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ZombieSource, as evidence, instead of relying on a screenshot of a screenshot:
Exclusive: US planning CIA foothold in post-Maduro Venezuela
The CIA is quietly working to establish a permanent US presence on the ground in Venezuela, spearheading the Trump administration’s plans to exert its new-found influence over the country’s future, according to multiple sources familiar with the planning.
Thank you. So the context, which the screenshot of a screenshot doesn’t show you is that these are the final paragraphs summarizing the rest of the article (which is cut out) was all about how the CIA was very much involved.
Reading the whole thing* in that context* I don’t see the cognitive dissonance - more, that it’s agreeing that he was right all along that the CIA was in fact fucking around with their country.
Did you try reading the yellow highlighted text in the screenshot?
I sure did! And I read the rest of the words around that!
What’s your point? Mine was that if you take a few sentences, remove the context, the meaning is different.
CNN is saying that what people were told previously (that he was just paranoid) is actually justified.
A better example of what this tweet and thus this lemmy post are going for would probably be links to articles previously saying he was just paranoid - particularly if it was also CNN saying it. 🙃
What do the words “without evidence” mean?
☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆I don’t really thing we can give much if any credit to the CIA, almost promise you that Delcy Rodríguez sold Maduro out.
almost promise you that Delcy Rodríguez sold Maduro out.
Well she did probably sell out Maduro… But did you consider who she sold out to?
Take your pick. She could have easily fired of a text to all sorts of people in DC she’s previously been associated with. And if none of the insiders had called her back, the state department would have been the obvious next choice.
The CIA is the organization in charge of foreign regime installment operations. She was approached.
but, but, muh media fact bias check!
They are hard at work on Iran now too. Idk about cnn because I’m not dumb enough to watch them, but all the influence agents online, including on lemmy here, who knew they would bother, are all pumping it. Poor Iranians harmed by their government, as if the US didn’t orchestrate the entire thing. No government is good, it doesn’t justify military incursions that will just make everything worse. As if they give a fuck about protesters, they threw them all under the bus associating them with the enemy that just attacked them with impunity.
I strongly disagree on this point. The US almost certainly didn’t orchestrate Iran. Mossad maybe had some ability there (they retain sleeper agents in Iran) but the US has very limited capabilities there. Iranians have long standing discontent against their government that eventually boiled over. I would say that the US and Israel would definitely throw gas on the fire any way they could but doubt very much they started it.
The US and Israel openly bragged about staging the riots and the targets of the terrorist attacks look very organized.
They also indirectly started the protests with the economic sanctions. For more info see youtu.be/Y9Yt-g_CptI
How Trump Destroyed Iran's Economy
If it’s a real news article there should be a reference right? I couldn’t find any current matching articles online.
That’s impressive since someone linked it down below. edition.cnn.com/2026/01/…/cia-venezuela-foothold
Exclusive: US planning CIA foothold in post-Maduro Venezuela
The CIA is quietly working to establish a permanent US presence on the ground in Venezuela, spearheading the Trump administration’s plans to exert its new-found influence over the country’s future, according to multiple sources familiar with the planning.