2025 U.S. - Venezuela conflict

[Brad Sallows]

Its not a myth. Crossed Brest-Litovsk around 2am on the 22nd of June.

Barbarossa: Hitler’s Great Blunder

The Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 led to a catastrophe that eroded the fighting strength of the German Army.

warfarehistorynetwork.com

At 2:00 that morning, a Russian train hauling grain chugged across the River Bug at Brest-Litovsk, on the German-Russian border. It was one of many that had taken the route during the past few months under Berlin-Moscow trade agreements. Seventy-five minutes later, more than 7,000 German field guns of all calibers started bombarding pinpointed targets, while overhead droned 1,000 Luftwaffe bombers on their way to pound Soviet airfields, military installations, and communications centers. A key objective was the destruction of the Red Air Force. Then, German armor and infantry surged eastward across the frontier on a 500-mile front. The onslaught would eventually cover a 2,000-mile front from the North Cape to the Black Sea.

It's not a myth that a train crossed before the invasion commenced. What I claim is a myth is that Germany timed the start of a massive invasion to allow one train to cross.

 

[Czech_pivo]

It's not a myth that a train crossed before the invasion commenced. What I claim is a myth is that Germany timed the start of a massive invasion to allow one train to cross.

We'll never know.

 

[The Bread Guy]

I'm starting to think Qatar and the Trump admin are attached at the hip, interesting.

Trump is sending funds from Venezuela oil to a bank in Qatar: report

Senior officials claim Gulf state provides neutral location to store proceeds from which they can be moved safely and without risk of seizure

www.independent.co.uk

"Senior officials claim Gulf state provides neutral location to store proceeds from which they can be moved safely and without risk of seizure or American legislative or judicial oversight ..." I hope I'm wrong, and happy to be corrected, but am I being tooooooooooo cynical?

Although according to this, similar things have been done in the past ...

... Broadly speaking, however, “it would make a ton of sense” for the Trump administration to park the proceeds at private banks in the US, said Peter Harrell, an attorney who served as former President Joe Biden’s senior director of international economics. Harrell pointed to financial institutions in Japan and Korea that banked proceeds from Iranian oil sales over a decade ago.

“I am sure that there are a couple of folks in the Treasury Department who remember working to set up that Iran scheme,” Harrell said.

Treasury will be on the hook for processing the requisite licenses via its Office of Foreign Assets Control, Harrell said. He added that the private banks would likely need to be big; have international experience; and be able to monitor for the type of corruption that had bogged down Iran’s accounts ...