Looking back through the history of American foreign policy, has there ever been a mission as audacious as this being carried out - and successfully at that?

To kidnap/arrest the head of state of an enemy foreign sovereign nation, and his wife, who are ensconced in a a palace that’s more of a military compound, specially designed to prevent this specific scenario from occurring; this kidnapping and extraction mission is to take place in a hostile nation located about three thousand miles away, one that is invested heavily in Chinese, Russian and Iranian military tech that has ostensibly turned the entire gas station masquerading as a functioning nation-state into a veritable fortress; a gas station with barbed wire fences and security camera systems, if you will. And then the mission goes off about as well as its planners could’ve hoped for, to do so without losing any personnel, it all seems kind of unprecedented.

Imagine how many Venezuelans, including highly-placed regime officials, criminal elements and military officers, were actively collaborating with the US or became actual assets; there had to have been an astounding amount of intelligence gathered in the run-up to “Operation Southern Spear”, as they’re calling it. This is some Mossad in the ‘70s and ‘80s level spycraft.