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DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican - 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐥 𝐝𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐬 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐬: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐲 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐍𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐊𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐋𝐞𝐟𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐝 
I have a feeling this could turn out to be the most important rabbit hole yet, so pay attention to this thread. 🐇
Most conspiracy theories claim some shadowy cabal is secretly pulling the strings. But here's the twist: this one insists the cabal doesn't exist at all. 
For decades, prosecutors and journalists have pointed to the Cartel de los Soles, a Venezuelan military-political network accused of moving tons of cocaine with impunity. U.S. indictments call out generals, ministers, even Maduro himself. 
Yet powerful leftist voices, from Alliance for Global Justice to COHA analysts to UN drug officials, swear it’s all fiction. They label the Suns cartel a “myth,” a “media creation,” or just “narco-mythology.” Even the Wikipedia page brands it as merely “alleged.” 
- Ex-UN drug czar Pino Arlacchi says it’s as fake as the Loch Ness Monster.
- NGO allies echo “no evidence.”
- Wikipedia editors refuse to treat it as fact.
Why are so many powerful voices so insistent on denying the Cartel of the Suns exist? 
I don't know. But I suspect there is a powerful financial incentive here. 
Let's see if this makes the trolls as angry as they were about yesterday's boat thread. 
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9:26 AM · Sep 8, 2025
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/1965043991818432818

DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican - Hello Senator Slotkin,
I've been waiting for your take on Venezuela. When it comes to regime change, few institutions have a longer and more educational record of failure than the CIA, so your opposition is as reassuring as Jim Cramer's stock picks. 
Congratulations on reciting the roll call of countries your own institutions helped ruin. Treating that history as a rhetorical shield doesn't grant you credibility, it just advertises a refusal to learn from it. Now let me explain why Venezuela does not belong in your grab bag of "long-term engagements."
Most of the countries you list were a result of a worldview that any non-democracy is a threat to the stability of the post-Cold War world order. 
- Iraq: My book documents how your side eagerly supported the operations, until Iraq turned into a quagmire, and then instead of taking responsibility, the global liberal order threw America under the bus and blamed a lack of "multilateralism."
- Somalia: The United Nations 1993 resolution lists the goal of the Somalian intervention as "recreating a Somali State based on democratic governance and rehabilitating the country's economy and infrastructure."
- Syria: Obama himself celebrated Syria's "peaceful transition to democracy" in the Arab Spring and we all know how that turned out. 
Beyond that, the common thread is: you imposed pro-Western views on a non-Western world. You haven't learned from that, because you are still doing that in virtually every country in the world - except over the decades, your meaning of "Western" has morphed to something like "Communism."
The "long-term engagement" framing is a dodge. You've never been afraid of long-term engagements. See: all your chest-beating about Ukraine. 
The real question is far darker: if you believe in democracy, why aren't you celebrating the removal of a dictator from the single easiest country on earth to transition back to it?
Venezuela is not Somalia. It has borders, institutions, a literate population, a unified national identity, and a recent democratic memory. Trump just demonstrated how little force was required to remove a narco-state that survived only on inertia.
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