About Venezuela
More than meets the eye or the MSM
Suddenly, if you’re paying attention, it all makes sense!!
This is the part that makes everything suddenly click — especially now that Maduro is in U.S. custody on narco-terrorism charges.
Everyone thought this was just about Venezuela.
It wasn’t.
What just happened may be one of the hardest economic hits to the Kremlin since the Ukraine war began — and it didn’t require a single missile.
Here’s the quiet mechanism most people missed:
Russia can’t openly sell its oil because of sanctions. So Moscow adapted. It built a shadow system — unflagged tankers, erased records, rerouted shipping data — a ghost fleet.
And one of the key laundering hubs? Venezuela.
Maduro’s regime wasn’t just corrupt — it was a financial relay station. Russian oil moved through Venezuelan channels, blended, relabeled, and sold off the books. The same shadow network tied together Moscow, Caracas, and Tehran.
Now look at what Donald Trump just did.
The U.S. blocked Venezuelan oil tankers.
On paper, that targets Maduro.
In reality, it chokes Russia’s escape valve.
If Venezuela stalls, the entire laundering pipeline collapses.
Less oil is sold quietly.
Less cash reaching Moscow.
More risk for any country trying to help Putin cheat sanctions.
And the reactions tell the story.
Vladimir Putin? Silent.
But Dmitry Peskov suddenly looked nervous and warned, “This is dangerous. Venezuela is our ally.”
That’s not concern for Maduro.
That’s fear of exposure.
Then comes the pressure point.
Washington is now warning countries: keep buying Russian oil after rejecting Trump’s peace terms — and you’ll face consequences.
Is it diplomacy?
Is it blackmail?
Or is it something far more effective — economic suffocation?
This is the war nobody sees on the battlefield.
No tanks.
No headlines.
No dramatic explosions.
Just shadow fleets drying up.
Cash flows freezing.
And regimes realizing their backdoor just got slammed shut.
If the ghost oil stops moving…
How long can the Kremlin keep the war machine running?
This wasn’t chaos.
This wasn’t a coincidence.
This was a silent strike — and it may end up reshaping the global balance far faster than anyone expected.
h/t Josh Ometski
Empty tankers pull into the exporting port. Laden tankers leave the exporting port. A tanker laden with oil from Russia pulling into Venezuela in order to launder that oil would be plainly apparent to anyone looking.
From what I heard Russia spent a ton of money helping Venezuela and they are laundering money for them right now and helping them ship oil to try to get their money back. Both countries are under sanction and both have their own shadow fleets. If anyone is mixing oil, it's Venezuela mixing their shitty oil in with Russia's and Russia is taking a cut.
China also invested in Venezuela and they don't care who they get their oil from, not so long as it's cheap. The last I heard they were both pissed at Maduro because they weren't getting paid back fast enough. I don't think either of them planned any big investments in the future because Venezuela can't get their act together.
Despite having tons of oil it's not the cleanest in the world and because of that it's selling for next to nothing. It's extra dirty because they can't get the chemicals they need to clean it. They can't get the chemicals thanks to sanctions.
It didn't help that Chavez fired all the qualified technicians and engineers when the commies took over, he put in place a bunch of dumb asses who destroyed everything they touched. In the process they created the biggest environmental disaster in the Americas. If allowed to continue they will destroy the Orinoco Basin, it's a wetland that is one and half times the size of Texas.
They made a movie about it, songs have been written, etc. Honestly, the people who did that should all be lined up and shot, after a fair trial of course. I'm not an environmental nut or anything but seriously, it's that fucked up.
Trump would be smart to say he's going to clean that shit up, it really is horrible and it's because the commies took over, they did not have that problem when we ran it.
What do you think the Green Party types would say to capitalists cleaning up, after the commies created a massive environmental wasteland out of a pristine wetland bigger than Texas?
On a side note.
Citco is the only Venezuelans oil company to play ball with the international courts and agree to the settlements. After the commies stole the oil, the oil companies and various governments involved took them to court. The commies lost and haven't paid up, Citco has been making their payments, but they don't sell nearly as much as they once did, so they still owe a ton too.
At one time Venezuela sold 96% of it's oil to the US and it was a high quality product for less money than the Arabs. It was a win win, they got rich, we got cheap oil and weren't as dependent on Bone Saw Dictators.
As for this raid.
Tons of people think that we were allowed to go in and get him and that most of their military was told to stand down. This is why Maduro had Cubans as guards, he didn't trust his own men to do it.
I think it makes sense that we had a whole lot of inside help, that or it went about ten thousand times better than Operation Just Cause, which was SNAFU from top to bottom.
Compare it with Panama.
Seals were going to take over a small airport, they got ambushed, four dead and a whole bunch were wounded. My platoon took over security of that place sometime around Christmas, I remember calling my wife from the office in the hanger, right next to Noriega's jet that had a big old burnt hole in the side of it. Snipers were still around and they were still launching an occasional mortar or two at us then.
Delta Force had a mission too, they had to rescue a guy named Kurt Muse, they crashed their helicopter and only got him out safely because the Panamanians didn't choose to kill him.
The Stealth fighter was used for the first time in support of an elite Ranger Battalion, who were jumping in to take out Panama's most highly trained special forces at Rio Hato. The Stealth bombers missed, one of my friends died there and so did three other Rangers, including their medic. A bunch of them were wounded, broken backs and knees from having to jump in from 350 feet instead of the planned 500. When their billion dollar babies missed, they woke up the defenders who opened up with anti-aircraft guns.
My Squad went to Rio Hato to take over security and to clean out the barracks two days later. The day before we had an air assault into the jungle, where we hit another barracks. On the way to Rio Hato my blackhawk got hit, we had a "hard landing". Another way of saying we bounced when we hit the ground. A Chinook came and carried it away the next day.
The Marines did an amphibious assault that ended with Panamanian Civilians rescuing the Marines.
My unit four lost men to bad weather, blackhawk down in the jungle, some of the men lived for a while, but they couldn't get to them for a couple of days.
I once watched a Chinook take off and fly right smack into a tree, totaled the bird, everyone lived.
In training I heard a very loud boom followed by a couple more, two blackhawks had collided, everyone died.
They once dropped a bunch of us from too high into the Ocean and broke guys backs.
Let me put it this way, either we got one fuck of a lot better, or we had a whole lot of inside help.
The military I served in could not have pulled this raid off, not without fucking it up somehow and I think Trump would have known that. So why would he take such a gamble, unless he knew there were stand down orders? I'm not saying that everyone stood down, but enough of them did. How sure am I? Lets say 75% that someone in their military was in on it and we knew there would be very little resistance.
I've watched a ton of battle footage from this raid, it seems incredibly tame compared with Just Cause, at least as far as "death from above" is concerned, they didn't fire that much ordinance. I don't know what all these jets were supposed to be doing but it wasn't hitting targets.
I'd love for Venezuela to return to Capitalism, it's not our job to make it happen and I doubt it will happen until their people are ready for it. If we have to do it by force, it's going to be a mess and we will probably at best create a new Columbia situation were the puppet government controls the city and the natives control everything else and run it like one big cartel would.