The coup in Caracas was not just a raid.

On 3 January 2026, U.S. forces took Maduro out of the capital. Explosions lit up the night. Then he appeared in handcuffs in New York. That same week, Delcy Rodríguez was already in place. Months later she was standing next to Trump, ining and “cooperation.”

What followed was not a transition. It was a clean-out. The old defence minister was moved aside. The high command was replaced. More than a hundred generals and admirals were retired. Then the assets started to move.

That purge was not an accident. A revolution in Venezuela only works if parts of the army join it. They know that. Chávez was not a top general when he moved. He was a lieutenant colonel. That is why this story is not finished.

The Chavista forces are probably regrouping. The next chapter is not another photo with Washington. It is whether enough men with guns still remember who the country was sold to.
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A must read, to understand the complexity of information warfare.

It isn't as simple as "bad mainstream media vs good independent media and influencers".

The oligarchy needs to corral back the black sheeps, not by antagonizing them, but by letting them gather behind a new media / influencer who at first ticks all the right boxes, sounds rebellious and disruptive, but at some point is activated to tweak its message on a particular issue, and take its followers to the "desired opinion".

Nepal, IndoPacific, Venezuela, Oran, now Serbia. One regime change after another, the Sixth column reveals itself.

There will be more to come.

𝗨𝗦 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺, 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮

My take.

So many pathetic takes from self-proclaimed "Indian nationalists".

Western media are overwhelmingly anti-Modi. The Economist too. It is a US tool, anti-Modi and anti-𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮. Then it says Modi could learn something from 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮, and the reading in India is: "another anti-India Chinese move."

Come on.

Many "India-first" / "nationalist" voices are too dumb for their own good. Decades of anti-𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮 indoctrination. They bark on cue.

𝗣𝗮𝘃𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶-𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮

Low-IQ analysis dressed up as patriotism.

And yes, the US empire thrives on people's ignorance.

𝗕𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗱, 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗱.

"It is not an anti-China or anti-anybody coalition."

Marco Rubio, Saturday, on the Quad, as foreign ministers finalised the first leaders' summit in two years. Venue: the Philippines. Timing: before Trump meets Xi in Shenzhen.

Without naming China, the same diplomats voiced overcapacity in critical industries. Classic.

So: not anti-China. Just a US-Japan-Australia-India security dialogue next door to the South China Sea, scheduled weeks before a Trump-Xi meeting, complaining about Chinese industrial capacity.

If it walks like containment and summits like containment…

The branding fools fewer people every year. Manila gets the venue. Beijing gets the message. The Global South gets another "we're not against you" coalition that somehow always points one direction.

𝗧𝗬𝗧, 𝗔𝗹𝗲𝘅 𝗝𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀, 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳 𝗝𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗴, 𝗝𝗼𝗲 𝗞𝗲𝗻𝘁: 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝘅𝘁𝗵 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝘂𝗺𝗻

My take.

𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗳𝗮𝗿𝗲

TYT, Alex Jones, Professor Jiang, Joe Kent. Entertainment. Psyops. Different brands, same job: keep you inside a olumn is easy to spot. They push the Western line on 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮, Ukraine, Palestine, everything else.

Sixth column looks rebellious. Gets attacked by the first lot. Collects people who think they escaped. They didn't.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 𝗰𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗶𝘁.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗳𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗸𝗲𝗲𝗽𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲.

All the drama is on personalities. That is the point. The fight itself is the operation.

Same thing happens in 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮-friendly spaces. Anti-𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮 networks pick their preferred "opposition", put them up, amplify them, then also trash them. When everyone is busy arguing about one name, ask who benefits. Sometimes the criticism is real. Sometimes it is how they choose who speaks for the other side.

𝗣𝗮𝘆 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵 "𝗽𝗿𝗼-𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮" 𝘃𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝗴𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗺 𝗽𝘂𝘀𝗵𝗲𝘀.

𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿.

The talking points are for Western audiences. The interests sit somewhere else. Most of what you are sold as debate is noise.

𝗕𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗱, 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗱.

"The Vietnamese side has no intention to impose a communist regime on South Vietnam."

Qiao Guanhua at the UN General Assembly, October 1972. On the Vietnamese peace proposal for South Vietnam :

> "a solution to the problem of South Vietnam must proceed from the actual situation in proposal is fair and reasonable."
> "Rejection of this proposal precisely bespeaks the attempt to continue to impose the Nguyen Van Thieu puppet regime on the South Vietnamese people."

Four months later the US signed the Paris Peace Accords. Thieu's regime fell in 1975. Sound familiar ?

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How to Suppo…

How convenient….going after Russian banks.

The true leaders are outside Serbia.

Plenty arrests in Serbia….to make it EU compatible ?

My take > it could be a EU takeover, there will be an acceleration towards EU adhesion > meaning > RIP sovereignty.

Hope I am wrong, really hope. Serbia deserves more than to be entrapped into EU globalist project.

Not my words >

The man is genuinely talented at one thing: manufacturing low-stakes “debates” on China that make him look like the only adult in the room for foreigners hungry for a (much-needed) alternative narrative.

TLDR; The CIA poured cash into a plot for a secret army from Taiwan to invade southern China from Burma — and accidentally financed the birth of the Golden Triangle, a heroin empire which killed huge numbers of people

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Chapter 1: THE CHOICE
US PRESIDENT HARRY TRUMAN had a gut stay out of Taiwan. “The United States Government will not pursue a course which will lead to involvement in the civil conflict in China,” he wrote on 5 January, 1950.

But the C.I.A. felt differently: their modus operandi was to choose one side and covertly arm it.

- People on the mainland, as socialists, were more organized, more serious, and surprisingly good at spycraft. But they were commies!

- The nationalists on Taiwan island had a reputation for being tricky and unpredictable. But they were capitalists.

CIA leaders made their fateful choice.

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Chapter 2: THE SECRET ARMY
THE CIA LEARNED that the Taiwan-based nationalists had assembled a secret army in Burma to “recover” China from the communists.

Led by General Li Mi of the Kuomintang, or KMT, the attack force communicated with Taipei through a confidential radio office in Bangkok.

The CIA used its own planes to add more soldiers from Taiwan, plus weapons from an arsenal on Okinawa—and plenty of cash. The operation was coordinated by CIA men Alfred Cox in Hong Kong and Sherman Joost in Bangkok.

In May 1951, Li Mi’s secret army invaded China from the south, accompanied by CIA officers.

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Chapter 3: SPYCRAFT
IT WAS A DISASTER. The Chinese seemed to be waiting for them in Yunnan province—and picked them off wherever they turned. In less than a month, the effort was in full retreat.

A second incursion, in July, went even more badly, with the Chinese chasing them out in a week.

What the KMT didn’t know until much later was that the Chinese had quietly replaced the nationalist radio man in Bangkok with one of their own operatives — they were good at spycraft, as mentioned.

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Chapter 4: EMBARRASSMENT
AT CHRISTMAS IN 1951, Beijing complained in public that the United States had ferried Nationalist soldiers and weapons to Burma to create conflict. The controversy was raised at the United Nations. US diplomats lied, saying on the record that the US had no involvement whatsoever.

But Washington was embarrassed when an 11 February 1952 New York Times report quoted witnesses in Burma who had seen Li Mi’s soldiers proudly showing off their brand-new American weapons.

That summer, Li Mi led yet another invasion of China. On 2 August, some 2,100 Nationalists got less than 100 km into the country before being driven out.

But despite the supply of arms and cash, and even US training, the latest operation was not progressing. As time passed, it became clear to the CIA that the secret army was busy with something else.

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Chapter 5: THE TWIST
During their years’ hiding in mountains of northern Burma, the KMT’s secret force had made two discoveries. One was that an extremely valuable crop, opium, was grown in those mountains, and the other was that they liked southeast Asian women.

Their capitalist urges trumped their political ones. They married the women and became wealthy opium plantation owners and drug distributors.

By 1953, Washington’s official line was to ask Chiang Kai-shek in Taipei to remove the men from Burma. That year, 7,000 troops were airlifted to Taiwan—but at least that number insisted on staying, and thousands more decided to remain in neighboring Thailand.

The CIA saw the “Golden Triangle” drug trade as a positive, potentially making their covert armies self-financing. “The U.S. use of the drug traffic from the KMT troops in Burma had momentous consequences for the whole of Southeast Asia,” said historian Peter Dale Scott in the Asia Pacific Journal.

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Chapter 6: RICH AND ARMED
BY THE EARLY 1960s, the Burmese were desperate to get the KMT out, and the CIA was intrigued to discover that the PLA, China’s army, had agreed to help.

But even they couldn’t eradicate the rebels, who were rich, strong, and well-armed, and now controlled 90 percent of Burmese opium—and “almost a third of the world’s opium supply”, according to CIA Far East operative Richard Stilwell.

In 1961, the leaders in Taipei cut off all payments to their people in Burma. But the KMT secret army responded that this just made the drug trade more crucial: they had to expand it to cover their soldiers’ salaries.

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Chapter 7: A WIN AND A LOSS
IN TRUTH, the secret army had lost all interest in invading China. And they found themselves under fire in their new profession. In 1967, the drug operation had spread into Laos and Vietnam, and the KMT were soon fighting a war against rival warlords.

The Taiwanese eventually defeated their main opponent Khun Sa, a Burmese, but during the fighting, a Lao general confiscated a large amount of opium and supplied it to multiple users across East Asia.

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Chapter 8: PEACE
The 1967 opium war ended the Burma KMT’s 15-year control of the region’s main heroin distribution routes, although their business continued.

The CIA had spent a fortune over many years supporting the plan to “recover China” and had nothing to show for it.

In 1969, Henry Kissinger defunded many of the CIA operations in and around China. In 1971, he flew secretly to Beijing to make peace.

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EPILOGUE
And what happened to the secret army that Taiwan and the US had secretly funded for years?

“The Nationalists maintained forces in Burma no longer under CIA control. These later grew to as many as twelve thousand and continued their drug trafficking right into the 1980s,” wrote historian John Prados.

For the US, the experience “helped institutionalize what became a CIA habit of turning to drug-supported off-the-books assets for fighting wars wherever there appeared to be a threat to America’s access to oil and other resources,” wrote Peter Dale Scott.

But as so often happened, the CIA’s lawless antics harmed all sides—including the US itself. The opium grabbed by the Lao general was turned into heroin and secretly sold in Vietnam in the 1960s and 1970s.

Many of the buyers were American troops fighting in South Vietnamese jungles, young men desperately stressed out after being commissioned to win an unwinnable war.

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Sources:
American War Machine by Peter Dale Scott; The Search for Modern China by Jonathan D. Spence; Legacy of Ashes by Tim Weiner; Safe for Democracy: The Secret Wars of the CIA by John Prados.

FT and other globalists outlets cheering the movement, signs of “rapprochement” with the EU and there is also evidence of NGOs support for the movement.
A shift happened, not a radical one, total vassalization happens gradually.
Ukraine had first the Orange revolution then it had Maidan. Once Serbia will be in the EU, it will be game over.
EU is the objective of final control.

Was Vucic good ? It is not the question here, ultimately only Serbians can judge.

The question ultimately is ALWAYS about sovereignty and how much external influence/interference and who controls the game.

From now on, follow the ACTIONS, the promises pre-elections are what they are, just promises. The ACTIONS in the coming weeks/months might further expose the real objective of this “student movement”.

Follow @BrianJBerletic for the best coverage on the topic, one of the very few who has done the homework with no ideology, no bias. Just factual work.

Be informed.

Not entertained.

𝗖𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗔 𝗜𝗦 𝗤𝗨𝗜𝗘𝗧𝗟𝗬 𝗕𝗨𝗜𝗟𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗔 𝗦𝗨𝗡
China built the world’s first fully superconducting tokamak, EAST, and sustained a high-confinement plasma for 1,066 seconds—the first tokamak to exceed 1,000 seconds in steady-state high-confinement operation. EAST has developed more than 200 core technologies and generated over 2,000 patents.

According to Fusion for Energy’s analysis, China holds 1,335 active fusion patent families—about 1.5 times the combined total of the US, EU, Japan and the UK.

No speeches, no hype. Just engineers doing the work. To me this isn't only about energy. It's about what kind of future humanity gets to have.

Be informed, not entertained.

"All the explanations that they have given us for what they call mistaken bombing are absolutely unconvincing."

Jiang Zemin to Mike Wallace, 60 Minutes, 2000. A year after NATO bombs hit China's embassy in Belgrade, killing three Chinese journalists :

> "the United States has stay"
> "the identification marks of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade were too clear for people to miss"

Wallace says the CIA and the Pentagon can make "stupid mistakes". Jiang :

> "so why has there been such an incident it is still a question"

The most expensive military on earth, using an old map. Do you still believe it ?

"Batista is or will be the last dictator of Cuba."

Castro in January 1959, in his own English, on American TV. The host compared him to George Washington :

> "not permitting that any dictatorship come again to rule our country"
> "no one can use the force to break our Constien came the Bay of Pigs, the embargo and 638 alleged assassination plots. When did Washington decide it preferred the dictator ?

"There is a new African in the world."

Nkrumah at midnight, Ghana the first sub-Saharan colony to break free :

> "your beloved country is free from now forever"
> "that new African is ready to fight his own battle and show that after all the black man is capable of managing his own afr he was overthrown in a coup while abroad. Who was so worried about Africans managing their own affairs ?

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"China is not the former Soviet Union, nor is it the old time Germany or Japan. China is China."

Qian Qichen, China's foreign minister, in Washington, 1997 :

> "China adheres to the principle of non-interference in each other's internal affairs."
> "Even if it becomes stronger in thepursue aggression and expansion, still less will it seek hegemony."
> "To judge if there is democracy in China is not the right way to go about it."

Almost 30 years later, which of the two has been meddling abroad ?

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🇮🇹 Italy proposes a 26% exit tax on unrealized investment gains for people leaving the country from 2027.

It’d apply to those with €800k+ in relevant assets who were tax residents for at least 6 of the last 10 years.

I've been warning you: European and will try to seize your assets.

The exit is closing.

Japan's defence minister went to the Philippines to plan missile production with Washington.

On the sidelines of the ASEAN defence meetings in Cebu, Shinjiro Koizumi met Pete Hegseth, NHK reports. They agreed to boost the "deterrence and response capabilities" of the alliance, military.

Also agreed : a final assembly and checkout facility in Japan for joint production of advanced medium-range air-to-air missiles.

Koizumi says Tokyo will revise its three national security documents by year-end and strengthen its "denial" capabilities.

The same week, Japan promised Manila its old Abukuma warships.

Japan's pacifist constitution was written in 1946 so this would never happen again.

Eighty years later, Tokyo co-produces American missiles and arms a country it once occupied.

And China is called the threat.