Donald Trump Executes Regime Change In Venezuela

“The United States of America has successfully carried out a large scale strike against Venezuela and its leader, President Nicolas Maduro, who has been, along with his wife, captured and flown out of the Country. This operation was done in conjunction with U.S. Law Enforcement.… pic.twitter.com/sFa5OC4ZrZ

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) January 3, 2026

?#BREAKING: Reuters reports that U.S. ground forces and United States Air Force assets are currently on the ground and active in and around Caracas, Venezuela. Multiple explosions have been reported and observed across the capital as operations continue. pic.twitter.com/96mTpvxmQX

— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) January 3, 2026

JUST IN ??????:

Netanyahu is now trying to connect Venezuela to Iran to push the U.S. into another war.

WHAT A JOKE, who believes these scripts anymore?! pic.twitter.com/lNA5pNeQ5X

— Ryan Rozbiani (@RyanRozbiani) December 31, 2025

NOW – Fox News pundit says the unconfirmed U.S. invasion of Venezuela is for national security against Hezbollah and Iran, as well as Russia and China. pic.twitter.com/nYBsX0Nwti

— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) January 3, 2026

Fox News guest Julian Epstein says Venezuelans “yearn to be free” from Pres. Maduro and the result of Trump’s war “could be a very welcome liberation of the Venezuelan people” and “dancing in the streets.”

Fox anchor Eric Shawn runs with it. pic.twitter.com/pOMPKdOvhc

— Chris Menahan ?? (@infolibnews) January 3, 2026

? JUST IN: The US military seems to have launched a strike on the mausoleum of former anti-US Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez

America just turned his shrine into a pit of ash.

Huge middle finger to the socialists. pic.twitter.com/4e9nRT4Aeh

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 3, 2026

Venezuela’s Nobel prize winner Maria Corina Machado:

“As soon as we conquer freedom, I will move our Israeli Embassy to Jerusalem.”

It’s difficult to find a U.S. war that doesn’t, in some way, benefit Israel pic.twitter.com/sw0HvEIJN8

— Ounka (@OunkaOnX) January 3, 2026

Fox News guest Christopher Nixon Cox says that the suspected Trump admin attack on Venezuela will bring them “democracy, capitalism and prosperity.” pic.twitter.com/7gnubJAV7K

— Chris Menahan ?? (@infolibnews) January 3, 2026

The days of narco-terrorist thugs and tinpot third-world dictators down south pushing us around is over.

We are a superpower. This is our hemisphere. And we’re going to start acting like it again.

President Trump is taking back control.
pic.twitter.com/DTld0yy9eS

— Eric Schmitt (@Eric_Schmitt) January 3, 2026

This is similar to what the US Government under Bush 41 did in Panama in 1989: invade and remove former Manuel Noriega from power, then brought him to the US to stand trial on drug trafficking.

What were all the great benefits to Americans and the world from that? https://t.co/Y1djiei9iU

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 3, 2026

As we celebrate this amazing achievement by our military commanded by @POTUS, we must remember the consequences of what has happened. An evil, narcoterrorist dictator has fallen, creating a path for freedom for the wonderful, highly intelligent, hard working people of Venezuela.…

— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) January 3, 2026

A foreign head of state is being charged by the US government for possession of machine guns. This is ridiculous lol. Total clown show. Cant militarize domestically to handle the actual existential emergency (immigration), can’t permanently deport Garcia, but we can invade a… https://t.co/FIvgMb3hOr

— C.Jay Engel ? (@contramordor) January 3, 2026

Great. Now we have two more immigrants in our country. pic.twitter.com/aQGQIrzFAU

— The Lectern Guy?? (@lecternleader) January 3, 2026

I wasn’t sure how Donald Trump would handle Venezuela in 2026.

After the bait and switch in his address to the nation two weeks ago, I thought it could go either way like the war in Ukraine which has dragged on for years. It was conceivable that Trump was making empty threats in spite of the seizure of oil tankers and the military build up in the Caribbean. I thought he might launch some kind of air strike short of war like he did in Nigeria as “a Christmas present.” In his first term, Trump repeatedly insisted that Juan Guaidó was the president of Venezuela and invited him to his 2020 State of the Union Address. Maduro succeeded in weathering that storm.

Instead, we are waking up to the news that Trump toppled the Venezuelan government last night and kidnapped Nicolás Maduro and his wife. Maduro is being put on trial in New York for drug trafficking and owning machine guns. The operation was reminiscent of the overthrow of Manuel Noriega in Panama by George H.W. Bush in 1989. It also reminded me of the bombing of Yugoslavia by NATO in 1999. President Slobodan Miloševic was later captured and put on trial for war crimes at The Hague. The “rules-based international order” has been a farce for decades. This is just the latest example.

We’re back in the GOP comfort zone of regime change wars, smiting evil dictators and bombing random Third World countries into freedom and democracy. The GOP Congress also intends to sit on its ass this year and do absolutely nothing with their majority to solve our own problems. It is my understanding that there is some opposition leader in Venezuela who they intend to install in power who is a pro-Israel puppet and who has announced that she will move the Venezuelan embassy to Jerusalem.

Everyone seems to believe that Republicans will lose the midterms. Swing voters aren’t going to be impressed by random attacks on Nigeria and Venezuela. This is also sure to widen the growing split online between MAGA and America First. It is a terrible way to start the year.