Trump does not have political, military or territorial control in Venezuela

Introduction: 

This is article number four, and the plot is circling out globally, and the lies are beginning to tumble.

The golden circus is in full swing with this seasonal message:  “How to win friends and influence people.”  The US pretends to have a position it does not have. Trump has been telling significant untruths since his run for president, and right through this first year since his inauguration. He is not telling the truth now, but he and Narco Rubio are pretending to hold a position of power they currently do not have.

To do this, they consistently quote how bad Venezuela, Cuba, Mexico and C,olombia (the list that is being warned now that they are next) is, but they omit to say that what they trumpet see as ‘badness’, are the results of their own policies throughout a long history of enslavement and colonialization of Latin America and the Caribbean, desperately fighting against being enslaved. is. In reality, the US administrations have caused problems, sanctions, and repression for Venezuela since the election of Chavez. Read up on the history of when the US administration tried this type of abduction before, with Chavez himself. https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/6926/

In my view, a new resistance front against imperialism has been opened. It does not exist in media or in bold statements of sources, commentators, and ex-CIA agents. It exists on the streets, at lunch tables, at the morning breakfast roll vendor, in the music, in a quick mural that wasn’t there yesterday, in a slogan on a student’s backpack, in guarded conversation, and in a glint in people’s eyes. People who insist that they will not be conquered and will not be slaves and colonies to the US again. It exists in a resolute rejection of the Trump version of the Monroe Doctrine, and it exists in the strength of the communal peoples that say, “If you have beans for two, you have beans for three.

Again, Trump and his administration do not have political, military, or territorial control in Venezuela but pretend that they do, in a macabre control dance of ever-spewing feces. What they have is a kidnapped Maduro and his wife, Cilia. They play this to the hilt to present Madura as an abject criminal and their crowning victory just like Hilary Clinton, We Came, We Saw, He Died – cackle cackle cackle.  There is no difference here between the current administration and the previous ones.  They publish images of a conquered Maduro, who remains dignified, wishing his jailer a courteous goodnight and a happy new year, doing a quiet thumbs-up or flashing a quick peace sign, despite manacles jangling on his wrists.

Here is how the ‘people cookie’ crumbles.

After many years of oppression, of course, the Barbarian Forces use their well-known tactics, and pay some people big bags of money to speak in favor of the barbarians and yell about ‘our hemisphere’. It is a pretense. It is not their hemisphere, as they have lost moral and economic stature in local eyes.

We have the Venezuelan diaspora. These are the ones clustered around the Peace Prize winner, Machado, and they mainly live in Florida, hand in hand with the Cuban diaspora, Narco Rubio’s homies. While the political terms Left and Right have lost significance, in the Latin Americas, these polarities are still clearly distinguishable and starkly visible, for example, in Brazil.

In the US, we have the red-faced, gorilla-like chest-thumpers, USA style, and those who are really concerned, and some of these are pearl-clutchers.   The US public traditionally knows very little about its claimed backyard. Still, they have been traditionally brainwashed to disrespect anyone outside their borders and consider everything the US does as correct and a winning strategy.

Then we have the world, which, in the main, and from those that carry weight, condemns the rendition, kidnapping of Maduro, and the strikes on Venezuela. As always, we have the western stooges, and let us consider for a minute.

The US, in its own 2025 National Security Strategy paper, said it would use a “burden sharing network” to continue preventing any nation anywhere on Earth from establishing “regional dominance,” which simply means the ability to tell the US “no” even within its near-abroad. To do that, obviously, you must be dominant globally. This is simply world domination reworded.

The issue of the stooges has zionist legs, as does much of what transpires in the collective West today.  May I remind you of the little brother of the Abraham Accords, locally called the Isaac Accords?  Delcy Rodriques obliquely referred to this in her first speech.  This is what it is:

The Isaac Accords are a diplomatic, economic, and cultural initiative aimed at strengthening cooperation between Israel and Latin American countries. The name alludes to the Abraham Accords, the 2020 agreements that attempted to normalize relations between Israel and several Arab states. It was first announced in June 2025 by Argentina’s Ambassador to Israel, Rabbi Shimon Axel Wahnish, who previously served as personal rabbi to Argentina’s President Javier Milei.  The announcement followed the awarding of the Genesis Prize to President Javier Milei earlier in 2025. Additional details about the Isaac Accords were announced following the award ceremony, where Milei received the Genesis Prize, also known as the “Jewish Nobel”.

Watching the threat to Venezuela unfold over the past four months, I knew what they had to do to lift all the pressure: sign the Isaac Accords, which, of course, they would not do.

Another two pieces of the ‘human cookie’.

The Russian commentary piss me off!  The know-it-all attitudes are unbearable.

The African part of the cookie is at the end.

After that lengthy introduction, a short overview of the very recent background.  We have such a long historical timeline here that books are needed, and a short article is not adequate.  What I do ask is that you listen almost exclusively to local journalists and pundits.  Spanish translations out of Yandex are terrible.  Google Translate is better in this case, and DeepL does not do a bad job.

Background

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was abducted on January 3, 2026, joining other presidents like Saddam Hussein, who were also previously captured by US forces. Maduro was kidnapped alongside his wife, Cilia Flores, as part of an illegal military invasion of Venezuela by the US Delta Force. He was later held in a New York detention center upon reaching the US.

The Delta Force similarly captured Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein during the US invasion of 2003, before he was given the death penalty. Exactly 36 years from this year’s abduction, the US took similar action against Panama’s military leader Manuel Noriega, who died in prison in 2017.

Economics

We will not treat this as a main topic, as we almost certainly will have commentary from Drs. Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff.

The US is not only morally, but also financially bankrupt—the real reason for Maduro’s kidnapping is to refinance the American public finances.
Peter Hanseler https://forumgeopolitica.com/about/author/peter-hanseler-3
Read more: https://forumgeopolitica.com/article/trump-the-robber-baron

Venezuela: Latin American Countries Jointly Condemn US Attacks as Interim Gov’t Backs Maduro

Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff argue the new US national security strategy implicitly concedes a world the US can no longer dominate, while doubling down on coercion through bases, sanctions, energy leverage, and captive alliances. They link America’s weakening industrial base to decades of financialization, warning that de-dollarization and reduced foreign appetite for Treasuries threaten the fiscal engine behind US military power. This ranges from Europe’s “tribute” politics and asset-seizure fantasies to a renewed Monroe Doctrine posture, with Venezuela flagged as a potential flashpoint in a harsher, more contested hemisphere.

This very important report shows the US government’s true intentions in Venezuela.

In 1957, US oil corporations in Venezuela made profits equal to those of all other US companies in Latin America and Europe COMBINED.

Trump wants to return to this “golden age” of pillage.

This… pic.twitter.com/UyOvdw43at

— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) January 5, 2026

US War on Venezuela is Part of Wider War on Multipolarism

Here comes the book, and the broader world with a shock factor.  We will try to keep it short and punchy.  It is necessary to look at what Trump said.

▪️Neocon Lindsey Graham praises US war of aggression against Venezuela but can’t help but brag about THE BIGGER PICTURE many analysts are failing to see – this is aimed DIRECTLY at China and its allies – including Russia and Iran;

▪️Venezuela primarily exported oil to China;  China does not need Venezuela’s oil but supported via oil purchases.

▪️The US is currently backing violent terrorists in the streets of Iran and preparing for another wave of attacks, Iran, which exports oil primarily to China.

▪️The US is now admittedly attacking Russian oil production INSIDE Russia & tankers around the globe – Russia being China’s LARGEST energy partner;

▪️The US has been attacking the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative infrastructure for years now!

▪️This is shaping up to be a total blockade and containment of China.

▪️The US is erasing all red lines and putting the world on notice – it insists it will win against China, and if you don’t submit to the US, you will end up like Venezuela.

In a Sunday interview, Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned the acting government in Caracas to “make the right decisions” and affirmed that the US retained “leverage” mechanisms, including a naval blockade that would stop oil exports.  Trump vacillates.  In the mornings, he threatens Acting Venezuelan President Delcy Rodriguez, and a few hours later, he states that she is cooperating with the U.S. Regime.

‘We’re in charge’ — Trump claims US is running Venezuela

💬 “It’s a dead country right now,” Trump said, arguing Venezuela needs to be “brought back,” including “big investments by the oil companies.”

Venezuela, in turn, reaffirmed its commitment to peace and peaceful coexistence. Our country aspires to live without external threats, in an environment of respect and international cooperation. We believe that global peace is built by first guaranteeing peace within each nation.  Venezuela has the right to peace, development, sovereignty, and a future.

The many questions of who sold out Maduro are slowly being answered. Most of us locals knew that Maduro’s security force was Cuban. Most of the commentators who do not know what they are talking about are astounded. Let me remind you that Cuba and Venezuela did a lot of business. Sharing services are and were common.  We’ve written before about the doctors and medical services from Cuba across the region.

The Cuban president has declared two days of mourning in the country in connection with the deaths of 32 fellow citizens who defended Maduro from abduction by the US military.  We hear that this was a brutal attack and that the only drugs in the region were those that were consumed by the nine helicopters full of Delta Forces dedicated to abducting Maduro.

Trump: We were prepared for a second wave and ready to go, but I don’t think we will need it.

Comment:  Sure, cannot take fire, which at that time was evident, and ran away!

Reuters, quoting Trump: We are looking forward to fixing Venezuela more than conducting elections at the moment.

Comment:  The issue here is that they let a cat out of the bag.  They admitted that Corina Machado lacks support in Venezuela.  But they considered the previous elections fake.  Slowly, the morning stories and the evening stories are beginning to tell the whole story.

Trump: We are now responsible for Venezuela, and the authorities there are cooperating with us.

Comment:  Not to my knowledge.  Acting President Delcy took a leaf out of Mexico’s Sheinbaum’s book.  Talk cooperation, do what you need to, do not hand away sovereignty.

Trump: We were prepared for a second wave and ready to go, but I don’t think we will need it.

Comment:  This was at the point that they ran, because real shooting started as the Marines wanted to invade and put boots on the ground at certain beaches.  When these Marines had to take a firefight, they ran.

And then, the threats to all and sundry started when Trump and his henchmen realized they had nothing.

Trump: Colombia is run by a sick man, and he won’t continue doing so for long.

Trump: “We need to do something with Mexico; they need to get their act together.”

Trump: We need to get to the oil in Venezuela.

Comment:  Aaah, I thought you had it?

Trump: The presence of U.S. forces on the ground in Venezuela depends on the actions of those currently in power.

Comment:  Your Marines ran.

Trump: It seems that Cuba is on the verge of collapse. It is unlikely that there will be an American military intervention in Cuba, as the country appears ready to collapse on its own

Trump threatened Venezuelan Vice President Delsi Rodriguez if her decisions do not satisfy the US

Comment:  But, I thought with Maduro is gone, all will be heaven on earth?

Trump also stated that the US needs Greenland.

Trump on Venezuela:  “They stole our property, it was the biggest theft in US history, no one has ever stolen our property like they did, they took away our infrastructure”

Comment:  That is a huge lie.  When the infrastructure was socialized, the companies were paid out.  Go and take a look at the real history.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez: “We reject the actions and statements issued by the United States. The United States uses military force for the purposes of plunder and domination. The United States’ behavior constitutes a flagrant violation of international law, the declaration of Latin America and the Caribbean as a peace zone, and the principle of state sovereignty.”

Trump is in “trouble”… Even his special envoy to Caracas, Elliott Abrams, condemns his actions, asserting that the United States will not be able to manage Venezuela.

U.S. President Donald Trump issued an explicit and direct threat on Monday to Colombian President Gustavo Petro, one day after the arrest of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro.
Trump said in a statement that “Colombia is run by a sick man, and he will not last long,” adding that “the Colombia operation looks good to me.”

For the second time, President Trump says he is monitoring the situation in Iran ‘very closely’ and warns that if Iran keeps killing protestors, it will be hit ‘very hard’.

President Trump claims every Somali is a barbarian involved in violence and piracy, suggesting they should all be expelled from the United States, including Rep. Ilhan Omar.

Comment:  Notice how, in domestic American politics, there was a dehumanisation campaign from the government and its supporters against Somalis shortly before Israel recognised Somaliland

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed full support for the United States’ military operation that captured Nicolás Maduro and brought down his regime in Venezuela, describing the action as “perfect” and part of a major transformation in Latin America toward pro-U.S. governments:

Reporter to Trump:  What would the justification be for a claim to Greenland?

Trump: I don’t want to talk about Greenland now. We need Greenland from the standpoint of national security.  And the European Union needs us to have it. And they know that.

This is the doozy

Trump questioned whether Ukrainian drones had attacked Putin’s residence, although he said a week ago that he was very angry because of what happened, you can’t do that.  In his opinion, “something happened nearby.”

Comment: TACO to the max, and I’m confident that Russia is paying attention to this statement, as all of the previous handshake agreements between Putin and Trump are off the table now.

No country can play the role of world policeman – Chinese FM

The sudden change of the situation in Venezuela has drawn major attention from the international community, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said, referring to the recent US aggression against the South American nation, Xinhua reports.

🗣 Wang stressed that China “never believes that any country can play the role of world policeman, nor do we agree that any country can claim itself to be an international judge.”

The top Chinese diplomat noted that the sovereignty and security of all countries should be fully protected by international law.

China always opposes the use or threat of force, as well as any imposition of one country’s will on another, Wang emphasized.

Venezuelan authorities have now created a special commission to free Maduro

A decision on the “high-level commission” was announced by Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodriguez during a meeting of the Council of Ministers, Information and Communications Minister Freddy Nanez stated.

The press is so hungry for news that they even pull in Zelensky.  He is, as it is said, on ‘political minefield’ over the Venezuela crisis

The abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro by US forces is a “toxic development for Kiev,” Berliner Zeitung reports.

The German newspaper points out that the situation is “particularly dire for Volodymyr Zelensky,” because “any reaction to Venezuela is a political minefield for him.”

The US plans to use the military contingent stationed in South Korea, outside the Korean Peninsula, to deter China in preparation for a possible conflict in Taiwan. It was previously mentioned that American troops could operate against the Northern Command of the People’s Liberation Army of China off the South Korean coast from the Yellow Sea.

Further afield

I love North Korea’s response.  They simply let the missiles talk and launched training launches of hypersoning missiles:  On January 4, a unit of the Korean People’s Army’s missile forces conducted training launches of hypersonic missiles under the personal supervision of Kim Jong Un. The missiles were launched from the Ryokpo area (Pyongyang) in the northeastern direction and hit targets at a distance of about 1,000 km in the waters of the Sea of Japan, confirming the declared tactical and technical characteristics of the hypersonic system.

During the exercises, the following were checked:

the readiness of hypersonic weapons to perform combat tasks;
the reliability of key elements of the strategic deterrence system;
the level of training and coordination of missile forces’ crews.

The DPRK leader stressed that the constant improvement of strategic means, including offensive systems, is a necessary condition for the self-defense of the state. The regular demonstration of the readiness and combat capabilities of strategic forces remains an effective tool of deterrence in the context of an aggravated international situation, he added.

Around Yemen, things are blowing up as well.  Following the deployment of the Royal Saudi Naval Forces to Yemen, the time is now right for the Turkish Navy to be deployed to Somalia as well. Under the Defense Agreement signed between Somalia and Türkiye, which covers a 10-year period, the two sides commit to preventing all forms of illegal activities—particularly terrorism, external threats, and piracy—as well as to protecting Somalia’s coastline and developing its maritime resources.

End of this chapter.  

Again, the US and Trump have no political, military, or territorial control in Venezuela, except what they claim.  And their claims (think of the claim of solving eight wars and the claim of peace in West Asia) are only claims.  Venezuela has a functioning government, the situation on the ground is normalizing, and the world has received a new wake-up call about the nature of this empire’s wishes.  Articles are already appearing on how to strengthen individual countries against similar attacks.  Resistance is mobilizing worldwide.

This current administration cannot blame developing countries for the harm that successive US administrations caused.

This has only started.  Let us end this chapter with an essay from our West African friend, Femi Akomolafe, and pay attention to his words from the African perspective.

On Maduro: A Word of Warning to My Fellow Africans

It is quite unfortunate to see many Africans out clapping and celebrating the abduction of Maduro by American forces. It could be true that his inner circle sold him to the Yankees; that is not our business here.

It grieves to see how many of us choose to remain illiterate in both history and geopolitics, even though we are constant victims.

Cursed are those who refused to learn from the bitter lessons of history

Anarchy in world politics is not noise and disorder. It is the simple, brutal fact that there is no policeman above nations. The strong do as they wish; the weak suffer what they must.

International law is the thin fence erected to slow that brutality, not to make the world moral, but to stop it from becoming a slaughterhouse. International law seeks to temper the unilateral actions of rogue actors like Trump.

The question on my mind as I see Africans cheering the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro by American forces, clapping like spectators at a wrestling match, is: have we learned nothing from history?

We jubilated when NATO killed Gaddafi, only to end with Black Africans being sold like cattle in auctions in Libya. Gaddafi’s vast armoury was turned over to Jihadists who today menace us in the subregion!

No, this is not about liking Maduro. I do not care for his face, his speeches, or his politics. In my writings, I have consistently advocated for self-reliance. I have always maintained that countries that could not protect themselves deserve any fate that befalls them.

This is about precedent. This is about our survival as weaklings in the international arena. This is about whether Africans still possess the instinct to recognize danger when it announces itself loudly.

Our leaders wave the UN Charter whenever sanctions bite or their borders are threatened.

The charter unequivocally says sovereign states are equal. It says no country has the right to use force against the territorial integrity or political independence of another. It says internal affairs are not open hunting grounds for foreign cowboys.

These are not Western ideas. They are defensive tools for weak nations, written after the world was drowned in blood in WWII.

When Trump ignores these rules and kidnaps a sitting president, he is not being “strong.” He is tearing down the fence. And once the wall is gone, Africa is naked and vulnerable.

This is the lesson that the Africans who celebrate Trump ignore.

Those applauding this crime are applauding the right of powerful nations to snatch leaders they dislike.

Do you think Washington will stop at Caracas? Do you think Africans will be spared because we tweet enthusiastically on behalf of Trump?

History tells us that Imperial powers do not reward loyalty. They consume it.

We Africans have a tragic habit of mistaking emotion for analysis. We argue geopolitics like football fans, not like people whose continent has been carved, invaded, and managed by force.

We shout “serves him right” today, forgetting that tomorrow the same logic will be used on us, with better cameras and louder applause.

This is my free advice to my fellow Africans: learn geopolitics or prepare to be humiliated by it. Study sovereignty. Study power. Study International law, not because the law is always obeyed, but because its violation tells you exactly who is coming for you next.

Public space is not a barroom: words and applause matter. When Africans cheer imperial lawlessness, we announce to the world that we have learned nothing from history, and that we are ready, once again, to pay for that ignorance in full.

To those who care, here are the relevant unambiguous portions of the UN Charter:

Article 2(1):
“The Organization is based on the principle of the sovereign equality of all its Members.”

Article 2(4):
“All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state…”

Aha, Sources?  You want sources?  Chats in the street, a glint in eyes and a hundred fellows from the resistance, that is now growing fast.  Read the local journalists.

A short and hopefully kind word to our friends.  Third World is old and hackneyed and highly racist.  Go and find the replacements.   If you do not know where the terminology ‘banana republic’ or ‘third world’ comes from, I would suggest some education before you talk again.  These words are not idle, but have history and portent.  ‘Banana republic’ was first used to describe the horrors of enslaving people in the Latin Americas and to dismiss the humanity of the many workers in plantations who made America rich.  It is a real description of a real phenomenon, which was first used in the US to describe their own excess and pride in creating banana republics at the time when they made Americans believe in bananas, yeah, those real yellow things, for their own profit.  It was slavery times.  Go and read the history of the United Fruit Company and tentacles (not in Wikipedia of course).  It is not a word to be used willy-nilly in disrespect because you don’t understand slavery.

Dear God, they even made songs to romanticize the advertising and educate the buying public in the United States.  Friends, you are a victim of an advertising stunt.  See, the Americans did not know what a banana was, and Banana Republic was used in place of Slave Plantation, to soften it for the buying public.    Where do these bananas come from?  From the Banana Republic!