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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>O</span></span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>n Sat, Mar 14, 2026 at 11:03 AM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>><span class=gmaildefault>>> </span></span></i><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'>we don't know if that happened. We have accusations without evidence. Some of the video of boats being shot to hell was AI generated,</span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>></span></b><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>> </span></b></span><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>…That is ridiculous! The War Department is the one that released the video, why on earth would they fake the evidence to make them look like war criminals when really they were not?? John K Clark<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>The USA is not at war with Venezuela. The drug gangs did not sign on to international agreements.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>>…Government goo</span></b><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>n</span></b></span><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>s have never provided a scrap of evidence that those boats contained any drugs at all….<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>Nor do we have solid evidence boats were sunk by the military. We have questionable video released by the US government. But drug gangs are at war with each other, and of course rob each other. We don’t know who is doing what.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>…</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span class=gmaildefault><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>> </span></i></span><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>If you look at the first several videos released, you will notice some oddities,<span class=gmaildefault> </span>such as<span class=gmaildefault> </span></span></i><span class=gmaildefault><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>[blah blah]<i> </i></span></span><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>Another video appeared to be a test, possibly using a model.</span></i><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>>…So your theory is that the government incompetently<span class=gmaildefault> faked a video </span>to make them look like war criminals when really they were not and released that video to the </span></b><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>general </span></b></span><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>public,<span class=gmaildefault> but they refuse to release to the public the real unfaked video which shows them to be true paragons of virtue. Now Spike be honest, do you really think that is an example of critical thinking?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>Think about it John. Imagine the military creating these kinds of videos. Then when they make an actual strike, they don’t make any video. They use some kind of system which ensures there are no survivors nor any floating debris. There can be no legal repercussions if there is no evidence. The purpose of the video is to convince the drug gangs to take their pharmaceuticals elsewhere. PsyOps.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>>…Somebody in Maduro's<span class=gmaildefault> inner circle didn't like him very much and figured the US would reward him if he revealed information about </span>Maduro's<span class=gmaildefault> exact location and security arrangements….<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>So we hear. I don’t know how else they could have created a model of the compound to train the special ops team. There is also whoever that was who bought up all those shares of Maduro Out, but it apparently wasn’t anyone in the US, for the yanks had no way of knowing the raid would be successful. Only the Venezuelan insider would know for sure he was telling the truth.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>>…And the morale of the Venezuelan army had been extremely low for years, very few soldiers were willing to die for </span></b></span><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>Maduro</span></b><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>.</span></b></span><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>John K Clark<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>My notion is that the insider was a high-ranking army guy who arranged for his guards to be armed with rounds which would not fire, or that he ordered the real guards out and replaced them with his own specially trained troops. Helicopters are not tanks. A few well-placed small arms rounds can take them down. No choppers were lost. Injuries were few. Fatalities were zero. I don’t believe the discombobulator notion. Insider.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>