Posted on 01/04/2026 4:55:46 AM PST by MtnClimber
Christmas week was rather a slow week, with the big news being the further unraveling of the corruption in Minnesota, Washington state, California, and other Democrat redoubts. But like George Washington crossing the Delaware to beat the Hessians as they rested on Christmas, the U.S. pulled off an incredible military operation capturing Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro in his pajamas and bringing him back here to answer to criminal charges. The Venezuelan military was largely on Christmas leave and Maduro’s international protectors --- the Chinese and Russian forces in Venezuela -- were caught flatfooted, diminishing their credibility in the Western Hemisphere. The impact of this operation was enormous.
One of the first published accounts of the operation was by our own Monica Showalter:
Drugs, election fraud, migrant warfare, a place for Venezuelans to return home to -- and above all, crushing the far left fountainhead itself. That is what this is about.
For 27 years, Venezuela's Marxist regime has spread its errors throughout the hemisphere, terrorizing governments, propping up the far left, bankrolling insurgents and assassins, supporting drug dealers, supporting Hez'ballah and its drug and terror operations, and supporting China with oil, too, so it can have enough of it to take out Taiwan.
Lots of pundits and military analysts are hailing back to Iraq, but this is not Iraq. This is about taking out a great plague of destabilization
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You can count on the president’s critics to challenge this action -- in another magic trick the President will have them supporting Maduro, a thief, narco terrorist, and tyrant, but as Jonathan Turley notes, the president is well within his right to use military (as he did here) to support law enforcement. Maduro is in the custody of the Department of Justice to answer pending legal charges in the SDNY.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The communist organizations (ANSWER, Code Pink) and democRATs in Congress are denouncing this and supporting Maduro. The Republicans need to be saving sound bites for the midterm election ads.
Good article. Thanks for posting.
did they mention the low corporate income tax rate in Sweden? 21%
did they mention the high individual income tax rate in Sweden? 30/60%
We’ve been in the Archie bunker easy chair for a while.
The Great White Fleet has been at berth long enough.
First, we show the world we can fly anywhere.
We demonstrate we have better no nuclear weapons.
Second, we show that we are intent on national security of our waters.
Now, we display the heightened art of smash and grab.
The other guy cannot figure out what’s next, the knight or the bishop.
Sounds to me like our President pulled off a major coup(not sure that’s the right word} but a very succesful one which just might solve several problems depending who runs things in Venezuela for awhile. I think the average Venezuelan citizen is happy about it. Isn’t a nation supposed to be about it’s citizens?
Sounds to me like our President pulled off a major coup(not sure that’s the right word} but a very succesful one which just might solve several problems depending on who runs things in Venezuela for awhile. I think the average Venezuelan citizen is happy about it. Isn’t a nation supposed to be about it’s citizens?
These named groups are supporting Maduro?? Sounds like maybe they belong here.
Sorry for the mispost. I meant that maybe certain groups that apparently are supporting Maduro DON’t belong here.
Emerald Robinson is spot on and don’t be shocked if Nickey Maduro turns out to be a key witness in the 2020 election fraud reveal.
Clarice Feldman gets it right. 👍
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