On 03 January 2026 Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, attorney Cilia Flores, were captured from the Presidential Palace in the capital city of Caracas by Delta Force commandos at 2 AM local time and whisked aboard the USS Iwo Jima to be flown north to the Big Apple where they now await trail for charges of narco-terrorism, cocaine distribution and possession of machine guns. Dubbed “Operation Absolute Resolve,” the raid began with the bombing of seven military centers around the capital and the targeting of electrical infrastructure which left the capital city in a “total blackout” for days. Tactical details remain sketchy and impossible to verify, leaving the American public with little but the corporate media’s “official” narrative supplied by the military.
But Operation Absolute Resolve was not about drugs or machine guns or narco-terrorism or maintaining law and order. It wasn’t even really about Venezuela’s oil reserves. The reasons for the latest round of military adventurism in the Caribbean are obscured behind countless onion layers. And just like an onion, getting close to the core means unleashing an odor that will cause many to cry. Thus we peel back the first layer of this geopolitical onion and address the continuity of government in Venezuela.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERE WAS NO REGIME CHANGE?
Despite popular belief, kidnapping Maduro did not result in regime change. The government and military of Venezuela remain intact and the popular support for Maduro by his fellow countrymen only increased. Venezuela’s officials are openly defying Washington’s demands to cease trading with China, Russia, Iran and Cuba. Maduro’s vice president, Delcy Rodríguez (whose father was tortured to death under the old US-backed regime, spent a lifetime enduring US sanctions and was named interim president following Maduro’s capture) swore she would follow Maduro’s policies where he left off, as did the other members of his government:
After Maduro’s capture, his right-hand man and Minister of the Interior, Diosdado Cabello, was on state TV calling on Venezuelans to resist American aggression. Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez announced that he had activated and mobilized all of Venezuela’s military capabilities. And Maduro’s Vice President Delcy Rodríguez—who was sworn in as acting president on Monday—made a defiant appearance on state TV in the hours after the American operation, saying Venezuela will “never be the colony of any empire,” and that Maduro remained the country’s legitimate president.”
Nevertheless, the Trump Administration wasted no time threatening acting President Rodríguez, saying she will “pay a very big price” if she fails to “do what we (the American Empire) want.” The White House declared that America will now control Venezuela and “take back” the Venezuelan oil reserves. Trump vowed that the, “U.S. could run Venezuela for years”, pledging an “indefinite” stake in the Latin American country’s energy industry and even posted an image on social media describing himself as the “Acting President of Venezuela”.
Maduro’s capture followed months of Naval blockades and missile strikes against fishing vessels in the name of the war on drugs. In late August 2025, the United States deployed 4,500 sailors and multiple naval vessels to the Gulf, and on 16 December 2025 the White House ordered the “total and complete blockade” of Venezuela, designating it’s government as a “foreign terrorist organization.”
The New York Times admitted way back in September 2025 that regime change in Venezuela was the goal. Another regime-change promised, at the very least, to quell the Jeffrey Epstein rebellion within the MAGA movement, echoing back to James Madison’s postulation that, “Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended.”
Throughout 2025 the Trump Administration targeted fishing boats while alleging they were transporting drugs. But the boats targeted were tiny outboards that would have to refuel dozens of times to make it across the Gulf to American shores. And despite claims resonating from Capitol Hill, there aren’t any concrete details about these boats:
No stopping of the boat to search it. No arrests. No grand-jury indictments. No trials in federal district court. None of that. On Trump’s orders, his military drug-war goons dutifully, loyally, and obediently fired military projectiles at the boat knowing full well that they would be killing all of the boat’s occupants. In my opinion, that’s just murder, pure and simple.
Some of the boat strikes were so-called “double taps” meaning that a drone would strike a boat and then circle back to finish off any survivors floundering in the water. But the fact that noncombatants were targeted is simply unacceptable by every metric, and the strikes were thus unlawful:
George D. O’Neill Jr. observed back in October 2025 that the targeting of small boats in the Caribbean was illegal in just about every conceivable jurisdiction, be it American Constitution, the UN charter, Nuremberg Code, International Maritime Law, et cetera.
Since September 2025, the American military launched 30 missile strikes killing at least 107 innocent people from Colombia, Ecuador, and the Caribbean islands as part of Operation Southern Spear. To describe the deployment of aircraft carrier fleets and F-35 fighter jets as “operational overkill” for a simple drug interdiction task force would be a gross understatement:
Using $40 billion carrier battle groups to blow-up cocaine-transiting speed boats is simply the stupidest, most irrational action ever conceived on the banks of the Potomac.
By December, America’s navy began seizing Venezuelan oil tankers in the name of sanctioning alleged involvement in the Iranian oil trade, designating them as “ghost fleets” or “dark fleets”. The US Navy embraced outright piracy with the seizure of oil tankers in international waters. So far, at least seven tankers have been commandeered including the Skipper, the Centuries, the Bella 1 (a Russian-flagged tanker formerly called the Marinera and shadowed by the Russian Navy), the Olina, the M Sophia, the Sagitta and the Bertha. After stealing Venezuela’s oil, the United States then sold it at a discount to China and Israel, as admitted by Energy Secretary Chris Wright.
In a desperate effort to make the charges against Maduro stick, the technocratic braintrust now alleges that Venezuela’s oil exports must be seized because they’re key to funding the alleged drug trafficking:
And, in case you had hopes these fools actually know what they’re doing, Mike Waltz, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, asserted, right in front of the latest emergency U.N. Security Council meet on Venezuela, that the U.S. was hijacking those oil tankers in international waters because selling oil was how Maduro was financing drug trafficking.
The Trump Administration’s complete disregard for the rule of law is a phenomenon built up by decades of American Presidents and their lawyers breaking laws while selectively enforcing them against their adversaries. But the hypocritical double standards bloviated by Team Trump entered the theater of the absurd when President Trump responded to a question regarding the limits on his military adventurism, saying, “Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.”
This attitude smacks of the now infamous Unitary Executive Theory popularized by Dick Cheney and William Barr; a legal interpretation perhaps best summarized by Richard Nixon’s sentiment during his post-presidency interviews with David Frost that, “When the President does it, it’s not illegal.”
Following Maduro’s abduction, countless legal experts concluded that, “The attack is illegal under both US law and international law” and that there is “no credible basis” for the interventions despite decades of increasing surgical strikes, accelerated black operations, and an endless array of color revolutions that together establish unfortunate but longstanding legal precedents:
After all, there is no chance whatsoever that Trump’s Justice Department will seek criminal charges against Trump and his military killers. Even if it did, there is no possibility whatsoever that the U.S. Supreme Court would permit the charges to stand, given the extreme deference that the Court has always paid to the U.S. national-security establishment. The International Criminal Court has no jurisdiction over U.S. officials and even if it did, there is no doubt that Trump and his military drug-war goons would ignore any criminal proceeding against them anyway.
Marduro’s capture and courtroom spectacle is strikingly reminiscent of how Israelis abducted Adolf Eichmann from Argentina and took him to Israel for trial in the 1960’s, or how Manuel Noriega was similarly captured and prosecuted in the 1980’s:
“Basically, the courts said it was illegal to kidnap him (Eichmann) and bring him here, but now that he’s here, it doesn’t mean we have to stop the trial. The mere fact that he (Maduro) was kidnapped and illegally brought to the US will not prevent the criminal trial from going forward.”
Can the US prosecute a head of state? –“I expect that to be litigated in the federal court, before trial. The Trump administration’s position, obviously, is that he doesn’t have immunity [because they don’t view him as the head of state].” … Brunk said that a legal precedent for Maduro’s case is that of Manuel Noriega, who was an unelected leader of Panama. After the US invaded Panama in 1989, Noriega was brought to the US and indicted for drug smuggling and money laundering, among other charges.
Many Americans purport to be anti-war until it’s their political sports team dropping the bombs and committing the murders. What Americans who get tricked into rooting for one of the two corporate parties tend to forget is that if the US Constitution means nothing then we have no leg to stand on when the crimes of empire are committed against Americans on US soil.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN THIS ISN’T ABOUT DRUGS?
Maduro’s arrest was predicated upon the presumption that he is a cocaine drug lord responsible for over 300,000 deaths within the United States, a number which doesn’t make any sense since cocaine overdoses are extremely rare and coca doesn’t grow in Venezuela like it does in Columbia or Peru. The claim becomes extra paradoxical when we consider the fact that the United Nations declared that Venezuela was a “state free of drug crops” under his predecessor, Chávez. It’s no secret that America’s drug problems are fueled by Mexico and China because fentanyl is made in Mexican labs with precursors acquired from China. But the 25 page indictment doesn’t make any references to fentanyl whatsoever, a fact documented by both Thomas Massie and Ron Paul:
Further evidence of this web of lies was exposed in the indictment filed against Maduro in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, which makes zero references to fentanyl, making the Trump administration’s claims about the drug being trafficked to the US from Venezuela as one of the pertinent reasons for the overthrow of Maduro tantamount to the WMDs the Bush administration claimed were being developed under the regime of Saddam Hussein.
It is a well known fact that the overwhelming majority of fentanyl enters the US from Mexican cartels and is the real killer, claiming the lives of more than 50,000 Americans in 2024 alone. This fact was corroborated by the Drug Enforcement Agency in 2025. If our government were really at war with the Mexican cartels then why did both the FBI and ATF lead an effort to arm Sinaloa Cartels in Mexico with American-made firearms through Operation Fast and Furious? Could it have been merely as a means of countering the sabotage of American-owned oil infrastructure by rival cartels?
But the hypocrisy doesn’t end there, given that in December 2025 Trump pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez who was convicted of trafficking more than 400 metric tons of cocaine into the United States and sentenced to 45 years in prison for doing so. In fact, countless heads of state in Latin America – from General Manuel Noriega in Panama to Pablo Escobar in Columbia – worked with the CIA to bring cocaine into the US and many current US-installed leaders preside over authentic “narco regimes.” CIA payments to Noriega were handled by BCCI, aka the “Jeffry Epstein bank”. And Sebastián Marroquín (born Juan Pablo Escobar Henao) published two books explicitly stating that his father worked for the CIA, that cocaine was used to finance anti-communist terrorist groups in Central America and that there were corruption networks between his father, the CIA, and the DEA that helped make his father so powerful. The Ecuadorian President’s Noboa Trading Company likewise has been indicted over a dozen times for trafficking cocaine to the US inside of bananas. And the well of irony goes even deeper:
The very Delta Force unit responsible for capturing Maduro is itself a violent cocaine trafficking ring, as journalists documenting JSOC operator’s use of military planes to import millions of dollars worth of cocaine from Colombia to Fort Bragg for both personal use and illicit profit have shown.
San José Mercury News reporter Gary Webb and LAPD Narcotics Detective Michael Ruppert both proved that a huge amount of the cocaine sold within the US was trafficked in by the Central Intelligence Agency – a fact further corroborated by The New York Times and 60 Minutes:
What happens when the CIA recruits a general to traffic 22 tons of cocaine into U.S. cities? This 1993 60 Minutes report exposes how the CIA set up a drug smuggling operation with Venezuelan General Ramón Guillén Dávila, and how soon after the infamous Cartel of the Suns vanished into thin air, only to reemerge later to serve U.S. interests in Venezuela.
Furthermore, a declassified CIA document references a Senate Foreign Relations Committee investigation in the mid-1980s into allegations that Nicaraguan Contras and their American supporters helped smuggle cocaine into the United States and that both the CIA and DEA were implicated in different ways. The document recounts statements from sources claiming the Contra effort involved narcotics financing and that participants claimed CIA involvement.
Throughout the cold war, the CIA used Venezuela to smuggle drugs into the US to prop-up right-wing insurgencies throughout Latin America and these cartels became a powerful lever for political control. Cocaine imported by the CIA into Arkansas is how Bill Clinton came to power helping to use the drug operation to finance the Contras in Nicaragua and Iran.
Max Blumenthal reveals how Maduro’s show trial “could expose more Americans to the CIA’s own history of drug trafficking”:
The informal network of corrupt military officials was in fact established by the CIA under pro-US Venezuelan governments during the 1980’s and ’90’s. … US Customs officials in Miami had intercepted a shipment of 1000 pounds of pure cocaine from Venezuela. But they were soon told by higher-ups in the US government the shipments had been approved by Langley. According to the Times, the CIA sought to allow the cocaine to “enter the United States without being seized, so as to allay all suspicion. The idea was to gather as much intelligence as possible on members of the drug gangs.” …
To organize the shipments from Venezuela, the CIA recruited generals from the Venezuelan National Guard who were trained by the US. Because officers in the National Guard wore patches on their uniforms bearing the symbol of a sun, the informal drug network was branded as “The Cartel of the Suns.”
The indictment initially put forth by the DOJ against Maduro made reference to the Cartel of the Suns dozens of times. The Department of Justice has since had to admit that no such group exists, dropping all but two of the mentions from their edited indictment.
Yesterday, the Justice Department dropped its claim that Venezuela’s “Cartel de los Soles” is a real organisation.
The Cartel of the Suns was created in the 1980’s by the CIA under the Regan Administration and completely unknown to Americans until former Attorney General William Barr (an advocate of and proponent for the Unitary Executive Theory, former CIA officer and legal adviser who wrote the pardons for the Iran Contra felons) finessed the bounty for Maduro and several other Venezuelan figures for drug trafficking.
As Connor O’Keeffe of the Mises Institute points out, “The claim that taking out the Venezuelan regime would help solve the drug overdose crisis was a lie from the beginning—a fake excuse used to justify the escalation, not an actual motivation for it.”
Furthermore, if the irrational authorities driving the American Empire were really interested in “solving the drug crisis” they could easily thwart it with their state-of-the-art surveillance panopticon that eavesdrops, photographs and catalogues absolutely every aspect of every occurrence with social media websites, browser histories, smart televisions, drones, satellites, aircraft, license plate readers, street lights, cell phones, Alexa bots, doorbells, household appliances, baby toys, credit cards, headphones, Roombas, automobiles, toll booths, bridges, road signs, rest areas, playgrounds, hotels, restaurants, department stores, building stores, sports stadiums, smart toilets, brain implants, genetically modified insects and a robot army of cameras all linked together by Fusion Centers to monitor every aspect of every American’s every move like a real-life version of the Truman Show. Anyone who can’t find what they’re looking for with that apparatus is asleep at the wheel.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN THIS ISN’T ABOUT OIL?
The excuse of “stealing the oil” doesn’t make any sense and is based on the basic feasibility of trying to do anything useful with Venezuela’s “sour” crude that’s described as “superheavy oil as thick as tar”:
It doesn’t just flow; it needs to be melted to reach the surface, and after extraction, it hardens again, requiring diluent: no less than 0.3 barrels of diluent need to be imported for each exported barrel.
Ron Paul expounds on the problem of feasibility, saying, “Venezuelan oil does not easily flow through pipelines unless it is cut with solvents, making it more expensive to transport.” David Stockman further explains how this tar was mistaken for black gold:
The crucial economic point is this: Zuata’s low gravity stems from the loss of lighter hydrocarbons through bacterial degradation in the reservoir, leaving behind heavier molecules rich in asphaltenes and resins. … Likewise, the sulfur content further differentiates these deposits. Zuata oils contain about 2.5% sulfur by weight, earning them the “sour” label due to hydrogen sulfide and other sulfur compounds formed during maturation. … Zuata’s extra-heavy sour nature demands complex refineries with cokers and hydrotreaters to break down heavy residues, costing $12-15 per barrel or more. But that isn’t all. Crucially, the refined product yield from the Zuata heavy crude is far inferior to that of Saudi light crude for the simple reason that every first year petroleum geology student knows, but apparently no one on the Trump administration ever bothered to check out.
As it stand today, Venezuela only produces 700,000 barrels of oil per day, amounting to 2% of OPEC’s total production. Because of the unique challenges associated with Venezuelan crude, the costs of revamping the Venezuelan oil economy into something profitable are truly staggering:
“According to Rystad Energy Analysis, it would take no less than 16 years and at least $183 billion for Venezuela to produce a mere 3 million barrels of oil a day. … Converting Venezuela’s Chinese-built oil sector into an American one would take three to five years, minimum.”
Other economists and even Bloomberg concurred that at least $100 billion was required to accomplish the exploitation of Venezuela’s oil. Within days of Maduro’s capture, the Trump White House convened all the major players of all the major oil conglomerates for a giant meeting about how best to carve up Venezuela’s energy resources.
The entire energy sector fam-damily was there, including “Chevron, Exxon, ConocoPhillips, Continental, Halliburton, HKN, Valero, Marathon, Shell, Trafigura, Vitol Americas, Repsol, Eni, Aspect Holdings, Tallgrass, Raisa Energy and Hilcorp”.
The room full of executives were asked to commit $100 billion to rebuild Venezuela’s infrastructure while Trump promised oil prices of $50 per barrel. At the moment, the only nearby American refineries equipped to refine the tar are co-owned by the Saudis and Koch Industries along the Gulf Coast – the very refineries slated to process Alberta’s bitumen tar after transport through the infamous Keystone XL Pipeline.
Reality came crashing in when the CEO of Exxon/Mobil, Darren Woods, voiced his concerns that the investment was too steep and too risky, referring to Venezuela as “uninvestible,” much to Trump’s chagrin:
After Exxon/MobilCEO Darren Woods referred to Venezuela as “uninvestable” Trump told reporters he was “inclined” to exclude Exxon from the plunder of Venezuelan oil because, “They’re playing too cute.”
But it’s not just the capital investment that’s driving prospective investors away from Venezuela. Massive methane leaks plague the industry and require fixes that are dangerous, complex and expensive:
President Trump’s push to revive Venezuela’s oil sector is colliding with a major technical obstacle: vast methane leaks from crumbling infrastructure that could scare off large international investors, according to Bloomberg. … Each year Venezuela wastes about 13 billion cubic meters of natural gas through flaring, venting and leaks, roughly $1.4 billion in potential revenue. About a quarter of its total gas output escapes into the atmosphere — the highest rate globally and nearly ten times the world average.
The oil companies claim they’re owed $13 billion by Venezuela under arbitration rulings regarding the nationalization of their oil economy by Chávez. After Exxon and Conoco refused to concede majority control to state-owned Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA) Venezuela nationalized oil projects in 2007, seizing all oil assets. The corporate lawsuit stands as yet another example of the American Empire’s selective enforcement of the law:
As for the “return of American land, oil and assets”, it should be noted that those were illegally acquired (i.e., stolen) by Washington DC in a blatant (neo)colonial manner during the (First) Cold War and actually belong to the people of Venezuela. The late Hugo Chávez rightfully restored the country’s land and resources to their original owners, something that the US never forgot (or forgave).
And for those who thought that at least stealing Venezuela’s oil would be good for Americans at the pump, think again. As long as the naval blockade remains in the Caribbean, one million barrels of oil per day will be excluded from the market, increasing scarcity and therefore likely causing some kind of price spike. From The Unz Review:
“The last excuse, tossed to the nihilists in the MAGA base as red meat, is that America wants to steal the oil to make gas prices cheaper. During World War II, the United States strong-armed Venezuelan oil into the hands of American businesses to fuel the Allied war effort, but the 30 to 50 million barrels of oil Trump is demanding for America is only enough to last two months.
The Pentagon has overtly pushed for regime change in Venezuela since at least 2002 when American-backed opposition groups began their efforts to oust Hugo Chávez (including a bloody coup attempt that failed) following Venezuela’s nationalization of its oil industry. Like Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi, Chávez’s true crime was attempting to sidestep the petro-dollar and in 2008 began selling oil by the Euro, infuriating western oil interests. Recent events are nothing more than a continuation of the status quo.
Under George W. Bush the US government attempted a coup in Venezuela; under Barack Obama, the US government placed economic sanctions on Venezuela; and under Trump, the US government placed a $15 million bounty on Maduro’s head and declared Juan Guaidó the victor of Venezuela’s 2018 election (resulting in a “humiliating failure for Trump”). Under Biden, the US government continued to back Juan Guidó’s failed coup with crippling economic sanctions against Venezuela and increased Trump’s $15 million bounty on Maduro to $25 million. The second Trump Administration doubled the bounty to $50 million and the rest is history.
The fact that Venezuela is one of only four remaining countries left on earth that hasn’t yet capitulated to the Rothschild-owned central banking system helps explain why the ruling class have focused so intensely for so long on its conquest. But Venezuela’s role on the global stage turns out to be even more significant when we understand how the interests of Latin America influence events in the Middle East.
THE ISRAEL CONNECTION
After eight decades, the humanitarian disaster in the Middle East was finally recognized for what it is by a majority of Americans following the 07 October 2023 false-flag attack. In the aftermath of October Seventh, Israel lost the narrative and became a pariah state internationally. Outraged by the genocide in Gaza, Latin American nations like Colombia recalled ambassadors and cut ties with Israel. But Venezuela was even more conspicuously opposed to the Zionist project. Maduro – himself an ethnic Jew – held up his fist in 2025 and declared, “Free Palestine!” Maduro’s anti-Zionism (and unwillingness to sign Venezuela onto the Isaac Accords) seems to be the primary motive for his abduction:
“The remaining outstanding issue, what separates friend-to-all Hungary from Venezuela and is likely real cause of the conflict is Maduro’s militant anti-Zionism, which has been put into practice through Hugo Chávez-era infrastructure of sanctions-busting trade with Iran, who the Zionist hawks in Washington are trying to isolate further. Venezuela has become an outlier in Latin America, where regimes propped up by the US are rapidly embracing the pro-Israel Isaac’s Accords. What exactly the Israelis want in Latin America remains a matter of speculation, but this question is important enough to compel Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado to repeatedly declare her devotion to the Jewish state and openly plan to make Israel a central focus of her potential future government.”
Not far from Venezuela is the country of Argentina, now presided over by one Javier Milei. Milei was shortened from Miliekowsky, the true name of Bibi Netanyahu, to whom he is related. According to genealogical record, Bibi is Javier’s third cousin:
“It must be said that Netanyahu’s real last name is Mileikowsky, and Milei’s real last name is Mileikowsky. They’re family; these things aren’t coincidental,” Salgado said.
To the astonishment of the journalist interviewing him, Salgado clarified that he had studied the genealogy of both families, confirming that Netanyahu and Milei‘s grandparents were cousins.
In June of 2025, Argentinian President Javier Milei became the first non-Jewish head of state to receive the Genesis Prize (during an accelerated implementation of the so-called Andinia Plan, the Zionist plot to establish a Jewish ethnostate in Patagonia). Traveling to Jerusalem’s Museum of Tolerance, Milei gave an acceptance speech announcing the creation of the so-called Isaac Accords:
Milei donated the entire million dollar prize to establish the American Friends of Isaac Accords, a New York based non-profit designed to institutionalize a pro-Israel bloc throughout Latin America. [… ]
The initiative encourages Latin American nations to relocate embassies from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, designate Hamas and Hezbollah as terrorist organizations, reverse anti-Israel voting patterns at the United Nations, and establish security cooperation channels to combat Iranian influence in the region. Economic integration centers on Israeli technology transfers in agritech, water management and cyber defense, sectors where Latin American nations face acute capacity gaps. [ … ]
The organizational architecture operates through the American Friends of Isaac Accords rather than traditional diplomatic channels. The non-profit structure allows the initiative to bypass government bureaucracy, directly funding pro-Israel organizations, arranging delegation trips, and facilitating partnerships between Israeli technology firms and Latin American markets. This is the hidden strength of the sprawling NGO–think tank networks that steer much of foreign policy from behind the scenes. This consortium of NGOs advances Zionist objectives regardless of who occupies office, answering only to itself and shrugging off any of the consequences. […]
The initiative operates on a phased approach. Argentina, Costa Rica, Panama and Uruguay form the initial partnership group, with focus on immediate trade deals and security agreements. Phase Two targets Brazil, Chile, Colombia and El Salvador for expansion in 2026 and beyond, aiming to pull these nations back toward Israel despite recent diplomatic tensions.
Then there’s the AIPAC donor ($42 million in 2024) who stands to gain billions from the acquisition of Venezuelan-owned oil refineries following Maduro’s abduction, Zionist billionaire Paul Singer:
A major donor to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac) could reap billions of dollars from a reshuffle in Venezuela’s oil assets following the US’s abduction of President Nicolas Maduro on Saturday. Maduro’s removal and a pliant government in Caracas could allow Singer to finalise a deal that would see his investment firm, Elliot Investment Management, gain control of a network of US-based oil refineries at a steeply discounted price.
Paul Singer is one of the key players on the world stage today, whose extracurricular activities raise even more eyebrows than the economic shell games of Elliot Investment Management:
“PDV holdings, which owns Citgo in Venezuela, is being sold to Amber Energy, owned by Elliott Investment Management, a hedge fund company founded by president and co-CEO billionaire Paul Singer, a Zionist neocon who donated seven figures to the presidential campaign of Marco Rubio in 2016, who is now the Secretary of State. In 2020 Singer helped fund the Steele dossier which claimed Trump was videotaped with Russian hookers peeing on the current president … Singer has funded the outsourcing of US tech jobs to Israel, the integration of Israeli intelligentsia and military into US technology, and Zionist Christian organizations.”
Venezuela has been an enemy of Zionism for nearly three decades. And the rhetoric of the Venezuelan government in the aftermath of Maduro’s extraordinary rendition reflects the fact that the regime hasn’t changed, especially since it’s considered a threat to Israel’s desire to expand it’s boarders and overthrow Iran:
Implicating Iran in propping up the Maduro regime carries the hallmark of the Zionist influence that has been at the core of American neoconservatism since its inception. This dynamic was highlighted by Venezuelan Acting President Delcy Rodríguez. During a nationally televised address, Rodríguez claimed, “Venezuela is the victim and target of an attack of this nature, which undoubtedly has Zionist undertones. It is truly shameful.” Rodriguez’s remarks highlighted the continued anti-Zionist position of Venezuelan leadership, which has unabashedly proclaimed since the ascent of Venezuelan revolutionary Hugo Chávez to the country’s presidency in 1999. … In the wake of Operation Absolute Resolve, Netanyahu was one of the first foreign leaders to applaud the Trump administration for the regime change, likely viewing it as a portent of US support for the overthrow of the Iranian government he has made his ultimate aim.
Many postulated that María Corina Machado was slated to be next the puppet president of Venezuela because she is personal friends with Bibi Netanyahu, made a phone call to him following Maduro’s kidnapping to share the “good news,” and cheered on the seizure of Venezuelan oil tankers during her trip to Oslo. Why any native Venezuelan would support the seizure of her own country’s prosperity seems like a confusing question until digging a bit further into Machado’s connections to the CIA and it’s spin-off organizations like the NED and USAID (the same organizations that funneled $40–50 million a year to fund Maduro’s political opposition):
“Educated at Yale, her early career was broadly funded by the National Endowment for Democracy—one of the most important Western tools for co-optation, social engineering, color revolution, and regime change,” … In 2002, Machado launched her NGO Súmate – a so-called “election-monitoring group” – to organize violent US-backed destabilization efforts paid for by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), an agency created to carry out political operations formerly executed by the CIA.
Within the context of the military blockade of Venezuela, ordered by President Trump, Maria Machado became the recipient of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize which she then dedicated to Donald Trump following his dismay that it wasn’t awarded to him instead:
After Machado said she would like to give Trump the prize, the Nobel Institute said that it “can neither be revoked, shared, nor transferred to others” and “once the announcement has been made, the decision stands for all time.”
Alas, Trump conceded that Machado did not have the popular support of the Venezuelan people. Purportedly now referred to as a “spoiler” at the White House, Machado appears to be another ineffective coup leader like Juan Guidó. In 2024 it was the U.S. government’s official position that Machado had won over 70% of the vote in Venezuela – an assertion that was proved false by a 24 November 2025 poll conducted by a Venezuelan polling firm called Data Analysis, which found that Maria Machado only had 14% of the popular support, with Maduro at 20% and most “undecided” including a plurality of young people.
As Max Blumenthal noted, the population in Venezuela is just as polarized as the United States:
“We can’t just pretend that there isn’t a slice of Venezuelan society that doesn’t want regime change. They do. There is also a substantial slice of Venezuelan society that stands with the Chavista movement, which gets demonized as socialists or communists, and many of the activists within them are because of the history of socialism and communism in Latin America as a resistance block against US Empire. But it is fundamentally a nationalist movement that just simply seeks control over resources in order to lift the standard of living of the poor and working class majority of Venezuela. … But no one ever drew the direct line to US sanctions and how they impoverished the nation all over again. So Venezuela has been the target of the crimes of neoliberal capitalism. That’s produced an effect that is waking people up to the violence and rapaciousness of the US.”
Nevertheless, Venezuela is being strong-armed into accepting the conditions set forth by the American government. Just 12 days after US forces captured Maduro, interim President Delcy Rodríguez was visited by CIA Director John Ratcliffe. The game isn’t over, and won’t be until the global puppet masters complete the consolidation of their technocractic unions.
THE NORTH AMERICAN UNION TECHNOCRACY
Trump’s base didn’t vote for him to annex Greenland, rename the Gulf of Mexico, or turn Canada into the 51st State. But these moves transparently serve an old agenda to merge the US with Canada and Mexico into a single entity like the European Union. Under the George W. Bush Administration it was called the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), proposed in tandem with the NAFTA Intercontinental Highway and financially underpinned by a single currency called the “Amero”:
Canadian economist Herbert Grubel first introduced a potential manifestation of this concept in 1999. The North American Currency — called the “Amero” in select circles — would effectively comingle the Canadian dollar, U.S. dollar and Mexican peso. … We may need to let a two-tier currency gain traction if the dollar meaningfully debases from current levels. If this dynamic plays out — and I’ve got no insight that it will — the global balance of powers would fragment into four primary regions: North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
The agenda to merge the nations of North America together into a single regional superstate goes back to the 1930’s, as revealed by Derrick Broze:
In 1938, Technocracy Incorporated released a publication that outlined its vision for a Technocracy and their plan for merging North America and parts of central America into a single continental unit which they called a “Technate”:
[…] The Technate will encompass the entire American Continent from Panama to the North Pole because the natural resources and the natural boundary of this area make it an independent, self- sustaining geographical unit.
A 1940 map from Technocracy Inc. clearly shows this vision included Canada, the United States, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central American countries—including Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Guatemala, and others.The fact that Panama was envisioned as part of the Technate should not be forgotten in light of Larry Fink’s efforts to purchase ports in the Panama Canal. The Technocrats also imagined controlling parts of Venezuela and even Colombia. The 1940 map shows portions of northern Venezuela and eastern Colombia absorbed by the Technate. …
They aimed to spread their techno-tyranny as far north as Greenland. In a July 1940 issue of Technocracy magazine, Howard Scott and Technocracy Inc. explicitly advocated for acquisition of Greenland:
“The government of the United States should take immediate action to acquire these territories and others, such as Greenland and the Galapagos Islands. The acquisition of these territories should be a mandatory part of the program of Continental defense for immediate achievement—either by purchase, negotiation, or the force of arms.” …
What we are witnessing with Venezuela and Greenland is one more step in the completion of the American Technate and one step closer to the vision of a global government.
The technocracy showed its hand again during a senate briefing in 2013 with a map that portrayed North America as a unified, borderless entity. As documented by James Corbett in his new book, Reportage:
In July 2013, US Senator Dianne Feinstein presented a most unusual map during a meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee. … what was peculiar about the map was that it was broken into four regions: Europe, Africa, Asia, and Homeland.
Homeland?
Yes, Homeland. That region of the globe formerly known as “North America and Central America,” a section stretching from Ellesmere Island in Canada’s Arctic all the way down to the tropical beaches of Panama on the equator, is now apparently referred to by the NSA as “Homeland.” … it reveals the desired end goal of a plan that is now being formulated to merge Canada, the US, and Mexico into a united “continental security perimeter.” This merger, should it proceed as envisioned, would include standardized security procedures and information-sharing as part of an even-longer-term plot to ultimately synthesize the three countries into one European Union-like regional government. (Reportage, pages 113-115)
The final steps for institutionalizing the long fabled North American Union lie before us, and will only occur if the American public can be successfully manipulated into supporting the merger. To manipulate the masses into accepting this predetermined outcome, the war industry shifted into an entirely new paradigm of weaponry that transforms the very purpose of warfare.
A FIFTH-GENERATION WAR AGAINST YOU
Venezuela’s Attorney General, Tarek William Saab said that the bombing of Caracas and abduction of Nicolas Maduro constituted an “act of war.” Senator Rand Paul characterized the ongoing conflict involving hundreds of ships and total blockade of Venezuela’s coastline as an “active war.” We would all do well to ask what kind of war this is. More specifically, what happens when America’s concurrent wars on terror and drugs are combined into a grotesque hybrid?
Technological and tactical improvements influenced how wars were fought over the centuries, changing from state-monopoly on force with columns of troops (1st generation) to long-range rifles, trench warfare and guerrilla tactics (2nd generation) to air power, paratroopers, blitzkriegs and bombings behind enemy lines (3rd generation). Suffice it to say that the wars of the first three generations involved clearly defined sides who wore different uniforms and knew they were combatants in a conflagration.
Fourth-generation warfare is characterized by guerrilla fighters or “insurgents” fighting a state. Not only are there no clear ways of identifying the enemy in such a conflict, the lines between civilian and combatant get blurred to the point that it becomes impossible to deliver a single death blow, especially when the state’s declared adversaries use non-violent means to de-legitimize the authority of the state. The movements of both Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. illustrate successfully executed campaigns that were forced to navigate the complexities of fourth-generation warfare.
What sets Fifth Generation Warfare apart from the four previous incarnations is the “function of warfare” because it is not able to define adversaries and is fought primarily in the civilian space as a “global war of ideas and narratives”. If the goal of the first four generations of warfare was to eliminate or subdue a declared adversary, the final goal of Fifth Generation Warfare is to steer society’s actions toward predetermined outcomes with military tools and methods.
James Corbett brilliantly summarizes the concept of Fifth Generation Warfare:
It is the war of every government against its own population and every international institution against free humanity. … The basic idea behind this term [fifth-generation warfare] is that in the modern era, wars are not fought by armies or guerrillas, but in the minds of common citizens. There are two important things to note about this definition. The first is that fifth-generation warfare is not waged against standing armies of nation-states or guerrilla insurgents but against everyday citizens. The second is that this war is not being fought in a battlefield somewhere, but in the mind. […]
There is a world war happening right now. It is a fifth-generation war (or whatever you want to call it). It is being waged across every domain simultaneously. It is a war for full-spectrum dominance of every battlefield and every terrain, from the farthest reaches of the globe (and beyond) to the inner spaces of your body and even to your innermost thoughts. And it is a war on you.
The state fights a Fifth Generation War with the tactics of tyranny and fear. Writing for the Marine Corps Gazette, Lieutenant Colonel Stanton Coerr identifies fear as the key component of Fifth Generation Warfare:
“The battlefield will be something strange – cyberspace, or the Cleveland water supply, or Wall Street’s banking systems, or YouTube. The mission will be instilling fear, and it will succeed.”
Overt fear strategies like “affective management”, “crisis capitalization” and “terror management theory” are meant to deliberately elicit stress to corral traumatized populations toward dependency on authorities. Meanwhile, more covert fear campaigns include things like “microtargeting” and “hypernudging” to create social media bubbles that reinforce confirmation biases and provoke conflict to divide the population. The road to instilling fear in the population with modern mass media manipulation was paved by CIA operations like Project Bluebird, Project Artichoke, MK ULTRA and MK OFTEN.
This fear is also created through a wide array of psychological warfare strategies for societal demoralization and mass confusion; it includes the weaponization of novel technologies for the purposes of neurological and biological warfare in the form of mRNA “vaccines”, GMO foods and geoengineering; it includes economic warfare with lockdowns, taxes, derivatives, interest rate manipulation and CBDCs. It even includes weaponized pornography.
But one of the oldest and most effective methods for manufacturing consent prevails today with the corporate media’s massive Mockingbird propaganda and censorship operation, the goal of which was articulated rather bluntly in the 1980’s by Regan’s CIA Director, William J. Casey:
“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”
Venezuela’s former Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza rejects claims “that Maduro was betrayed internally, dismissing them as psychological warfare designed to sow division.” Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s insistence that Maduro was surrounded by Cuban bodyguards at the time of his capture,“alleging that Cuban operatives had been placed in charge of the inner machinations of Venezuela’s national intelligence,” seems like another instance of a state-sponsored disinformation campaign.
Reports of sonic and frequency weapons used by “super soldiers” in the Caracas attack against Maduro’s security forces constitute a similar kind of indiscriminate psychological attack as they are “seemingly designed to intimidate Latin American governments” (as well as American citizens who realize this technology will eventually be used domestically), especially if they’re true:
“We were hundreds, but we had no chance. They were shooting with such precision and speed… it seemed like each soldier was firing 300 rounds per minute. We couldn’t do anything. … At one point, they launched something—I don’t know how to describe it… it was like a very intense sound wave. Suddenly I felt like my head was exploding from the inside. We all started bleeding from the nose. Some were vomiting blood. We fell to the ground, unable to move.”
For some analysts, the Trump Administration’s embrace of the “Panama Model” to use military might to shock adversaries into submission signals a“new era of U.S. imperialism” that now overtly threatens several other countries, including Cuba which is now experiencing widespread electrical blackouts from lack of fuel because of the embargo and blockade (a blockade that Russia now promises to break):
“[Trump’s] not claiming that there are any goals to promote democracy or human rights or stability,” said Peter Kornbluh, senior analyst at the National Security Archive. “He is simply saying the United States is the bully on the block, the most powerful country; that might makes right. We want that oil, and we’re just going to take it.” Kornbluh further stated the invasion exhibited “a new era of U.S. imperialism.”
Things became truly HyperNormal when the White House engaged in the deliberately oxymoronic stunt of publicly admitting to ongoing covert operations within Venezuela:
President Donald Trump explained on Wednesday that he had indeed authorized the CIA to operate inside Venezuela to clamp down on illegal flows of migrants and drugs from the South American nation, but stopped short of saying it would have authority to remove current Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro which clearly is also a major policy objective. …
Trump’s statement was remarkable because presidents don’t normally acknowledge directives, the “findings,” that allow spies to accomplish a secret mission. The whole idea of having a CIA is to allow the United States to operate in the shadows and conduct “deniable” operations, which is the key feature of “covert action,” i.e. that it should remain covert.
When news of the kidnapping raid reached the United States, a significant percentage of Americans were incensed by what was done in their name, and many of them were then swiftly arrested on American soil – the very kind of behavior that the US government accuses of Maduro to justify military intervention and without a shred of irony:
Outrage flooded social media after a video showed an activist being arrested mid-interview at a pro-Venezuela protest, fuelling questions about the state of free speech in the United States. … The footage quickly ignited a wave of backlash online, with several social media users pointing out the irony of an arrest unfolding mid-interview at a protest against US intervention in Venezuela, a country frequently cited by American officials as a symbol of authoritarian repression.
At the time Maduro was being loaded into an airplane for New York, ICE agents working throughout Minnesota killed a woman in her car, executed a man on the street and tear gassed a high school. The very martial law that conservatives used to warn about is slowly forming in major cities throughout the country under a different name, nullifying the Constitution, black-bagging American citizens in unmarked vans with masked “officers” – some of whom are former IDF soldiers now operating on American soil to round up Americans. But the psychological tactics of modern warfare have many of us cheering on our own destruction. Military adventurism abroad creates fear campaigns designed to divide the citizenry at home and a Patriot Pacification Program to render the warrior class docile.
As James Corbett summarizes on page 214 of Reportage: “Yet more insidious by far is the way that the deep state operators, the powers-behind-the-throne of today’s democratic dictatorships, use psychological warfare to convince us that slavery is freedom.”
The so-called influence operations and disinformation campaigns once referred to as Psychological Operations were rebranded by the Pentagon into the acronym MISO (Military Information Support Operations), which is a euphemism to describe special operations divisions tasked with conducting “influence operations” on the American people that now aim to use deepfakes for psy-ops.
Indeed, no psychological war effort would be complete without classic propaganda campaigns, especially those involving the hypnotic repetition of a word or phrase on news media to install it into the societal lexicon in much the same way that one installs a program onto a computer. Described by sycophants as an “energy-security doctrine,” the so-called Donroe Doctrine is really nothing more than a resurgence of Manifest Destiny rather than a statement of law:
Even in its own century, the Monroe Doctrine did not operate as an enforceable rule of international conduct. … The doctrine does not confer a right to strike nations, change regimes, or manage regional politics. … To speak of “reestablishing” the Monroe Doctrine under these conditions is to misunderstand the nature of the document. A presidential message tied to a specific historical moment cannot be revived as a standing policy any more than any other nineteenth-century speech can be treated as binding authority today. The doctrine was not a statute, a treaty, or a constitutional provision. It was a contextual warning issued in response to temporary conditions. Once those conditions disappeared, the doctrine’s operative meaning disappeared with them.
Another obvious psychological attack was endured by the segment of American voters who now are beginning to experience the cognitive dissonance of realizing the depth of Trump’s predictable betrayal of the MAGA movement:
Deposing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro marks the apotheosis of Trump’s transformation from a political iconoclast into another rank-and-file member of the neoconservative establishment. … In less than one year since returning to the White House, the foreign policy of the second Trump administration, shaped by Rubio, stands as the greatest betrayal of everything the president once stood for.
Kurt Metzger articulates what may be the ultimate mindfuck for Americans, that Maduro may have been a CIA asset all along as a modern kind of viceroy:
“Professor Jiang thinks that’s all fluff and nonsense to distract from the fact that Maduro is a CIA asset from the previous CIA faction, Trump is ruining one of their longstanding operations, and Maduro is in on it and wanted to come in. And the way to know is when he goes to court, if he goes, “Yes, me and the Democrats and parts of the CIA conspired to rig the 2020 election through those voting machines, and I want to come clean.” If that happens then you’ll know that’s what this was.”
The combined effect of this myriad of madness amounts to mass social engineering to justify an ever-growing bureaucracy managed by transnational organizations like the WEF that are more powerful than the governments they command. Our rulers are hoping that the cumulative outcome of shocking our nervous systems with a continuous barrage of bullshit will ultimately result in a softening of American nationalism to enable the formation of a supranational technate governed by intergovernmental organizations thus erasing the American ideal of civil liberties that ultimately stands in the way of global hegemonic domination.
James Corbett anticipated the various nuances of this war on all of us and arrived at a very logical conclusion: “Fifth-generation warfare is a strange game. The only winning move is not to play.”
Fighting such a war on the government’s terms surely amounts to a suicide mission because of the vastly superior weapon systems and personnel resources the Blob has developed for it.
The purpose of state terrorism is ultimately to change your behavior, influence your habits and increase paranoia of your neighbors. Their success is civilization’s downfall. The solution lies in refusing to be corralled into a digital-ID dystopia, refusing to be coerced into using programmable digital money, and refusing to get swept up into wars that undermine our own prosperity. We don’t have to hate the technocrats but we do have to stop cooperating with them and that means refusing to change our habits, especially during one of their contrived “emergencies.” Because if we let the government break the law during an emergency, they will – quite predictably – create an emergency to break the law.
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