The Venezuelan oil industry has been “a total bust” for a long time, according to Donald Trump. After attacking Caracas and taking the country’s leader captive, Trump promised to take control of Venezuela’s oil industry with the help of America’s biggest oil companies.
Venezuela’s beleaguered oil industry could “make a lot of money” with the might of the US behind it, Trump told the press, claiming that the new regime would invest billions to revive its fortunes.
An increasingly aggressive Russia coupled with China’s growing influence have renewed Canada’s focus on Arctic defence and sovereignty — and how to assert control over its remote northern geography.
The focus is on both increased surveillance — knowing what and who is poking around up there — and having military assets in place to deter any aggressor before they consider operating in Canada’s North.
Venezuela North aka Canada can’t or won’t ensure arctic sovereignty leaving it wide open for incursion by our CCP shadow rulers and their Russian pals.
When the US intercedes to stop this massive threat they will be declared Imperialist Aggressors worse than Hitler etc.
The deputy director of the US’s biggest Muslim civil rights and advocacy group warns that Republican governors’ steps to declare his organization a “terrorist organization” won’t stop with the Muslim community.
“No governor should have the power to unilaterally declare a civil rights or advocacy group he disagrees with a terrorist organization, take punitive action against them, all in violation of due process and free speech,” Edward Ahmed Mitchell, the deputy director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, told the Guardian this month. “If any governor can get away with abusing that kind of power, then no organization is safe.”
In November, the Texas governor Greg Abbott designated Cair and the Muslim Brotherhood, the century-old movement founded in Egypt and active through chapters overseas, “foreign terrorist and transnational criminal organizations”. The Florida governor Ron DeSantis issued a similar order in early December.
The Donroe Doctrine has been put into action and the United States has re-entered the business of regime change in the Americas. Canada can’t keep sitting on our hands and hoping it will all work out.
Late Friday night, American might pounded military installations across Venezuela while helicopters full of special forces descended on Caracas to snatch dictator Nicolas Maduro.
It is the culmination of a pressure and extrajudicial killing campaign targeted at the Venezuelan state, and the best illustration yet that America is fully committed to enacting the “Trump Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine it unveiled late last year.
Well said
pic.twitter.com/bUkQoeENCe— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 4, 2026
The woke left and woke right are coming out in force to defend Nicholas Maduro and to attack Donald Trump for his operation to arrest him and bring him to the United States.
There is still much to learn about the operation, but by all accounts, it was one of the most audacious and successful operations in memory. Venezuela was warned ahead of time that the US intended to depose Maduro, and there has been a massive military buildup over the past several months. Russia and China have been sending weapons and advisors, yet despite all the help of our adversaries and prior warning, the US went in, captured Maduro, and left with hardly a scratch.
“Man of the people”
Defund the CBC pic.twitter.com/OnyG2FyLaA
— Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 (@ryangerritsen) January 4, 2026
Carney is getting hammered in the comments
I think you’re afraid you’re next. pic.twitter.com/XslURalL3q
— Bruce (@bruce_barrett) January 3, 2026
h/t Mauser
The nation of Venezuela is estimated to have the largest oil reserves in the entire world, and Donald Trump announced today that the United States not only captured Venezuela’s dictator, it will be taking over the country’s oil infrastructure.
The swift and sudden collapse of the Maduro regime is a massive punch to the nose for China, Russia, Iran, and all of our most violent enemies. But more practically for millions of Americans, it could also have a huge impact on our global energy dominance and gas prices. And that also, of course, is a source of concern to our enemies.
Trump is backing regime change in oil-rich Venezuela. Canada, beware
Donald Trump doesn’t want Canada’s aluminum, steel, lumber or cars. Could oil emerge next on this tariff-fuelled northern hate list? It might if he can find substitute supplies. How about Venezuela’s? Going after Venezuela’s alleged narco-traffickers alone does not justify the formidable U.S. military buildup off the country’s waters; going after its oil might.
The biggest U.S. armada assembled since the 1991 Gulf War is steaming off Venezuela’s coast. The array of weapons in the southern Caribbean and on nearby military bases includes the USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s largest aircraft carrier, guided-missile destroyers, amphibious assault ships and – ominously – equipment, including Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft, that is used by elite special forces. Various reports say those forces might include soldiers trained in risky infiltration missions, seizing airfields among them.
@fancypants_s https://t.co/33YB0edMW6
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) January 3, 2026
h/y Patti Jo
The United States’s highest-ranking military officer on Saturday briefed the country on the lightning attack Washington carried out on Venezuela overnight.
General Dan Caine, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, revealed details about the elite operation that successfully captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro during a press conference alongside President Donald Trump.
A stunning U.S. raid to capture Venezuela’s president came after a group of amateur intelligence analysts argued that satellite images reveal a Venezuelan launch site that could send ballistic missiles as far north as Washington, D.C.
There was no indication that the American attack had anything to do with the subject of the group’s claims, which the U.S. military dismissed earlier as “speculative” and one top expert rated as plausible but unproven by the evidence.
Sounds a bit like Canada …
— Jd (@JdeJ555) January 3, 2026
h/t Clink9
Many world leaders whined Saturday over the capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and his wife, claiming the clandestine US mission was an unnecessary use of force — despite a legal precedent for it.
Allies Russia, Iran, China and Colombia were among the nations lining up Saturday to demand the Trump administration release Maduro and first lady Cilia Flores, who were headed to New York City to face federal charges of narcoterrorism.
NEW: Woman whose older brother was k*lled in Venezuela starts bawling, thanks President Trump for capturing Nicolás Maduro.
“So many years waiting for this,” she said in Miami, Florida.
“We’ve been here eight years now because they k*lled our older brother… they kidnapped my… pic.twitter.com/ABOpyxCPEr
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) January 3, 2026
Trump’s toppling of Maduro is fraught with risk – what happens next is unclear
The US may want many of its foes gone from power. It doesn’t usually send in the military and physically remove them.
Venezuela’s abrupt awakening took two forms.
Its residents were woken abruptly to the sound of deafening booms: the sound of its capital Caracas under attack from US strikes targeting military infrastructure.
Which world leaders have been captured by US previously
The reported capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has placed him among a small and controversial group of world leaders seized by the United States, reviving memories of past U.S. intervention that reshaped entire regions.
With his capture, Maduro would join figures such as Iraq’s Saddam Hussein and Panama’s Manuel Noriega, whose arrests marked defining moments in US foreign policy.
It can’t be a coincidence that Trump captured Maduro while a Chinese delegation was still in Venezuela to meet with him.
Trump is making a clear statement.
He’s going after the cabal’s controlled puppets, the “paper tigers”.
Imagine all the military ops we never hear about. pic.twitter.com/fsmg4diZmk
— Kab (@Kabamur_Taygeta) January 3, 2026
Maduro Perp Walk
Maduro perp walk. pic.twitter.com/e1Maaun5EK
— Paul Mauro (@PaulDMauro) January 4, 2026
h/t Mauser
President Donald Trump joined Fox & Friends Saturday morning to discuss the U.S. operation to capture Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro.
President Trump praised U.S. forces who participated in the execution and planning of the operation, saying that “no other country on Earth could pull it off”
… After Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum condemned the U.S. operation, President Trump issued a stern rebuttal.
.@POTUS: “She’s a good woman, but the cartels are running Mexico. She’s not running Mexico — the cartels are running Mexico.” https://t.co/YQOjteYLHi pic.twitter.com/ciCN3m33Vd
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) January 3, 2026
Obama and Clinton did not seek congressional authorization to wage an 8-month long war in Libya.
“We came, we saw, he died,” they chortled as they violated the War Powers Resolution.
— Bluesky Libs (@BlueskyLibs) January 3, 2026
“Today begins a new era,” declared Zohran Mamdani upon his swearing in yesterday as New York City’s 112th mayor. “Beginning today, we will govern expansively and audaciously. We may not always succeed. But never will we be accused of lacking the courage to try.”
Inaugural ceremonies aren’t usually a forum for deep deliberation and rational discourse. But a new leader’s words are rarely disconnected from his underlying philosophy. Mamdani’s inaugural comments therefore give us an idea of what to expect: claiming to represent “all” New Yorkers, the new mayor will work quickly to push through decisions unpopular at best, and harmful at worst.
The Venezuelan dictator was in a supposed safe house when the Delta Force commandos burst in just after 2am and snatched him and his wife, before his security team had time to secure the property’s final defence of two heavy steel doors. Even if they had, the Americans were armed with blowtorches.
Within minutes Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores were being flown by helicopter across a moonlit Caribbean Sea to the USS Iwo Jima, an amphibious assault ship. They are expected to be sent to a New
York federal detention centre before facing trial on drug trafficking charges.
The swiftness of the capture has led to speculation that Maduro may have been betrayed by someone in his inner circle. His personal security was understood to have been overseen by Cuba.
Trump says US oil companies will spend billions in Venezuela to revive their infrastructure.
For Canada, this means we can kiss capital investments in our industry goodbye. That is unless China comes looking for out oil, but a pivot to China is dangerous. pic.twitter.com/aqLtKaD1ya— Brian Lilley (@brianlilley) January 3, 2026
Have you ever wondered why Democrats are so aggressively defending rampant fraud in Minnesota? Why Gov. Tim Walz so desperately wants to handle the investigation on his own? There’s a simple explanation: it has nothing to do with protecting vulnerable communities or fighting discrimination. Democrats are shielding these schemes because they profit directly from them.
The US has captured Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro after a large scale strike on the South American country, US President Donald Trump has said.
Trump said Venezuela’s left-wing president and his wife were flown out of the country in a military operation in conjunction with US law enforcement. They have been charged with drug and weapons offences in New York.
It comes after explosions were reported across the capital Caracas in the early hours of Saturday morning, including at military bases.
BBC live feed – US launches strikes on Venezuela, captures President Maduro and charges him with drug offences
CBS Live Feed – U.S. launches military strikes on Venezuela, Trump says Maduro captured and flown out of the country
Venezuelans gather in Chilean capital to celebrate news of US operation
“Come celebrate with us , We love everybody because you America has loved us so much. Thank you America.”
Venezuela is celebrating the capture of tyrant President Nicolas Maduro pic.twitter.com/u0SRmkDlg8
— 112 Fighting Sports (@112FIGHTNSPORTS) January 3, 2026
🚨 BREAKING: Venezuelans in Miami have gathered to celebrate the U.S. capture of Nicolas Maduro
His rein of terrorism and narco trafficking is OFFICIALLY OVER.
🔥🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 3, 2026
Trump says Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, wife ‘captured’ after large-scale strikes
Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores were captured by US forces during a “large-scale” nighttime military operation early Saturday, President Trump announced.
“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,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
US captures Maduro, carries out ‘large scale strike’ in Venezuela
President Donald Trump said the U.S. “successfully carried out a large scale strike against Venezuela” and said Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife were “captured and flown out of the Country.”
The announcement on Trump’s social media platform came shortly before 4:30 a.m. Saturday a few hours after several explosions were heard in Venezuela’s capital city of Caracas, witnesses said, and photos and videos showed plumes of smoke and a large fireball in the night sky.
h/t PA Cat, Canuknucklehead™, patthedog
We now have a written copy of the Donroe Doctrine, and it makes for some unnerving reading.
The National Security Strategy serves as America’s written foreign policy, laying out priorities and concerns and revealing how the United States intends to both co-operate with its allies and compete with its adversaries. The first such document of Donald Trump’s second presidency dropped in early December, and it’s a salmagundi of a thing, inscrutable and contradictory.
