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Stuck pigs screaming over the U.S. takeover of Venezuela is deafening. These Americans will not call it anti-Americanism, but it is clearly a mechanical mixture of Trump Derangement Syndrome, muddled thinking and anti-Americanism. We see the lumpy, undissolved parts floating in the main stream.
I partially expect this from non-Americans. Pedestrian outrage in this regard, from Canadians and Europeans, is mailed in daily.
Playing adult games comes with adult prizes. This is a brutal truth. Good businessmen face brutal truth every day of the week, and deal with it brutally, if required. This is not for the weak of heart, and strong men grow into this role through their lives at varying rates, depending on their toughness, experiences, brains and adaptability.
That the Americas should be American dominated is elementary. All of South America, Canada and Greenland must have no other claimants. Denmark’s claim on Greenland is a tired formality drawn from an already-antiquated era. It is not even on the European continental shelf. The times they are changing. The Northwest Passage must not be up for grabs.
Canada’s slippery slope to European-yoked globalist tyranny must also be halted before it gets legs. Its middleclass is currently being eviscerated by inflation, corruption, capital flight and intentionally-destructive central planning. American control of Venezuelan heavy crude has instantly deprived Mark Carney of any bargaining chip he thought he may have had in this realm. Canadians are fleeing Canada at an increasing rate. Desertion is hardly the best way to save a failing country. Enough is enough.
Given that the global economy is quickly transitioning from the Keynesian model to the hard asset, Austrian commodity-driven model, PT’s macro real estate lens must now turn northward. As he said in his speech, no second wave of attack is likely necessary for Venezuela. America’s enemies seem to have received the memo. But there is little time in which to luxuriate before sending the next, more important message.
The new model necessitates quick claims to assets and territories to obviate the next rising power beating you to it. There is absolutely no need to tolerate the American defeatist spirit so prevalent today so long as a good new model is available. I hope and believe this administration is clear on its Americas First design.
There. Humble words from the pantry.
Nuance:
https://youtu.be/W3lF-McWBzY?si=Zy1nCIaGbaN1VLE1
Second front: How a socialist cell in the US mobilized pro-Maduro foot soldiers within 12 hours
by Asra Q. Nomani – January 3, 2026
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/second-front-how-socialist-cell-us-mobilized-pro-maduro-foot-soldiers-within-12-hours
https://jonathanturley.org/2026/01/04/operation-absolute-resolve-why-trump-went-off-script-and-why-it-will-not-matter/
After Caracas, Tehran trembles
After the U.S. bombing of Caracas over the weekend, eyes in Tehran, Moscow and Beijing are now fixed on the skies. As Venezuela’s captured president, Nicolás Maduro, edges toward judgment, the intercontinental battlefield between the West and its enemies is being fully exposed.
The most intricate web runs between Tehran and Caracas: a jihadist axis intertwined with drug trafficking, generating enormous revenues and securing strategic positions for a war against democratic societies. This is not conjecture. It has been built methodically for some two decades.
The timing of U.S. President Donald Trump’s strike—on the anniversary of the killing of Qasem Soleimani—was deliberate. Soleimani was the architect of Iran’s transoceanic Shi’ite strategy, with Hezbollah as its spearhead. Historian David Wurmser is right: this marks a revival of a Monroe Doctrine logic—defense through decisive action.
The poles today are Maduro’s Venezuela and Ali Khamenei’s Iran. Trump’s warning (Shoot protesters and the United States “will come to their rescue”) was unprecedented— and today its meaning is clear.
The alliance dates back to 2005, when Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visited Venezuela at the invitation of its president, Hugo Chávez. From that moment, Venezuela became a hub where jihadist politics merged with narcotrafficking. Hezbollah embedded itself across Latin America, from money laundering to antisemitic terror and paramilitary training, including on Margarita Island.
In 2022, as Iranian women were being slaughtered during the “Woman, Life, Freedom” uprising, Venezuela secretly allocated one million hectares of land to Iran. Officially agricultural. Strategically, a forward operating base at America’s doorstep.
Today, the axis is cracking. Maduro faces prosecution. Hezbollah is weakened and trapped, even as it dreams of resuming war against Israel alongside Hamas. Inside Iran, more than 20 cities burn. Students, women and workers confront the regime’s armed guards. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps fires, but the people no longer submit.
Iranians are starving while their rulers invest in jihad and missiles. After humiliation and failure, contempt for the regime grows. The chants—invoking Reza Pahlavi and calling for Khamenei’s downfall—are unmistakable.
If the Venezuelan regime collapses and Iran follows, the consequences will be global. China protests. Russia fumes. The United Nations will issue its familiar condemnations. But history will have turned a page.
https://www.jns.org/after-caracas-tehran-trembles/