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Venezuela Next?

The price of oil is also very low right now, seems the wrong time to invade a country for oil.

There are plenty of odd folk around though. Remember the loons who plotted to assassinate Morales in 2009? Led by a Hungarian fascist. It got a lot of coverage in Ireland because one of them was Irish, a Walter Mitty type who posed online with guns. Three of them were killed, the police may have shot first and asked questions later.
 
“The boom in U.S. oil and natural gas production will make the U.S. a net energy exporter in 2020 — a feat the country has not achieved in nearly 70 years, the Department of Energy’s statistics bureau said on Thursday.

The U.S. will start exporting more energy products than it imports as U.S. crude output continues to grow and domestic oil consumption declines, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said in its latest Annual Energy Outlook. Growing shipments of natural gas and petroleum byproducts will also boost the country’s role as a major energy exporter.”

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/24/us-becomes-a-net-energy-exporter-in-2020-energy-dept-says.html
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As I said, the broadcast was over a decade ago. I sincerely hope that no more countries undergo revolutions or regime change at the moment apart from perhaps North Korea.
 
More on the bizarre plot

Inside a glittering Miami high-rise, representatives of the Venezuelan opposition sat in a room adorned with samurai swords and listened to a pitch.

They had been appointed by opposition leader Juan Guaidó to explore all options in their U.S.-backed quest to oust Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. On that afternoon on the shores of Biscayne Bay last September, a former U.S. Army Green Beret presented them with an answer.
Operation Resolution.

Jordan Goudreau, a 43-year-old Special Forces veteran who ran a strategic-security firm on the Florida Space Coast, laid out a plan that could double as a screenplay for an episode of “Jack Ryan.” Goudreau claimed to have 800 men ready to penetrate Venezuela and “extract” Maduro and his henchmen, according to J.J. Rendón, the Venezuelan political strategist tapped by Guaidó to help lead the secretive committee.

Guaidó “was saying all options were on the table, and under the table,” Rendón told The Washington Post. “We were fulfilling that purpose.”
By October, the plan had advanced to the point of a signed agreement, contingent on funding and other conditions. Rendón calls it a trial balloon, a test of what Goudreau could do that was never officially greenlighted. But the language of the agreement left no ambiguity on the objective: “An operation to capture/detain/remove Nicolás Maduro . . . remove the current Regime and install the recognized Venezuelan President Juan Guaidó.” ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...6222bc-8e4a-11ea-9322-a29e75effc93_story.html
 
This will definitely be made into a comedy film.

Never Do A Discount Coup
An ex-Green Beret’s absurd attempt to overthrow Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro will likely only deepen the country’s political crisis.

There are many striking and absurd details about the haphazard and sure-to-fail coup attempt a former Green Beret attempted to carry out against socialist Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro early Sunday morning.

Jordan Goudreau, the ex-Green Beret behind the plot, sent a small group of supposed mercenaries barreling toward the Venezuelan coast on speedboats.

He live-tweeted the efforts, even tagging President Donald Trump.

He entrusted the operation to a QAnon conspiracy theorist. And even with eight people dead and two Americans arrested, he insisted his crusade was only beginning.


But none of those details is as astounding and revealing as one particular nugget in The Washington Post’s deep-dive into how exactly the entire episode came about: Top officials in the Venezuelan opposition were initially attracted to Goudreau’s plan because he offered to do it on the cheap. ...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/venezuela-coup-green-beret-maduro_n_5eb4388ec5b649a9ea667d58
 
This will definitely be made into a comedy film.

Never Do A Discount Coup
An ex-Green Beret’s absurd attempt to overthrow Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro will likely only deepen the country’s political crisis.

There are many striking and absurd details about the haphazard and sure-to-fail coup attempt a former Green Beret attempted to carry out against socialist Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro early Sunday morning.

Jordan Goudreau, the ex-Green Beret behind the plot, sent a small group of supposed mercenaries barreling toward the Venezuelan coast on speedboats.

He live-tweeted the efforts, even tagging President Donald Trump.

He entrusted the operation to a QAnon conspiracy theorist. And even with eight people dead and two Americans arrested, he insisted his crusade was only beginning.


But none of those details is as astounding and revealing as one particular nugget in The Washington Post’s deep-dive into how exactly the entire episode came about: Top officials in the Venezuelan opposition were initially attracted to Goudreau’s plan because he offered to do it on the cheap. ...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/venezuela-coup-green-beret-maduro_n_5eb4388ec5b649a9ea667d58

An in depth analysis of the Bay of Piglets fiasco.

'Bay of Piglets': A 'bizarre' plot to capture a president
By Linda Pressly BBC News 30 July 2020

On Sunday 3 May, the government of Nicolas Maduro announced Venezuela's armed forces had repelled an armed incursion. Operation Gideon was a deeply flawed coup attempt. But what would compel exiled Venezuelans and former US Special Forces soldiers to join a plan that, from the outset, looked like a suicide mission?

It is a story that leaps straight out of a 20th Century playbook of Latin American conspiracies.

"It made the Bay of Pigs look like D-Day," quipped one commentator, referring to the failed US-financed invasion of Fidel Castro's Cuba in 1961. Operation Gideon is a staggering tale of hubris, incompetence and treachery. Eight men were killed by Venezuela's armed forces off the coastal town of Macuto. Dozens of others were captured and remain in jail in Caracas. Less than a handful escaped. And coinciding with the height of the coronavirus pandemic, it has attracted less attention outside the Americas than it otherwise might have done.

At the heart of the failed mission was a former US Special Forces soldier, Jordan Goudreau.

Medic, marksman, veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq and recipient of three Bronze Star medals, Goudreau was way out of his depth.

"A daring amphibious raid was launched from the border of Colombia," he intoned, in a widely distributed video published hours after it began. "Our men are continuing to fight right now… Our units have been activated in the south, west and east of Venezuela."

This was not true. Some supporters in Venezuela may have been tipped off, but Operation Gideon - named after a Biblical character who triumphed over a much larger army - consisted of fewer than 60 poorly armed men and one woman. And in reality the operation had already descended into bloody chaos. ...

https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-53557235
 
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