The Venezuela Effect
America’s enemies won’t be sleeping well for quite some time.
J.B. Shurk | January 7, 2026
I can’t stop laughing at all the Democrats hyperventilating about President Trump’s Venezuela operation. I wish I could be more nuanced about this (and perhaps describe the potential pitfalls that lie ahead now that we have taken some “ownership” over the future welfare of the Venezuelan people), but when Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries (the so-called Democrat “leaders” in Congress) are fuming mad that America’s Delta Force dropped into the most heavily fortified compound in Venezuela like invisible ninjas and plucked murderous thug Nicolás Maduro from his slumberous solitude in a matter of minutes, I can barely resist the urge to stand on top of a chair positioned atop my desk and applaud all the remarkable warriors who accomplished this mission.
Consider how many tens of thousands of Venezuelans Maduro and his murderous predecessor, Hugo Chávez, “disappeared” over the years. Now take a moment to appreciate that an elite posse of American warriors operating on land, in the air, and on the sea blew up a temple honoring Chávez (that included his remains) and “disappeared” Maduro for good. If that’s not warrior poetry, I don’t know what else is.
A friend of American Thinker who goes by the online handle “Full Strength” made two excellent points in a previous comment thread: “ONE: Almost every man involved in this operation could have died had the operation failed…TWO: Every participant was critical. In a well coordinated operation the failure of almost any single element of the attack jeopardizes the entire operation.” The enlightened “Full Strength” is entirely correct.
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