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Trump Doctrine Rebuilds Fortress America

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Trump Rebuilds Fortress America - a Masterful Exercise of Realpolitik Multitasking Trump takes Venezuela while warning global rivals
The Strategic Necessity of Taking Out Maduro

J.B. Shurk
American Thinker
4 January 2026

Article category: National News

Tags: internationalcrimecartelsdrugsPresidentsocialism

Excerpts are included below - read the original complete article
... President Trump reportedly warned the Venezuelan dictator weeks ago
that if he refused to peacefully relinquish power and go into exile, the American military would reach down and collect him like an arm coming
from the sky. As Vice President Vance dryly observed, "Maduro is the
newest person to find out that President Trump means what he says."

Hopefully this decapitation strike upon Venezuela's illegitimate
government serves as a warning to all communists and narcoterrorists in positions of power along latitudinal lines below AmericarCOs southern
border: Your days of endangering the Western Hemisphere are numbered...

For twenty-five years, the communist regime in Venezuela has been a
constant source of chaos in the Western Hemisphere. After stealing
American infrastructure built as an investment in the country, first
Ch|ivez and then Maduro turned Venezuela into a South American hub for exporting drugs, murder, slavery, terrorism, and organized crime into
the United States...

However else one thinks of the president, he is a multitasker
extraordinaire, and most of those who served before him were pikers by comparison.

To secure the Western Hemisphere, we didn't need a new Monroe Doctrine.
We just needed a new president.

Related

Law Professor Jonathan Turley: Trump Did Not Need Congressional Approval
to Capture Maduro (Video), by Mike LaChance, Gateway Pundit, 3 January
2026. Legal precedence is on Trump's side.

Nine Reasons Why Trump's Venezuela Operation Is Great for America, by J. Michael Waller, American Greatness, 4 January 2026:

... 1. It took out the head of a major international organized crime
cartel. The cartel, which the US has labeled the "Cartel de los Soles,"
or Cartel of the Suns, is responsible for cocaine trafficking into the
United States. Maduro had turned the upper levels of the Venezuelan government, military, and security services into a huge organized crime entity. The Department of Justice is prosecuting Maduro and others for
running what a federal grand jury indictment calls "a corrupt and
violent narco-terrorism conspiracy."...

2. It took out the leader who flooded the United States with hardened criminals, organized terrorist gangs like Tren de Aragua, and millions
of refugees. Once a new leadership is established in Venezuela, the
country can take back its criminals and terrorists, and its refugees can return home and rebuild.

3. It took out the leader of an international terrorist organization.
Maduro's Cartel of the Suns is a federally designated foreign terrorist organization, or FTO, which the State Department said is rCLresponsible
for terrorist violence throughout our hemisphere.rCY

4. It took out the sponsor of Hezbollah and other jihadists on our
southern maritime border...

5. It took out the sponsor of Iranian surveillance and kamikaze drones
on our southern maritime border...

6. It deprived Communist China of plans to deploy its navy around
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and the Panama Canal...

8. It restored and modernized our 200-year-old Monroe Doctrine...

9. The operation was not a war...



The Strategic Necessity of Taking Out Maduro, by Cynical Publius,
American Greatness, 5 January 2026:

... Under the illegitimate Maduro regime, Venezuela had become the Latin American crossroads for all of the USA's principal enemies. Maduro was nurturing relationships with Russia, Hezbollah, and Iran. Worst of all, Venezuela was eagerly becoming a part of Red ChinarCOs Belt & Road Initiative.

As America's enemies were lining up Venezuela as their base of
operations in the Western Hemisphere to cause mischief and destruction
for the USA, Maduro was at the same time making Venezuela a trafficking
point, safe haven, and enabler for all manner of narcoterrorist
operations, ranging from Colombia's FARC to MexicorCOs Sinaloa cartel to Venezuela's homegrown cartel, Cartel de los Soles.

On top of all that, Venezuela had become a key player in the illegal
alien invasion of the USA, shipping members of its very worst gangs to
the USA in a deliberate and comprehensive destabilizing operation that
might have worked had Donald Trump not won in 2024.

Venezuela's oil is of equal significance. The global and regional
ambitions of both China and Russia are, in large part, dependent on the politics of petroleum, and the USA just deprived both of the cudgel
afforded by friendly Venezuelan oil...

The reality is that the Maduro takedown was a Monroe Doctrine-driven
necessity that has greatly enhanced the national security of the USA.

This was brilliant realpolitik on the part of President Trump and his
team, and it has greatly enhanced AmericarCOs national security with zero casualties in what was a textbook example of the unique military
capabilities that only America possesses...

How Snatching Maduro Screws Up Everyone Else's Plans - Lemme Count the
Ways, by Beege Welborn, HotAir, 5 January 2025:

... The importance of the Venezuelan pipeline to the Cuban communist
regime cannot be underestimated. Cuba didn't buy oil from Venezuela - it
was given to them...

... the Castro regime didn't just use Venezuelan oil to keep the lights
on; they used it as a major source of income by selling the surplus...

... there are somewhere in the neighborhood of 15,000 Cuban intelligence
and security operatives, not to mention medical professionals who were 'leased' to Maduro as another source of hard cash, who are now fleeing
back to a crumbling Cuba...

When the strategic fuel reserves run dry in roughly 20 days, the Cuban military effectively loses its mobility...

There was a multi-billion-dollar, pseudo-clandestine cooperative drone
program between the two countries that had been running with impunity
for years. Iranian designs were manufactured in Venezuelan factories
overseen by Iranian management and scientists. An article from this past September is pretty illuminating and should have been alarming, had it
been more widely disseminated.

VenezuelarCOs drone industry, built on Iranian designs, is still overseen
by Iranian specialists who block local staff from entering without permission... The program has since produced reconnaissance, armed and kamikaze drones modeled on Iranian systems...

China, as I noted in my earlier post, now has a real problem on its road
to Taiwan conquest. With the US in control of one of its two sources of
oil and the other - Iran - looking as if the China-friendly regime there
is not long for this world, Xi may literally not have the gas to go to
war...
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