THE MORNING RANT: Regime Toppling is the Proper Response to Despots Engaged in Terror & Asymmetric Warfare Against the U.S.

The big news this weekend was that the head of the snake was cut off from a communist dictatorship here in the Americas. Of more importance, this serpent, Nicolas Maduro, had been conducting asymmetrical warfare against the U.S. by flooding our borders with deadly drugs and hardened criminals.

Others will be providing exceptional analysis of what lies ahead, but I’ll just briefly mention that while I heartily reject any more “forever wars” like we did in the Bush-era, I absolutely endorse taking out the leadership of hostile regimes which are actively engaged in the killing of American citizens on U.S. soil. Maduro was at war with the United States. His arrest was the polite option.

I have seen Maduro’s war on U.S. civilians up close and personal. A client of mine lost a child to a drug overdose, and my wife has had to comfort two very good friends who lost children due to lethal drug ingestion.

In addition, Tren de Aragua used Biden’s open border to start operating throughout Tennessee. Maduro’s crime cartel has been engaged in sex slavery and other crimes near where I live: “Member of Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua, arrested in Chattanooga” [Fox 17 Nashville – 11/25/2024]

Maduro brought death and destruction to American soil. He had to be removed.

I have written before that Colin Powell’s concept of “we broke it, we bought it” is flawed when it comes to international uses of American military power. Instead, if we find ourselves having to “break it,” we have no obligation “to buy it.” But if we can peacefully transition Venezuela away from being a communist adversary to being a friendly neighbor, that is certainly desirable.

More importantly, we don’t necessarily have to “break it” with widespread destruction, as shown in both the Iran strikes and now in Venezuela. Maduro in Venezuela and the mullahs in Iran had been correct in assessing that Americans don’t have the stomach for any more multi-year, nation-building ventures, therefore they felt empowered to support terror and asymmetric war against the United States. Destroying a despot’s ability to govern and inflict terror is much cleaner than killing tens of thousands of conscripts.

Perhaps more importantly, liberating Venezuela from Maduro also takes out an ally of China in our hemisphere. The Monroe Doctrine is perhaps more important today than it was two centuries ago. We cannot tolerate China’s or other BRIC navies being in control of the coastal waters off of Latin America.

In fact, this is a very good time to focus our international strategies on the western hemisphere. At this moment, in which the Christian citizenry of Latin America is celebrating the removal of an international communist, the atheist/secular/Islamist power structure in Europe is condemning Maduro’s removal.

Maduro was also a close ally of Russia and Vladimir Putin. All those Democrats and media partisans who spent the past decade pushing Hillary Clinton’s hoax that Trump is a Putin stooge must be having a hard time digesting the news that Trump, looking out for America’s best interests, just poked Putin in the eye.

“Russia harshly criticizes US attack on Venezuela, capture of Maduro” [The Hill – 01/03/2026]

Russia is offering stark criticism of the U.S. military attack on Venezuela, which resulted in the capture of President Nicolas Maduro.

“This morning, the United States carried out an act of armed aggression against Venezuela. This causes deep concern and condemnation,” Russia said in a statement from its Foreign Ministry.

By taking out the communist leadership in Venezuela, and with the imminent(?) toppling of the Iranian mullocracy, a very powerful message has been sent to any despot who wants to cause harm to the United States. As Zineb Riboua said, “At the end of the day, it is absolutely crucial for any leader around the globe to believe that the United States can get him if it wants to. That belief is deterrence. And that type of willpower is the backbone of national security.”

America’s national security has been strengthened by the removal of Maduro. Any foreign leader who continues to engage in asymmetric warfare against American civilians should strongly reconsider the consequence of what s/he is doing.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

posted by Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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