What a Way to Start 2026
Like George Washington crossing the Delaware to beat the Hessians as they rested on Christmas, the U.S. pulled off an incredible military operation capturing Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro in his pajamas.
Clarice Feldman | January 4, 2026
Christmas week was rather a slow week, with the big news being the further unraveling of the corruption in Minnesota, Washington state, California, and other Democrat redoubts. But like George Washington crossing the Delaware to beat the Hessians as they rested on Christmas, the U.S. pulled off an incredible military operation capturing Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro in his pajamas and bringing him back here to answer to criminal charges. The Venezuelan military was largely on Christmas leave and Maduro’s international protectors --- the Chinese and Russian forces in Venezuela -- were caught flatfooted, diminishing their credibility in the Western Hemisphere. The impact of this operation was enormous.
One of the first published accounts of the operation was by our own Monica Showalter:
Drugs, election fraud, migrant warfare, a place for Venezuelans to return home to -- and above all, crushing the far left fountainhead itself. That is what this is about.
For 27 years, Venezuela's Marxist regime has spread its errors throughout the hemisphere, terrorizing governments, propping up the far left, bankrolling insurgents and assassins, supporting drug dealers, supporting Hez'ballah and its drug and terror operations, and supporting China with oil, too, so it can have enough of it to take out Taiwan.
Lots of pundits and military analysts are hailing back to Iraq, but this is not Iraq. This is about taking out a great plague of destabilization in the hemisphere, the ground zero of destabilization.
Some of its greatest hits began with the prophetic warning of former Venezuelan central banker Ruth Krivoy in a New York investment house around 2000, that Venezuela would seek to destabilize the region.
They were in the captured FARC computer of 2007, where Colombia's then-allied government learned that Venezuela was in way deeper than anyone realized in supporting these dangerous narcoterrorists who brought hell to Colombia.
There was the assassination in Chile of a military dissident by Venezuelan goon squads, and the fomenting of unrest in the streets there, too, as well as in Peru and Brazil.
There was the border surge against the U.S., including the emptying of Venezuela's prisons and the government involvement in the formation of its transnational gangs.
There were the many, many, stolen elections, starting in 2004, which has led the trend towards stolen elections in many countries of the world, including quite possibly the U.S.
Those days may be over.
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