By now, you’ve seen the footage. Blackhawks over Caracas, flashbangs at Miraflores, and Nicolás Maduro in zip ties.
The official line from the briefing room is “Operation Ultimate Justice.” We’re told it was about narcoterrorism, liberation, and restoring the sacred flame of democracy to Bolívar’s cradle.
But let’s be real. You don’t send the 82nd Airborne to seize a head of state because you’re worried about traces of cocaine on banknotes. You do it because the geopolitical chessboard demands a violent rearrangement of the pieces.
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