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Maduro didn’t know troops were coming ‘until 3 minutes before they arrived’

Newsman:  US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth described in more detail the U.S. military operation in Venezuela , saying Nicolas Maduro and his wife did not know that U.S. troops were coming “until three minutes before they arrived.”  And nearly 200 American forces were in downtown in Venezuela for the military operation involving Nicolas Maduro, according to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

“Nicolas Maduro got to meet some great Americans wearing night vision goggles three nights ago,” Hegseth said Monday in his remarks before sailors in Newport News, Virginia. “He didn’t know they were coming till three minutes before they arrived. In fact, his wife said, ‘I think I hear aircraft outside.'”

He went on, “They didn’t know. You know why? Because every single part of that chain did their job, and they did it flawlessly, and they did it protecting operational security, and they did it with a commitment to one thing, the mission, to getting that mission accomplished.”

“Seems those Russian air defenses didn’t quite work so well, did they?” Hegseth said Monday in remarks before an audience of sailors and civilians in Newport News, Virginia.

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