First Person Take on the Arrest of Maduro?

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I can’t verify this post, but found it very compelling:

This account from a Venezuelan security guard loyal to Nicolás Maduro is absolutely chilling—and it explains a lot about why the tone across Latin America suddenly changed.

Security Guard: On the day of the operation, we didn’t hear anything coming. We were on guard, but suddenly all our radar systems shut down without any explanation. The next thing we saw were drones, a lot of drones, flying over our positions. We didn’t know how to react.

Interviewer: So what happened next? How was the main attack?

Security Guard: After those drones appeared, some helicopters arrived, but there were very few. I think barely eight helicopters. From those helicopters, soldiers came down, but a very small number. Maybe twenty men. But those men were technologically very advanced. They didn’t look like anything we’ve fought against before.

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23 Replies to “First Person Take on the Arrest of Maduro?”

      1. That was my oblique message. Hence his tune ‘Estimated Prophet’ … which I dearly love. RIP Bobby. Hell of a lived life!

  2. The security forces are likely used to fighting peasants and criminals, not well trained Delta with the best gear money can buy.

    I also don’t think they were a security guard as they wouldn’t be talking to the press since they survived.

  3. Advanced technologies are the new weapons of war. They will be rolled out little by little. And they will escalate as required. I have heard that the weapons are at a minimum of 100 years ahead of us right now. There are weapons which require no bullets, it is sound and light frequencies which, when deployed, are unstoppable and as lethal as necessary. They can turn people into vapour instantly.

    The face of war is about to change. We are witnessing the beginnings of 5D warfare.

    “The smell of napalm in the morning” was a marker in tech, we are witnessing the next stage of modern warfare.

  4. One of the things that’s bothered me is how Mr. and Mrs. “Combatant” were unable to make it into their shelter before Delta Force showed up in their bedroom? They didn’t hear the helicopters? The Drones? Didn’t notice the power went out? Didn’t hear the firefight between their security team and Delta Force? They don’t have guards at their door whose sole job is to hustle them into security whenever anything sounds abnormal?

    Perhaps this was the ultimate STEALTH raid … using pulse weapons that render everything in front of our troops numbed, knocked out or worse? Perhaps that even included The Presidential Combatant and First Combatant?

    Yeah … I think something went down in Caracas like the world has never seen before … because … SCIENCE!! Eh, woke lefties?

    2. I was thinking treachery makes more “Occam’s Razor” sense than SuperScience!!!.

      But that’s still -wildly- impressive. Treachery that complete and that effective is next-level.

  5. Are the countries of the world buying Chinese build radar arrays not aware of what’s available on the other side of the fence?
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_EA-18G_Growler

    I think this or another manufacture’s wares are standard equipment with the folks from Delta Force
    https://defense.flir.com/isrt/tactical/

    This may be new to the folks in Venezuela’s armed forces, including the Cubans employed there, but it’s not at all new in realville.

  6. I’m skeptical. The story is a too pat, too much like those AI-generated stories on YouTube.

    And at the end, it shifts from personal experience to commentary on the whole hemisphere, which seems out of the purview of a security guard.

    1. When I was caught stealing restaurant butter, my story was a little too pat. This guy is pleasantly verbal and I bet he has some basis for everything he said. But I’m not sure how much expensive property I’d want rest on that basis. And I can’t shake the sense that he’d love to throw in a few chupacabras but just didn’t think this audience would go for it.

      Still, perhaps this how a psychologically enhanced kinetic operation can be perceived. In that sense, it’s highly credible.

  7. The account is credible but probably BS. A security guard says all the radars went down? How does he know? According to what he says he was outside watching the drones come in over their position. You can’t be two places at once. Very few helicopters. Eight? Eight helos is not “very few”. They had fewer than that on the Bin Laden raid. Trump did mention technology he couldn’t talk about; remember the stealth helos of the Bin Laden Raid? That was 14 years ago, so there is 100% chance the technology got better silencing those noisy rotors. However if I had men inside that helped nail Maduro, I would certainly run a story of magical tech and ghost soldiers to cover them though.

    1. And how does he know how many helicopters landed and how many soldiers got out? In the heat of battle, you probably don’t know shit except that someone’s trying really hard to kill you.

  8. Would have liked to read the rest of it, but my security software pegged the source with everything short of fireworks telling me it wouldn’t be a good idea.

    Don’t know if what I have read is accurate. The drone thing makes sense. They’d want to test the Russia hardware to see if they successfully nullified it. Plus they spent a couple months playing with those drones out over the New Jersey Shore in a mock exercise. My understanding is that most of the guards traveling with Maduro (who rarely stayed in the same place two days in a row) were Cuban. Is this guy Cuban?

    1. Indeed the CBC/Globe and Mail’s Andrew Coyne had a fit of anger over Maduro’s arrest. The arrest was so naughty, naughty to Mr. Coyne.

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