The Venezuela Effect
I can’t stop laughing at all the Democrats hyperventilating about President Trump’s Venezuela operation. I wish I could be more nuanced about this (and perhaps describe the potential pitfalls that lie ahead now that we have taken some “ownership” over the future welfare of the Venezuelan people), but when Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries (the so-called Democrat “leaders” in Congress) are fuming mad that America’s Delta Force dropped into the most heavily fortified compound in Venezuela like invisible ninjas and plucked murderous thug Nicolás Maduro from his slumberous solitude in a matter of minutes, I can barely resist the urge to stand on top of a chair positioned atop my desk and applaud all the remarkable warriors who accomplished this mission.
Consider how many tens of thousands of Venezuelans Maduro and his murderous predecessor, Hugo Chávez, “disappeared” over the years. Now take a moment to appreciate that an elite posse of American warriors operating on land, in the air, and on the sea blew up a temple honoring Chávez (that included his remains) and “disappeared” Maduro for good. If that’s not warrior poetry, I don’t know what else is.
A friend of American Thinker who goes by the online handle “Full Strength” made two excellent points in a previous comment thread: “ONE: Almost every man involved in this operation could have died had the operation failed…TWO: Every participant was critical. In a well coordinated operation the failure of almost any single element of the attack jeopardizes the entire operation.” The enlightened “Full Strength” is entirely correct.
The more details that come out about the “snatch and grab” mission in Caracas, the more incredible the whole mission becomes. On-the-ground spies and naval and aerial surveillance were flawless. The combat pilots hiding behind mountains before springing the attack all had nerves of steel — taking out enemy infrastructure, correctly positioning Delta Force operators for timely extraction, and successfully moving to positions of safety all while under heavy fire.
The Delta Force guys, well, there is no more elite warrior on the planet. Those impossible missions that Tom Cruise pulls off in the movies are ripped from the somewhat secret history of Delta Force’s most spectacular feats. I called them “ninjas” above because no word better describes their unique capabilities. Whether they want you dead or alive, you won’t see them coming. They are in and out before the bodies hit the floor.
I know I’m partisan, but what kind of red-blooded American could read the publicly available mission details and not shout, “Oh, hell yeah!” with a rolled-up fist in the air? What kind of real American doesn’t cheer when a murderous commie gets tossed in an American helicopter like a sack of potatoes? What kind of American could watch live footage of displaced Venezuelans (whose family members have likely been threatened, tortured, or murdered by the Chávez-Maduro regime) celebrating all over the world last weekend and not feel a pinprick of pride or hear a tiny voice gloating, “Yeah, my country did that”?
Apparently, the kind of American who doesn’t celebrate the capture of Maduro is the kind of American who votes for Pete Buttigieg, Kamala Harris, and Zohran Mamdani. People who either identify as communists or proudly associate with communists (and, unfortunately, the Democrat Party is home to tens of millions of these idiots) are very unhappy that President Trump and Secretary of War Hegseth violated the sacred sovereignty of Venezuela.
Strangely, those same people never defend American sovereignty when South America’s club of dictators flood our country with drug runners, slavers, cartel butchers, criminals, and terrorists. For Democrat Party stalwarts, the territorial integrity of communist prisons posing as countries is sacrosanct, inviolable, and hermetically sealed. When the United States tries to protect its own borders, however, well, that’s racist.
Whatever else happens with Venezuela, now is the time to celebrate. Maduro is an evil dude who deserves much worse than he will receive. I would have been happy with inviting the families of everyone Maduro has murdered to an enormous football stadium, dropping off the commie you-know-what in midfield, and letting the crowd tear him to shreds. New York courts have been pretty poor examples of wise jurisprudence over the last fifteen or so years, but they are far better than anything the vile Maduro merits.
Besides, all the right nations are upset. Cuba, Colombia, Mexico, Russia, China, Iran — every nation in the world that thumbs its nose at human rights has taken the time to write a sternly worded social media missive condemning the United States for…checks notes…dispatching an evil dictator who regularly tortured and murdered innocent civilians. Don’t we want those countries to be upset? If China, Cuba, and Iran were celebrating something President Trump had done, we would be in trouble. As it stands, I’d say rage-filled vituperation from some of the most tyrannical nation states in the world is high praise for any people who take pride in calling themselves “free.”
Some Estonian chick who calls herself the Vice-President of the European Commission made sure to announce on X — you know, the Elon Musk-owned platform that the Old World’s aristocrats are currently trying to censor and destroy — that the “EU is closely monitoring the situation in Venezuela.” Uhh…whatever, Kaja. We’ll let you know whether we need to call up a reserve of techno-fascist elites who hate free speech.
Isn’t that all Europe’s political class is capable of doing? To be a successful politician in Europe, you have to excel at writing morally indignant letters, censoring any opinions that the nanny-crats in Brussels don’t like, and opening national borders to invading, barbarian hordes. I’ll take Delta Force over bloated Brussels bureaucracy every day of the week. Besides, Europe hasn’t successfully invaded anything since peasants were forced to use “green” energy while dying from the plague. They are importers of invasion now; they export very little these days.
How to handle the Western Hemisphere shouldn’t be on Europe’s dance card. Most of us over here come from families who escaped the aristocratic tyrannies of Europe centuries ago. Our grandfathers and great-grandfathers may have risked their lives to save Europe from fascism just so ungrateful lords could choose a rebranded (and World Economic Forum-endorsed) “globalist” fascism a few short decades later, but we don’t share the same Western values anymore. Eurocrat snobs have more in common with Chávez and Maduro than they do with Washington, Jefferson, or Madison.
Rather than worrying about how we sort things out on this side of the moat, it would be far better for the Brussels gang to figure out how not to commit continental suicide by inviting third-world rapists into their lands, depriving their own peoples of inherent freedoms, killing domestic industry with inane “green” energies, and cavalierly engaging in war with Russia.
Oh, more good news from the Venezuela operation: Both Iran’s “Supreme Leader” Ali Khamenei and Colombia’s communist terrorist-turned-el-presidente Gustavo Petro are freaking out about the possibility of the Delta ninjas sending them to Hell soon. The “ayatollah” is reportedly preparing to bug out to Moscow, and the diminutive “guerrilla” is hoping the Democrats in Congress will save his hide. Democrats do love protecting Islamic fundamentalists and communist murderers, so reaching out to Comrades Schumer and Jeffries probably is in both tyrants’ best interests.
Still, President Trump is in the White House, and he’s just so darn unpredictable. And the Delta ninjas are just so darn lethal. And the U.S. military’s “capture or kill” mission in Venezuela was just so darn successful. My guess is that anyone who has stupidly aligned himself with America’s enemies won’t be sleeping well for quite some time.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/01/the_venezuela_effect.html