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Richard Luthmann's avatar

This is what grown-up American power looks like—and Democrats can’t stand it. Trump didn’t carpet-bomb a country, didn’t occupy a capital, didn’t leave widows and folded flags behind. He reached in, grabbed a criminal kingpin the U.S. government itself indicted and priced, and left before the talking heads finished their coffee. That’s not recklessness—that’s mastery. The same people who applauded Panama while bodies piled up now clutch pearls because Trump proved force can be lawful, precise, and devastatingly effective. Their objection isn’t constitutional. It’s tribal. They don’t hate American power—they hate who’s wielding it.

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Geopolitics in Plain Sight's avatar

Turns out attack on Venezuela is one of USA’s biggest setbacks!

sounds ironic?

Well check this out!

https://substack.com/@geopoliticsinplainsight/note/c-195740839

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Rightly So's avatar

Can you reveal to us exactly when it was that you became an agent for the Chinese Communist Party? Or, would the revelation of that fact destroy your "credibility?"

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Geopolitics in Plain Sight's avatar

If the CCP is cutting cheques for long, footnoted essays about how Russia and China are methodically bleeding US power, they’ve chosen a very strange way to spend their influence budget.

Jokes aside, there’s no foreign payroll here – just a human brain trying to read open‑source reporting, history, and strategy documents as honestly as possible, even when that produces uncomfortable conclusions for every flag involved. People are free to disagree with the analysis, but turning any criticism of US moves into “must be CCP” is exactly the reflex that keeps serious debate from happening.

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Rightly So's avatar

And psyops are as continuous as a dripping faucet. Drip. Drip.

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Geopolitics in Plain Sight's avatar

"This is how epistemic closure works: move from falsifiable claims ('you're a CCP agent') to unfalsifiable ones ('everything is psyops'). The first can be addressed with evidence. The second cannot—by design. If you're serious about truth rather than dismissal, the burden is to identify which specific claims are false and why. That requires engagement with sources, logic, and evidence. 'Dripping faucet' is the opposite—it's an exit from that conversation entirely."

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John Wygertz's avatar

Hoo-rah!

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Neural Foundry's avatar

Sharp analysis on the operational shift from mass to precision. The contrast between 27,000 troops for Noriega vs a 4-hour surgical extraction for Maduro really underscores how much capability has evolved. I saw something similar play out in my work with intelligence systems where targeted actions often produced better outcomes than broad sweeps. The partisanship angle is kinda sad becasue it obscures what should be a bipartisan interest in more effective, lower-casualty operations.

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c Anderson's avatar

The Torrijos-Carter Treaties in 1977 was significant in Noriega’s rise to power. Thanks to Jimmy Carter, Noriega figured he was destined to rule and all he needed was a good army. I am lothe to support George HW Bush, and the Bush family cartel, but the power vacuum Jimmy Carter created brought about the military junta supported through drug trafficking, corruption, and Left Wing friends like Castro. Cuba has also been a facilitator in Maduro’s economic support. Trump’s arrest of Maduro will mean less oil going to Cuba, and less power for Communist Party of Cuba.

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Smacko9's avatar

Top Israeli Official Says US Needs To END First Amendment!

Schlomo Kramer

https://youtu.be/QIEz6D_luWI?t=6847

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'Trump Dog For Israel'

https://youtu.be/Yi1lkzUxLYk

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Netanyahu is coming to town, likely with war on his mind

– Not a ceasefire Day 80 - IAK Daily Update

https://us11.campaign-archive.com/?e=0b3dcb584e&u=70b9fc567465118fa0b7b6e67&id=23be5d9caf

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https://archive.org/details/TRUMPSGREATESTFLIPFLOPOFALLTIME

911 Impotence led to virus scam subservience

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TrumpClinton / DemoRub DemoUSA

https://youtu.be/qPK7uStv6zA

----Escape The DemoRub! ;-)

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Smacko9's avatar

The Sacking / Looting of USA

Trump Nabs Maduro, More Somali Fraud & Jewish Presidents

Powers & Principalities: Episode 433

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/tkelly6785757/episodes/2026-01-03T18_42_51-08_00

Jan3'26

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