🇺🇸🇻🇪🇷🇺⚡- "Three nights ago, 200 of our greatest Americans went downtown in Caracas.

Seems those Russian air defenses didn’t work quite so well, did they?" - Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- U.S. officials have told Delcy Rodriguez that they want to see at least three moves from her:

1) Cracking down on drug flows;
2) Kicking out Iranian, Cuban and other operatives of countries or networks hostile to Washington;
3) And stopping the sale of oil to U.S. adversaries. -Politico.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- The U.S. believes Delcy Rodríguez is on a “short leash” and is confident it can steer her in whatever direction it wants before disposing of her and moving on.

One specific challenge facing the U.S. administration is that the Maduro regime is reportedly experiencing internal clashes and rivalries, with some figures taking a far more anti-U.S. stance, such as Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López.

Interim President Delcy Rodríguez faces an extremely difficult situation: cooperating with the U.S. risks her being overthrown internally, while refusing U.S. demands could result in her capture or death at the hands of U.S. forces. - POLITCO.

🇸🇦🇸🇴⚡- Saudi Arabia and Somalia have agreed to a major deal which would link Somalia's General Authority of Transport in Buhodle, Khaatumo region, with the Ministry of Ports and Sea Transport in Laasqoray, on the coast of Puntland-controlled eastern Sanaag.

The deal also includes providing Saudi access to the Port of Laasqoray, which is currently used by the Turkish navy and is undergoing expansion.

Note, both, Buhodle and Laasqoray, are in regions claimed by Hargeisa as Somaliland's territory.

🇸🇾🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- Saudi Arabia is worried over UAE's policies in Syria, where the Arab Kingdom believes the Emiratis are assisting the Druze separatism in As Suwaida, southern Syria, CNN reports.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- Autonomous F.P.V. drones are making their way onto the Ukrainian battlefield, the New York Times reports.

These new drones, namely the ‘Bumblebee’, from a venture led by Google’s Eric Schmidt, use onboard AI to engage targets without the need for persistent operator communication, making them impervious to signal jamming and eliminating the need for burdensome physical fiber-optic connections.

It is not difficult to see where this capability could potentially lead. The technology could be used by terrorists to act out attacks with minimal perpetrator involvement, making suspect identification much more difficult. Hypothetically, parameters for an attack or assassination, including facial recognization and target location, could be loaded onto the drone’s chip, and then set to autonomously carry out the attack without satellite or radio communication. The data used in the attack would be destroyed in the explosion, and the only ways to identify the attacker would be by tracing the drone’s location or its hardware.

🇻🇪⚡️- BREAKING: Initial reports of shootings in Caracas, Venezuela.

🇻🇪⚡️- Footage of rapid gunfire in Venezuela’s capital of Caracas.

🇻🇪⚡️- Reports of BMP-3 tanks in the streets of Caracas, Venezuela.

🇻🇪⚡️- BREAKING: Reports of drones over Caracas airspace.

🇻🇪⚡️- Scenes from Caracas.

Unlikely this is air defense and rather small arms fire into the sky.

🇻🇪⚡- BREAKING: Active gunfire near the Venezuelan Presidential Palace in Caracas.

🇻🇪⚡️- Initial reports of power being down in some parts of Caracas, Venezuela.

🇻🇪⚡- Miraflores, Caracas, Venezuela – near the Presidential Palace.

🇻🇪⚡️- Venezuelan soldiers throughout the streets of Caracas, Venezuela.

🇻🇪⚡️- Reports of Sukhoi jets taking off from BAEL headed towards the capital Caracas.

🇻🇪⚡- BREAKING: Explosions near the Venezuelan Presidential Palace.

🇻🇪⚡️- F-16s have also taken off.

🇻🇪⚡️- A plane has just taken off from the capital of Caracas, Venezuela headed to Barcelona.

🇻🇪⚡- An alleged column of Chavistas, apparently led by Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, heading to the Venezuelan Presidential Palace.