Fighting…for survival

Well…well…well!! Mad Maduro seems to’ve realised that Donald ain’t messing around about taking him out – to a cell in the States to serve time and hard labour!! He’s concluded, therefore, that his army, air force and navy ain’t no match for the flotilla off Venezuela’s shores – now that they’ve been joined by the largest and most advanced aircraft in the world – the Gerald Ford!! And this after asking the Ruskies to refurbish the decade-old planes and weapons supplied back when his benefactor Chavez was around!! With the Russian forces stretched to the max in their Ukraine quagmire, Putin ain’t about to cut the limb he happens to be sitting on!!
And how does your Eyewitness know of Mad Maduro’s gloomy assessment?? Well, two things. Firstly, he just saw the US Senate refusing to tie Trump’s hands by going down the rabbit hole of deeming the blowing of narco-boats out of the water “illegal”. The question as to whether the boats were carrying narcos is a moot one – in light of the intelligence-gathering capabilities of the forces in play!! Why should the US reveal the proof when this would tip off the Cartel de Soles headed by Mad Maduro??
The second and most pertinent signal is Mad Maduro’s announcement over his national TV that he’s getting ready to wage a guerrilla war against the US troops about to land!! As the song that’s running through his head right now goes, “Any day now… I can hear those Special Forces knocking down my door at Miraflores!!” But can you picture this overweight, paunchy ex-bus driver donning a Che Guevara-style beret at a rakish angle, either fighting street to street in Caracas or in the jungles of Venezuela??!!
But hold it!! We can see he knows absolutely about guerrilla warfare when he elaborated that he’s gonna deploy “small military units” at 280 locations to conduct “acts of sabotage and other guerrilla tactics”!! So what happened to the real guerrilla tactics of “hit and run”, blending into the landscape and living off the land that made the Vietnamese KO the Yanks back in the day?? We know with his massive girth it’ll be quite a feat to disappear behind any tree trunk – but it’s the “living off the land” bit your Eyewitness thinks will make him baulk!!
Another desperation tactic he promised to use – but which signals even more clearly that he sees absolutely no hope of standing up to the Yanks – is what he called “anarchisation”!! Claims he’d use his intelligence services and armed ruling-party supporters to create “disorder” on the streets of the capital, Caracas, and make Venezuela ungovernable!!
It’s like a loser deciding to murder his wife – if he can’t have her, no one can!!

…in the big leagues
Your Eyewitness is quite chuffed to learn that the big AI player from California – Cerebras – has just signed a deal to open up a data centre over at the industrial site in Wales!! Up to now the AI industry has been dominated by the chipmaker Nvidia with its microchips called “graphics processing units” (GPUs). On the strength of that in the AI surge dominating the world, it’s the most valuable company in the world – with a market capitalisation of $5 trillion!!
Cerebras is a new company that’s come up with a rival chip that might just give Nvidia a run for its money!! But we gotta be careful with a data centre – because of the HUGE amount of energy and clean water it demands!! We heard that the Wales Data Center’s gonna be be provided with 100MW of energy. From the 300-MW plant under construction – or a new one??
What excites your Eyewitness is the data to be stored gonna need dozens of fibre-optic cables!!

…for relevance
The old (and very droll) comedian WC Fields once said, “If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.” It seems to your Eyewitness that this is the route being taken by the rump PNC struggling for survival!!