Video footage circulating from Caracas appears to show a helicopter conducting a rocket attack against ground targets during the overnight strikes in Venezuela.
The footage aligns with confirmed impacts reported across the capital and surrounding areas and is consistent with the same wave of explosions documented earlier in the night. While the aircraft is clearly a military helicopter operating at low altitude, the available imagery does not allow reliable identification of the specific platform involved, as distinguishing features are not visible in the verifiable footage.
Video circulating from Caracas shows a military helicopter firing rockets at ground targets during last night’s strikes. The same wave of explosions hit multiple military and communications sites across the capital, with low-flying aircraft reported shortly after 2am. pic.twitter.com/jgR08hQZGP
— George Allison (@geoallison) January 3, 2026
Multiple strategically significant sites were confirmed to have been struck during the operation. These include Fuerte Tiuna, the main military complex in Caracas, La Carlota airbase, the El Volcán communications antenna site, La Guaira port, and Higuerote Airport in Miranda state. Explosions were reported at around 2:00 a.m., with low-flying aircraft observed across several districts of greater Caracas, including Baruta, El Hatillo, Charallave, and coastal areas near La Guaira.
Several of the strikes appear to have focused on communications infrastructure and active military installations.
Power outages were reported in southern parts of the capital following the explosions. Venezuelan authorities have not issued a detailed public assessment of the damage, though opposition-linked sources confirmed impacts at multiple military and signal sites. David Smolansky, a spokesman for opposition leader María Corina Machado, stated that Fort Tiuna, Miranda Airbase, La Guaira port, and antennas at Cerro El Volcán were among the locations hit.
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s whereabouts remain unknown. However, two individuals with knowledge of the situation told The New York Times that at least some members of his inner circle were believed to be safe. By the early morning hours, activity appeared to subside, suggesting the operation was limited in duration rather than indicative of a broader campaign.
The Mango Mussolini appears to have decided to liberate and bring democracy to the largest oil reserves on the planet – err I mean Venezuelan people. And secure a new place to dump anyone in the USA who speaks Spanish…
Getting that legacy in place before the inevitable stroke gets him.
I was hoping for something more painful than a stroke… and preferably after 2028 to avoid Vance seizing the Presidency…
We are seriously fucked if Vance gets tin, that man is a proper fascist.. I don’t think the US will come back from that event.
What makes him a fascist? Genuine question. I don’t know much about him, and from what I can see myself I’d find it difficult to label him that way.
Hi Carrickter he is of the new generation of religious based fascists, we see them growing in all the religions, Vance is considered by many to be a Christofascist because
1) Authoritarian in his views and opinions he made it clear in 2021 that he would advise Donald Trump to fire all civil servants and replace them with political loyalists. Essentially an attack on the checks and balances against authoritarianism in the US government. ( authoritarianism is a fundamental of fascist ideas)
2) Contempt for Democracy: Many consider him to be a prominent of “Dark Enlightenment” and “neoreactionary” and follower of thinkers like Curtis Yarvin, in that he has demonstrated a contempt for democracy, and the need to ride the public and that capitalist corporate power should be the organizing force in society ( corporatism is another key building block of fascist ideas)
3) “Blut und Boden” “Blood and Soil” Rhetoric: His use of the “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory, which suggests Democrats are attempting to “replace” American voters with immigrants, is essentially the “blood and soil” ideal which is another building block of fascism and a core tenant of the third Reich.
4) Suppression of Opposition: The Association of University Professors (AAUP) called Vance a “fascist” in response to Vance’s attack of American higher education as “the enemy” and has promised to aggressively attack universities which he has done.
5) Social Issues: His statements regarding women, childlessness (which he has linked to “sociopathy”), and the LGBTQ+ women are misogynistic and very much part of the “Christofascist” ideology in which women must essentially have children and there role is essentially to look after children.
6) support of foreign Authoritarian Leaders: Vance has been in favour of far-right Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who taken control of state universities and other institutions to extend government influence in a classic fascist move.
All in all he ticks a lot of boxes.
Imagine being offended by the possibility of a socialist dictator like Maduro being deposed. I couldn’t care less why Trump is doing it, I am happy all the same.
When this news broke, locations of unhappy people include: Beijing, Moscow and the UK.
Are you kidding?! Trump just handed Moscow and Beijing an amazing NY gift. He’s essentially given away any remaining pretext for the rules based order, undermined the West’s stance on Ukraine (just because it’s in your back yard doesn’t mean it’s ok to change things by force) and handed China carte blanche for Taiwan.
That single act has brought us closer to WW3 than you could possibly imagine.
Hi Bob. Ordinarily I would agree with you but let’s be honest – Putin was going to invade Ukraine anyway and Xi will make a move on Taiwan in the next couple of years – neither of those two care about rules based order, nor do they care what anyone thinks.
Perhaps, but we’ve lost any form of legitimacy and we’ve lost the uncertainties that aid deterrence.
Legitimacy is only legitimate if you can enforce it with hard power. Small European countries seem to think we live in this Disneyland based order, where large powerful countries heed to small weak ones.
I’m sure the Chinese and Russians were highly concerned with this ‘rules based order’ when annexing the south china sea and Ukraine. Trembling really at those strongly worded letters from Brussels, oh no! They might write another one!
The thing is David.. WW3 will be won or lost across the globe, it will be about many nations and if they decide to support the west or China or just stay out of it.. US foreign policy is now making it almost impossible for Europe to support the US in the pacific ( as we are going to be spending all our energy on watching Putin and the Middle East) the US is pissing off the western pacific democracies big time ( if anyone thinks the Japanese are forgiving the US around the tariffs, they don’t get the Japanese) and now African and South American countries will look at China and look at the US and see one invading, bullying and tariffing and the other investing in roads and ports…. Come world war 3 who do you think a lot of the worlds poorer nations will be rooting for ?
100% correct.
Columbia, Brazil, Chile – in fact all of Latin America, except Argentina which Trump bought recently.
Not forgetting EU, Spain, Italy, etc.
In fact Starmer is rather isolated in not condemning this…
Well we all know you’re a sexual deviant from your previous posts, so it’s no surprise you are too stupid to see the implications of ignoring international law. I bet you were happy when
Saddam and the Taliban were toppled too, how’s that working out for you? As it is, Trump hadn’t even managed that. All he’s done is promote Maduro’s Vice-President into the top job. There’s been no change of government in Venezuela. But you’re the type not to bother with facts you don’t like.
The next person in charge will listen, or end up like the last one. The western hemisphere is different. Look at how Panama has heeded the US demands on removing China from the Canal. They got their FAFO moment in the 80’s, it’s an easy lesson to learn.
Except Panama didn’t. China never controlled the canal like Trump claimed, they owned some adjacent ports – not surprising as China at 20% was the second largest user of the canal. In the end, knowing how mentally unstable Trump is, neither China or Panama thought this was an issue to bother about. Yet another Trump fake victory that wasn’t.
The Trump administration trying to rape Venezuela of its oil reserves is a totally different situation. The next person in charge there won’t be so stupid as to fall for the same tactics that Trump used to kidnap Maduro.
Because it was geopolitically stupid, the move of an authoritarian who does not believe in the international rules based order.. and he simply gave the country the hideous fuck sticks vice president, who is herself a hideous fuck stick.. with the only proviso that essentially oil flows to the US and not China… it’s essentially give China everything it could wish for on the international stage.. China is now the superpower that supports and gives money.. the US is the imperialist dictator who conquers… who does that create a win for ?
Uk is not a player… Just shush yourself and put people in prison for what they say on the internet. You’re good at that
And the Septic Tank shows up to make a comment that again proves that hillbilly parents are often siblings.