As video of U.S. military operations inside Venezuela began to surface on social media, President Donald Trump has announced that overnight the U.S. military carried out a “large scale strike” against Venezuela and captured President Nicolas Maduro.
Venezuela’s Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López survived tonight’s strike operation, giving his first statement since the capture of President Nicolás Maduro. pic.twitter.com/a1G6qAmg5V
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) January 3, 2026
Just 5 hours ago, Chinese officials arrived in Venezuela for talks with President Maduro.
4 hours later, the US launched large airstrikes on Venezuela's capital in a major escalation.
A statement from President Trump is expected. pic.twitter.com/jbDMXSXnRq
— The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) January 3, 2026
Maduro is NOT the President of Venezuela and his regime is NOT the legitimate government. Maduro is the head of the Cartel de Los Soles, a narco-terror organization which has taken possession of a country. And he is under indictment for pushing drugs into the United States.
— Secretary Marco Rubio (@SecRubio) July 27, 2025
NOW – Suspected U.S. Apache and CH-47 aircraft fly over Caracas, Venezuela. pic.twitter.com/FqDOJBYmRX
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) January 3, 2026
🚨 BREAKING: U.S. Army Apache attack helicopters are absolutely ANNIHILATING Fort Tiuna in Caracas, Venezuela
This is a key military installation in the country’s capital
I mean, was… pic.twitter.com/BoQUGO4Ccy
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 3, 2026
Why in the world did Blondi bring the indictments to Southern District of NY?!
Saboteur.
SDNY is where the indictments and warrants had already been developed years ago.
Thanks. I guess I assumed Bondi announcing it on X earlier was her issuing the indictments.
More like clueless buffoon, taking instructions from Democrat caretaker Todd Blanche.
She isn’t even in DC, running DOJ, most days.
The faster PDJT excises this creeping cancer on his Administration, the better.
Charges of Narco-terrorism were filed against Maduro in 2020–am assuming these are the charges that justified extracting him from Venezuela. https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/manhattan-us-attorney-announces-narco-terrorism-charges-against-nicolas-maduro-current. Not sure if the charges can be transferred to another district.
Blondi, Blanche or both?
It’s poetic, Mi Amigo. SDNY is one of Trump’s greatest adversaries, and they don’t DARE to oppose this action. Chess, not checkers.
The DOJ attorneys that Bondi has kept are purposely sabotaging the paperwork they feel out.
Bondi and Patel are pathetic.
sdny known by many as the most corrupt district in the U.S. with a conviction rate in the high 90%…just ask Martin Armstrong…he has written about it and backs up his assertion with proof. a ham sandwich doesn’t have a hope for a fair trial if indicted in the sdny.
Russia has lost Syria, Venezuela, and Iran is on the brink.
Or is there a trade being carried out?
Delcy Rodriguez in Russia = one of the worst criminals closest to Cuba is conveniently out of the way. Velvet Cage as a favor to the US, protection, or something else?
Underneath all this drug trafficking excuse I think the real reason: just my opinion, but the real deal is Smartmatic/Sequia/Dominion. Venezuela and Cuba is the hub for election fraud. And not just for the US—but 170 countries, with the participation of Belgrade, Syria.
I really pray that you are right.
Over the course of my life, closely paying attention since 8th grade Civics class, I would swear that we’ve lost this entire East Coast to Election Fraud.
It’s a HUGE topic in NH and always has been.. we’ve followed this SO Closely..
If we could have real, true, legitimate and honest elections in this country, the Democrats would be wiped out immediately.
Mudro will sing. There are those above him! That is what we have to get to, NHnative!
Totally justified in my opinion.
Russia can have Ukraine if we can have Venezuela and Cuba. We all get out of each other’s back yard.
Then it’s the EU’s problem alone to deal with, as it should have been all along (not NATO’s, to which Ukraine is not a member). And the EU can’t govern their way out of a wet paper bag right now, being dependent on Russia natural gas in the middle of a “global warming” extra cold winter.
The real problem is China, who is desperate to sell everything (factory output) for food for their Billion citizens to keep them from uprising. They can’t sell it internally, and it undermines every other country’s production (ask Germany VW how they’re doing against BYD).
China continues to be Australia’s biggest buyer of Coal for power production, which is keeping the leftist Australian government afloat right now as well. They are having a horrible affordability crisis, at home prices 9x salary. It makes the USA’s 4x ratio look tame.
And that’s why China was looking for Venezuelan oil, pumped from seized US rigs.
This is a great post and we could create a long thread chewing this over.
I agree with you, that this new ‘Multi-Polar” order will look just like you describe– we’ll all have ‘our area’.
And yes, the Chinese are notoriously overdoing it, you could say, I’m thinking of those ghost cities and their one child policy that now has been a disaster for them..
They can’t get the scale just right?
So now, they have put all their eggs into this manufacturing basket and that is going to crash and burn and they are going to be in big trouble for having done all this.
I wish more people would walk away from the Consumerism agenda and go lean and mean because if we all decided to Bud Light China by not buying a damned thing, we could crash that country in a month- and we should.
Stop buying all their junk, buy less but better, small and local.
Less Junk=Less China.
China thinks it can follow the English and American examples of the Industrial Revolution, where the world’s pre-eminent manufacturing power becomes the worlds largest military power. However, they don’t realize the world has changed since then. But as all they can do is copy and not think originally they will crash and burn and head over the cliff. It is like copying last year’s exam for this year’s test!
Yeah that whistle blower from Venezuela now in a US prison testified that China makes the voting machines, sends to Taiwan, so they are delivered from Taiwan, not China. Then smartmatic adds the hard and software. So China appears to be involved, PS.
“So, you’re saying that the USA is not constantly fighting evil Muslims all over the world?
DJ: No, it’s fighting the less evil ones. It’s been fighting the ones who are more secular. It was fighting the less fanatic. In Bosnia, the US supported Izetbegovic who was the most Islamist politician among Muslims there, who had written a declaration saying a country with a Muslim majority should be ruled by Islamic law. It was fighting Gaddafi, whose main enemy was the extreme Muslims, and it got rid of Gaddafi, and now they’re taking over Libya. It attacked Saddam Hussein, who had a secular society, who was hated by the Islamic extremists. And now they’re taking over Iraq. And the United States has been against Assad’s regime in Syria. They have targeted precisely the Muslim regimes which were not religiously fanatic. So of course Islam is divided, so the United States has been killing Muslims, but they have been favoring the most extremist.”
https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/07/16/denying-the-srebrenica-genocide-because-its-not-true-an-interview-with-diana-johnstone/
Their loss, our gain, right?
Just think of all the hearts and minds we’re winning.
So much winning!
And that’s what this is really about. China is huge part of this equation too. PDJT understands long term strategy better than half of our generals and all of our other politicians.
Russia didn’t lose these countries. The empire of lies, through subtrifuge, brought about “regime change.” For Iran, drought is their next biggest challenge, if not the biggest. Word has it that the government of Iran is considering evacuating Tehran because of the shortage of water.
If President Trump can capture and indict Maduro, he can capture and indict Walz, Newsom and every other criminal uniparty governor.
I wonder what NYC 5 star hotel Maduro and his wife will sleep in tonight?
Ask the new mayor.
The Regency Detention Center.
It’s this luxurious resort called Rikers Island
You stole my thunder. I’m not defending Maduro, but we have enough criminals inside our government that are a fifth column whose agenda is to render us slaves.
Lawfare lawsuits against President Trump over this action begin in 3-2-1!!!!
True, but this is how Trump is different. He follows the law. This isn’t Benghazi.
They will need to break the law by using lawfare to attempt to take Trump down.
Was it not Venezuela where the majority of illegitimate computer ballots were routed through to steal the 2020 election?
Sundance, we can capture Maxudo but Antifa still at large.
Lessening Middle East Petroleum purchases via Venezuela decreases terrorist funding and weakens the Sykes-Picot created ME Hegelian Dialectic Chessboard.
Please explain.
Praise the Lord that none of our Special Ops Operators were injured or killed during the strike and capture of Maduro!!!!
Something I have not seen a single democrat or RINO say!
There were several shot.
One severely and critical. They had to fly him out.
Let’s keep him on our thoughts and prayers that this brave solider recovers. God bless our amazing military!! ❤️
An interesting read:
The global resource war is going kinetic
https://steelcutter.substack.com/p/the-global-resource-war-is-going
Interesting read, Thanks.
Just reading the title, it’s easy to see this is true.
And without reading it, this is happening because the temperature has gone way up, you can feel it.
I think a lot of it is because of AI too and more than that even- it’s the money and risk pushing AI.
There is a whole lot of ‘stuff’ needed to feed the AI monster.
The “drug caliphate” is an established fact. Both Maduro and Hugo Chavez have allowed Hezbollah to operate openly in Venezuela, profiting off of both drugs and black-market oil exports. Some of the strikes likely aimed at Hezbollah assets as well as Venezuelan security positions, and more will come in the days ahead. This has been known for years, and has been the subject of serious security concerns for the US as well as other nations in the Western Hemisphere
Another day and another reminder . . .
STOLEN ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES.
Establishing payoffs?
Well it wasn’t to sell to Ketchup for his wife.
Long overdue.
Iran has been involved with Maduro for years. Guess those days are over?
Little Twerpy Z is paying close attention, as are the EU Clowns.
https://x.com/emeraldrobinson/status/1882074856730300718?s=61
Maduro is enjoying a welcoming reception at Gracie Mansion as we speak.
NYC is a sanctuary city for criminals who come to avoid consequences.
Mamdani must be overjoyed!
Film @11?
Watch what they do, not what they say
Exactly !!!
ONLY what they do … NEVER what they say !!!
IF…the millions of Biden-imported Venezuelans are in the US as a Trojan Horse army ready to destabilize and attack the US on command, that command would naturally come from Venezuela.
IF…that is the case then decapitating Venezuelan command would be a very strategically sound move, as long as Maduro is replaced by a government with no appetite for destabilizing and attacking the US from within.
A Trojan Army inside the gates without direction could unravel into something very chaotic, no clear strategy behind it, just random attacks by soldiers left to their own devices. We live in interesting times. Stay alert, my friends.
Frosty.
Just round ’em up and drop ’em in their home country. Preferably deep in the jungle.
Possible New Headlines
New Years fireworks In Venezuela.
Nick gets nicked.
Maduro vacations in New York City
Bomb Voyage, Maduro!
Maduro finally loses election he lost in 2024
Flashback: In 2020 Attorney General William Barr announced a reward of up to $15 million for information leading to Maduro’s arrest or conviction, with additional rewards offered for other Venezuelan officials named in the case.
Those indictments formed the legal basis for Maduro’s arrest
Maybe Trump will order the US military to take out the leaders in California,, New York, Minnesota, Oregon, Illinois, and a few other states next.
Great post, thank you.
Note … Maduro and Wife are in NY City because the Federal Court that is likely to have jurisdiction is the Federal Court of the US that is located in NY City (NOT the same as the US Federal District Courts also located in NY City) and has responsibility for these types of proceedings.
Explain that, please.
Need to move some of these courts to other than DC and NYC. Kansas would be a good place I think.
I saw this comment on a Daily Mail article regarding the capture Maduro and thought it was worth posting!
MyDogTalksToMe, Anywhere, United States, moments ago
It’s so nice to have a president with b@alls and a first lady without them!
Praise God. Drugs and Oil theft are key. But the ultimate reason is election fraud perpetrated by Maduro gov. that helped steal 2020 election via voting machines-and almost stole election in 2024. This is about freedom in US and the world. Venezuela was center of massive voting machine control of world wide elections.
No doubt Venezuela is involved in tons of no good but I would like to see a domestic arrest this year.
I agree … especially since the end and assembly points for all coming from South America and Africa narrows down to the major US population centers in democrat run bastions, States and Cities.
Drugs and oil funded the South-Central American end of the chain, while USAid as well as fraud inside US Welfare and Federal Tax Systems fund the US side of the invasion. Another major reason DOGE has been halted or impeded.
It was never about the money DOGE found … it was the processes, organizations and people DOGE found while investigating the money trails.
Just a thought … I suspect Maduro is NOT going to get the “Manuel Noriega” Treatment.
All the “phone calls” with President Trump set up this event ….maybe even some sort of Plea Bargain.
Would be interesting if members of the Venezuelan Armed Forces are now poised to help with some form of transition. An interesting tell will likely be the flow of Cubans and Chinese to or from Venezuela.
For the folks in the back: none of this, and I mean NONE OF THIS has just sprung out of nowhere. Maduro agreed to a deal. What you’re watching is the theater for the masses. The question is what is Maduro giving, what has Russia agreed with the U.S. The world is starting to shape up. We have new allies and old allies who are new enemies….
wish there were a down vote for comments.
Hazard of our time, everything has to be a conspiracy now
Me too. It shouldn’t be very hard to accomplish
Sorry friend, there is no deal when you are killing Maduros security and they’re shooting back.
If there was a deal, one of Maduros generals betrayed him to save his own skin.
“The War on Drugs” is no longer empty platitudes and BS.
Venezuela owes US companies vast amounts of money which they never paid. Remember, they nationalized the oil which is legal. But then, they agreed to arbitration with these companies. They lost and were directed to pay billions. Of course, Venezuela never paid up. They owe 8.7 billion to Conoco Phillips alone. Overall, 18 companies are owed over 21 billion and of course Venezuela screwed them.
In projects large and small it is easy to fall victim to “Paralysis by Analysis“. At some point you have to make a decision, with imperfect intelligence against unknown odds of success. This is the duty and burden of leadership. It is easier to direct something in motion than a stationary object.
Our President inherited a mess, a pile of coat hangers in the middle of a briar patch. He made his decision, in an imperfect world. Let’s see what happens.
Our God in heaven is on His throne and reigns. Come quickly.
“Our President inherited a mess” … unfortunately likely an understatement … in that President Trump “inherited” an intentionally destroyed country … with intentionally compromised “allies”.
Just upholding the Monroe Doctrine!
Assassination of world leaders has been taboo for some time. Capture and removal of leaders has been infrequent. Probably only the U.S. can pull this off. Other nations would need to assassinate. Wonder if this will kick off another round of turnabout is fair play in the world.
Reagan did almost the same thing in Grenada.
George H.W. Bush did the same thing in Panama with Noriega.
It didn’t change anything as far as other countries going after foreign leaders.
Few if any countries could pull something like this off. Many leaders have been assinated by their own security. Sadat in Egypt comes immediately to mind.
My late friend in Grenada said their annual Thanksgiving day was in October on the day the 82nd Airborne parachute in,,she gladly billeted them in her home
No flies in this DOJ. Turns out it can move with lightning speed when the ‘imperative’ exists to do so.
Smartmatic and Dominion
Yep, their machines were used to “elect” that guy too.
I hope the next leader of Venezuela ask President Nayib Bukele for advise and then follows it. Heck, I hope President Trump ask President Bukele for advise and follows it.
What an impressive operation! With no loss of US life. Incredible. This was history unfolding.
Still can’t wrap my head around how such an audacious, complex mission was executed without any leaks!
Easy, no politician was told.
Hegseth/ Cain
I can only imagine how many puckered butt holes there are today. Hope there’s a bunch in this country.
I imagine there are plenty both here and around the world. I think it’s time people start taking our President at his word.
looks like the Nobel Peace Prize winner may be on her way back
Every two bit despot south of the Rio Grande will be sleeping with a gun under his pillow in a bunker for the foreseeable future, affirming that he only lives by the grace of Trump.
Has Judge Boasberg ordered the return of Maduro to VE yet? /s
Monday, I predict
The left just lost a massive source of dirty money and their main tool for rigging elections. My coffee tastes beautiful this morning!
All the Democrats can do is whine as Trump accomplishes many needed changes. The Democrats realize they are losing badly to Trump.
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/dems-say-strike-leading-maduros-capture-was-illegal-despite-past-presidents
Not a good couple weeks for the leftists. They lost Minnesota and Venezuela.
Hoping it’s just the beginning
Can we just clone President Trump and appoint him our permanent leader?
Time for and identical raid on the much more dangerous DC denizens.
Is it too soon to revoke temporary protective status for Venezuelans and start cancelling “refugee” visas?
Venezuela and all Venezuelans should take heed of Zelenskyy’s view that only citizens inside a Venezuelan controlled country can vote in an election.
Time to go home.
Can we do Somalia next?
In Miami- Doral specifically- a lot of Venezuelans were interviewed by telemundo- it’s mostly women and teens and children cheering. Most interviewed said they want to go home to their husbands and brothers who stayed behind since they couldn’t all escape together.
It’s anecdotal- but I bet a lot of Venezuelans will be returning home soon.
President Trump said he wouldn’t support the opposition leader who received the Nobel Peace Prize and then dedicated it to him. Because he doesn’t want her to get killed. Second guess that.
He said in the press conference today that she doesn’t have the support to take over.
President Trump please keep the teams on and go get gold star mother Tina Peters
Since she is in Colorado, send in the Air Force’s Special Tactics Squadron to free her from that prison! 😉
And then send them to arrest the governor! 🙂
One pleasant surprise which can emerge here is solid evidence of the rigging of United States elections from inside Venezuela. Tying the perpetrators to U.S. Democrats would be a joyous occasion to conduct huge trials to put all the American Leftist scoundrels in prison where they belong for the rest of their miserable lives.
So Sad, Too Bad…
Goodbye to Dominican/Smartec Vote Ballot Fraud machines.
They know it.
You need to share this is the reason.
It has absolutely nothing to do with oil except that Iran Mullahs won’t get theirs.
Bad boys lose this round, big time.
….. this was not about Maduro losing power, it was about China losing credibility
https://x.com/Ken_LoveTW/status/2007453144913952804?s=20
I would suspect China will make a move on Taiwan soon.
Great work everyone! Now let’s do the criminals that tried to overthrow our country.