Any time a conflict is a fair fight, your tactics probably suck. If you thought Donald Trump wouldn’t send the very best with our best fighters in the raid to capture Venezuelan narco-dictator Nicolas Maduro, then you’re as foolish as what’s left of Maduro’s security team. Not only did our pipe-hitters bring their A-game in terms of marksmanship, we also apparently brought much more than that.
In addition to guys who knew how to run their guns, we [SPOILER ALERT] reportedly used some sort of sonic weapon to debilitate Maduro’s palace guards. Something that makes people bleed from the nose and vomit blood. It effectively took the fight right out of them.
Again, this is an anonymous, unverified account, but one of Maduro’s henchmen reportedly described what he saw. He wasn’t part of Maduro’s inner circle of bodyguards, though. As far as we can tell, they…didn’t make it.
🚨This account from a Venezuelan security guard loyal to Nicolás Maduro is absolutely chilling—and it explains a lot about why the tone across Latin America suddenly changed.
Security Guard: On the day of the operation, we didn’t hear anything coming. We were on guard, but… pic.twitter.com/392mQuakYV
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In case the X post disappears, here’s the text . . .
This account from a Venezuelan security guard loyal to Nicolás Maduro is absolutely chilling—and it explains a lot about why the tone across Latin America suddenly changed.
Security Guard: On the day of the operation, we didn’t hear anything coming. We were on guard, but suddenly all our radar systems shut down without any explanation. The next thing we saw were drones, a lot of drones, flying over our positions. We didn’t know how to react.
Interviewer: So what happened next? How was the main attack? Security Guard: After those drones appeared, some helicopters arrived, but there were very few. I think barely eight helicopters. From those helicopters, soldiers came down, but a very small number. Maybe twenty men. But those men were technologically very advanced. They didn’t look like anything we’ve fought against before.
Interviewer: And then the battle began?
Security Guard: Yes, but it was a massacre. We were hundreds, but we had no chance. They were shooting with such precision and speed… it seemed like each soldier was firing 300 rounds per minute. We couldn’t do anything.
Interviewer: And your own weapons? Didn’t they help?
Security Guard: No help at all. Because it wasn’t just the weapons. At one point, they launched something—I don’t know how to describe it… it was like a very intense sound wave. Suddenly I felt like my head was exploding from the inside. We all started bleeding from the nose. Some were vomiting blood. We fell to the ground, unable to move.
Interviewer: And your comrades? Did they manage to resist?
Security Guard: No, not at all. Those twenty men, without a single casualty, killed hundreds of us. We had no way to compete with their technology, with their weapons. I swear, I’ve never seen anything like it. We couldn’t even stand up after that sonic weapon or whatever it was.
Interviewer: So do you think the rest of the region should think twice before confronting the Americans?
Security Guard: Without a doubt. I’m sending a warning to anyone who thinks they can fight the United States. They have no idea what they’re capable of. After what I saw, I never want to be on the other side of that again. They’re not to be messed with.
Interviewer: And now that Trump has said Mexico is on the list, do you think the situation will change in Latin America?
Security Guard: Definitely. Everyone is already talking about this. No one wants to go through what we went through. Now everyone thinks twice. What happened here is going to change a lot of things, not just in Venezuela but throughout the region.
The New York Post also reported on the secret weapon . . .
The US used a powerful mystery weapon that brought Venezuelan soldiers to their knees, “bleeding through the nose” and vomiting blood during the daring raid to capture dictator Nicolas Maduro, according to a witness account posted Saturday on X by the White House press secretary.
In a jaw-dropping interview, the guard described how American forces wiped out hundreds of fighters without losing a single soldier, using technology unlike anything he has ever seen — or heard.
No, it wasn’t a fair fight. And that’s too bad.
Why did we bring a weapon like that and inflict a little shock and awe? Because we can. Because it saves American lives. Because we have a reputation to uphold and it makes our enemies thing twice. ‘Murica.
This is just speculation, but dollars to donuts the Americans employed some sort of portable “long range acoustical device” or LRAD, perhaps one of the area denial systems that use sonic energy to make people ill. Vehicle-mounted versions of these have been around for a while, but imagine one the size of a police bodycam mounted on your kit.
Whatever it was, we’re pleased that not a single one of our service men or women were killed in the three-hour operation. America’s enemies, foreign and domestic, would do well to take heed.
Not new to me.
I’ve seen sonic weapons used against protesters on the ocean. And in other countries.
Over 15 years ago.
On the Animal Planet and Discovery channels.
Havana syndrome but for real this time.
LRAD has been a thing for at least 30 years. It only makes sense the tools and tech are stronger, smaller and lighter.
The fact that people still pretend sonic weapons don’t exist or that they’re a wild conspiracy theory just blows my mind.
To the Venezuelan guards I’m sure our guys with nods and dbals popping them full speed seemed like magic super powers. Assuming they weren’t using even more advanced tools like Eagle Eye and SMASH.
“But those men were technologically very advanced. They didn’t look like anything we’ve fought against before.”
Well, considering the only thing those Venezuelan ‘Security forces’ (AKA their general military troops) have probably ever ‘fought’ were mostly the unarmed population members they arrested I can see why they were impressed with encountering an actual bad ass lethal military force.