In the wee small hours of January 3, Canada’s economic future sustained a serious blow.
It was at that time that American law enforcement, supported by the US Army’s Delta Force, apprehended the brutal Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro in Caracas, enforcing a years-old indictment for narco-terrorism, drug trafficking, and related offenses.
(Incognito)
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., declared herself to be “Somalia First.” Soyboy Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey danced before a group of Somalis on stage waving the Somali flag of Minnesota in a parody of pandering. Not to be outdone, Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan recently dressed in a hijab and extolled how “the Somali community is part of the fabric of the state of Minnesota.” These videos need to be encased in glass and paraded through the country, displayed like Tutankhamen’s treasures were in 1977 as a glorious open window into what the left is.
For years, the Cuban regime has insisted that its presence in Venezuela was benign—limited to doctors, nurses, and sports trainers offering humanitarian solidarity. The deaths of 32 Cuban military and intelligence personnel while defending Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro have now shattered that fiction.
As early as March 2019, Cuba’s ambassador to Canada, Josefina Vidal, appeared on CBC News to denounce Canadian reporting on Cuba’s security intervention in Venezuela. She dismissed the claims outright: “The assertion that thousands of Cubans would allegedly be inserted into the structures of the armed and security forces of Venezuela, supporting the government of (legitimate) President Nicolás Maduro, is a scandalous slander,” she said, demanding proof.
Those who equate democratic action with tyrannical abuse in the name of international law will not be remembered as cautious but as complicit.
The United States’ decision to act decisively against Nicolás Maduro has already triggered a familiar chorus of condemnation. Once again, the language of “international law” is being weaponized not to defend human dignity but to protect tyranny.
This moment is not unprecedented. In 1989, the United States intervened militarily in Panama to remove Manuel Noriega, a narco-dictator who had turned a sovereign state into a criminal enterprise. Then, as now, critics warned of catastrophic precedents. Then, as now, they were wrong.
History judged that intervention not as an act of imperialism, but as the overdue enforcement of accountability when all other mechanisms had failed. President George H. W. Bush understood what many of today’s Western leaders appear to have forgotten: that law divorced from justice degenerates into farce.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The new year began with a stark demonstration of U.S. power on Jan. 3 when American forces conducted a military raid in Caracas to seize Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro.
While many were shocked by the aggressive operation, the White House had already signalled its intentions for the Western Hemisphere. Late last year, the Trump administration issued its National Security Strategy (NSS), declaring a will to “reassert and enforce the Monroe Doctrine to restore American preeminence in the Western Hemisphere, and to protect our homeland and our access to key geographies throughout the region.”
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the Islamic Republic of Iran may seem an unlikely pairing in the effort to make sense of the world at the moment, but the dramatic events unfolding in these two decrepit kleptocracies aren’t just coinciding in an inconvenient competition for front-page headlines.
It’s all part of the same story. If you get it wrong you’ll end up badly misreading U.S. President Donald Trump’s theatrically brilliant exfiltration of the Venezuelan caudillo Nicolás Maduro over the weekend. You might even conclude that the United States is truly “locked and loaded and ready to go,” as Trump himself put it last Friday, to defend Iran’s protesters against the Khomeinist regime’s guns.
Occam’s razor is the principle that the most plausible explanation of events is the simplest. Most often this is true. To account for Donald Trump, however, we need a different hermeneutical instrument.
Say hello to Occam’s kazoo: the principle that the most plausible explanation, so far as Mr. Trump is involved, is invariably the stupidest. To understand his motives in any given situation, pick the most aggressively simple-minded, crudely self-serving, absurdly moronic rationale you can think of. You will not be far wrong.
Coyne needs help.
Utter bullshit. Contemptible, criminal, murderous bullshit. https://t.co/3GXyqkByDT
— Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 (@acoyne) January 7, 2026
President Trump says video of an ICE officer fatally shooting a woman — later identified as Renee Nicole Good, 37 — in Minneapolis on Wednesday morning is “a horrible thing to watch” but says the woman “viciously ran over the ICE officer,” a claim disputed by witnesses.
The mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, used a coarse expression to describe any claim of self-defense. ICE officers have flooded the city in recent days in show of force, and Homeland Security says they were carrying out “targeted operations” on Wednesday when the deadly confrontation played out.
OMG. Tim Walz just said he would use the state national guard against ICE😳 pic.twitter.com/oHiIo2bUWj
— Carl Higbie (@CarlHigbie) January 7, 2026
Failing to intervene would have allowed a narco-terrorist state to wreak havoc at our doorstep.
On Saturday, President Trump ordered the capture and arrest of Nicolas Maduro. The American military successfully extradited the Venezuelan leader to New York, where he awaits trial in federal court.
While skeptics charge that Trump is simply making an oil grab, the facts paint a different picture. America’s intervention in Venezuela could enhance U.S. security, liberate an oppressed nation, and expand freedom in our hemisphere.
🤣🤣🤣🎯👇 pic.twitter.com/tA218BTIZW
— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) January 6, 2026
The good news about the U.S. abduction of Nicolás Maduro is that Venezuela is finally rid of a corrupt, violent and buffoonish leader.
The bad news is that the country may soon be under the power of another corrupt, violent and buffoonish leader — Donald Trump — who is itching to use his military might on other countries in the Western Hemisphere.
That means nervous calculations are taking place in the capitals of the countries he has threatened: Havana, Bogota, Mexico City, Ottawa and Copenhagen.
Ginned up outrage. The Star uses a pic of an astro-turfed demo and didn’t Maher once compare Antifa extremists with the men who landed on D-Day.
President Donald Trump’s stunning moves against Venezuela on January 3 are sparking concerns that China may soon move against Taiwan.
Trump on December 16 imposed a “total and complete blockade” on sanctioned oil tankers entering or leaving Venezuela, and some expressed their belief that his actions could make it easier for China to impose similar measures on Taiwan, which China claims as its own.
“If the U.S. blockades to change political outcomes in Venezuela, China can justify coercive measures against Taiwan on so-called security grounds,” Craig Singleton of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies told Reuters. “The legal contexts differ, but the propaganda opening is real.”
The far, far left in power in Washington has begun a full-court press operation to hide information about Somali daycare or adult centers in Washington state. The state, the city of Seattle, and legislators in Olympia are more concerned about Somali fraud making the news than they are about the rip-off of American taxpayers.
After Donald Trump’s audacious attack on Venezuela, the prospect of American incursion into the Arctic territory, long mooted, seems more plausible
Delivering his state of the union speech last year, President Trump ruminated about the seizure of more than 800,000 square miles of territory from a Nato ally.
The “incredible people of Greenland”, he told Congress in March, had every right to determine their own future, and if they were to decide that this future lay within the United States, so much the better.
“We need it, really, for international world security,” Trump added. “One way or the other, we’re going to get it.”
I suspect a lot of TDS is motivated by the fact Trump reminds entire nations they are unable to police their own streets.
Careful what you wish for.
He just threatened Trump..
Austria’s NATO Committee Chairman Fehlinger says if President Trump Annexes Greenland, they would confiscate ALL bases in Europe
He can shove it up his lederhosenhttps://t.co/pSm9ud4l0Q
— MJTruthUltra (@MJTruthUltra) January 6, 2026
SOON the people of Greenland will be free. pic.twitter.com/5efVs2iz5w
— George (@BehizyTweets) January 6, 2026
A woman has been shot and killed by ICE in what Homeland Security says was an act of ‘domestic terrorism.’
The unidentified woman was shot after allegedly trying to ram officers with her car ‘in an attempt to kill them’ during ICE’s operations in Minneapolis, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told the Daily Mail in a statement.
DHS said she ‘weaponized her vehicle’ while ‘attempting to run over our law enforcement officers.’
Shooting …
“Get out of your car” proceeds to put the car in park and drive right at the ICE officer. This was obviously a lawful justified shooting. We aren’t going to let little-Somalia (AKA Minneapolis) start another national riot. pic.twitter.com/n6VO0UNaZW
— Rush (@Rush1776Rush) January 7, 2026
Regarding the ICE shooting. The image on the left would have been the media narrative without X. It would have dominated every news network. By the time we would have been able to debunk it, the "hands up, don't shoot" lie would have spread. With X, the media lies lose power. pic.twitter.com/wl2DhmvVSM
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) January 7, 2026
Breaking — Chaos in Minneapolis as ICE agents deploy crowd control munitions on unruly agitators interfering with enforcement operations.
Tension has increased following reports of an ICE-involved shooting. Details unclear.pic.twitter.com/PFds1rXrih
— Katie Daviscourt 📸 (@KatieDaviscourt) January 7, 2026
Happy New Year. Or not, depending on where you find yourself these days. If you’re deposed Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, that’s in a cell in Brooklyn, N.Y. If you’re U.S. President Donald Trump, that’s on the catbird seat in Washington, D.C. And if you’re Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, that’s on a tightrope in Ottawa, trying to strike the right note with an ally that looks more like an aggressor every day.
