CIA Already Drone Striking Inside Venezuela | EYES ON GEOPOLITICS

happened I think like a week or so ago. President Trump mentioned it like kind of ambiguously in in an interview, and then you know, journalists started doing their jobs and stuff like that, and uh, we got to confirmed yesterday that there was a drone strike on land in Venezuela. So that's a little bit of a change to what we've been seeing with like you know, massive military building up and the drought and the strikes on boats in the Caribbean and in the Pacific and stuff like that.

So JT, how you doing. What's your take on all this?

who's dealing with the Treasury right now. I remember like twenty ten Marshall had my report. Actually I'm not knocking him, and because I'm sure that Marshall doesn't usually do the collection of intel and the analysis of it, but he's got a lot of people that give it to him.

But I think that, you know, whether it's the drug cartels, whether it's the Hezbolah narrative, I think it's a little bit overstated and largely you know, focused for regime change and maybe even more so on natural resources, which as you know, the oil, you know, So it just just kind of remarks out the gate to kind of show where where it kind of where I stand.

the oil fields and gather those around. And what happens is then you've got this vacuum for the disruption of everything that's going on over there, and it incites anything that may be there into more more of a problem. Plus we're talking about you know, securing borders. You're going to send a whole bunch of Venezuelans then after that out into the world and increasing a lot of those efforts. So yeah, I think I think they don't have such

a such a great plan, and I'd be curious. I mean, with the Fulca Gabbert, you know, where are they getting the intel? The US hasn't had a lot of operations. I mean, I'm not speaking out turn here, but it's been an unpervisive environment. Okay if you look at the five eyes of who's actually been in Venezuela and able to operate conduct intel operations Canada until I think the last ten years, and the UK right now has has allowed is allowed to have an embassy there. We have

not for years. So you've got you've have.

we got a lot of trafficking networks and stuff. Once that was there there like we're out, We're not sharing any more intel with you, because essentially that whole premise of what we were going to do was going to really kind of jack things up for them as well.

think heavily, you know, heavy showing from Jaysack actually, but this is the first one that has been done under CIA authorities.

little is in the Eastern Caribbean. I think when you look at that as a as a trafficking hub, there used to be a statistic. I mean, I had it in a report I don't know years back. I think it was twelve percent of cocaine trafficking proceeds we're going to hez Blah in and around Venezuela. Okay. So if you're taking about one percent of that of that drug trafficking, even you know, just holistically going out of that area,

I think you're taking a small percentage of that. It's really not that profitable for hes Blah and a lot of those individuals in there. So as a drug trafficking hub and where this is launching from, I mean, it's it's I don't I don't see it as a as a massive massive threat. So why why that? You know?

I I don't know, especially if if it's where I think it is, if it's in the I think it was like the things they pronounced like yu or something area, But that is where they had a little bit more of the Muslim population of x Elebanese.

where I'd be like totally on board. We're just fucking with Iran because around those whole areas are a lot of oil refineries and shipping points for Iranian oil production and transfers. Okay, I mean Iran and Venezuela were founding members of OPEC in nineteen sixty. I guess it was. So Iran has had a massive presence in and around

that area, especially around the oil refineries and production. So if you're also looking at a lot of the major ports over there, it could also have like kind of a dual capability of just kind of hat you know, we're saying this under the auspices of drugs, but we can find with your oil and oil shipments at any

point in time. I mean, for me, if you've got a strategic purpose and if you're united with a bunch of other countries in that, I think that's pretty cool, you know, just to just to jack with them a little bit. Maybe there's some type of disruption that you know, I'm not privy to, but I think what's going on here, I don't know. I think it's a it's a little bit of a stretch, as you said, suggestive Jack.

pressure on medor to get out of Venezuela. There was some chat about talks that they were having with Maduro and stuff, but he was asking for like him and like a hundred people of his to be able to get out him, to have amnesty and all that our immunity. What do we look is this just like a big bluff because it seems like.

Canada and because they've got resources. Then again, I know

it's just kind of believe, but then you kind of but if you are thinking of expanding, where can you get a bunch of resources fast and everybody else is turning you down? Who can you fuck with that? Really, nobody's going to fuck back with Venezuela. You know, they've got a lot of reserves. So Russia is not going to do much. They don't really have a military presence in and around that area to protect what's Iran going to do. They're not going to do a whole lot either.

Most other people are not going to get into a conflict with it because they do recognize. I mean it's a corrupt area, don't get me wrong. I mean there's massive amounts of corruption. It's a massive hub for money laundering and always has so I think it is a little bit of a wag the dog just to be able to get some of those resources under our control and do it in such a way that it's not

going to disrupt a whole lot. Now, one of the things that I saw the other day was continue to talk about Marguerite Island as being a this massive hezbola training camp area and this is kind of the bee hive. Yeah, bit of bullshit, because you had You've got three main clans that were like Elevenese expats in and around those areas, and then they control a lot of the trade. In many cases they are involved with some of the corruption. A lot more trade based money laundry. That's a lot

more profitable. I mean, instead of running a boat full of drugs out into the Caribbean, you'd rather take a shipment of ladies panties that you are invoicing for twenty dollars that you got for one dollar, and you're getting that profitability to launder money and get paid for the laundering of that one years ago, and this is going back into two again about twenty ten and we were

supporting DoD some opposite capabilities. We're looking at Margarita Island and at the time, I don't know if you remember the name of Raman who was isis involved individual he had missed, He had disappeared from Iraq, was in Syria. I think he ended up being killed in like twenty eleven in Pakistan. He was also with a guy named Majub who is a Venezuelan businessman. So we had a source that captured the picture of Margharita Island of him getting on on on board. There was a picture of

some past sports. We had the capability to say that he was there, and it was widely refuted throughout the community. There's no way that he would be there. Why the hell would he be. Well, if you take a look at that island and that family that owns it, that

the Klan, the Nasardine, Well, there was a guy Gazi and Azardine, who was Venezuelan Lebanese born. He was the diplomat in Syria at the time, so there's a lot of people being flown back and forth through that through the airlines to Venezuela, and I think the rhetoric was, well, if he's there, then they're planning on hebela tax into the US stuff, you know, via Isis and that bullshit

what ended up happening. If you think about that area, they are known for passport forgery and allowing dual identification for Hezbolah and another number of other groups whoever's willing to pay. So essentially you're targeting this island which is supposed to be this big training camp, and if you look at it, I mean, he's probably like going out to the Sarasota. There isn't that much. That's not how Hezbola trains anyway, and it's pretty much just money laundering.

The fact that you've got a sanctuary and you're able to get a whole bunch of IDs, and I think that kind of plays into I mean, it's like, you know, it's not so hard that you couldn't do surveillance and see that there's nothing going there.

in the damn casinos understanding the businesses. I mean, that's where anybody if they were doing any training, you'd be getting that type of training. I think the intelligence and set assessments a lot of times conflate facilitation with training, and I think the you know, the criminal and you know, in this case maybe political interests definitely benefit by some

of that is exaggeration. So I mean it's you know, you're you're dealing with networks, You're you're not dealing with terrain situation.

UH money laundering and stuff like that.

freedom of movement. I think what's also kind of interesting when they always try to link a lot of Lebanese in and around those areas, a lot of those people are Marinite Christians. So you probably have maybe ten percent of those Lebanes out there that are even Muslim she is, But yet they're all operating together in these networks. Why because they're just making money. They're not looking to bomb something, you know, and send in a whole bunch of armies.

These guys are facilitators, and many of them are very high ranking ranking, not in like his blat membership, but in the political scheme. So when you think about deposing a government and they're talking about Maduro having maybe one hundred people, I mean, these are people that have access to a lot of the moneies, a lot of the trades,

and a lot of the businesses. I think what we find is kind of interesting is to see which one of those we allow, because as of about ten years ago, fifteen years ago, some of those people had some massive force farms in Kentucky, massive mansions in Florida, They had

political connections to our own people. So, you know, I think it'll be interesting to see who they go after and who they don't, because there's a lot of Venezuelan money tied into the US and into some of the fundraising of political campaigns because they're just part of that fabric. They don't live in them as waala necessarily, and they've got massive yachts that are going back and forth. So it'll be interesting to see how it aligns and which

which political party maybe they've donated to to see. You know, who you go after and who you don't.

of nebulous. You know, you're jacking up bonds and making

some massive profits of it. These people are making hundreds, tens of hundreds of millions of dollars in some cases and spending it in the US, and so it gives you a lot of ability to elbow rub and have funeral guys like you know, p Diddy on the yachts and stuff like that.

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Does she come in and a white horse and his crown fucking president and everything is beautiful and it's a beautiful Western democracy where capitalism flows and all boats are lifted and is it like this beautiful story that we keep telling ourselves.

the financial reserves. The biggest thing that you're going to need to do there is stabilize the oil and refinery petro industry there. I mean that is massive commerce, and you've got a lot of corruption there. So if you're going to snip off Iran's involvement, maybe Russian involvement, some China involvement, you've got to be able to have experts

that come in there and actually know that business. And I don't know that we necessarily prop ourselves up to put in experts to those areas that we'll be able to solve. So I would say the likelihood is is that we probably don't have as much interest in reforming the country as we might seizing some of the assets and then kind of backing off and letting somebody else in.

So I think if you're looking at filling vacuums or how to prevent something that's filling vacuum bypassing sanctions getting paid, you know, I think I think what you're hearing is actual let's let's let's get get that and let them figure out their own country, you know, put somebody in there say it's just and then they can handle themselves.

And I think that's pretty much the rhetoric that we normally hear from this administration is that's really not our problem, but this was ours, so we'll we'll get this back. I mean, they owe us for all the sanctions that they've evade, so we come up with the math of twelve refineries.

to be spent. And so we're like going after like the low hanging fruit, like beating up on you know, our allies sometimes or just people who are paining the ass like Maduro as a kind of like compensation of like, look I did something.

I don't I don't have a problem if it was in our strategic interest to seize oil feelings, claim territory. I mean, okay, if that's what we want to do, and that's what we want to be, but you can't do it isolation, and you can't do it without those second and third order effect understanding of what that's going

to happen. And I don't know that we necessarily consider those second and third order of I mean, just as something as simple as just, you know, it's holiday season, just sitting on my couch half the time, just you know, should be writing. But I'm looking at tiktoks and looking at it Instagram stuff, and I'm seeing how many of these distilleries are closing up and affected because of what

happened with Canada and now Canada, you know, because of the tariffs that took miss out. Okay, now you've got the same thing happening with some farmers. You're you're looking at a lot of different things where you're spinning the rhetoric of what it's going to do, but the actual how it's going to impact things ends up being much worse in most cases. And I think that that, you know, Venezuela's just yet another example of Okay, you know we're gonna blow up a boat. Yes, I mean sure, there's

going to be some rules of engagement that that's done. Again, not my problem, not going to harp on that, because it's written in law what you can and can't do. But you're talking about maybe you know, three five, one hundred people right there, but what is that? What are you really trying to achieve? And you're spinning this as a major problem, but yet anybody should be reading to

understand that that's not a massive problem. If you really want to address that drug problem, it's got to be someplace us, if you're really looking at it from the international lens of saying, you know, guys, we've tried, we've tried to sanction Venezuela. We've tried to sanction Iran, they haven't done anything. What we're going to do. We're going to take an oil vessel because that's due to us. Okay, we all agree that we could sanction this. That's what

we're going to do. We're going to take this. I think that makes a lot more sense on the world stage. Then. Fully, shit, we got fentanyl coming into our country, and so we're going to blow up a bunch of these boats, kill a bunch of these peop people. We're gonna have some air strikes on their main line because it's it's a problem. Everybody else but us realizes that that's not a mess problem.

or my pocket my pocketbook or my bottom line? No, you know, and if you really even look at it, it's like, yeah, there's no fent at all coming in from Venezuela. Most of the most of the precursors come from China. It's like, and most of it comes in the bulk of the drugs that come in from Mexico. So are we saying we're gonna do this to Mexico too?

we're kind of backing away from like our traditional allies with Europe. There's a clear enemy in Europe and that's Russia, and we're just letting them do whatever they want. And it's just like, yeah, let's just bully the people we

can bully, you know, Like that's easy. It's not gonna be that much of bandwidth taken up and we could post videos on social media of US being the dominant US military that's stopping the drug trade the eight percent of the drugs that come from Venezuela without anything fucking changing.

increase in drug transit. We know there's gonna be more money laundering, we know that there's gonna be more immigrants coming to the US. And of those those areas, there's gonna be a fragmentation of our groups and an opportunistic cartel expansion. But this is our plan on how to deal with this, and I think that makes a lot more sense, especially if you are going to say, yeah, we're going to send a bunch of troops also down there.

You know, my friend was remarking about, you know, in nineteen eighty nine when we went took over Panama, there's Operation just Cause, and he was joking that this time it's going to be called Operation just because. I don't know. I don't know who's I don't know who's doing, you know, the planning. I don't know who's who's doing some of the the understanding of stabilization, and you know, how you're going to deal with entrenchment of criminal governance that might

persist in there. I mean, those are the type of things that you know, usually if you're going to disrupt something, you should you should have a good plan. I do.

unless they're all b asking me. There's there isn't like a planning cell that's like trying to put something together right now.

when they were looking for us, I'm a Binlat. I was assigned to looking for him, you know, not physically being there in Iran. And that's how I understood all of the the bonnyards and kind of mapping out on the social structures that then took me to Hezblat and

I got an understanding of that. So when somebody said, when we got a tasking of a few different areas and somebody's like, who understands Venezuela and what is going to focus on that, you kind of look around the room and nobody's raising their hand because they didn't understand and who gives care about Venezuela. So I'm like, well, if everybody's gonna be fighting for these other things, I'm gonna raise my hand because I actually know that Iran is going to be in so let's see what we

can dig around. So I knew nothing about it, and then you know, two years later, I knew everything you never wanted to know about. Venezuela has a lot I ran and all the cartels kind of coming together and then the banking things. But just because there are links doesn't mean that there's strong links and there are bigger fish out there, which again kind of goes to the

whole idea of why people don't care about Venezuela. And if you dealt with Sock South, if you dealt with SOCOM, if you dealt with Jaysock, you've dealt with the agencies. I mean, they didn't care that much. And again because you didn't have that much ability to operate, we didn't have that much intel. So even if we have something on the shelf, that is so going to change, especially when you're dealing with what Venezuela actually is, which is

logistics and the financial platform, that changes vastly. And so if we're thinking about Venezuela having weak institution, uh, military, militarized corruption, uh, the illicit gold become, you know, the shadow trade that goes into you know, the sanctions and the various routes. Those things all have to be considerations and every time that they're disrupted, they change. So you have to have intel on those and you have to have current intel so that you can fix your books.

Who's got that? Do you k are they sharing it with us. No, so where we getting that intel? We don't have it.

the fifties and seventies you had yet another wave. A lot of those cases you're demonizing people because they have some different beliefs, different cultural beliefs, and I think that as they started assimilating into the communities, into politics, into commerce, their status rose. They became the haves versus the have nots or the have lessons, and the have lessons thought it was very easy to, I think, demonize them in many ways and say, you got all these fucking Arabs

running around, what does Arabs translate to you Muslims? Okay, but they did. They cast it in the reciprocal of it not being like ten percent of the population being Muslim, it made it like ninety percent, which was the Christians to demonize that and create that. Yes there are hes

a lot of rocks. Yes there are family ties, but it's more like old Italian mafia where just had you had networks of these families to do better for the diaspora, that was first and foremost in many of these families, Lebanese first, okay. And you got to make your money, and you've got to because there's so much corruption in

the area. You've got to tighten it so that you keep dash it, so that you keep everything together, and you keep that money insolent, and you keep the power continue to go and you keep you know, mixing with other tribes, other or clans, other families and things like that. So I think that a lot of anybody that used to have something doesn't have it now is going to talk about somebody in a bad light if you can get them out of there and or you know, demonize them.

And I and so whether it's Flynn, who again I really used to respect him on the intel side and I and I thought that he gave some of that rigor to the intelligence analysis that was going. But I don't think I think that you know as much as often as the case, especially in the operations community, you can have you know, the book readers passing up the

intel as much as you might have. But if someone's like mm hm, like that's telling me no, okay, okay, your gut's telling you so, and my Thatt's going to tell me how we rebuild this, you know, And that's the problem is we're dealing with too many guts and hunches and thoughts versus you know, the actual resources to understand how that all fits together.

do it on this life. That's all. We could do it with Venezuela still, but you don't do it this way.

And in many cases, I think we do know that, so the sanctions that we put on don't necessarily have tea or you would be doing it in a different way, targeting different groups, truly disrupting things. You wouldn't allow funds to exist. I mean, let's if you again, I don't I know that most of your people aren't going to give a shit about listening to banking operations here. But banking money transfers between institutions can be stopped with sanctions.

And there's a lot that you allow to go on and from Venezuela because that money goes into different people's pockets that you want to keep. So you really don't put a hard sanction. It's it's kind of a soft sanction where it's like, yeah, you're rere labeling you and maybe you can't go to Switzerland and get open up a bank account, you know, under your true name, but you can you can still have have your your your

finances facilitated. So so no, I don't. I don't think that we've do a real good job of really harnessing them and then putting the squeeze on. And a lot of times to do that, you have to have international consensus with other people to do it. You can't do it on your own because all of a sudden they're like, well fuck the US, they said, I can't do it, but I can do it with the rest of the world.

what levers that they pull. I just don't know. Enough about them. I my my my gut without being informed by by the information knowledge is they probably have different ways around things. Also because I do believe in many cases they're probably smarter and more well equipped to operate on different levels and dimensions of things than can. We probably give them credit for or the people that understand it and give credit. Maybe it doesn't go up. So

I don't know. I I guess my gut again. Yeah, just just talking out of my ass would be they're probably looking if this is stopped, they'll probably figure out another way around it. Yeah, but I don't know what type of pressure they really would where they focus in another way and we're just too stupid to realize it.

to slow US, I think we would back down. If if it was something really impactful and things that the news coverage would glom onto and at the general public would glom onto and say, we're we're now getting screwed because of this. Cut it out if we can get some justification, and I would, I would if we really want it for the purposes of Iranian disruption. I think we got to go back to our own friends. I think we got to work with Canada. I think we got to work with the UK and understand what those

impacts are. And I think we need to stop talking about the stupid Narco ship. Okay, if we really talk about it from the standpoint of corruption, international trade that's being disrupted, instability. I think those are legitimate things that other people would rally. I mean the UK was not disputing corruption, you know, the financial crime, sanction breaking. I mean those are things that they would rally behind. I mean, if we did decide, you know, we're open to other people.

Plus I could see that I don't see anybody else in the community getting involved like Iran. You know, what are they going to really do? I don't see China or Russia really doing much of anything. I think that if they're really looking to seize this and claim that

they can't. I think if they do do it, If they do Seese oil fields and they do start doing I think it's going to be more of a robbery than anything else, because I do not believe they have the people to put into place to fix the refineries, to fix that business. I mean, right now, it's some old, antiquated systems. We've got better technology than Iran for a

lot of this. If we went in there with a business purpose, together with the UK and said, hey, you guys have this problem because of sanctions. We're going to get involved, but we're going to bring in new technology. We're going to allow you to have more jobs. We're going to expand this. Yes we want a part of it, but we're going to help your community. I think that would be a whole lot better. And oh, by the way, we gave you to president and she's on board two.

I think if that happened, I do think Maduro is probably in the next year, are going to leave. I don't think it's going to be forceful. I think will negotiate that. Where he goes, I don't know, but I think he would get most prony's I'm sorry.

things we talked about are now coming to light. Because I tried to pick something that was a little bit less, you know, overdone, and the agency and DoD didn't have much problem with what I had, especially with a lot of stuff I had about Marguerite Island just being you know, bullshit and stuff. None of that was redacted, so that also kind of gives me an idea and half that

stuff that they don't know, don't care about. So the things that we're glombing onto now saying it's it's so secret, we just can't even share any of as shit bullshit. I was able to write a book.

I think now with technology the way it is and understanding surveillance and how we do things and disrupting it, I think it's pretty cool. I just haven't gotten the traction, so it's you kind of look at it and think, well, I could write more books, But am I doing it myself? Yes? I can, but I can to be doing more fun things like scuba diving and fishing with my money than just putting more books out there that nobody's really looking

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