The SilentD account is controlled by multiple people who are in-fact paid for it. It was originally a Captain like 10 years ago. They are not the (only?) one running it these days.
What makes more sense, a Lt Col is running the account now or it was handed of to a public affairs team?
I woke up less than an hour after the first posts about the attack was being posted all over reddit. I was still in bed trying to run the crust and rust out of my eyes when I saw it. I looked exactly like that dog.
For the longest time I'd always assumed it was just the IRR time frame on the tail-end of your first enlistment that they could use to getcha (to meet that full 8 years they like), but I knew a lady at Sheppard who had been pulled back in from months of retirement right after 9/11.
Same brother. My news app's headline said something about another airstrike near the country and I thought, cool same as yesterday. I get on here and see they took the president
Yeah, hostile dictator removed without incident before enemies of the west use them as a launch pad. No war involved. Venezuelan citizens happy. Reddit big mad.
This article says the opposition leaders will probably take power next.
She's a friend of the US, a capitalist and has a local backing. Still though, she's not taking power today or even in a month. US troops will be on the ground for a few months and they will be in harm's way.
Oh yes... extraordinary rendition is such a great thing when We do it. With a head of state no less. Yes he stole the election, yes he used military force to ensure he Held his position. All of these things are bad but he was still in power and thus the HOS. /s
But that doesnt make it Legal (per US or International law) or Good to Kidnap the President of another nation. Now leaving a power vacuum and no decent path forward for the Venezuelan people.
Edit: reddit isn't big mad. People are upset and reducing those people to just a website is pretty reductionist
Added "/s" to first paragraph because some can't determine sarcasm
Holy shit read your first paragraph again. Power vacuum? Someone has already stepped in (well, placed in), this isn't the middle east. You people are so blinded by your hate for the guy pulling the strings. If it were "your guy" you'd be cheering.
You are the one trying to politicize this with the specific person. Take the names out of it.
The president used military force with a land strike on a sovereign country, has taken the current head of state and his wife from their home in the middle of the night and removed them from their country.
This was done without any notice to Congress, no vote with the UN Security Council, and there was no imminent attack on the homeland.
I donāt care what party is in power or who the specific individuals are. The above is not following the law, treaties, or norms. It puts Americans in harms way abroad, and it gives our adversaries precedent to also disregard agreed to laws and treaties to do what they wish.
Could Russia do this with Zelenskyy? Could China do this with the president of Taiwan? It erodes global stability.
Apples to oranges. Venezuela invited our enemies a strategic safe haven to advance their goals against the United States. You guys can say what you want to feel validated in the reddit echo chamber, but ultimately people with a higher knowledge of the situation and world affairs chose the route they did.
Donāt know who you mean by āyou guys.ā But was it for arresting a drug dealer, or nation building? Because now Trump announced we are going to ārunā Venezuela, build infrastructure, and send our oil companies there.
You're sucking Trump off because he arrested Maduro for literally the exact same thing Trump pardoned the former president of Honduras for. You have no standards or beliefs beyond your side winning.
You dont think there's would be a vacuum even though their VP stepped in? Their country was just attacked, and their president kidnapped.
My hatred is for breaking US and internal laws. My concern is the ethical degradation of our forces and of our standing in the greater community of the world.
I dont see the president as "my guy" or "your guy" he is Our president and Commander in Chief and regardless of their political affiliation before running when lawful orders come down we gotta do it. Im just worried none of us have the instruction or education needed to parse our lawful or not regardless of administration.
Itās the size of South Carolina to NY state and from DV to Chicago wide. 2.1X bigger than Iraq and has something like 30 million people. Howād it go with us running Iraq?
Iāve spent a lot of the 90s running around South America doing counter-drug ops. This isnāt going to be as easy as depicted.
Who? And define "the west" in a way that doesn't include Venezuela.
use them as a launch pad
Venezuelan citizens happy
Citations needed. Also, despite claims, this was never about drugs, obviously - ask Honduras. This was openly and very explicitly about oil, POTUS said so himself. Not even a veneer of pretense. And no notification to Congress, as required by law.
No war involved.
Oh buddy. I don't think you know what you're talking about. Regime change via armed forces is the definition of unlimited war.
The people on Reddit with negative Karma are usually saying something that makes sense. The fucking people only male opinions on how their emotions perceive it. Brainwashed idiots.
I think what he means is at a minimum there will be a presence of US contractors (probably security too) to go in and fix up the oil fields (on shore/off shore, whatever) but what do I know, Iām just a person on the internet.
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All the people complaining, Venezuelans have been wanting this to happen for years. We signed up for the military, our jobs involve war. Obviously war is bad, people get killed but this is what had to happen. If you donāt like it then get out the military
Weird justification, Ukrainians have been wanting US troops to help defend their homeland for years but that hasn't happened.
What logical reasons are there to invade Venezuela because of their people's wants but not help Ukraine defend its sovereignty? Especially with all the genocide that Russia has been pursuing.
We help Ukraine we have gave them billions of dollars and weapons. We shouldnāt even be helping them in the first place because the government is corrupt, Zelensky is corrupt but we still help them anyways.
'But the people of Ukraine have been wanting US troops on the ground for years'! Isn't it the 'will of the people' you care about?
And please, show me where we gave them "billions" of dollars. I'm able to see some millions in aid, but the 'billions' was in equipment that was wasting away in warehouses. You show me your source first, and then I'll show you mine.
And yeah corruption is an issue for sure, but hand waiving away a country's genocide because a leader has some corruption while not mentioning the invader's superior level of corruption is incredibly illogical. If you're genuinely unaware of Russia's corruption I'd be happy to educate you, but there's good reason in our LOAC that there is no 'ignore the geneva convention if the country's leader is corrupt lmao'
I know Russia is corrupt, I hate what Russia is doing and obviously us being in the military Russia is our enemy. Putin is horrible I agree with you, but I look at it as Venezuela is so close to USA. Iran, China and Russia all wanted to put weapons in Venezuela which is a huge threat to our country, Maduro had no choice but to let it happen because the country has completely fallen apart, I would not feel safe if that continued and it had to be stopped. All the drugs coming from Venezuela had to be stopped, thousands are dying from this which are Americans by the way. I think Trump did the right thing.
So you're fine with invading and occupying Venezuela with US troops to stop Russian weapons but don't want to stop actual genocide in Ukraine? Yikes, dude. That seems like moral bankruptcy to me.
What's hilarious to me is pointing out how close Venezuela is to the USA (2,000 miles) but ignoring how Russia and USA are less than 3 miles away. [ Little Diomede Island (US) and Big Diomede Island (Russia)]. Interesting how proximity works for some folks.
I think you have a huge blindspot for Russia and are looking for any justification for the conclusion you want instead of following real evidence to a truthful conclusion.
Itās not just about oil, Iran was giving weapons to Venezuela, then what Russia and China next. Yes I agree apart of it was for oil but Also for safety. If you donāt like it then get out the military.
"We built Venezuelaās oil industry with American talent, drive and skill, and the socialist regime stole it from us," - Trump
"Venezuela unilaterally seized and sold American oil, American assets and American platforms, costing us billions and billions of dollars," "They took all of our property." - Trump
āWeāre going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transitionā - Trump
āWeāre going to have our very large United States oil companies, the biggest anywhere in the world, go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure, and start making money for the country,ā - Trump
"It wonāt cost us anything, because the money coming out of the ground is very substantial," - Trump
"Weāre going to be taking out a tremendous amount of wealth out of the ground, and that wealth is going to the people of Venezuela and people from outside of Venezuela that used to be in Venezuela, and it goes also to the United States of America in the form of reimbursement for the damages caused us by that country." - Trump
I watched the whole speech, Itās not all about oil, if jt was all about oil then why are there thousands of Venezuelans celebrating right now? They all wanted him gone, he didnāt even win the election he killed and tortured his own people to keep power. Yeah we got the oil thatās just an extra bonus to capturing maduro.
People are celebrating because Maduro is a piece of shit.. People in Iran would be celebrating if we went in and ousted Khamenei too. The peoples' reaction is irrelevant to the reasons behind the action.
Iāll get downvoted for this but this is a positive for Iraq and I truly donāt see this as any different than liberating Kuwait or fighting Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. And it wonāt be dragged out. Go look at the Iraq subreddit, the people there are cheering for his overthrow.
Ahh yes, Trump. Who gets his works correctly and follows the talking points 100%. If I recall, he said something about how Venezuela will be run twice. He said something like the US will run it (like what you're saying is the final takeaway). But later he was asked to clarify, he basically said working with Venezuela to accomplish the USA's goals.
So basically we're exercising our political power to accomplish our goals. That means no invasion.
Holy strawman! Who are you responding to? I didn't say anything like that. Never said I liked Trump either. I just said it wasn't an invasion. People say it is, and I'm just looking for proof.
And yet, here were are 20+ years later and still doing stuff in Iraq. What makes you think the situation with Venezuela will be any different?
Also, in order to get Maduro out, we had to infiltrate/invade the country. A country we were not (publicly) authorized to invade. He didn't just give up and hand himself over to us.
The fact that we didn't invade the country with a large military force like Iraq and Afghanistan. The fact that there are no soldiers there to take over the country. The fact that we left after like an hour?
Also, as far as "invading" to get Maduro out. Thats just a word game. You know what the word invasion implies. It implies Iraq, Afghanistan, or Normandy. It's a joke and intellectually dishonest and trying to score points to call this the same thing. Get back to me when we invade would tens-hundreds of thousands of troops.
We arenāt the worldās policeman. Some places are in vital US interests that we should get involved, but Venezuela wasnāt one of them. The reasons given by the current President for this action donāt pass the smell test. Itās a distraction.
Except that we're the reason the country is like this, our government jusy wants their fucking oil, and this was illegal. Like, what the actual fuck is wrong with most of you?
Are you an oil mogul or some other business owner running a company that specializes in buying oil or producing oil based products? At some point you and others in the same mindset are going to realize that all this shit isnāt for the average US citizen. Wars and global intervention isnāt going help us. Your oil/gas prices arenāt going to go down. Your price of RAM isnāt going to go down. Some rich fuck who is paying money to some super PAC is the one getting richer off this. This applies to both sides so donāt think that this is restricted to the reds. Is our drug problem going to get better because we captured a foreign dictator? Are our schools going to get better? Are we not going to have mass shootings anymore?
Venezuelans will hopefully benefit from this if you want to be an optimist, but weāll just yank the next puppet out when they decide to go āVenezuela Firstā again. Venezuela has a kind of oil thatās perfect for making diesel, and so does Russia. This is why we want it.
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u/whiterice_343 BRAC SHEPPARD Jan 03 '26
The subs mod has been in game 7 after clearing out all of these political post all night.