“We don't have the right to go and overthrow a foreign government because we don't like them…”@aaronjmate on whether the U.S. captured and arrested Maduro in Venezuela... or “kidnapped" him.

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— The Megyn Kelly Show (@MegynKellyShow) January 5, 2026

Had Kamala won, her foreign policy would have been shaped by Liz Cheney, Bill Kristol and AIPAC.

With Trump, it's shaped by Marco Rubio, Lindsey Graham, Miriam Adelson and AIPAC.

You can vote all you want. DC bipartisan foreign policy will prevail:https://t.co/8c4EI6vkCF

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 5, 2026

Chris Murphy is the greatest example how Democrats are completely full of shit in their criticism of Trump on Venezuela.

Here he was during the first Trump term with Maduro in power, versus what he says now that Maduro has been removed. https://t.co/w3PFxhQ8UV pic.twitter.com/gGCfW19H1c

— Tim Murtaugh (@TimMurtaugh) January 4, 2026

Same in Afghanistan: the US easily drove the Taliban from power.

But that meant nothing. That's why the Taliban waltzed right back into power after the US left.

MAGA triumphalism is bizarre given how little was accomplished in Venezuela. pic.twitter.com/xcBKPVAqVK

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 4, 2026

Democrats constantly vote for warmongers as president and other high offices. Then they cheer and justify every war Democrats start or fund.

Soon as they lose an election, they pretend they're anti-war, and say: if you had only voted for us, this war never would've happened. https://t.co/0cUBoH6JeA

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 4, 2026

The people who voted for the guy who spent two years funding, arming, diplomatically protecting and deploying American troops to enable Israel's destruction of Gaza -- easily one of the worst crimes of the 21st Century, if not the worst -- are in no position to lecture anyone. pic.twitter.com/lAyUraP094

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 4, 2026

Failed interventions in 12th - 17th century Islamic countries with little to offer the world.

Venezuela was successful, has massive resources, physical proximity to the US, other Right moving economies, and is a Christian country.

…..and Biden gifted the nation Clarence Thomas by excluding evidence of multiple victims of his sexual harassment when he chaired Thomas' Confirmation Hearing.

CONgress has a black budget and secrecy to pay off their victims of sexual exploitation, abuse, etc.

They also have dimmer lights in some small rooms below the official chambers.

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Asked Speaker Johnson, leaving briefing, about Trump’s comments of US being in charge of VZ and how much it will cost.

“The way this is being described – this is not a regime change. This is a demand for change of behavior by a regime….We don’t expect troops on the ground.”

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) January 6, 2026

Aunburdened said:

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Chris Murphy is the greatest example how Democrats are completely full of shit in their criticism of Trump on Venezuela.

Here he was during the first Trump term with Maduro in power, versus what he says now that Maduro has been removed. https://t.co/w3PFxhQ8UV pic.twitter.com/gGCfW19H1c

— Tim Murtaugh (@TimMurtaugh) January 4, 2026

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LOL and confirmed here.

Andrew getting some flak for quoting people anon, but it's significant that they want anonymity.

23 years ago, lots of Dems would have gone to the mics to say their colleagues are wrong and should be supporting the president's foreign intervention. https://t.co/WbfSZyriQD

— David Weigel (@daveweigel) January 5, 2026

They shouldn't oppose it because it's Trump and they shouldn't support it because American regime change hasn't worked since the end of World War II. They should oppose it because we shouldn't be attacking countries that aren't attacking us. Not a difficult concept.

This is ridiculous.
It's absurd at face value that USA has suddenly invaded another country to kidnap its leader, threaten others and declared that we are going to "run the place".
Yet, look how quickly now these posts are flooding the site with blame for democrats.

That must be the main line of business these people are involved in - rip on democrats.

You guys are a joke.

concordtom said:

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This is ridiculous.
It's absurd at face value that USA has suddenly invaded another country to kidnap its leader, threaten others and declared that we are going to "run the place".
Yet, look how quickly now these posts are flooding the site with blame for democrats.

That must be the main line of business these people are involved in - rip on democrats.

You guys are a joke.

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Kidnap? Lmao I stopped reading after that

concordtom said:

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This is ridiculous.
It's absurd at face value that USA has suddenly invaded another country to kidnap its leader, threaten others and declared that we are going to "run the place".
Yet, look how quickly now these posts are flooding the site with blame for democrats.

That must be the main line of business these people are involved in - rip on democrats.

You guys are a joke.

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You're the joke. Your inability to understand nuance makes you that way.

Democrats are being criticized for supporting what Trump did, but either pretending to oppose it (the opposite of their stated position when Biden was trying to install Juan Guaido as President of Venezuela) simply because Trump did it, or being criticized for supporting what Trump did and quietly criticizing their Democratic colleagues off the record because they're afraid to show their true colors and support Trump's foreign policy.

The sum total of this is not a criticism of only Republicans or only Democrats. It's a criticism of United States foreign policy, but you're so stupid that you can't process anything other than wanting Trump dead.

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Stop talking about Venezuela’s oil…

The real story is the gold.

Venezuela sits on 161 metric tons.

Value: $22.5 BILLION.
Position: Largest reserves in Latin America.

Every $100 move in spot prices adds ~$518 million to their balance sheet.

But the vaults are just the tip of… pic.twitter.com/qeaASQVgL2

— NoLimit (@NoLimitGains) January 4, 2026

Oil is the headline but gold is the collateral?

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We should just start making a list of global assets and start from the top, picking them off one by one, right?!?!

Heck, I knew about the oil, but if I had also known about the gold, I woulda been pushing for this years ago! Remember the Beverly Hillbillies? Venezuela's apparently got "black gold" and gold gold!

That s*** should absolutely be ours. And, as evidence, let me cite the Donroe Doctrine!

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We should just start making a list of global assets and start from the top, picking them off one by one, right?!?!

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Like Marco Rubio said, the point is to prevent Russia and China from taking the oil. We take the beauty pageant contestants and the gold?

Pretty apparent Russia was running Venezuela. Cuban security and intelligence pretty much says so. They needed people that would not overthrow their installed dictator so they could keep the price of oil low(above $50/barrel) which allowed Russia to fund its war and other activities around the globe. I also think its hilarious that a bunch non-flagged oil tankers tried to make a run for it off the Venezuela coast past the US navy yesterday. They didn't make it. Now Russia is claiming ownership of some of them saying we invaded their sovereignty lol. Russia didn't care that what they were doing was impoverishing the Venezuelan people, they can flee the country, and that's an added bonus of straining the United States.

So let me get this straight Col. Bone Spur's plan is to send in the U.S. military into Venezuela, a country of 30 million people, and them provide security for the oil companies so they can rebuild the oil production infrastructure, all at U.S. tax payer cost. Then the U.S. oil companies will take the oil and refine it to sell to who? The U.S. tax payer, that's who. ***? Why are we paying for Oil Companies to &$#* us yet again? This will take billions of dollars and years to get done and we're supposed to be okay with it. GTFOH. I guess drugs had nothing to do with going into Venezuela.

Next Columbia? Then Greenland? Steven Miller or should I say Mr. Burns is a moron. Remember no forever wars, America first, and no more foreign entanglements?

MinotStateBeav said:

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Pretty apparent Russia was running Venezuela. Cuban security and intelligence pretty much says so. They needed people that would not overthrow their installed dictator so they could keep the price of oil low(above $50/barrel) which allowed Russia to fund its war and other activities around the globe. I also think its hilarious that a bunch non-flagged oil tankers tried to make a run for it off the Venezuela coast past the US navy yesterday. They didn't make it. Now Russia is claiming ownership of some of them saying we invaded their sovereignty lol. Russia didn't care that what they were doing was impoverishing the Venezuelan people, they can flee the country, and that's an added bonus of straining the United States.

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Oil is sold on the world market.

Venezuela produces about 1% of the world's oil. The idea that US oil companies are going to make huge long term investments in a country ruled my Maduro's ruthless ideological second in command seems ridiculous. And nobody cares about democracy; Trump has already eliminated the Nobel winning opposition leader as a candidate. And it's not about drugs- cocaine specifically which Venezuela deals in

I think what this is about is a tv moment for Trump and a warning to Cuba, Mexico and others in the hemisphere that Uncle Sam means business again and they ought to fall in line.

A lot of risk here but Trump will be gone when dominos fall

Venezuela's oil reserves are enormous (larger than Saudi Arabia's) compared to current production. Thus, the interest by Russia and the rest. Even Biden knew this and was interested in purchasing oil from Venezuela as he foolishly drained our own strategic reserves.

You skip the biggest plays:

- Russian transshipments blocked
- China neutered

movielover said:

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You skip the biggest plays:

- Russian transshipments blocked
- China neutered

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How has China been neutered?
Please explain.

Venezuelan oil shipments made up only 4% of China's oil imports last year.

Trump's maneuver may have hurt the "teapot" refiners who process deeply discounted sludgy high-sulphur crude that's used to produce bitumen for construction and road building, but that's about it.

Meanwhile, the hoard of sanctioned sea oil continues to expand.
This will cushion Chinese buyers in coming months.

Almost 82 million barrels is currently on tankers in waters off China and Malaysia.
Mostly Iranian crude.

BearNIt said:

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Remember no forever wars, America first, and no more foreign entanglements?

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Aren't you guys getting what you wanted all along? An American president is fighting Putin in our own backyard instead of his. No American casualties were recorded, and we got in and out of Venezuela faster than your late-night Taco Bell run to the border.

movielover said:

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You skip the biggest plays:

- Russian transshipments blocked
- China neutered

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Russia and China don't need Venezuelan oil, supply exceeds demand globally

Russia and.China do have political interests which this will hurt if Venezuela becomes a US client state but the US doesn't seem interested in the hard truths to make this happen. Remember Iraq! No, this is a flash in the pan thing

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Aren't you guys getting what you wanted all along? An American president is fighting Putin in our own backyard instead of his. No American casualties were recorded, and we got in and out of Venezuela faster than your late-night Taco Bell run to the border.

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We don't seem to be out of Venezuela at all though

SBGold said:

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> We don't seem to be out of Venezuela at all though

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yeah, right, which would be fine by me if only the WH fool went south, and *stayed* there
# p*ssing in the wind

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Aren't you guys getting what you wanted all along? An American president is fighting Putin in our own backyard instead of his. No American casualties were recorded, and we got in and out of Venezuela faster than your late-night Taco Bell run to the border.

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We don't seem to be out of Venezuela at all though

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We have military bases and assets everywhere. We have subs circling every ocean 24/7 with nukes onboard. IT doesn't matter if the president is a Republican or Democrat.

The real questions are, how much of this do we really need and how much of this should we cut?

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BearNIt said:

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Remember no forever wars, America first, and no more foreign entanglements?

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Aren't you guys getting what you wanted all along? An American president is fighting Putin in our own backyard instead of his. No American casualties were recorded, and we got in and out of Venezuela faster than your late-night Taco Bell run to the border.

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We don't seem to be out of Venezuela at all though

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We have military bases and assets everywhere. We have subs circling every ocean 24/7 with nukes onboard. IT doesn't matter if the president is a Republican or Democrat.

The real questions are, how much of this do we really need and how much of this should we cut?

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you do know we are "running" Venezuela, right?

The rest you posted is whataboutism

This video of Venezuelans in the streets celebrating Maduro's capture is going viral.pic.twitter.com/Rd9nbh6i4v

— Owen Shroyer (@OwenShroyer1776) January 5, 2026

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BearNIt said:

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Remember no forever wars, America first, and no more foreign entanglements?

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Aren't you guys getting what you wanted all along? An American president is fighting Putin in our own backyard instead of his. No American casualties were recorded, and we got in and out of Venezuela faster than your late-night Taco Bell run to the border.

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We don't seem to be out of Venezuela at all though

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We have military bases and assets everywhere. We have subs circling every ocean 24/7 with nukes onboard. IT doesn't matter if the president is a Republican or Democrat.

The real questions are, how much of this do we really need and how much of this should we cut?

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you do know we are "running" Venezuela, right?

The rest you posted is whataboutism

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We run Venezuela but Trump is Putin's puppet, right?

Why are all these Venezuelans allowed in the country in the first place?

Anarchistbear said:

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Why are all these Venezuelans allowed in the country in the first place?

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Because Venezuela wasn't on the list of sh8thole countries?