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Phil Stewart

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Episode 27 - Phil Stewart

Yeah, and so there they are training hard on an operation that's extraordinarily dangerous.

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Episode 27 - Phil Stewart

I mean, the ability of anyone to go into a well-guarded compound like that and come out with no casualties, no dead anyway, is really just incredible.

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Episode 27 - Phil Stewart

Well, I mean, it was a very...

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Episode 27 - Phil Stewart

it was a massive operation.

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Episode 27 - Phil Stewart

I mean, I've heard someone describe it as, as an operation that was even more complicated than the bin Laden operation.

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Episode 27 - Phil Stewart

Partly due to the weather and the fact that you're coming off the sea and there's a lot of unstable air.

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Episode 27 - Phil Stewart

So you're coming in with helos off the sea.

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Episode 27 - Phil Stewart

Around 150 aircraft were involved in this thing because they didn't just come in.

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Episode 27 - Phil Stewart

They used all kinds of effects beforehand to black out part of the city and kill comms and knock out air defenses and knock out all the kind of threats that they could possibly

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Episode 27 - Phil Stewart

you know, preemptively deal with so that when they got in the ground, they had to deal with Maduro's personal security, you know, the security of the compound.

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Episode 27 - Phil Stewart

And that was quite deadly.

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Episode 27 - Phil Stewart

You know, when they when they landed, they flew in at about 100 feet off the off the water in the darkness of night with the city blacked out and they landed and they and they piled out of the of the of the helicopters.

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Episode 27 - Phil Stewart

You're talking about a team of, you know, less than 200, probably.

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Episode 27 - Phil Stewart

And and they and they came in.

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Episode 27 - Phil Stewart

And from what we understand, I think the Cubans have said there were 32 Cuban nationals who are protecting Maduro who were killed.

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Episode 27 - Phil Stewart

And I think at least a couple dozen more, if not more than that, of Venezuelans who are who are killed in that operation.

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Episode 27 - Phil Stewart

They haven't said.

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Episode 27 - Phil Stewart

That's a safe assumption.

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Episode 27 - Phil Stewart

But they haven't said.