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Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal - Video: INSIDE THE CAPTURE THAT COULD SET THE NEW GEOPOLITICAL AGE IN MOTION
@MaxBlumenthal says the Trump-led operation that captured Maduro was geopolitical theater engineered to shock.
No resistance. No casualties. Russian-made S-300 and BUK air defenses were disabled before they could respond.
Max argues this was a negotiated decapitation, possibly coordinated from within the Venezuelan state, that left Maduro’s regime intact under Delcy Rodríguez, removing Maduro as an obstacle and transforming him into fodder for war optics.
Trump sidelined María Corina Machado within hours, a clear signal, Max says, that this was never about restoring democracy, but about reasserting U.S. leverage through the very system America once tried to topple.
With Chinese envoys meeting Maduro hours before he was captured, the timing sent a global message: in this emerging multipolar order, the U.S. will still dictate outcomes, and use force to do it.
I sit down with @MaxBlumenthal to break down how the raid was executed, what it signals to Beijing and Moscow, and why multipolarity may be triggering even bolder U.S. intervention.
03:58 - “Trump and Rubio wanted a negotiated exit of Maduro that would leave the Chavista structure in place.”
05:42 - “If one helicopter had been taken down, Blackhawk Down style, it would have been a political catastrophe for Trump.”
06:48 - “This raises questions about whether they were left out there on their own, and that much of this was choreographed.”
07:26 - “Trump wanted a PR victory, a Rambo style reenactment of the Panama invasion.”
10:02 - “By not aggressively resisting a U.S. invasion, you’re sparing the country from more horrific U.S. violence.”
13:18 - “Delcy Rodríguez does not have the guns behind her. Figures like Diosdado Cabello do.”
18:41 - “Venezuela was being subjected to international piracy by the most powerful empire in human history.”
21:32 - “Venezuela’s largest foreign asset in Citgo was literally stolen by the U.S.”
29:22 - “Trump is essentially threatening Delcy Rodríguez with her life.”