Hold onto your butts, folks: Trump says he believes U.S. intel over the Kremlin's claims that Kyiv tried to attack Putin's Valdai residence. "There is something that happened fairly nearby but had nothing to do with this." Bit of a black eye for ole Vova. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/trump-says-he-doesnt-believe-ukraine-struck-putin-residence-2026-01-05/

"NYT & WaPo learned of the secret U.S. raid on Venezuela soon before it was scheduled to begin Fri night but held off publishing what they knew to avoid endangering U.S. troops," reports Semafor. The special op's death toll is now 80 people, including civilians.

News organizations held off on reporting Venezuela raid

The American news organizations held their stories over concerns about endangering US troops.

Medvedev says Ze could be next for Trump's new regime-change machine. Safe to say he doesn’t mean it, is just using Maduro’s abduction as a pretext to mock Ze’s legitimacy, ie his expired presidential term. Further proof that Moscow views the Venezuela situation entirely through a Ukraine prism.

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Медведев допустил повторение венесуэльской операции США на Украине

США могут повторить в отношении Киева операцию, которую они провели в Венесуэле,...

Shot: Reading liberals condemning Trump's abduction of Maduro while expressing "complete awe of those who executed this order." Chaser:

The main takeaway from the day the U.S. overthrew the Venezuelan president is that the 49ers can't get any running game going against these Seahawks, and this game looks doomed for SF.

Kommersant asks Russian foreign policy experts to comment on U.S. regime change in Venezuela: Suchkov, Lukyanov, Rozental, & Naumov. Consensus that Russia lacks the means to intervene as Washington returns to acting on its resurrected spheres-of-influence rhetoric.

Коммерсантъ

«Свержение Мадуро должно продемонстрировать всей Латинской Америке, кто хозяин в регионе»

Российские эксперты — об атаке США на Венесуэлу

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Spare a thought today for all the mainstream American pundits trying to criticize Trump while articulating why their version of deposing Maduro would have been legal and democratic, not illegal and imperialist.

Interesting photo project here. For no particular reason at all, I've found myself thinking more frequently about how most people's lives can remain fairly normal and mundane even as their country goes to hell.

somebody wake up these perritos — the European responses to U.S. and Russian aggression are calling