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I'm in central Florida for the new Year seei g fam and friends.
Played golf with an old friend from my phosphate mine reclamation days during school.
He's an expat that fled Venezuela.

He's not exactly down in the mouth. :D
Think I'll have a maduro cigar soon as well. Great idea!
Maduro" means "ripe" or "mature
  • referring to an extended fermentation process, not a type of leaf or origin.
  • Dark Wrapper: This process creates a dark brown, oily wrapper with rich, sweet, and complex flavors, often with notes of molasses, coffee, and dark chocolate.
Maduro Rum on the rocks and a Maduro cigar dipped in it sounds amazing right now!

Talking about amazing right now, wouldn’t it be amazing if the Iranian people could actually becomes a secular government with a little help!

Or am I asking for too much?
 
Smoking a Maduro cigar to celebrate Maduro’s capture :ROFLMAO: My Venezuelan born wife is beyond herself. I think if I ask her for a new rifle she would say yes to one or two. :ROFLMAO:

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Rock on, brother. I just had a Maduro, and 3 fingers of Scotch.
 
Dumbass protesters by the main gate of Davis Monthan air force base here in Tucson.
The leftist hive mind against anything Trump does.
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I do hope we have the morning after worked out. We did not in Iraq and it cost us dearly. I have seen no evidence we have as yet.
 
Rock on, brother. I just had a Maduro, and 3 fingers of Scotch.
Well, I don’t have a Maduro but I did have a pinch of Skoal and three fingers of Modelo several beers ago in solidarity. LOL
 
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For my Icelandic friends and my friends who are not Venezuelan but speak English, this message is for you, from a Venezuelan who has been an immigrant for more than 10 years, forced to leave my home, passing through different countries and adapting to everything over and over again.
Don't be "worried" because Trump only wants Venezuela's oil and his actions aren't to help liberate the country, but to keep the oil, we all know that, however, this matters little to all of us, inside and outside Venezuela, because for YEARS, around 15 or 20 years, Chavez and later Maduro have GIVEN AWAY Venezuelan oil to Iran, Cuba, China, Russia, and other shitty countries just to create "strategic alliances" with other corrupt and communist governments because they are the only ones who would support that narco-dictatorship in Venezuela in exchange for oil and gold, because, yes, besides oil, we also have a lot of gold, copper, bronze, natural gas, and a million other resources, but they have always been under corruption and mismanagement.
None of this goes toward the wealth and well-being of the people, but rather to the politicians and their own interests, stealing and kidnapping the power is what they have done since 1999.
That's why I repeat, do not be "worried" because Trump only wants the oil, which, by the way, belongs to the USA in part due to previous agreements that weren't respected since Chávez expropriated and bankrupted everything, forcing companies to leave.
If returning that oil and giving him more is the price to pay to free ourselves from this cancer called Chavismo, all Venezuelans are more than happy to do so.
More than 8 million of us live abroad, missing our parents, siblings, friends, and indeed, our homeland every day, and, if these actions by Trump help alleviate this evil a little and give us some happiness, let him keep whatever he wants anyway Chavez and Maduro took everything from us.
In the end, Venezuelans don't see any of this oil and resources because houses don't have gas, the streets are broken, the avenues are full of potholes, and cars have no gasoline, so, with or without Trump's actions, things can't get any worse, at least they've captured Maduro, and now we wait to see what the next steps will be.
We, Venezuelans just want a normal country, a dignified life, and to be happy, what everyone wants, but this government has stolen that dream from us for more than 20 years, and for us, what has happened today is a glimmer of hope to be free again.
I’m Alberto Marcano, Venezuelan living in Iceland for 6 years, learning the language which I speak almost fluent, father of two beautiful kids that were born here, teaching Icelanders to speak Spanish and Spanish speakers to learn Icelandic, completely adapted to the society and culture BUT, living out of my country and missing it everyday since 2015.
Thaks for reading.

Now the minority government of the ANC Mafia in South-Africa,
and ISIS Christian ea mass murderers in Mozambique next please.....

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Waiting to see if it is reported elsewhere so it can be confirmed...and not false

One of the guys just said him and his son had got in to usa just now smoothly...his son was taken off for extra questions, but no probs....so let's see
 
And the oil, don’t forget the main reason,
Above all, oil is the main reason. Combined with immense gold and mineral wealth, Venezuela is arguably one of the most resource-rich countries on the planet, yet corruption and mismanagement have prevented that wealth from benefiting its people.

Edit: see a lot of others have already posted similar.

Question. Why take home to NY? Why not another state city in the USA?

Rubbing a new mayors nose in it? ;)
 
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Since Trump is on a roll, maybe he can liberate Iran, North Korea, and Cuba.
Give the Democrats a big collective aneurysm.
Geez Brent while you're at it, why don't you add China and Russia? :cool:
 
I do hope we have the morning after worked out. We did not in Iraq and it cost us dearly. I have seen no evidence we have as yet.

With respect, may I add, failure of nation building project in Afghanistan as well?

But, back to daily news: My personal estimate, as flawed, as it may be.

It was not ad hoc operation. It was planned. Therefor, some post operation plan must be ready.
(Yet to be seen)

If I refer again to recently published security strategy of US 2025, which calls for a Monroe doctrine revival 2.0: Most likely, this was agreed and dealt with during Putin / Trump meeting months ago. (which includes stable relations with Russia, as strategic goal)

Russian reaction on this latest American action is practically non existent, and may get as far as diplomatic note of protest just for show.

But the true deal could be that Russia does in Ukraine in their sphere of interest as they wish, and USA, will establish the interests on western hemisphere, which under Monroe doctrine will be western world: South America - North America - Caribbean, and most probably - Greenland (Arctic).

If we speak about following the latest American strategy, then president Trumps performance have been perfect, and with minimum treasure and blood loss (exactly as stated in strategy), Nothing short of perfect:

- Iran bombing operation. (the presentation of the Iranian mission by general Caine, is nothing short of impressive, available on YT)

- Panama take over operation

- Venezuela action

So, we will see what the next day brings.
 
But some questions remain...will China and Russia use Venezuela as an excuse to further ambitious action..? Will China move on Taiwan..what then Mr.Trump..? If Trump move on Greenland will Putin try to take Svalbard..? I can almost hear Putin... " Hey..you complain on us in Ukraine but look at what you do in the Americas..! ".
 
Yes, some of the lighter crudes are feedstock for US gulf coast refineries. Refineries are designed to handle specific crude types and the ultra low gravity oil is not easy, cheap or desirable. It usually sells at a discount and requires more expensive, higher grade crude to blend with, just to get the stuff to flow through pipelines.

I’m an upstream guy, @WAB is our resident refining expert. He can provide more and better information on the problems of heavy crude. Canada has a lot of similar stuff.

Yes it can be upgraded but it takes a refinery designed to do so. These a coking refineries and cost roughly 2.5x what a cracking refinery designed for say WTI would cost. A couple of very good coking refineries that come to mind are Wood River, IL and Pine Bend, MN.

Getting Venezuelan heavy production back to historic levels would put a lot of price pressure on Canadian heavies like Cold Lake. I wonder if there are more things at work here…
 

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