This is disheartening. WaPo editorial board goes full cheerleader for Trump's invasion of Venezuela. https://archive.ph/5iVFN
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CBS News' new format launches Monday evening. I predict way more of the same there
@briankrebs what did you expect when Jeff bought WaPo ? MacKenzie should've taken that from him in the settlement, big mistake.
@briankrebs That's inevitable. They serve capital, now, and capital is salivating at the prospect of parting out Venezuela for profit.
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It’s only disheartening to those who think that WaPo retains any credibility.
@briankrebs Yeah, I think everyone knew that WaPo had gone over the edge before the election. This is not a surprise. They've sold their soul and are no longer relevant.
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What? Wapo is state media now?
Why I. Cancelled my subscription the second Bezos shit in their editorial board.
It's no longer the WaPoop: it's the Bezos Tribune-Republican.
@briankrebs I believe punching down and fawning up are his two modes. Junkyard dog behavior.
@briankrebs I mean as sad as it is it was kind of on the wall when it became public that the new guideline is „writing in support of America and this government“.
@briankrebs that’s really bad. Disheartening indeed
NYT: "President Trump said the United States would “run” Venezuela “until such time that we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition,” following the U.S. military operation that captured the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife."
"Mr. Trump offered few details about how the United States would oversee Venezuela, saying only that “a group” would do so. It was not clear whether that would involve an occupying military force, but Mr. Trump said he was not afraid of “boots on the ground.”
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01/03/world/trump-united-states-strikes-venezuela
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"...will run Venezuela (into the ground, same as US)..."
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Notice how hard the NY Times works to make this all sound normal? This is because the Times has a far-right (fascist) bias.
I think the Doge team is available?
@briankrebs Ah, yes, because the USA had such a great experience running Iraq...
@briankrebs poor venezuela- Biff can't run America properly, so now he's off to south America 😱😬☹️
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In the vernacular of my youth, this is a total shitshow. I wonder if Kalshi is taking bets on when he will step on his dick.
He forgot the "exit strategy" lesson that gets learned repeatedly throughout history by countries large and small.
Has regime changed *EVER* worked?
No, really: Has it ever worked?
@briankrebs going in and capturing Maduro in just a few hours was well done. I knew Trump could figure out how to fuck it up.
@briankrebs Is there any actual evidence that they are in a position to run the country other than have the ability to kidnap various leaders?
the NYT, cont'd: Pressed by reporters on who would be running Venezuela, Trump points to his advisers standing behind him and says that for a “period of time” the “people that are standing right behind me, we’re going to be running it.”
Some of the advisers standing behind him include Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and General Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Trump said the United States would be a part of an unspecified “group” running Venezuela without providing details.
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@briankrebs The President promised American oil🛢️ executives “a great deal” if they donated $1 billion to his campaign.
Today, he gave them #Venezuela — home to the largest oil reserves in the world.📈 💲
@briankrebs the only thing they will be running are the oil fields. The rest of the country can starve and die.
@briankrebs Has he announced who he will appoint as Gauleiter yet?
@briankrebs “the United States of (north and a a not of south) America”… what a shitshow
@briankrebs if they have elections in less than a year the prospectus is better for something moderate otherwise problems loom
All of them must be sanctioned.
"Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job."
@briankrebs must be that free market bent I'm hearing so much about.
@briankrebs Bezos is behind that one I'd wager.
@briankrebs As per orders from Bezos, no doubt.
Statements that upon reading in a newspaper story I would assume were written by the White House or the military itself:
"Details are still emerging, but what happened in Caracas was a clear reminder that America’s military and intelligence capabilities are second to none."
"What are Iranian leaders thinking now as they consider how to respond to widespread anti-government protests? Are the communists in Cuba sleeping well?"
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@briankrebs American military might is great on day one.
Keeping an invaded country in control is another. The track record there is less than stellar
@briankrebs Bet you anything Machado sold Maduro out in exchange for control over Venezuela.
@briankrebs Is this from WAPO or the WSJ?
@briankrebs While the lesson China is retaining is that there are no penalties for foreign agression so why not just go hard annexation on Taiwan? The US certainly won’t be defending since they’re busy elsewhere.
Just for fun, imagine TSMC being offline for a quarter (keeping this to simple first order effects for those in the back of the class)
"America’s military and intelligence capabilities are second to none."
with this administration, that is true. the current administration has less capability and intelligence than "none".
@briankrebs Part of it is sycophancy, part of it is herd reporting, and a very big part of it is people writing for newspapers who learned about international relations by watching paid pundits on TV.
Also, in what universe is the US invading Venezuela a test of our military and intelligence prowess?
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@briankrebs Conversely, I wonder what we'd have heard if those sent in to extract him didn't come back with him, or didn't come back at all, because they met unexpected resistance.
@briankrebs I mean, the best our VERY expensive military has accomplished in the last 80 years is tying with a peasant army in Korea, eating shit in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan... I assume Venezuela will also defeat us in a decade or two like everyone else does. Our Fabergé army is actually quite bad at actually winning wars despite the cost.
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Exactly. It's almost a joke to mention our superiority and our supposed success conducting a military operation against a non entity
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A test of how much of the military capability has survived with morons in charge.
@briankrebs bullies pick on weaker targets
My favorite line: "Now he should spend the rest of his life in a humane American prison."
Hahahahahahahh. Yeah, nobody does prisons like the US. More humans than humanes is our motto.
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In the past shenanigans though usually venal had some subtlety to cover them, however thin. This time I think it's just a blatant oil grab. It makes things much more starkly scary.
@briankrebs #Maduro just needs to connect with Roger Stone to see how many bitcoins are needed for a pardon. Easy peasy. The White House is just a bribery bazaar, and Trump lies so much, that he will have a Presidential LieBribery after he's gone, paid for by tariffs or Venezuelan oil.
@briankrebs Who ever wrote✍🏼 that is an oxymoron🤦🏼
@briankrebs In a what-now? I'm not aware that we have any humane prisons. I mean, compared to many countries, sure, but that's damning with faint praise. Our prisons are pretty crappy.
@briankrebs can someone tell me what crime he has done in Venezuela, by venezuelan laws? Is he broke international laws, shouldnt he be brought to Den Haag? If he broke venezuelan law, he should be brought to court in Venezuela. I do not see anything allowing the US to act. But then, I am Not American, not MAGA, not a lawyer…
@briankrebs I think this is a somewhat backhanded acknowledgement that CECOT isn't at all humane. The kicker, of course, is that's where he wants to send all of the brown people.
@briankrebs loool what are they smoking
@briankrebs yes. They'd have to build one first. A humane one. I mean.
@briankrebs it is laughable to imagine anyway that this administration, which openly raises a finger at SCOTUS by spiriting people off to third country captivity in defiance of the law, would allow a deposed foreign leader to make a claim of habeus corpus. Countdown until he turns up covered in scars in one of those nightmare cells at CECOT.
@briankrebs Well, it is actually a test of whether the military is going to carry out obviously illegal orders.
@briankrebs Have you seen our Secretary of Defense? It’s a wonder he can even clothe himself, let alone issue an order and get outta the way enough for this. Also he didn’t (as far as we know so far) give advance notice of the operation to a journo via signal so… that’s an improvement I guess?
@briankrebs Good grief! What a start to the new year ... 😒
@briankrebs Cuba is probably a better place to be than the US right now
@briankrebs and entirely unsurprising. Jeff Bozos installed a pro-Nazi lackey in charge of the editorial board, and has threatened or fired anyone with integrity, morals, or a conscience.
The WaPo has been a regime mouthpiece being directed on a line-by-line basis by the oligarch since last year, and cannot be trusted in ANY way.
