For months, Chinese state mouthpieces confidently told their audience the same story:
The U.S. won’t dare touch Venezuela. Washington is all talk. Nothing will happen.
Then, in a single day, the U.S. moved Nicolás Maduro over 3,000 miles to New York.
No warning.
No spectacle.
No press conference first.
Just quiet execution.
Now the same commentators who spent weeks assuring everyone that “America will do nothing” are suddenly in meltdown mode—debating flight routes, legal theories, and conspiracy explanations.
This is the gap propaganda never prepares you for:
Prediction vs reality. Narrative vs capability.
When analysts have to explain why nothing was supposed to happen—after it already did—the credibility damage is permanent.