➡ In 2026, President Trump authorized military action in Venezuela and brought its leader, Nicolas Maduro, to New York for trial. This move has caused division among Trump’s supporters and has been justified as a protection of American interests in the hemisphere, as per the Monroe Doctrine. The main goal of the attack was to prevent Venezuela from selling oil to China and to secure the oil fields for the U.S. This action has sparked discussions about potential interventions in Mexico and Cuba, with the aim of stabilizing these countries and preventing them from becoming threats to U.S. security.
➡ The U.S. has a high interest in Greenland due to its strategic location and oil reserves, which is seen as a matter of national security. This interest aligns with the Monroe Doctrine, a policy that allows U.S. intervention in conflicts within its hemisphere. The text also discusses the political situation in Colombia and Venezuela, hinting at possible U.S. intervention. Lastly, it mentions the resignation of Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and encourages support for the author’s channel.

Well, 2026 kicked off with a bang, as I’m sure you heard. President Trump authorized strikes in Venezuela and extradited, kidnapped, their president, dictator, Nicolas Maduro, and his wife. It brought them to New York City to face trial. And, of course, this has fractured MAGA once again with many America First, America Only patriots fully endorsing and celebrating the move, despite previously saying that they were against all regime changes, not to mention Republicans versus the Democrats. So we’ll get into all of the nuance, all of the complications of this situation, and why this actually may be different, actually is different, than the wars for Israel over in the Middle East that we’ve been engaged in, because this is in our hemisphere.

This is in line with what’s known as the Monroe Doctrine, which basically means that the United States will protect interest in our hemisphere. We’ll get more into that in a moment, but unlike George H.W. Bush, who lied endlessly with the neocons about why we were supposedly going into Iraq, just to spread democracy to those poor people over there who deserved it, President Trump is, I mean, you got to give him credit, quite more forthcoming with his goal in attacking Venezuela. Mr. President, why is running a country in South America, America First? Well, I think it is because we want to surround ourself with good neighbors.

We want to surround ourself with stability. We want to surround ourself with energy. We have tremendous energy in that country. It’s very important that we protect it. We need that for ourselves. We need that for the world. And we want to make sure we can protect it. You know, you may agree or disagree with his decision to go and attack Venezuela and institute regime change over there, but you do got to admit at least he isn’t beating around the bush or lying like the Bush crime family did. And it’s just openly admitting that, well, we did it because we’re going to take their oil.

Now, to be clear, I’m not endorsing this. I’m not celebrating this. I’m not excited about this. I’m just going to present both sides of the argument here. You can make up your mind and time will tell whether or not this was the right decision or not. A lot of people thought that President Trump bombing Iran’s supposed nuclear facilities was going to start World War III. That was six months ago now. That story obviously died down within about 48 hours. And thankfully, nothing became of it. And while that was America doing Israel’s dirty work, again, this actually is in line with the Monroe Doctrine, but it’s not just about us taking Venezuela’s oil.

As Marco Rubio openly admits, it’s really about stopping Venezuela from selling their oil to China. They’re violating sanctions. We don’t want China to have, well, any powerful resources getting shipped in there. And so Venezuela was the largest exporter of oil to China. And as Marco Rubio admits, looking here like he hasn’t slept in days, that was really the primary reason. But how does the United States intend to secure the oil fields? Won’t that take U.S. troops? Well, ultimately, this is not about securing the oil fields. This is about ensuring that no sanctioned oil can come in and out until they make changes to the governance of that entire industry.

Because right now, that industry is non-existent in the traditional way. These oil fields basically are pirate operations. People literally steal the oil from the ground. That’s how they hold this regime together. A handful of cronies benefit from this specific oil wells. They’re producing at like 18 percent capacity because the equipment is all decrepit. And they basically pocket the money to their benefit. They sell the oil at a discount in global markets, you know, 40 cents on the dollar to China. So he steals China, beat her on the bush here, and portrayed as if we’re doing this to help the poor Venezuelan people.

But in reality, like I said, we’re doing this to stop them selling their oil to China. Of course, there is the cover story out there that well, they were shipping fentanyl into America. So we had to go down there and stop them. But fentanyl wasn’t coming from Venezuela. The fentanyl is coming from China and then into Mexico through Mexico’s border with us. So I guess I would probably support attacking areas of Mexico, which President Trump said, well, something is going to have to be done with Mexico and has floated further intervention with them.

By the way, you have to do something with Mexico. Mexico has to get their act together because they’re pouring through Mexico and we’re going to have to do something. We’d love Mexico to do it. They’re capable of doing it. But unfortunately, the cartels are very strong in Mexico. I remember one time you actually, speaking of Mexico, I asked you about Claudia Sheinbaum and you told me. Claudia Sheinbaum, the president of Mexico, not Claudia Lopez, Claudia Sheinbaum. Of course, you’re not allowed to criticize her. Otherwise, you’ll be called anti-Semitic. We’ll just have to leave it at that.

And again, I would support kinetic military action strikes into Mexico. Maybe even in invasion. That would be America first because they obviously are a criminal regime right next door that have been not only responsible for flooding us with tens of millions of criminal invaders, cultural insurrectionists, welfare leeches, contributing to the housing crisis, but also allowing countless tons of drugs to come in through the border. Here’s Marco Rubio on Meet the Press over the weekend admitting the obvious that the Trump administration also has their eyes set on Cuba in order to secure and stabilize that country.

And again, this is totally different than us getting involved in wars in the Middle East for Israel. This is not only a country that’s in our hemisphere. Cuba is only 90 miles away from Florida. Cuba was where the Russians sent nuclear missiles during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Remember that. So you can’t really put that into the same category even remotely than us involved in regime changes over in primitive countries in the Middle East. Is the Cuban government, the Trump administration’s next target, Mr. Secretary, very quickly? Well, the Cuban government is a huge problem.

Yeah, the human government is a huge problem. So is that a yes? But I don’t think people fully appreciate. I think they’re in a lot of trouble. Yes, I’m not going to talk to you about what our future steps are going to be and our policies are going to be right now in this regard, but I don’t think it’s any mystery that we are not big fans of the Cuban regime. I don’t think it’s any mystery that the CIA has been orchestrating various things in Cuba for years. Remember they, through USAID, had a front group, a record label where they hired Cuban rappers to then sing songs and perform against the communist dictator, their Raul Castro.

So the CIA obviously had been working behind the scenes for many years trying to topple it. Looks like that may be actually happening. But Marco Rubio being quite the statesman, Lindsey Graham, Sean Hannity’s boyfriend, a little less restrained. Allies in these countries doing business with America, not narco-terrorist dictators killing Americans. This is a big frigging day and everybody in the world is thinking differently than they were just a few days ago because of what you did. Then President Trump had to step in and bring a little more seriousness to the discussion and you could see that Lindsey Graham just couldn’t hold back his drool of excitement.

Cuba is ready to fall. Yes. Cuba looks like it’s ready to fall. I don’t know if they’re going to hold out, but Cuba now has no income. They got all of their income from Venezuela, from the Venezuelan oil. They’re not getting any of it. Cuba literally is ready to fall and you have a lot of great Cuban Americans and they’re going to be very happy about this. Well, there could be a silver lining to this cloud because if Cuba’s regime does collapse, obviously under the covert orchestration of the CIA or maybe some overt kinetic action from President Trump, then maybe there will be tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of Cubans who leave America and go back home.

In all seriousness though, well actually I was being serious there, foreigners get out, but things are getting very serious and it looks like President Trump is trying to position the United States in a way for a deterrent against any possible future military conflict with China and that’s why he will not stop talking about wanting to take over Greenland. Now when you say take over Greenland, that does not mean that we’re going to take strategic kinetic military action against Greenland. It’s a territory of Denmark and so I’m sure behind the scenes they’re trying to leverage some deal in order to have Denmark give up any of their rights to Greenland.

It’s the territory of Denmark for like the last 150 years or something and the reason why he wants to do that, he’s explained many times, but here it is in case you missed it. We need Greenland for national security, not for minerals. We have so many sites for minerals and oil and everything. We have more oil than any other country in the world. We need Greenland for national security and if you take a look at Greenland, you look up and down the coast, you have Russian and Chinese ships all over the coast.

Greenland also obviously in the northern hemisphere, very close to the United States and I’m not like endorsing all these moves. I’m just giving you the full context of the rationale behind them and the nuance of how this actually is dramatically different than the interventions that the United States has been involved with, the regime changes, boots on the ground, wars in the Middle East and it is in line with the Monroe Doctrine, a long-standing US military policy that was put in place by President Monroe a long time ago which says that the United States will intervene in regions or conflicts or star conflicts in our own hemisphere because those are of matters of national security as opposed to some country over in the Middle East.

Israel’s enemies because Iran having a nuclear weapon certainly isn’t going to affect us. It’s going to affect Israel obviously which is why they needed us to do their dirty work and why Benjamin Netanyahu has been saying that they’re six months away from getting a nuclear weapon every six months for the last 25 or 30 years trying to scare people into supporting intervention over there. Congressman Thomas Massey very upset about it taking to the floor of the house and saying this if it were about drugs we’d bomb Mexico or China or Colombia and the president would not have pardoned Juan Orlando Hernandez.

This is about oil and regime change. Well I mean it is again to President Trump’s credit he did admit that. President Trump did hints that the same thing that happened to Venezuela may actually happen to Colombia as well. This was yesterday during the press gaggle on Air Force One. Colombia is very sick to run by a sick man who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States and he’s not going to be doing it very long. What does that mean? He’s not going to be doing it very long. He’s not doing it very long.

He has cocaine mills and cocaine factories. He’s not going to be doing it very long. So there will be an operation by the U.S. It sounds good to me. Senator Rubio mentioned it to me yesterday. Well I guess that cat’s out of the bag. Marjorie Taylor Greene also extremely upset. She did some of the rounds on the Sunday talk shows also resigning from Congress today. I think she had one more year left in her term but she said that she’s not going to seek reelection after President Trump was picking on her and that she is resigning from Congress which is a terrible disappointment.

I can understand not wanting to get reelected. Washington DC is such a disgusting place. Such a dirty business. But why do you got to quit especially when you only have one year left in your term. I will not quit however even though I wanted to put off my return for a couple more days because I’ve been battling a cold if you can’t tell. But it’s already the 5th of January. This year is I have a feeling going to get even crazier by the day I felt I needed to return. If you want to support my channel support my work then just buy me a coffee by clicking the link in the description below.

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