📝 🇿🇦 ☢️ Darren Olivier on X:

"Many in South Africa have put their hope in BRICS as a source of protection. It is not, and never will be, just as the G7 & G20 are not military alliances. Indeed, in this new order it’s will be as likely that Russia, China, or another country could seek to overthrow a SAn govt."

"Believing that Russia would not seek to set up a coup through its deniable groups like Wagner, as it has done elsewhere on the continent, once it decided it furthered its interests just because of past friendships is naïveté, for instance."

"Now it faces, like every other small power, a world in which neither Washington, Moscow, nor Beijing feel themselves constrained in any way in the use of their power."

"I expect nuclear proliferation to skyrocket in the next decade. As will defence spending, as lesser powers including South Africa belatedly realise that they are no longer protected by the UN Charter. How this plays out will differ by region."

📎 Darren Olivier

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- President Trump repeated that the United States would move towards a second phase of strikes if Maduro's VP and now current President of Venezuela Delcy Rodriguez did not capitulate and agree to US terms, as of now it seems that Rodriguez is refusing to agree to US terms and is demanding the release of Nicholas Maduro.

Troops on the ground in Venezuela are also a possibility if the current Maduro regime does not agree to an exchange of power making the United States the authority in Venezuela.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- "The defense decree is now activated, all of Venezuela is mobilized. There is only one President in this country, and his name is Nicolás Maduro Moros." - Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- Scenes from Stewart Air Force Base in Newburgh, New York, United States. Deposed President Maduro is about to be escorted off the plane and seized by American law enforcement for prosecution following his capture by US Delta Force earlier today.

He is expected to deplane with his wife shortly.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- According to local New York media, Nicolas Maduro will be incarcerated in the Metropolitan Detection Center (MDC) in New York City alongside Sean "Diddy" Combs and Luigi Mangione.

📊 🇺🇸 🇻🇪 Virtually all demographics, including Latin Americans and their diaspora, support US intervention in Venezuela.

Leftists stand out as the sole demographic with a majority of opposition.

https://atlasintel.org/poll/latam-wide-poll-venezuela-crisis-en-2025-11-01

📎 AF Post

🇺🇸 🇻🇪 Ian Ellis infographic on X:
During the early hours of 3 January, the U.S. conducted a large-scale strike against Venezuela. Per POTUS, President Nicolas Maduro was captured & flown out of the country. CBS reports Delta Force carried out the operation.

📎 Ian Ellis

#Archive

Detailed infographic of the American aircraft involved in Operation Absolute Resolve, including combat platforms, air support, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and extraction used during the mission.

https://x.com/i/status/2007610049686798634