Venezuela’s National Intelligence Service HQ on fire
1. SHTF (rebellion within the intel apparatus or attack by the opposition)
2. Maduro needs an excuse to put the Russian and Cuban security forces on the front line (perhaps requesting more) and/or to eliminate the opposition.
3. Bad wiring, gas leak, or kids playing with matches

4. The compound’s emergency-power generator went *kablooey* (bad maintenance or overloaded to run water-purification unit)
5. Errant Hamas rocket
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I’m guessing it’s #3, Doug
Realizing maybe I’m “old school,” but doesn’t the presence of Russian military in Venezuela violate the Monroe Doctrine?
From the title ref: “On February 28, 1933, the day after the fire, Hitler’s dictatorship began with the enactment of a decree “for the Protection of the People and the State,” which dispensed with all constitutional protection of political, personal, and property rights.”
Sounds more and more like Democrats every day.
yikes
and I thought I was just speaking metaphorically earlier*…
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well Dave @3, their actions do say that is their goal…
Been waiting for this since Chavez.
You forgot Tsar Putin I looking an excuse to Come To Maduro’s Aid and ‘inadvertently’ acquire an SSR in South America.
He is pretty medieval.
Cuba’s a drain and pretty useless, Venezuela would be quite a nice place for him if he gets his own tsarling installed there.
^ Yeah, good point.
Reckon I kind’a crammed that into #2.
Maduro has a Russian palace guard (sort’a);
and a palace guard can point their weapons both ways,
depending on whom they actually work for.
Remember, you’re only President for life
Maduro tweeted that it was only a bunch of rednecks at a diesel pickup truck meeting.
He blamed it on white privilege.
Dave, isn’t it a little late in the game for a Reichstag fire?
Meant to say, Hamas isn’t in Venezuela, but Hezbollah is.
That’s a possibility.
Dave, isn’t it a little late in the game for a Reichstag fire?
It’s never too late to let a crisis go to waste.
Not. Ever.
Veeshir ^^
Yeah, but rockets are kind of a Hamas thing.