Phil Stewart
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Yeah, and so there they are training hard on an operation that's extraordinarily dangerous.
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.
Well, I mean, it was a very...
it was a massive operation.
I mean, I've heard someone describe it as, as an operation that was even more complicated than the bin Laden operation.
Partly due to the weather and the fact that you're coming off the sea and there's a lot of unstable air.
So you're coming in with helos off the sea.
Around 150 aircraft were involved in this thing because they didn't just come in.
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
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.
And that was quite deadly.
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.
You're talking about a team of, you know, less than 200, probably.
And and they and they came in.
And from what we understand, I think the Cubans have said there were 32 Cuban nationals who are protecting Maduro who were killed.
And I think at least a couple dozen more, if not more than that, of Venezuelans who are who are killed in that operation.
They haven't said.
That's a safe assumption.
But they haven't said.