The

The Welcome back, everybody to the Inquisition listeners were calling for the panel to reconvene after Maduro was kidnapped, I guess,

for lack of a better term, by the Trump regime.

And people want our thoughts.

And it's a big topic.

We've got a lot to say.

We're going to have the full panel here, which means Carl and Jay Burton are also going to be joining us later.

Right now, though, me and Thomas sat down to get to get started, Stormy, Jay, and Peter on the way.

Stay tuned for later in the show where Carl pops in.

But Thomas, man, there's many angles here, but I think the best place to start is actually with some of the stuff you've been tweeting over the last couple of days, which, if I may paraphrase, it sounds like you're saying, like, if we want to go Monroe Doctrine, we should go full bore and not this like half-assed, I don't even know what to call it. Like military, I guess we'll call it a military action.

I mean, it doesn't make any sense.

I mean, I don't believe what Hegg says in the Pentagon are claiming that this was some

incredible operation whereby some sort of, you know some sort of delta force team somehow penetrated

Venezuelan airspace totally undetected kidnapped the president despite him being protected

by a hostile opposing force and not a shot

was fired or there weren't any casualties or they killed a thousand Cubans or something i i don't

believe that um it's pretty obvious that maduro was sold out by his own people or by some opposition element that had been

curated by the United States or by, you know, some consolation of actors who'd been bought off

or

you know saw the writing on the wall

and

sacrificed

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