that electronic jet, you just start jamming everything. You basically make all the screens go dark at these Venezuelan radar operators bunkers, wherever they're at, you make those screens go dark. And then you also team it up with the EA-18G Growler that goes in and just makes everybody confused. You can spoof different locations of

aircraft and they don't have a great IAD system already. It's a patchwork system that's set up from Russia. So you have the EA-18G Growler jamming everything. So you have basically those two waves is how I like to think of it. F-35s leading the charge, then EC-130Js or other electronic jamming aircraft that are bigger, high value targets, they stay further away. And then you've got the EA-18G that goes in there, that growler that's basically the bait saying, hey, whatever turns on is going to go bye-bye. And then you send in

the HELOs. So think MH-47G Chinooks from the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, SOAR, the Night Stalkers, those are twin rotor beasts with 1200 nautical mile range, 200 miles per hour. And again, you have to clear the way for these things. You have to make sure that there aren't teams with man pads. There aren't any of these systems still up and running that could strike these helicopters. That is number one.

Protect the Special Operations forces that are right now likely in the heat of multiple battles going up against the hardliners and the special operation forces that Maduro had to protect his regime. Then you've got the MH-60 Black Hawk. That is great for delivering teams as well. Close in work, little more nimble of a helicopter that they can get up to about 160 miles per hour. It's got about a 400 nautical mile range. And then don't sleep on the CV22 that had recently gone into theater to drop off these different special operations teams that are now going to need transport from these different locations. Again, having good

electronic countermeasures on these helicopters is going to be huge to protect these special operations teams. We just have to make sure that that is the number one focus right now. No special operations teams getting shot down with man pads. So having cover from above with f-35s at all times, at all times, is going to be crucially important. And then if I was a betting man I would say that Marine recon was a huge part of this with the 4th Recon Battalion Basically prepping different sites doing boat inserts using MH-60s for infill, exfil and then doing

Cartel hunting in the jungle. To me, the Marine Recon forces are some of the best for that. Those Marine Recon forces, there's nowhere they can't go. Amphibious gangsters is how I like to think of them. They're going in and they're showing the cartels who the real gangsters are at this point. And this is a level of hurt enacted on the cartels that they have never felt before. It's basically all of their worst nightmares coming true at once. Having recon, having Delta Force, having the SEALs going up against them. It's just something that they likely have never even felt that could happen. So this is shock and awe, but let's shift a little bit to some of the weapons that could

have sealed the deal. So F-35s could have kicked this off with AGM-88Es. Those are anti-radiation guided missiles, AARGMs for you acronym lovers out there. Those home in on radar emissions from different areas like the airfields where the Su-30s are at, and also AGM-158 JASMs can be used, Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missiles. Those have likely cratered El Volcán antennas and La Guara fuel tanks. They can strike from a couple hundred nautical miles out.

And then these jets are all going to be loaded down with AIM-120Cs, advanced AMRAAMs, and those F-35s carrying those advanced AMRAAMs and those F-35s carrying those advanced AMRAAMs are ready to nail any of the Su-30s at beyond visual range. We'll see if reports roll in if any of those Su-30s broke ground and I will definitely be the first one to let you know about that. But Delta Force operators likely hit the ground with advanced weaponry like they always carry. So think about suppressed weapons,

different weapons for different environments, sniper rifles, weapons for close quarter breaches, basically anything that helps them zero in on targets from far away you know up to a thousand yards away all the way up to right in Maduro's face. Think red dot optics, laser aimers for those bedroom clearances and then the guidance on the aerial side Chinooks, Blackhawks packed with A AGM 114 Hellfire missiles ready to go and coordination is huge here That's why you have to have link 16 that has everybody talking to each other

So, you know where the friendly lines are and you know where the enemy's at and then upgraded flier Those are forward-looking infrared. Those are gonna be huge as well since its operation went down around 2 to 3 a.m. And then think about AI being assisting all of these different operations to keep everybody on the same page, knowing where the different vehicles are, knowing where the different teams are, and then pumping that information to all the different friendlies in the area. So let's walk through what this raid potentially looked like. Again,

this is just hypothetically what it looked like. I'll keep you posted as the truth data and information comes in, but we'll piece together a little bit of a timeline. So likely this kicked off around 1am local time with F-35 packages ripping in from the Caribbean and then those Marine F-35Bs ripped in teamed up with the Air Force Air National Guard F-35s. Likely the F-35s released JASMs. Those can be carried on the wing and then once those things released, now the F-35 is totally stealthy even though the JASM itself is a very stealthy platform as well. So those were likely rippled off of F-35s to gut different radar sites on Margarita Island

first. That's about 100 nautical miles offshore. Take that thing down as early as possible and then you black out basically the whole northern coast of Venezuela. And then the Green Mountain Boys F-35s followed up slinging AARGMs at S-300 batteries tied into Fuerte Tijona's command net and then EC-130H jammers started to blanket Caracas in electronic fog so thick that Venezuelan operators couldn't even boot up their screens. And then by 145 a.m. J-Downs were likely striking the flight line at

La Corlada, turning the Su-30 hangars into craters, and Venezuela is claiming right now that they have shot down two unidentified aircraft. That's claims coming from Venezuela. I'll keep you guys posted as that develops, but if any of those Su-30s got airborne, they would have been shwacked by the F-35s in my opinion. And then around 2.30am, I would say 80% of the skies were open for the helicopter inserts and that's when Chinooks, a dozen MH-60 Blackhawks thundered in from Aruba, you know, about 500

nautical miles out, hugging the coast and they were laden with special operators. Door gunners likely lit up perimeter patrols at different airports and at the palace of Maduro himself. And then hellfires probably zipped through, striking different cranes and different places where special operators might be teamed up trying to go up against US forces with manpads. You've got to take down these different teams that have manpads. That was likely one of the focuses.

There are different places in Venezuela where a lot of these targets might be the focus. So Palo Negro's army garrison in Aguara state likely got jay-dammed from different aircraft going in and striking that while Porto Beleo's naval yards, that's Venezuela's biggest ship hub yards, they might be eating some weapons as well. It just depends on the strategic objectives of when the policy makers at the top believe they can get an actual legitimate government in because again you don't want to destroy all of their

military capability. You want them to have to have the ability to do something after this but at this point you have to choke off the head of the snake and that is likely the focus. So taking down and striking these military targets likely at the very top of the list. So wrapping this all up, so this is a massive operation going in,

taking the president of Venezuela, who has been taken the number one objective in minute one basically. In the first like hour or so, the number one objective was completed. Shows you the professionalism

and how hardcore the US military is. The US night stalkers, aviation units, Delta operators, turning that dictator's bedroom into an exit ramp, into an off-ramp of power, and then dismantling a narco threat that's basically poisoned US streets for years. Those F-35s teaming up, the F-18s, the different electronic attack aircraft. Hats off to everybody involved in this operation. This is the playbook.

Take down the dictator with a surgical scalpel. You don't need a massive amount of boots on the ground. But at this point, this operation is raging. So I will keep you posted as this develops. Likely mini skirmishes happening across the country right now

as the hardliners of the Venezuelan cartel military try to go up against US special operators. So as this develops, I'll keep you posted. I'll probably be posting a video at least once a day on this subject. Thanks so much for watching guys. Where do you think we go from here? And did you think this was going to happen? I know this was a massive buildup. Would love to hear your thoughts think this was going to happen? I know this was a massive buildup. Would love to hear your thoughts

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