Posted on 01/03/2026 9:45:57 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Donald Trump likes to start the new year with a bang – or better yet a series of loud bangs. On January 3, 2020, his first administration ordered the drone strike that killed Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force. Exactly six years later, his second administration has carried out a large-scale regime-change operation in Venezuela, blowing several sites to smithereens and capturing the Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and his wife and flying them out of the country. This after a series of military strikes against Venezuelan and cartel targets in recent weeks and months. There had been strong rumours in Washington that Trump would order the operation in the run-up to Christmas. But he’s waited until the start of 2026 before pulling the trigger.
Few will mourn the departure of Maduro – a left-wing tyrant whose regime has grown ever more corrupt and oppressive as the years have gone by. Venezuela is a gangsterish system in which citizens struggle for food, snitch on each other to the authorities through social media, and drug cartels operate with impunity. But the question of what comes next is of course now paramount. America has proven quite successful in recent years at regime decapitation. It’s the change part that proves really difficult.
The Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado, who was so careful to praise Trump after receiving the award in October, declared three weeks ago that her country had already been invaded – by Russia and Iran.
‘We have the Russian agents, we have the Iranian agents. We have terrorist groups such as Hezbollah, Hamas, operating freely in accordance with the regime,’ she said.
‘We have the Colombian guerrilla, the drug cartels that have taken over 60 per cent of our populations and not only involved in drug trafficking, but in human trafficking in networks of prostitution. This has turned Venezuela into the criminal hub of the Americas.’
Corina Machado supports Trump’s maximalist pressure campaign against Maduro and will no doubt play an important part in whatever plans the Trump administration has now for Venezuela.
The reports of Hezbollah and Iranian activities in the region are also an important part of the story. Will the regime-change strikes on Caracas be swiftly followed by another similar mission on Tehran? It’s perhaps no coincidence that Bibi Netanyahu just attended Trump’s New Year party in Mar a Lago.
Trump has a deep obsession with energy prices and it’s notable that every country he threatens or attacks happens to have enormous oil reserves. On Christmas Day, he ordered strikes on Nigeria, apparently as a ‘Christmas present’ to protect Christians but cynics suspect other motives.
By changing the guard in Venezuela he has removed one of the last major oil-exporting administrations that oppose American interests. The other big two are Iran and Russia. Given the increasing talk inside American corridors of power of a peace deal over Ukraine – and the business possibilities stemming from a rapprochement between Moscow and Washington – the Trump foreign-policy agenda of 2026 could already be clear. War with Venezuela and Iran and fossil-fuel-rich peace with Mother Russia.
Total energy dominance – the idea will make beautiful sense in Trump’s mind. But as his predecessors George W Bush and Barack Obama discovered, the problem with forcibly removing governments is controlling what happens next.
Chynnna.
Colombia, Cuba…
Kick the Communists out of our hemisphere.
And squeeze Panama to eliminate the CCP completely out of the Panama Canal!!! Jimmah Peanut Boy Carter was an absolute asshole and a foreign policy nightmare. He was the original “Soy Boi” beta-cuck POTUS.
MAGA!!!
Chrissy Van A Hollen better behave himself because he’s going to need to get PRESIDENT TRUMP’S PERMISSION if he wants to have conjugal visits with his boyfriend Maduro. Freaky whiney azz itch.
You are not wrong.
The ‘Rats continue to be unAmerican.
Tell us what you really think.
And you’re right. We don’t. need those idiots anywhere near the USA.
BTW, I went to Cuba with a few friends long before it was legal. We stayed at good hotels and were welcomed with open arms in the cities. We were a bit hassled when we went to poorer areas of the country, which were pathetic. People were afraid to be seen with us.
We were followed by government agents to be sure we didn’t do anything illegal like talking with those in the pathetic “resistance”.
It’s really something to be able to watch a proper US president wield power on the international stage.
I was too young for the Regan era, but I would imagine this is what it was like then too
Yet another ‘unforced error’ by DJT. First we were told this was about the cocaine (even though Fentanyl is the biggest problem) but now it’s about the oil. We have bigger problems than Venezuela, like retaining the House and Senate. “Running Venezuela” is a loser issue.
Boooo booo boooo
Can do more than one things at once. Want to take on the fraud yes, but that’s mostly a state issue.
Bringing the western hemisphere under total US control will be a nice benefit
From when the first drug boat was bombed, those in Congress who protested the loudest sound like someone who is invested heavily. DOGE each and everyone of them.
...On January 3, 2020, his first administration ordered the drone strike that killed Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force. Exactly six years later, his second administration has carried out a large-scale regime-change operation in Venezuela...
Good times, good times.
Venezuela real power holders did not disappear with the capture of Nicolás Maduro. Speaking with Steve Bannon, Oscar Ramirez explained that while Maduro’s removal is historic, the regime itself remains intact through two men who still control the military, justice system, and cartel networks inside the country.
WATCH THE CLIP BELOW:
https://warroom.org/venezuela-real-power-holders-cabello-padrino/
RT 3 m 40 s
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Remember Pres Trump saying something about a second wave? .I trust what Oscar is saying.
The job is not finished.
This is why Chucky and shifty and co. are going to try and block Trump from unraveling the global election fraud .
Been gaslighting long ?
😁
Yea, I knew the clowns would revert back to the old “ no blood for oil” canard.
This is about national security, Monroe doctrine, and the nexus of global election fraud engineering.
But I’m sure you actually know that.
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So sorry that my thoughts are subservient to your enlightenment.
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