SOCOM is making a very public move to the ME. WTF is going on now?

‼️‼️🇺🇲🇮🇷 BREAKING - Over the past several hours, dozens of U.S. Air Force aerial refueling tankers and heavy military transport aircraft of the C-5 and C-17 types have departed from the United States and from an American airbase in the United Kingdom, heading toward the Middle… pic.twitter.com/wUARsuGgso

— Visioner (@visionergeo) January 6, 2026

Don't know what's going on but I DO KNOW that Netanyahu has been in Trump's ear about taking out a revived Iranian Nuclear Program and a metric shit ton of ballistic missiles they're building. Additionally I DO KNOW that Christians have been getting slaughtered in Nigeria and that the Saudis launched strikes against them even though they're being supported by a so called ally (I'm doing off the cuff but I believe its the UAE). 

So my guess is either some kind of super spectacular, probably extremely bloody run against a target in Iran OR maybe some coordinated action to put ISIS out of commission in Africa. If either of these guesses is true then it will make the Maduro capture look like a child's birthday. 

Africa IS FREAKING HUGE! As good as the Night Stalkers are they're gonna need to be augmented by a shit ton of helos from probably the Army and maybe even the Marine Corps (thinking CH-53s for logistical support). Iran is self explanatory. You can drop in the entire Ranger Regiment and they're gonna be fighting at the end of a VERY LONG LINE of support. Even if we play service favorite and say the Marines can help you would need at least a MEB to approach anything useful and we don't have the transport.

If I'm right (and to be honest I doubt it), the Iranian thing worries me more.  I can see our guys essentially fighting a Ft Apache type thing 1 to 200 miles from shore (at best).

In Africa I can see the love of dispersed operations causing us to lose good people due to lack of timely support (think the Ambush of Special Forces Team not too long ago).

Yeah on this one I hope I'm just speculating stupidly.

This is the best infographic on the Maduro raid that I've seen to date

 

Pretty amazing! Here is how the United States captured the President of one of the largest countries on earth 👀 pic.twitter.com/GE87b3NbtG

— Matt Wallace (@MattWallace888) January 5, 2026

One thing I'm gonna have to admit. I thought that SOCOM practicing in US cities was a fools errand. Wait. That might not be strong enough. I believe I stated that they were on a bug hunt for terror cells in the US. The idea that they could pull off an operation like boggles my mind. Make no mistake. We're missing a huge part of the story. We're missing a huge part of why this actually worked. No US forces killed? Only one helicopter hit hard? Either God was with us in a huge way or we had people on the payroll or maybe both.

Russian Propagandist has some strong opinions about the Maduro capture

Read this entire tweet but this part really caught my attention 

Our friendly regimes and allied forces are collapsing one by one. Certainly, we react and attempt to benefit from the broader crisis of globalism, but in doing so we lose many opportunities. It is absolutely clear—and this has been confirmed by events in Syria, Iran, Lebanon, and now Venezuela—that over recent decades the West has built agent networks within the highest leadership circles of virtually every country. I believe China is not an exception. At the required moment, these networks are activated to betray supreme authority.

🇷🇺 Alexander Dugin, ideologue and propagandist closely associated with Vladimir Putin:

📌 “Whatever the circumstances, the events in Venezuela represent a sharp and acute challenge for Russia. We simply do not have the historical right to ignore them. Across all levels of the… pic.twitter.com/Tz7JW9mgRy

— NSTRIKE (@NSTRIKE1231) January 4, 2026

I'm really getting into prehistoric Mammals/Animals of all types

 

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I can't make this sound right but here goes. This is why the Black Baptist Church in America is DYING!

via Rain Drops Media

 

Caption from Rain Drops Media 

Pastor Jamal Bryant claps back at critics after backlash over his wife’s “transparent” dress worn to a church fundraiser.

How can you lead people to God if you're Godless?  How can you be an example to others if your moral compass is lower than a loud mouthed, curse too much, former Marine and Sheriff's Sgt?

Wonder where everything went wrong in my community?

This is it. 

Fmr. CDC Director Says Mandating the COVID Vaccine Was a ‘Huge Mistake’

🚨 NEW: Fmr. CDC Director Says Mandating the COVID Vaccine Was a ‘Huge Mistake’

“The mRNA vaccines have been responsible for significant vaccine injury, which many people only got because they were forced to … About 15% of my clinical practice now is mRNA vaccine injury.” pic.twitter.com/zQ4QLxQVF8

— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) January 3, 2026

Maduro captured and on a flight to USS Iwo Jima. He doesn't look scuffed up at all...

Nicolas Maduro in US captivity and during transport, allegedly pic.twitter.com/qkfqZzFwBV

— OSN (@OpticSecNews) January 3, 2026

Hmmm. From this pic it looks like they treated this guy real gently. Even during an arrest alot of times the person is scuffed up a little. It's like he went away like a baby lamb.

China speaks out against the US action in Venezuela

China is deeply shocked by and strongly condemns the U.S.’s blatant use of force against a sovereign state and action against its president.

Such hegemonic acts of the U.S. seriously violate international law and Venezuela’s sovereignty, and threaten peace and security in Latin… pic.twitter.com/wjfRMhvNKP

— CHINA MFA Spokesperson 中国外交部发言人 (@MFA_China) January 3, 2026

PsyopsAnime got this right

POV: you're maduro pic.twitter.com/LGS9V5OuNL

— PsyopAnime (@PsyopAnime) January 3, 2026

this is fucking crazy pic.twitter.com/Rc8qFZwME5

— PsyopAnime (@PsyopAnime) January 3, 2026

Maduro captured? I gotta get details! He just announced he was ready to negotiate!

God bless America, and all those who defend Her. 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/jHQ3KXANcg

— Dan Bongino (@FBIDDBongino) January 3, 2026

Cops in Brazil have bisexual hands...males & females can get it...

OMG 😳😂😂 hilarious pic.twitter.com/aL1PTEowEo

— TRUTH TELLER (@truth_teller58) January 3, 2026

The Chinese people are paying a terrible price for their meteoric rise

 

Life of factory workers in China... pic.twitter.com/OhZIuHipUQ

— Mayte Chummia (@Maytechummia) January 2, 2026

Geez. I can't even imagine working in a place like that. Maybe there are spots in the West that mirror that shit but I kinda get all those suppressed reports of Chinese workers going postal (showing my age with that phrase huh).

Open Comment Post. 2 Jan 26

 

Maduro says Venezuela is 'ready' to make deal with US on drugs and oil after military strikes

via Fox News

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said Thursday that his government is open to negotiating an agreement with the United States after months of American military pressure targeting drug trafficking networks tied to his government.

In a pre-taped interview with Spanish journalist Ignacio Ramonet that aired on state television, Maduro said Venezuela is "ready" to discuss a drug-trafficking deal with the U.S. He called on the countries to "start talking seriously, with data in hand."

"The U.S. government knows, because we’ve told many of their spokespeople, that if they want to seriously discuss an agreement to combat drug trafficking, we’re ready," he said. "If they want oil, Venezuela is ready for U.S. investment, like with Chevron, whenever they want it, wherever they want it and however they want it."

Here 

Sounds real close to full capitulation.

Are the hawks so hungry to flex muscle that negotiation is no longer possible?  I hope not because if we're able to get what we want then its as close to perfect victory as anything I've seen in the past two decades.

22nd MEU(SOC) | CLB Conducts Helicopter Support Team Training in Puerto Rico ... Pics by Cpl. Emily Hazelbaker

Debut of the Taiwan F-16V Block 70...via Owen/Aviation Photography

 

Debut of the Taiwan F-16V Block 70! pic.twitter.com/QJAJlvEEfl

— Owen | Aviation Photographer (@OwenAviation) December 21, 2025

A victim, tied in a tortuous position to the side of a truck, is about to be dragged to his death by Fascists during the Yekatit 12 massacre in Italian East-Africa (19 February 1937) via History Porn

 

Never heard of the Yekatit 12 Massacre but a quick search revealed some really heinous stuff.

As was said in the comments on this Reddit post, the Italians of that time deserved their own Nuremberg trial.  Japanese too.

In case you missed it the land war against Venezuela has already started

President Trump says the U.S. "knocked out" a "big facility" last week linked to alleged drug boat operations, although he didn't offer many details.

"There was a major explosion in the dock area where they load the boats up with drugs," Mr. Trump said Monday as he spoke to… pic.twitter.com/01XofoKjL0

— CBS News (@CBSNews) December 29, 2025

An attack against a port facility that resulted in a large explosion? Barely anyone notices? Yeah the land war has started. Just spitballing here but I'd guess either a strike from stealth aircraft (probably F-35s since plane trackers would tell us if a non-stealthy plane had flown near it) or we're seeing one of the Special Ops outfits hitting it with something heavy (heavy for man portable weapons).

Either way it doesn't matter.

The ground war is in full effect and if they're targeting port facilities then they probably have boots on the ground doing all kinds of covert shit.

Why the delay and why no firm announcement?

No need to disrupt 4th quarter earnings.  With the exception of gas prices (you can exclude that for the folks in California) the thing people are pissed about in the President's base is the cost of things.

Fully expect things to ramp up quickly this year.  By ramp up I mean a pressure campaign on the Venezuelan President.  Trump doesn't want to put troops on the ground but he does want regime change.

I don't have the timeline on how long the 22nd MEU has been hovering off the coast there but I'd bet that this will be done or a transition from an "invasion" type operation to a more Army led ground occupation op is what happens.

When is the 22nd done with their 9 month deployment?

22nd MEU(SOC) | Marines of the Caribbean: Deployment Operations....Video by Cpl. Emily Hazelbaker

CBS Evening News promises a big change

"On too many stories, the press has missed the story. Because we've taken into account the perspective of advocates and not the average American. Or we put too much weight in the analysis of academics or elites, and not enough on you."

That changes now. The new CBS Evening News… pic.twitter.com/NKdvRJjYCS

— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) January 1, 2026