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Nicolás Maduro: If U.S. Attacks, Venezuela
Will ‘Enter a Period Of Armed Struggle’

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Posted By: Mercedes44, 9/2/2025 1:49:13 PM

Socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro on Monday threatened Venezuela will “enter a period of armed struggle” if the United States “invades,” which he has repeatedly claimed to be an imminent danger. Maduro issued the threat during an international press conference hosted in the capital city of Caracas, in which he accused the United States of allegedly creating “a narrative that is absurd, to say the least” through its ongoing efforts to combat drug cartels in Caribbean international waters. They [the United States] have wanted to move toward what they call maximum pressure, in this case military pressure,

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Luandir 9/2/2025 1:59:15 PM (No. 1998754)
Which Maduro will lose pathetically, if it comes to that.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: hershey 9/2/2025 2:22:40 PM (No. 1998762)
Where do they find these loons???
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Reply 3 - Posted by: itsonlyme 9/2/2025 2:23:34 PM (No. 1998763)
Nicolás "BaghdadBob" Maduro
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Califedup 9/2/2025 2:46:16 PM (No. 1998771)
Wonder if this greedy, bloodthirsty communist dictator/drug lord realizes that a cell has already been readied for him at the Florence Supermax Prison in Colorado?
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Reply 5 - Posted by: ocho reales 9/2/2025 2:47:51 PM (No. 1998773)
Maduro doesn't have 4.5 million members in the state militia. That's baloney! Maduro will fold like a cheap suit if we go in. Maduro is scared to death that he will be a repeat of October 1983. Grenada baby! "OPERATION URGENT FURY." I was there and the Cubans caved and surrendered in a week.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: philsner 9/2/2025 2:59:26 PM (No. 1998777)
"There are no tanks in Caracas!"
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Reply 7 - Posted by: stablemoney 9/2/2025 3:05:38 PM (No. 1998779)
Maduro, I think you are the target, not Venezuela.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Rotten in Denmark 9/2/2025 3:28:08 PM (No. 1998783)
Impaired folks line this guy are usually found lurking about looking to mug someone fir drink money or smokes.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: downnout 9/2/2025 3:28:56 PM (No. 1998784)
Dear Mr. Maduro, Ha ha ha!!!!
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Moritz55 9/2/2025 3:31:58 PM (No. 1998787)
Maduro’s posturing is purely for home consumption. It distracts the public away from the failures and corruption of his regime. But now that he’s recruited all these new “soldiers,” my question is how he’s going to pay them…or even feed them.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: thefield 9/2/2025 3:33:06 PM (No. 1998788)
Maduro is q dictator. By definition he is hated by his own people. No matter where he has been squarreled awaw it won't help him when he gets the Gaddfi treatment.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: mc squared 9/2/2025 3:34:55 PM (No. 1998789)
No more Cubas. If we win it's ours.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: govlawyer 9/2/2025 4:32:51 PM (No. 1998822)
No, like Noriega found out, it'll be spectacularly short in duration and intensity (especially if his oppressed countrymen get a hold of him before the Seals do).
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Reply 14 - Posted by: crashnburn 9/2/2025 9:50:52 PM (No. 1998916)
Hey Maduro, You FA'd. Now you're going to FO!
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