Originally posted by aretood2
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I heard of those guys who tried to overthrow the Venezuelan government that legitimately stole the election and proceeded to use its constitution as toilet paper long before Coronavirus made toilet paper scarce. I just never looked into how badly planned, prepped, and executed the whole thing was...it was boneheaded bad and deserves to be mentioned here.
This youtuber explains it best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdXxRspj-ZA
And for those of you who don't like opening youtube links *cough*Jelgate*cough* a quick summary:
Some pea brained US specforce vets with nothing beyond a team level leadership experience thought they could plan a 300 men strong coup/kidnapping of Maduro with some defected Venezuelan soldiers, a corrupt defected Venezuelan politician, and a dirty drug smuggling defected Venezuelan general who all announced their plans before hand and ended up only using 60 horribly underequipped men to pull of the job got caught in the act rather easily and hilariously. Apparently the Green Beret and Navy Seal that trained them used broomsticks as guns for their drills (that's how bad it was). Their plan ended up being getting in normal boats in broad daylight, landing on a beach near the capital and proceeding to take over the largest international airport there and then move on into the capital to seize Maduro and take him back to the airport to fly him out of the country...only that they got stopped before they even made landfall for reasons that ought to be painfully obvious.
And to top it off, because the 3 aforementioned Venezuelans were blabbing about it, Venezuelan Intelligence caught wind of the whole operation and even helped fund it so that it knowing that they'd fail miserably. So not it's this big PR coup for Maduro who claimed it was brave "patriotic" citizens who stopped them ignoring that his intel people knew about it and planned exactly how they would intercept them.
I guess the guys behind this read a little too much about the filibustering that took place a hundred years ago (most of which ended up failing anyway).
This youtuber explains it best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdXxRspj-ZA
And for those of you who don't like opening youtube links *cough*Jelgate*cough* a quick summary:
Some pea brained US specforce vets with nothing beyond a team level leadership experience thought they could plan a 300 men strong coup/kidnapping of Maduro with some defected Venezuelan soldiers, a corrupt defected Venezuelan politician, and a dirty drug smuggling defected Venezuelan general who all announced their plans before hand and ended up only using 60 horribly underequipped men to pull of the job got caught in the act rather easily and hilariously. Apparently the Green Beret and Navy Seal that trained them used broomsticks as guns for their drills (that's how bad it was). Their plan ended up being getting in normal boats in broad daylight, landing on a beach near the capital and proceeding to take over the largest international airport there and then move on into the capital to seize Maduro and take him back to the airport to fly him out of the country...only that they got stopped before they even made landfall for reasons that ought to be painfully obvious.
And to top it off, because the 3 aforementioned Venezuelans were blabbing about it, Venezuelan Intelligence caught wind of the whole operation and even helped fund it so that it knowing that they'd fail miserably. So not it's this big PR coup for Maduro who claimed it was brave "patriotic" citizens who stopped them ignoring that his intel people knew about it and planned exactly how they would intercept them.
I guess the guys behind this read a little too much about the filibustering that took place a hundred years ago (most of which ended up failing anyway).
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