Nicholas Maduro has proven a divisive character on the international stage.

By GEORGE CHRISTENSEN
NICHOLAS Maduro was a socialist autocrat who presided over the destruction of Venezuela’s economy. Under his rule, poverty exploded, corruption flourished, and millions fled. Socialism failed in Venezuela, as it has everywhere it has been tried.

But the moral judgment of a man is not the same thing as the legality of an invasion. And that is where the unease begins.

The Trump administration justified the operation as a law-enforcement action, not a war. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that Maduro and his wife had been indicted on charges including narco-terrorism, cocaine importation, and weapons offences, some under US statutes dating back to 1934. Secretary of State Marco Rubio repeatedly framed the raid as the execution of an arrest warrant, likening it to the 1989 capture of Manuel Noriega.

Yet almost immediately, that framing collided with reality.

A military attack on another nation is an act of war, which triggers Geneva Convention protocols and measures under International Humanitarian Law. The US bombed the Venezuelan capital of Caracas repeatedly before its military forces invaded the nation to capture Maduro. And yet the claim is somehow there’s no war?

President Donald J. Trump publicly declared that the United States would “run Venezuela” until a “safe, proper and judicious transition” could be arranged, warned that a second and larger attack was possible, and announced that major US oil companies would be moving in to “fix” Venezuela’s energy infrastructure.

That is not an arrest. That is not simply war. That is regime change. And the USA has a very bad track record when it comes to regime change. That conclusion does not come from hostile media spin but from past public statements by President Trump, such as:

“The current strategy of nation building and regime change is a proven, absolute failure.”
“We must abandon the failed policy of nation building and regime change.”
“We’re getting out of the nation building business.”

Those words were not ambiguous. They were categorical. And so it is without surprise that the warning, explicit and unmistakable, emerged from Republicans who are decidedly “America First”.

Congressman Thomas Massie, speaking on the floor of Congress following the assault on Venezuela, invoked Founding Father James Madison directly:

“James Madison warned us that in no part of the Constitution is more wisdom to be found than in the clause which confides the question of war and peace to the legislature and not the executive. Madison called it the crown jewel of Congress. The framers understood a simple truth: to the extent that war-making power devolves to one person, liberty dissolves.”

Massie did not defend Maduro. He defended process. “If the President believes military action against Venezuela is justified and needed, he should make the case and Congress should vote before American lives and treasure are spent on regime change in South America.”

Then came the historical warning: “Do we truly believe that Nicolás Maduro will be replaced by a modern-day George Washington? How did that work out in Cuba, Libya, Iraq, or Syria?”

And the central contradiction: “If it were about drugs, we’d bomb Mexico or China or Colombia. This is about oil and regime change.”

Massie went further, pointing to the downstream consequences Washington refuses to acknowledge: “Are we prepared to receive swarms of refugees and spend billions of American dollars to destroy and inevitably rebuild that nation? Do we want a miniature Afghanistan in the Western Hemisphere?”

Senator Rand Paul, also a Republican, made a parallel argument. While condemning socialism and Maduro’s record, Paul warned that removing a foreign leader by executive action without congressional authorisation was not a footnote; it was the very behaviour America’s founders sought to prevent.

Then came a detailed and damning critique from Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who asked the questions many Americans were already asking: “If U.S. military action and regime change in Venezuela was really about saving American lives from deadly drugs then why hasn’t the Trump admin taken action against Mexican cartels?”

She followed with a second, sharper contradiction: “And if prosecuting narco terrorists is a high priority then why did President Trump pardon the former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández who was convicted and sentenced for 45 years for trafficking hundreds of tons of cocaine into America?”

Greene then cut to the core issue: “The next obvious observation is that by removing Maduro this is a clear move for control over Venezuelan oil supplies.”

And finally, the comparison Washington prefers not to answer: “Why is it ok for America to militarily invade, bomb, and arrest a foreign leader but Russia is evil for invading Ukraine and China is bad for aggression against Taiwan? Is it only ok if we do it?”

She concluded with a statement that should give any constitutionalist pause: “Regime change, funding foreign wars, and Americans’ tax dollars being consistently funneled to foreign causes while Americans struggle at home is what has most Americans enraged. This is what many in MAGA thought they voted to end. Boy were we wrong.”

Long before she was handpicked to be President Trump’s Director of US National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard had issued a warning that now reads like prophecy: “The United States needs to stay out of Venezuela. Let the Venezuelan people determine their future. We don’t want other countries to choose our leaders — so we have to stop trying to choose theirs.”

The administration insists the operation was about drugs. Yet fentanyl, the substance devastating American communities, does not originate in Venezuela. It is produced using chemical precursors from China, manufactured and trafficked by Mexican cartels, and moved across the US-Mexico border.

And then there is the part no one bothered to hide. Within hours of Maduro’s capture, Wall Street began organising exploratory trips. The Wall Street Journal reported that hedge funds, asset managers, energy executives, and defence interests have been openly discussing setting up meetings with the new Venezuelan leadership.

Venezuela holds over 300 billion barrels of proven oil reserves, the largest in the world. Trump himself has confirmed that US companies would be invited in to extract that wealth.

So is it really about the drugs? Congressman Massie pointed out, in a post on X, that the word “fentanyl” did not appear anywhere in the 25-page indictment against Maduro, although there was mention that he and his wife (both foreign citizens) were in possession of guns in violation of a 1934 U.S. firearm law. Quite bizarre.

None of this is to defend Maduro; rather, it is to defend a principle.

A world where powerful nations decide that sovereignty applies only to governments they approve of is not a stable world. It is a lawless one. If the standard becomes “he deserved it,” then no nation outside the circle of power is truly safe, and no constitutional restraint is truly real.

Venezuela’s story should have ended as a warning about socialism. Instead, it risks becoming another chapter in the long, familiar story of power unconstrained.

Until next time, God bless you, your family and nation.

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  1. The International Dictator Trump Demands All Nations Capitulate.

    Global Research – 8 January 2026.

    The U.S.-created anti-Russian military alliance NATO has psychopathically expanded closer and closer to The Kremlin, and ever since Obama’s anti-Russian coup in Ukraine in 2014 to turn it against Russia, the U.S. has been threatening to place its missiles in Ukraine within a mere 300 miles (500 km.) away from (a mere five minutes of missile-flying-time from) The Kremlin; and America refused ALL negotiation-efforts from Russia to cease-and-desist this American-led hyper-aggressivity. Finally, Russia had to respond by invading Ukraine itself. This war in Ukraine is between Russia and the U.S., initiated by the U.S.; and all European leaders ought to end their alliance with the fascist regime on the other side of the Atlantic and accept into their European union the largest (economically, in population, and militarily) of all European nations: Russia. Russia didn’t want to conquer Europe; Russia wanted to continue selling, to Europe, Europe’s by-far-least-costly energy. The U.S. regime stopped that, and it profits considerably by having done so. The time for Europe to separate itself from that fascist-imperialist regime is now. This is the only way to establish an enduring peace in Europe. In order for Europe to have peace, ending its fascist-imperialist alliance across the Atlantic is essential. With Russia as part of the European union, prosperity will return to Europe. There is no other way it can.

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    https://www.globalresearch.ca/international-dictator-trump-demands-all-nations-capitulate/5911513

  2. What Became of America’s “Peace President”? Who’s Behind American Foreign Policy?
    Global Research 7 January 2026.
    Stephen Miller, President Trump’s Jewish deputy chief of staff and architect of Trump’s agenda, is the administration’s voice on American foreign policy.

    The Jewish voice that speaks for America has announced that it is the “formal position” of the United States government that Greenland belongs to the United States and that no country can prevent Washington from annexing the Danish territory. Miller’s Jewish wife posted online a map of Greenland draped in the American flag. Trump agreed saying Washington “absolutely needs” Greenland. Asked to confirm Washington’s intentions, Miller said that it has been the formal position since the beginning of the trump administration that “obviously Greenland should be part of the United States,” not withstanding the fact that Greenland has long been part of Denmark. Miller questioned Denmark’s claim to Greenland and said that “nobody is going to fight the US military over the future of Greenland.” In other words just as Israel can seize Palestine, Washington can seize Greenland, Venezuela, Mexico, Cuba, Iran and any other country that it wishes.

    Stephen Miller claims that Washington needs to seize Greenland in order “to secure the Arctic.”

    By securing the Arctic Miller means preventing other countries from using the waterways and exploiting the resources. Not content with looting Venezuela, Washington has turned to looting NATO countries and the Arctic.

    The lawlessness of the Israeli-dominated Trump regime could result in the isolation of the United States and the realignment of Western Europe with Russia. Stealing territory from Denmark is inconsistent with the NATO treaty that commits the United States to the defense of the integrity of Denmark. The blatant and unapologetic announcement that Washington intends to annex Greenland should make it clear to the Kremlin that there is no possibility of arriving at a peaceful settlement with Washington. If the Kremlin still believes otherwise, the Kremlin has transformed itself into an insane asylum. What could terminate the Ukrainian conflict is Europe’s realization that NATO members themselves are to be looted by the Trump regime. Europeans will have to question why they are fighting America’s war with Russia and seek instead a security agreement with Russia in order to protect themselves from being looted by the Trump regime.

    It is extraordinary that in less than the first week of the new year Trump has put on notice Venezuela, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Iran, and Denmark, while taking no meaningful steps to end Washington’s conflict with Russia in Ukraine. As if this aggressive agenda is not enough, the Trump regime is provoking China with the sale of hundreds of missiles to Taiwan that can be used to attack Chinese cities.

    Clearly, Donald Trump has emerged as anything but a “peace president.”

    https://www.globalresearch.ca/america-peace-president/5911432

  3. Reference “Venezuelans Unite Against Trump and Zionism as Maduro Claims to be a Prisoner of War” healthimpactnews. com

    Beware of AI which ‘shows’ a different story.
    The Latino view doesn’t hold back – neo-Caligula, Empire of Chaos, self-proclaimed Emperor of Barbaria, motormouth, Zionist Court jester….

  4. Zionist GOP Megadonor Paul Singer Stands to Make Billions Off Venezuela Regime Change Op

    January 6, 2026
    The US sanctioned Venezuelan state-owned oil company Citgo into bankruptcy, forced its sale to Zionist billionaire Paul Singer for about $6 billion two months ago, and then captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to “take over” the country.

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    https://www.renegadetribune.com/zionist-gop-megadonor-paul-singer-stands-to-make-billions-off-venezuela-regime-change-op/

  5. ‘The State Department doubled down on the sentiment, posting on X on Monday: “This is OUR Hemisphere, and President Trump will not allow our security to be threatened.”

    Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggested as much during cable hits over the weekend, saying, “This is the Western Hemisphere. This is where we live — and we’re not going to allow the Western Hemisphere to be a base of operation for adversaries, competitors, and rivals of the United States.”

    Trump openly threatened Colombia and said it could face a similar fate as Venezuela, and he said Cuba was imminently “ready to fall.” He also said Mexico could be next, as the administration seeks to continue its battle against drug cartels.’ — Mariam Khan, ABC News.

    “The Technate of America” on a 1940 map with land and maritime boundaries including locations of military bases, is available by search; for some reason linking doesn’t allow my comments to upload.

    Our Western Hemisphere could be interpreted as recognising the reality of a multipolar world; so will U.S. imperialist foreign policies see their influence remain global?

    You betcha; rumour has it U.S. special forces are gathering in Bahrain; could it be part of a planned assault on resources rich BRICS member Iran or to get between rich BRICS members Saudi Arabia and U.A.E. who may be having a disagreement over which Yemeni faction controls territory bordering S.A.?

  6. Netanyahu Must Be Stopped Before He Gets Us All Killed.
    June 20, 2025

    For nearly 30 years, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has driven the Middle East into war and destruction. The man is a powder keg of violence. Throughout all the wars that he has championed, Netanyahu has always dreamed of the big one: to defeat and overthrow the Iranian Government. His long-sought war, just launched, might just get us all killed in a nuclear Armageddon, unless Netanyahu is stopped.
    Full Article >
    https://www.renegadetribune.com/netanyahu-must-be-stopped-before-he-gets-us-all-killed/

  7. President Trump Last Night on Air Force One:
    Cuba, Mexico, Colombia, Iran and Greenland .
    Global Research – 6 January 2026.
    Excerpt
    Venezuela was just the beginning – the Monroe doctrine 2.0 is in full swing.

    In 2025, eight wars in 12 months (bombing of Iran, Iraq, Nigeria, Palestine, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, Venezuela) will appear like a walk in the park at the end of 2026, if Trump gets away with it. What a wonderful Peace President!

    To be sure that he means what he brags about, 12 C-17 large transport military aircraft are being prepared, complete with helicopter and other attack equipment. They are readied for transfer to the US military base in Ramstein Germany, waiting to attack Iran.

    According to a brief press conference on Air Force One from Florida to Washington, Sunday night, 4 January 2026, Trump, the Peace President, without mentioning the “Monroe Doctrine”, confirmed his agenda “Monroe 2.0”, saying non-verbatim, that the US military is ready for a second much larger wave on Venezuela.

    When a reporter countered that he understood this option was now off the table, Trump said “not at all”, adding something to the effect, it depends on how Delcy [Rodriguez] – former Vice President now interim President of Venezuela — “behaves” meaning whether she follows his orders or not.

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    https://www.globalresearch.ca/president-trump-cuba-mexico-colombia-iran-greenland/5911182

  8. Looks like the censor by w0rdpress or other is at it again.
    Will try again to post this info about Trump and R0thch1ld.

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    Rothschild’s Gaza Land Grab.
    Global Research – 31 December 2025.
    Excerpt >
    In addition to the Rothschild riviera plan, there is also the Rothschild energy plan. In 1999 British Gas (BG) discovered a significant gas field in the Gaza Marine fields just 20 miles off Gaza. The Palestinian Authority granted BG a 25-year exploratory concession as a partner, but the Israelis blocked its development.

    In 2016 Royal Dutch Shell, whose biggest shareholder is Victor Rothschild, paid BG $52 million for the field. But they would not help the PA develop it either. If the US were to take over Gaza, surely the Rothschilds would commence with its development.

    Trump’s declaration yesterday can only be seen as blatant colonialist piracy. It harkens back to the days when the Knights Templar ransacked and looted the entire planet for their Crown Bloodline masters. On the heels of his Stargate announcement and with all this talk of a “Golden Age”, it appears that this is precisely the idea.

    No matter what else he does, Trump’s subservience to Israel and his indebtedness to that nation’s founding Rothschild family will doom not only his Presidency but quite possibly our nation. One thing is certain. It will only strengthen the resolve of the Axis of Resistance.

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    https://www.globalresearch.ca/rothschild-gaza-land-grab/5879763

  9. While we are busy discussing Maduro, the Rules Based Order has been trashed. Might is now right.
    Australia has been warned to be alert as a supposed friend of ours is on the rampage.
    Anything/everything goes if it benefits America. Trump has now threatened 14 countries.
    He calls Cuba a rubbish country not realising that it is in that situation because of his sanctions.
    Hegemony will only belong to the US and anyone else who raises their head in defiance will be crushed.

    Welcome to 2026.
    Have we hitched our horse to the wrong rail?

  10. The next stage of the mafia deal swings to Cuba, who allegedly owned Maduro and wanted to swap him out anyway.
    We’re told Trump will make a lot of money through the Venez Defence Minister who actually runs the place ( C in C ).
    What would Mein Trumpf possibly do with a big income stream like that, reminds me of Atlantic City, I think he owes Rotschilds a favour from back then.
    Curiously, Venezuela means “Little Venice”, no comment

  11. Disinfo sews seeds of lies and deceits for which there must be a receipt !
    ‘Ellery Albonese’ ala Communisti aka Mussolini Spagdagoalonis, missing speech whom I would not share a pizza or spaghetti with or ever even visit, needs to ban himself &PO to his bungalow by his coastie beach for good.
    I may be putting words in his oriface but they are kosher lies as his writers never embellish anything but the designated party line each issue required. If Penny transitions and grows that Republic pencil Mo no surprise here at all at all etal. Truths free speech, embellishes elaborates and creates as the previous 2000 years demonstrate. Cutting out one’s tongue was once reserved for sedition and treason of which politicians can only really be guilty of so they can only point at us. Pity they say Jesus was a semite Palestinian as his second coming was probably prophesized ground zero central Gaza and Satan is so resistant to change here on his many killing playgrounds.

  12. Clearly this was a mutually agreed extraction, not an “abduction”. This marks the end of the Imperial British empire/cartel. We won 🫡🇺🇸🦘

  13. re>>> “I find it interesting that the people who seem the happiest are the people from Venezuela.”

    Yes, I got that very same story from the MSM and, of course, I’m a sucker for whatever they say.

  14. It seems Maduro wasn’t doing drugs any more than Saddam Hussein was doing weapons of mass destruction. But the truth is irrelevant, just as it was irrelevant in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Sudan, Yemen, Palestine, Iran, Panama, Cuba, Grenada, Nicaragua and heaps of other places that were deemed to require a bit of ‘Love, American Style’.

    The wolves in sheeps’ clothing are making a big move, one that will take us into global collapse, WW3 and their Brave New World of our virtual reality and our servitude. And we of course will hail the Commander in Chief and his White Hats and be uber grateful for their devotion to saving us from their hell and the Black Hats. Wash, Spin, Rinse and Run again.

  15. This Article from 24 July 2025

    America’s Perpetual War:
    Six Questions .
    By Global Research.

    In other words, the U.S. is a country of perpetual war. War is terribly destructive human activity. Millions of human beings have been sacrificed. Tens of trillions of dollars worth of housing, school, factories, hospitals and other infrastructure facilities have been destroyed in the countries which have been the target of American military attacks.

    The perpetual war has destroyed the very foundation of freedom and democracy; it has prevented healthy and equitable economic development of the world; it has led to the violation of human rights; it has ruined traditional values of many countries and, above all, it has caused lasting human suffering.

    Continue >

    https://www.globalresearch.ca/americas-perpetual-war-six-questions/5822008

  16. Sadly there is some catching up to do since this Article.
    There is something very wrong.
    ——–

    This Article 26 April 2024.

    America Has Been at War 93% of the Time – 222 out of 239 Years – Since 1776 – Global Research – 26 April 2024.
    That means that for 222 out of 239 years – or 93% of the time – America has been at war. (We can quibble with the exact numbers, but the high percentage of time that America has been at war is clear and unmistakable.)

    Indeed, most of the military operations launched since World War II have been launched by the U.S.

    And American military spending dwarfs the rest of the world put together.

    No wonder polls show that the world believes America is the number 1 threat to peace.

    Continue >
    https://www.globalresearch.ca/america-has-been-at-war-93-of-the-time-222-out-of-239-years-since-1776/5565946

  17. Those who object to systematic removal of evil upon the earth are compliant with it and should also be judged along with it. You should hang along with the proponents of drug running cabals and those who try to install Communism and the New World Order Police state.

  18. Alexandra Bruce, a Venezuelan, from all reports, and the owner of FKTV, said in her Substack that the Maduro surrender was a negotiated surrender. It IS all about the oil and, according to The Asian Guy who says in the video link someone posted here, also about cornering the market in silver, which has all sorts of military and tech uses. Peopel have suggested that The Asian Guy is AI, but the story is quite plausible and there seems to be a fair bit of merit to the claim.
    As for George: he needs to get his head out of his BFA and realise that Rump is owned by Israel and is doing exactly what he is told.
    Further to that, the US Government Corporation is actually a British Territorial Government owned by both the Royal Family and Naughty Benny, and the events in Venezuela and the threats of events against the other Latin American countries are an indication that the NW O is ramping up BIG TIME, as the alleged Rules Based Order and International Law have been monumentally trashed, with more of the same to come, obviously, as Australia was handed over to the hoopty-doos after Bondi.
    Watch Them Spaces, Folks,

  19. The United Nations Treaty after the Treaty of Versailles and the formation of the United Nations and it’s courts were signed into without referendums, making them unlawful, and were not allowed to have sovereignty above Constitutions of countries which they then called nations, all and more done without the approval of we, the peoples of many countries. so claiming that International Law is greater than Constitutional Law, which does not allow foreign interference in a countries running of their government and affairs is baseless, and America has every right to do whatever is necessary to stop foreign interference in the operation of the running of their territories.
    No one stopped Great Britain from settling in Australia, and no one stopped the Spanish Conquistadores from taking over in South america, etc., etc., etc.

  20. Well. in fact, it was an arrest of the unelected leader of a caball drug, etc., running gang that was posing as the government of Venezuala, and that fequently interfered in American elections, and invaded America with cabal thugs hoping to infiltrate to the degree that they would be part of the Demonrats/Democrats plan to install the Communist New World Order as the government of America.
    So, nothing to see here !!!

  21. While the target is on drugs, it’s a “war” against the global banking system in the City of London.

    It goes back some 200 years when the British Empire was involved in the Opium wars and their warfare has never stopped called “Dope Ink” the London Central Banking system is the nexus of narcotics, trafficking, terrorism.

    The Caribbean is the centre of illegal offshore banking and was established by the British back in the 1960, the largest banking houses in Longdon work in partnership with the government and the ex-checker established 14 secretive offshore banking jurisdictions that hold %60-75 TRILLION with some 50 of the world’s largest banks operating within them all outside sovereign government control. Offshore banking operations were done to sidestep regulation, sovereignty and law enforcement, all secret, unregulated and used to facilitate illegal activities.

    Canadian PM and former Central Banker at the Bank of England facilitated the financing of these cartels, the Crown used North America for drug trafficking, illegal immigration and terrorism.

    Narcotics money is the foundation of the modern financial system. The 2008-09 Financial crisis, top banks worldwide dumped $362B of narcotic dollars to address the liquidity shortage, banks needed drug money to survive.

    Trump has by-passed the Empire’s rules based order, which is NOT the standard for regime change, you can’t defend a nation playing by their rules.

    He is taking the fight on behalf of Sovereign Nations to the illegitimate institutions, British Empire, central banks and cartels.

    Russia who are not part of the Rothchild Central Banking system warned about this decades ago.

  22. Why Zelenskyy could not have been pinched I don’t know. Why does Putin want to blow up old grannies in their apartments ? He has anchor-babies in Swissyland.

  23. Thanks for the Albanese link Diane.

    It seems that any mention of 7, 1, 24, 1 will now redirect a comment to Guantanamo or somewhere more nefarious 😀

  24. The Trump regime becomes more rogue by the day | January 4, 2026.
    Excerpt >

    Her (Francesca Albanese’s) visa was revoked, and she is barred from entering the United States — for example, she cannot go to the U.N. to present one of her two annual reports; the other is delivered in Geneva. Above all, all her assets were frozen, including her bank account and her apartment in the United States, even though she now lives in Tunisia.

    In addition, she was placed on a blacklist that effectively cuts her off from the entire international banking system, as if she were a terrorist or a drug trafficker. Penalties were also established for any U.S. citizen who engages in financial or in-kind transactions with her — including, for example, her husband, who works at the World Bank, and her daughter. “In theory, they can’t even invite me for a coffee, because they could be fined up to $1 billion or face up to 20 years in prison,” she explained in September before the Italian Chamber of Deputies, a point she has repeated in interviews.

    Continue >
    https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2026/01/04/the-trump-regime-becomes-more-rogue-by-the-day/

  25. “NICHOLAS Maduro was a socialist autocrat who presided over the destruction of Venezuela’s economy. Under his rule, poverty exploded, corruption flourished, and millions fled. Socialism failed in Venezuela, as it has everywhere it has been tried.” — George

    Since his Act of Aggression on Venezuelan sovereign territory, Trample along with loco Lindsey Graham has threatened Denmark, Cuba, Columbia, Iran, Mexico, is still militarily supporting the depopulation of 7, 1, 24, 1, mocking China, and Russia about the length of the war of attrition in the Ukraine, another U.S. Biden resource war using greedy elite E.U. proxies to divide up Russian assets.

    Yemen, Nigeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, the President of Peace is an evil piece of work.

    The U.S. has sanctioned Venezuela since 2005.

    The sanctions denied Venezuela free trade, they targeted oil, gold and mining industries to limit revenue sources, by labelling Venezuelan associated groups as terrorist organisations allowed for further sanctions and military actions.

    The sanctions impoverished the people along with corrupt government.

    The first Trample administration’s sanctions targeted oil and government officials.

    The republic of the U.S.A. is not a democracy, they do not abide by international rules of law, they are a rogue, pariah technocracy in the making.

  26. I find it interesting that the people who seem the happiest are the people from Venezuela. The only people complaining are the people whose money flow will stop, the left-wingers or those paid to be.

  27. Sorry chaps, according to Patrick Byrne, Cuban bodyguards were holding Maduro hostage and intended to assassinate him to make him a martyr, like they did Pinochet of Chile many years ago This was a rescue mission. Somebody should let the White Hats know, if that is the case. Let’s wait and see.

  28. On the Traps of Being Driven into War. Military Scenarios. Venezuela, Iran, Russia, “Why Europe Wants War”?
    Global Research – 6 January 2026.

    Venezuelan Front
    On January 3, 2026, the United States carried out a military operation in Caracas, capturing Venezuelan President Maduro and his wife and bringing them to the USS Iwo Jima amphibious assault ship. The image in question bears the clear traces of a classic regime-change attempt. Although the USA uses the discourse of “democracy” and the “fight against drugs,” the brutal attack has turned into a show-of-force operation in the Caribbean as an updated version of the Monroe Doctrine. It is clear that the attacks were carried out as part of an internal destabilization and regime-change effort in Venezuela in a hybrid-war format, without declaring war and without congressional approval. This operation represents the alignment against a state that has come into contact with China and Russia, attempts to resist the dollar-sanctions order, and has moved out of control in energy and port geopolitics.

    Full Article >

    https://www.globalresearch.ca/traps-being-driven-war/5911139

  29. I absolutely love the done up website but would respectfully suggest if I may, that the red border be replaced with a subtle colour as the Red is very hard on the eyes. Thank you. DDB

  30. The US is dealing with a China problem that is they have set up an alternative PetroDollar, big problem.
    Maduro is morally nothing and more wars should be conducted like a game of chess, take the king.
    Maduro armed all the citizens and was planning for a bloodbath, what a waste of time.
    His petty little mafia is not worth defending.

    On another note I got an update where I least expected. I would suggest large white areas are a problem for battery life and eye strain, and the auto-correct function needs to be removed, it should be called auto-alter, it’s very bad not just here but everywhere.

  31. Don’t worry, the “judenhass brigade” is going to be “disappeared”.
    If this is posted it will be the last from me.
    Rejoice!
    The Pharisees have won the world! The Golden Calf Rules!

  32. Dear George.
    (Insert sarcasm)
    Your repeated tirades against the trump/Venezuela action misses the most important point
    And that point applies to Australia
    and the UK
    And Canada
    And France
    and most of the first world countries, excepting magyarorsag.
    And that point is
    “What do you do when the “legal” “democratically elected” government betrays its own people.

    and these governments hold the power to jail you for speaking out?

    You have to act outside the usurpation of power.
    In Australia, the pervert traitors now in power were NOT elected>
    It was a sham
    Dutton deliberately acted in such a way that gave Albo ann overwhelming majority>
    and he used that to further shut us down, with hundreds of small restrictive laws that were passed without debate
    without debate cos the traitors would forbid debate.

    I will give a real live example on a local front that illustrates on a global front.
    To Act outside the system
    A local thug terrorised the neighbourhood>
    he thought he was untouchable
    Because his father was a sergeant in the local police force
    And his father protected him
    the solution was to hire a swat team
    The swat team raided the thugs safe house
    and bribed the local jail commandant to keep him in jail, without documentation.
    It took the thug’s father 6 moths to find him and pay for his release.

    So
    when “LEGAL” has been corrupted
    the only recourse is illegal
    as in Venezuela

  33. Received this the other day. Couldn’t copy and sorry couldn’t provide the link. :
    “For anyone questioning the legality of attacking Venezuela and abducting their leader
    Remember we’re talking about a highly corrupt leader and known criminal who used his high office to make billions for himself. And has manipulated elections to stay in power, has used his military against his own citizens, has protected his corrupt friends and punished his political enemies.

    And the President of Venezuela did some bad things too”

    Seems like that settles it.

  34. “ William Standen
    January 6, 2026 at 9:15 am
    Trump did the right thing for the people in the failed state.”

    Yes, a failed State because of sanctions. But still operational despite efforts to bring about compliance. We should be impressed. However if Trump gets away with this, it will spell the end for Venezuela as it did for Iraq.

    Well, I guess according to your logic, it is ok now for any government to do the same. Unbelievable. So might is right???
    A precedent will be set and the world will be a much more dangerous place and no one will have the legal right to object.

  35. Apart from all this, I think we should be asking why Maduro’s wife is suffering from bruised ribs.
    You must have put up a hell of a fight. Good on you girl.
    I’d like to see the damage to the other guy.
    That could really turn the tables.

  36. The Phat Phuk still hasn’t got a clue… but he probably had a lobotomy like the rest of the idiots who go into parliament.

  37. korten. I am afraid your idyllic world view encompassing a utopic one world government is already forming. But unfortunately it is to be lead by mankind’s ultimate enemy and nemesis, in the form of unbridled evil, in fact The evil one!
    However, how the USA can now condemn China for it’s inevitable takeover of Taiwan is another matter!

  38. We’re Going to Run the Country:” Preparing an Illegal Occupation in Venezuela – Global Research – 4 January 2026.
    Excerpt >
    The president said, plainly, that the United States would “run the country” until a transition it deems “safe” and “judicious.” He spoke about capturing Venezuela’s head of state, about transporting him on a U.S. military vessel, about administering Venezuela temporarily, and about bringing in U.S. oil companies to rebuild the industry. He dismissed concerns about international reaction with a phrase that should alarm everyone:

    “They understand this is our hemisphere.”

    For Venezuelans, those words echo a long, painful history.

    Let’s be clear about the claims made. The president is asserting that the U.S. can detain a sitting foreign president and his spouse under U.S. criminal law. That the U.S. can administer another sovereign country without an international mandate. That Venezuela’s political future can be decided from Washington. That control over oil and “rebuilding” is a legitimate byproduct of intervention. That all of this can happen without congressional authorization and without evidence of imminent threat.

    We have heard this language before.

    In Iraq, the United States promised a limited intervention and a temporary administration, only to impose years of occupation, seize control of critical infrastructure, and leave behind devastation and instability. What was framed as stewardship became domination. Venezuela is now being spoken about in disturbingly similar terms. “Temporary Administration” ended up being a permanent disaster.

    I refuse the idea that my tax dollars fund the humiliation of my homeland. I refuse the lie that war and coercion are acts of “care” for the Venezuelan people. And I refuse to stay silent while a country I love is spoken about as raw material for U.S. interests, not a society of human beings deserving respect.

    Venezuela’s future is not for U.S. officials, corporate boards, or any president who believes the hemisphere is his to command. It belongs to Venezuelans.

    Continue >
    https://www.globalresearch.ca/preparing-illegal-occupation-venezuela/5910872

  39. Brian you are 100% right there is oil everywhere just like this one off the coast of Sydney Offshore Basin (Pep 11), but they remain explorational not operational as per Venezuela and their infrastructure. You said it at the end, all about control of what is already operational.
    Good video Tony put up on Infowars, an good perspective were Maduro and his wife did look relieved in their capture. It certainly came across that way, and starts to make you wonder.

  40. First, the BAD news: It’s the end of the world as we know it. Now the GOOD news: It’s the end of the world as we know it. In other words, it’s ALL about PERCEPTION on how the World is to be Policed, if that’s truly required.

    The Venezuelan issue is a classic case where a single, powerful nation, decides to “police” a situation without the approval of the international community. Palestine & Ukraine are also such examples!

    More and more the World raises the prospect of international declarations, such as:

    * European Convention on Human Rights.
    * UK Human Rights Act 1998.
    * Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
    * International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
    * International Covenant on Economic, Social & Cultural Rights.
    * UN Resolution 3166.
    * Many more.

    It may be prudent to give support to an International Court so that it can have Jurisdiction. At present major UN members have the Power of Veto that over-rides majority rule, & disenfranchises smaller nations. In other words, sack or adapt the UN into a New World Order, but NOT a Totalitarian one. True Freedom demands Responsibility. A primitive society needs rules or guidelines, an evolved society does not. Guess which we are?

    Could we possibly imagine if states of Australia were separate countries? Wasn’t that one of the Lockdown objectives?

    Both Australia and the United States federated a long time ago to become unified and ultimately more powerful. So why not federate the World? Powerful nations, and individuals, may oppose this, as the power of minor nations would be boosted, for good reason, by an equitably-represented Congress of Nations: two representatives from every nation on Earth. And a People’s Assembly, with representation in direct proportion to a nation’s population.

    A new world constitution would comprise executive, legislative, and judicial branches. Sound familiar? Each nation would keep its internal peacekeeping police, but all national armies would be disbanded in favour of an international peacekeeping force serving all nations on earth.

    A greatly empowered world court and a single peace-keeping force instead of hundreds of militia world-wide, could be the catalyst to end all wars and poverty toward an era of peace into a golden age. Let’s get over it, an Old World Order has dominated for thousands of years (Globalist Bankers). A World Federation is simply a shift of power into the hands of People. So what if it’s a ‘New World Order’? If done properly through elevated consciousness, it would displace globalist bankers, forever.

    Understandably, people are TERRIFIED of a ‘New World Order’, as it sounds Totalitarian. But it’s NOT. Merely a shift of power, into the hands of People instead. We’ve been BRAINWASHED to OPPOSE unification of Mankind, but that’s the enlightened state of any human-like species. We’ve been fooled, once again!

    The OPPOSITE of Unification is Divide-and-Conquer. Hey, that’s a GREAT definition of Suburbia, is it not? Know your neighbours? Do groups of families share power/utilities and food, like they do in traditional communities? Community versus Suburbia video https://youtu.be/keLjvx9GPGs just 3 minutes!

    In THIS case, an empowered International Court would have the POWER of JURISDICTION over monster agendas such as Palestine, Ukraine, and now Venezuela, not to speak of World Economic Forum agendas proliferated by Bill Gates and Klaus Schwab, for example.

    And instead of hundreds of military forces worldwide, many of whom contribute to around 15,000 doomsday nuclear warheads worldwide, only ONE military force would be needed to police the World (with local police services in each nation). Wouldn’t that make the ‘need’ for nuclear arsenals redundant? What would they be opposing?

    That does NOT mean “turn the other cheek” where Abuse is concerned. “When abused, the best thing for both abused & abuser is to stop the abuse. Allowing abuse to continue also damages the abuser who finds that their abuse is somehow acceptable.” Sometimes, even WAR is necessary, as the most loving thing to do.

    How much longer can we “go it alone” with scores of militia worldwide. Many of which feature nuclear weapons, instead of a single united militia that can deal with skirmishes as serious as Ukraine, Palestine, and now Venezuela. Also a host of international atrocities proliferated by mega-corporations such as Big Pharma promoting Codex Alimentarius agenda that implements “nutritional manipulation and biological manipulation from national or international Pharma/Food/BioTech companies are degrading and impairing the human cognitive function and intellect”…..

    Once again, Congratulations Mankind is in order! Despite the desperate attempt to trigger WW3, it HASN’T happened due to a new awareness of War No More given the atrocities of the 20th Century. Say goodbye to that!

  41. brianajnz Thanks for your input. Actually, you are correct. Too often I have been caught up in the mantra that Venzuala has the world’s 3rd biggest oil supplies. So, the invasion had nothing to with oil. But I heard somewhere it was to do with silver…..

  42. Venezuela does not own the worlds largest oil field.
    Earth is a carbon planet the oil is abiogenic and made down there hidden abiotic.
    USA has allegedly 2 trillion barrels under the Colorado mountains.
    USA and Russia are both sitting on a 3,000 year supply.
    New Zealand allegedly has 1 trillion barrels in the South Basin drilled by Hunt.
    There is oil east coast of NZ. Under NZ. Taranaki. Oil bubbles out of the ground NZ South Island west coast and Stewart Island. Oil everywhere.
    There is oil under the Tasman sea. Howe Island. Sydney. Roma. Central Aust. Bass Straight. Oil everywhere under Aust.
    There is no shortage of oil. Peak oil is a con.
    Someone needs to control the price of oil and oil is used to control the world economy and Nations.
    Read Col. Fletcher Prouty.

    Mercedes to produce a V12 engine.

    Another point. The big enemy is Free Trade. We need Fair Trade.

  43. From Infowars. I find this hard to believe, but anything is possible?

    BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Intel Experts Believe Cuban Intelligence May
    Have Been Holding Nicolás Maduro Hostage & Trump’s Raid Was Really A Rescue Mission So Maduro Can Turn State’s Evidence Against Democrat Deep State….

    https://www.infowars.com/posts/breaking-exclusive-intel-experts-believe-cuban-intelligence-may-have-been-holding-nicolas-maduro-hostage-trumps-raid-was-really-a-rescue-mission-so-maduro-can-turn-states-evidence-against-demo

  44. In 2022 Iranian oil companies had contracts to repair Venezuela’s largest oil refinery infrastructure, 2nd largest in the world. All trade was in euros as well as oil swaps. Equipment was being imported in from China through a third party to circumnavigate sanctions. Guess this has not sat well with the US and we are where we are today.

    h ttps://www.reuters.com/business/energy/exclusive-after-revamping-venezuelas-smallest-oil-refinery-iran-fix-largest-2022-05-23/

  45. All very pertinent observations
    Now stand back and watch the Judenhass brigade try to superimpose their usual fantasies

  46. This is an excellent report.
    It has convinced me that there are a few people who are capable of rational thought and can speak with common sense. (in the West I mean).
    I thought they were only in the countries we are told to hate.
    In those countries the leaders have shown massive restraint despite constant provocation. They speak with clarity and without hate even when they promise retaliation.

    What we are being shown in America is how to dig your own grave. How many countries who were allies of America are now turning to those people we are told to hate.

    America needs to forget about China. To stop seeing enemies (ie the countries now making headway in developing without undue dependence on America). That is not scary. America just needs to be willing to pay rather than plunder.

    I would like to see America give the CIA a more friendly job to do. For America to pack up everywhere and go home and build up their own country. That way, America would be respected and America would become great again. The way they are going, they will be hated by every nation and that spells danger.

  47. This had nothing whatsoever to do with drugs.. its the same as all the other wars by the US.. always about money and control and the pillage of that country’s resources. Just common thieves and thugs.

    Maduro was selling oil in foreign currency, not dollars. Any country doing this risks the same as has happened in the past.

    No doubt they will put someone in charge who has Israeli ties.

    The Emperor has proved once again that he has no clothes.

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