Operation Absolute Resolve: Venezuela Shock, Oil Politics, and the AI-Driven Startup Squeeze
Hardpoints kicks off the new year with Mike and Neal swapping quick holiday stories—family downtime, e-bikes, skiing attempts—and then diving into a headline-dominating geopolitical event: Operation Absolute Resolve, a rapid U.S. special operations raid that allegedly captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife and brought them to the U.S. for prosecution. They unpack the whiplash of the operation’s tactical competence versus the strategic, legal, and moral chaos it creates—debating whether it’s clearly illegal under international law, murkier under U.S. law, and undeniably…
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