Will Geddes
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first heard Jan 2026
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The Trial: USA · The Maduro Case: Power, Prosecution, and a President in Chains · 9 Jan 2026
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They want to send a very clear message that if we want to come and get you, we can come and get you.
And that should, to a certain extent, put those hostile states on the back foot.
Now, in terms of this operation itself, there is a lot of information that won't come to light.
But we have to look at how quickly this operation was conducted.
And to remove and disable the ability of a country that had significant ground-to-air capabilities to repel invaders,
to be completely nullified and disabled within a really short period of time shows the level of ground intelligence that had been gathered and coordinated in advance and on the day of this mission.
But secondly, the technology that the United States had used to disrupt those air defences, because although we saw some explosions,
There will be some very, very sophisticated technology that will have been used to interrupt and disrupt radar, for example.
Now, we know that the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment are highly, highly experienced at running the gauntlet on high-risk operations, inserting Tier 1 operators.
And what we saw there quite often and we saw on the day was that they will come in exceptionally low so that they are trying to defeat radar wherever possible.
But they still, even by doing so, will need a corridor, a safe corridor to be able to get to their target.
Now, that requires the research to know what aviation defenses there are around that corridor or around the choice of corridor that they may be seeking to utilize.
And therefore, these could be technologies that wouldn't necessarily be implemented from aviation like drones or from aircraft.
They could very well have been implemented by human sources and capabilities on the ground that needed to get close enough to those aviation defenses to be able to disable them.
There's a good question.
I would say this has certainly been a minimum of six months in the planning.
I would say it's more likely even potentially a year or more.
And certainly it would have been a growing intelligence brief by the CIA as to what was happening on the ground.
And there is also the recruitment of local assets that are going to provide intelligence
back to the United States and to the intelligence agencies to inform them of particularly hostile state actors that were having meetings with Maduras and members of his government team, whether it be the defence or the interior ministers.
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