Lee Ferran
WASHINGTON — Ostensibly speaking about the US industrial base, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth took a short detour on Monday to take a victory lap regarding the surprise US military operation to snatch Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro in a daring nighttime raid over the weekend.
“And then we saw three nights ago in downtown Caracas in Venezuela, as nearly 200 of our greatest Americans went downtown in Caracas. Seems those Russian air defenses didn’t quite work so well, did they?” Hegseth said to some applause during a visit to shipbuilders at Newport News. That Venezuela was guarded by Russian-provided tech was well known; Maduro himself boasted in October that he had 5,000 Russian-made anti-aircraft missiles at “key air defense positions.”
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