Rebecca Ore

Months in planning, over in two and a half hours: how the US snatched Maduro The operation to capture the Venezuelan president and his wife involved at least 150 aircraft, months of surveillance – and reportedly a spy in the government

And, here is The Guardian's report which does not confirm your CommunityNote's disinformation. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

The Shah was that bad. Nobody likes having a colonial empire install their rulers. Sides in the country have complex issues to solve. Compromises takes seeing all equally our fellow nationals, even if some of them like 12 hour surreal plays and good wines and others want to ban all alcohol.

Putin and Daniel Ortega:
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Putin and Donald Trump:
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Ortega is harder to impress, I think.

Well, yeah. The dumbest thing the empires can do is wade into what looks like a simple war with a smaller country except the smaller country is a proxy for other empires, which won't be attacked directly because. Trump doesn't get that neither Xi nor Putin are his friends.

Sweet Stuff, black with a white spot on her chest and a broad band of her belly. We owned her for several years until one of the human toddlers pulled up on the chair she was sleeping on. Mom put her outside after she'd swattered the child. She walked away and never came back.

My childhood cat used to line up her catches at the basement door to remind us that she was working for that canned cat food. The catches included seasonal baby bunnies, occasional squirrels, mice, and chipmunks. She also chased dogs, but never caught their puppies.

Reuters was one sided about Nicaragua in 2018, but has since released photos on Alamy taken then that now show both sides were shooting. DW had news of the Nicaraguan abstension on Ukraine the night before the actual vote, first surprise abstention, so I rather trust DW.

So wrong about the number of bodies returned to Cuba, but your experimental (AI ?) community note poster leans right wing and this feature needs to require named humans question issues, and give links to sources. Anyone correcting propaganda needs to give sources, links.

During Hurricane Mitch here, the US government sent helicopters to pick up citizens who lived in remote locations from what I heard.

We wrecked Iranian secular democracy in the 1950s, destabilized the country by installing a comic opera shah who loved absurdist avant guard performance pieces (12 hours worth except for time going out for food--I saw "The Life and Times of Joseph Stalin" in Brooklyn but.....

The fun bit is other side believes in the righteousness of their cause and believes the US is the enemy of humanity.

The US has been an imminent threat to any other nation in its hemisphere since before America existed.

Indigenous girls with swaddled babies would enter a hotel and leave w/o the baby. Soon American and European couples would come down with babies dressed American or European baby clothes.

Several years apparently. A Nicaraguan friend knew a woman who bought a Mercedes from the proceeds of baby brokering.

Our founder wanted a strict barrier between government and religion because the Puritans showed just how bad that could get.

It's worse --they believe the world needs to die to rapture them into eternal life with a view of sinners being punished forever, and perpetual free food and a permanent body of a 30 year old. Muslims get a fixed number of virgins.

They could be lying twice.

You are never bribing any government official. You're just suggesting that you're paying a bit for all the hassle your request is costing him. Acting like the person taking a bribe is beneath you will get you shaken down for even more. Or you'll get thrown out of the office.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmcr... Associated Press's video report on the return of 32 Cuban officers killed in Venezuela by US forces. Associated Press tends to be more reliable than most US sources on things I've had direct experience of.

Religion is a system for oppressing most people but promising them an afterlife which will reward them for offering their suffering up to God (what my mom was taught by the nuns after her parents and grandmother died, and Catholic kin put her in a Catholic girls' boarding school

Also,Mencho was killed February 22, 2026, which is later than the month ago of the reports on the bodies of slain Cubans being returned to Cuba by more reliable sources than the Washington Post.

This is Al Jazeera's report: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZky...
And Reuters,which tends to slant right, www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Maduro's bodyguards killed in US raid returned to Cuba in boxes YouTube video by The Independent

The Washington Post is a dubious source (they've been very bad for Nicaraguan news. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNiN... from The Independent say 32 bodies were returned to Cuba.

US forces killed Maduro's Cuban bodyguards, maybe 50 people. No acknowledged casualties among the US forces, dunno about local pro-US side.

Citizen services were curtailed significantly during Trump's first presidency. No free flights out to get citizens out of harms way, seriously overpriced flights available, cash only.

So far I haven't noticed anyone mentioning Iran/Contra.

Good.

Baby brokers made serious money, bought Mercedes. Some of the adoptions were dubious. Some people went into the campo trying to avoid the brokerage fees.

The Guatamala is now prohibited to sell Guatemalan babies. The sources were indigenous girls who moved to the city to be maids,got pregnant (using by a boy or man of the household), weren't welcome back in their villages, and sent to baby brokers as a condition of keeping their jobs.

She did declare Iran as the number one or number two enemy. One problem is that there are a range of people who guide policy. I think Trump brought in people who were even more hawkish than the post Vietnam debacle revisionists, but those people were in the mix.