Hardpoints

Operation Absolute Resolve: Venezuela Shock, Oil Politics, and the AI-Driven Startup Squeeze

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Hardpoints kicks off the new year with Mike and Neal swapping quick holiday stories—family downtime, e-bikes, skiing attempts—and then diving into a headline-dominating geopolitical event: Operation Absolute Resolve, a rapid U.S. special operations raid that allegedly captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife and brought them to the U.S. for prosecution. They unpack the whiplash of…