Multiple Reports of Maduro Raid Reveal War is About to Change

In this episode, we dive deep into the stunning US military operation "Absolute Resolve" that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on January 3, 2026. We analyze the viral testimony from a Maduro loyalist security guard (shared by White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt), which describes overwhelming US tech: sudden radar blackout, massive drone swarms that retaliate only against shooters, a tiny team of ~20 elite soldiers dropped from just 8 helicopters, and a mysterious "intense sound wave" weapon causing nosebleeds, vomiting, and immobilization.We break down what's plausible (confirmed US capabilities like LRAD acoustic devices, microwave systems, jamming of Russian/Chinese radar like S-300 & JY-27), what's experimental, and why this feels like "Space Marines" vs. conventional forces. We also compare it to Israeli spycraft (e.g., pager ops), discuss future multipolar world dynamics (US vs. Israel as dominant powers?), and explore emerging warfare trends like autonomous drone swarms.This is scary, impressive, and potentially game-changing. What do you think — real next-level tech or exaggeration?Malcolm Collins: [00:00:00] Hello Simone. I’m excited to be here with you today. Today we are gonna be doing an analysis of the US raid on Venezuela, what US’ military capabilities are, because we’ve done some on Israel’s military capabilities, which are, it may be maybe less impressive. We’ll talk about the two in comparison in a second.

And what the future of war is going to be like from this and the piece I’m gonna read, it’s scary. It’s scary. The, the first thing that you’re going to think when you hear this, and the first thing I saw when I heard this piece is, this is fake. This, this cannot be real. Where’s your source?

Right?

Simone Collins: So, oh, no, I immediately thought of the w was it Cuban? Embassy. Russian Embassy. Yeah. That was later

Malcolm Collins: proven fake. Oh,

Simone Collins: yeah, it was, but I

Malcolm Collins: still, okay. But th this is when I heard this, I thought, or at least I’m skeptical, like I’m not gonna present this on the show unless I dug into it. So I did a lot.

Of digging on this. Mm-hmm. To try to find where it came from to try to find, if it’s a credible source, to try to find if it’s plausible with what we [00:01:00] know, a raid within this location might be. Here’s what we do know and why I do think it’s plausible. Yeah. For two reasons. One is the secretary Carolyn Levitt.

This is Press Secretary tweeted this. Right. So if the White House Press Secretary is tweeting an account of what happened during the raid, and it is completely fictional and out of line, was she knows what happened during that raid. Yeah. At the very least, right? Like the people who approve this, that had to go to somebody for approval.

You don’t tweet about what happened during a raid. It a. May have, and this is what’s really interesting because after digging, digging, digging, the version of this that went viral is the version she shared. Okay. Oh, I eventually found the original leak.

Simone Collins: Oh, the person, the guard one of Maduro’s guards actually reporting his experience

Malcolm Collins: actually recording this.

Yeah. So it turns out this is plausible. It is likely real, and parts of it are left [00:02:00] out in the version that the White House tweeted that went viral in right-wing circles. And as such, my, my read of why did parts of it gets left out is though they’re the military capabilities they don’t want you to know about.

Simone Collins: Mm-hmm.

Malcolm Collins: The biggest part of it that was left out that I found really interesting is the guy notes that the drone swarm that was all of a sudden around them, out of nowhere. Yeah. That whenever anyone tried to shoot at it, it would shoot them, but otherwise it left people alone. And well, I didn’t read

Simone Collins: about that.

Ooh, wow. Okay. Yeah. Well,

Malcolm Collins: because that’s only in the Spanish. Interview. Right. You wouldn’t know. Didn’t know.

And this is actually a really clever way to design them from a military tactics perspective because it makes your opponent, you know, you might have a hundred men armed and ready or willing to shoot if you’re just shooting at everyone. You know, regardless, everyone has a motivation to shoot back, right?

Because they’re going to be shot if they don’t. But now if they see that only the people that are shooting are being shot back. They have a motivation to just like drop their [00:03:00] weapons and run. , I’d also note here that we learned from the, the deeper interview that there were two types of drones. One would immediately shoot back, and then the second type would, , sort of mark a person and then fly a drone to where they were later.

Malcolm Collins: So we doubt, we now know how it worked h how this led to people dying. And right, because

Simone Collins: the, the US government, if I recall correctly, reported around 80 people were killed in the extraction. A

Malcolm Collins: aura, from what I heard, no.

American. I heard 80 soldiers. And this, this transcript said a hundred. Yeah. Could there have been additional. Might a person have exaggerated. Yeah. The other thing that’s in the initial transcript that’s not in this transcript that she shared is he was talking about how he, and, and we’ll get into this more and other people in the groups that he’s familiar with are actually turning in their weapons because they’re so scared.

What I can say is that this person is actually a Venezuelan. This is not like made by, if it’s, if it’s [00:04:00] fake. Somebody in Venezuela made this fake, which seems like a very dangerous thing to do in a place like Venezuela, right? It seems much more likely that this is a real leak. And note this has been reported on by Fox News Times of Indi India, indie tv, New York Post, et cetera.

Okay? Mm-hmm. Although they, they also were unable to hard confirm it.

Just as a side note, the most unbelievable piece of this has since this story happened, been confirmed as true, , which basically means everything else is likely true. , Specifically there are a number of sites, , like futurism and CNN politics, which, , confirm that the Pentagon bought a device. , That is what’s linked to Havana Syndrome.

That has the capability to knock out people and cause them to basically fall over vomiting and, and pain. I.

Malcolm Collins: Alright, so. On the day of the operation, we didn’t hear anything coming. We were on guard, but [00:05:00] suddenly all of our radar systems shut down without any explanation. The next thing we saw were drones. A lot of drones flying over our position.

We didn’t know how to react.

Simone Collins: Hmm. Run for cover, obviously.

Malcolm Collins: Right. It said be terrified because we’re gonna go over where they got all these radio systems in a second. They came from, these are top of the line systems from China and Russia. Mm-hmm. Which are the two main people we may fight. So this is what it would be like to China if the US came.

Right? Like this is why places like China are. Taking dumps in their pants right now because this was Chinese equipment that was there functionally as a test, right? Like, and, and actually it’s specifically the radio equipment was Chinese equipment. So that’s, that’s chilling and we’ll talk about that actually the specific line, because we know the equipment that they were using that all went out.

Simone Collins: Oh, okay.

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