After months of regional buildup, President Donald Trump green lit one of the boldest joint operations raids in the history of modern warfare.

They black-bagged, and captured alive, the leader of the most militarized country in South America, who was already on high alert, before he could make it from his bed, to his safe room. They even took his wife for good measure.

Not one operator was lost, not one plane, helicopter or ship. This, despite additional Pantsir-S1 and Buk-M2 air defense systems arriving in Venezuela from Russia as recently as October. Multi-year, billion dollar investments in air defense systems did absolutely nothing when history came knocking.

In 3 hours, the entire geopolitical landscape changed, all of it to the benefit of the United States and citizens of Venezuela. These two countries previously enjoyed close ties for nearly a century, as a result of American companies finding, funding and building the entirety of the Venezuelan oil industry starting in the early 1910s. Without American investment and technical work, Venezuela would not have gone on to become the wealthiest country in South America, which it was from 1950 until 1996.

What, at the time, was a first world country, became a third word despotic hell, after the 1999 election saw the rise to power of Hugo Chavez, who would oversee a national transformation of the bureaucracy via his state capture scheme termed a “Bolivarian Revolution.”

This revolution had dramatic second and third order effects. In order to remain in power, elections were rigged, something the regime became so good at, that they began exporting elections-as-a-service, around the world. This would alter American history, as people will soon learn, in 2020.

Venezuelan oil reserves, the worlds largest, were weaponized to maintain prices, and provide a lifeline to a pseudo-communist regime in Beijing, alongside propping up what remains of the Castro Cuban revolution. Venezuelan territory was used freely by South American narcotics traffickers to launch shipments by boat and air to the shores of North America, as well as human traffickers sending people West and North through the Darien Gap.

Venezuelan cash has funded countless groups agitating within the United States and broader West. It has been laundered by the billions through American banks and real estate, funded information operations and facilitated the creation of decentralized criminal gang networks in cities and towns across North America.

The country became such a circus, that even Hezbollah, the Lebanese para-military outfit, used it as a staging area for their never ending thirst for Jihad.

All of this now ends. The Monroe Doctrine has gone from something American leadership talks about, to something they implement.

The United States has achieved total energy dominance, and will soon have the power to lower energy prices at will. With a few hundred guys on the ground, all of whom returned to their families, a crushing blow has been dealt to Russian, Iranian and Chinese ambitions. The regime in Cuba is cooked, their largest financier and ideological backer, Maduro is sitting in a literal brig.

Most importantly, at the heart of it all, Americans are about to regain control of their elections, even if many still don’t know they ever lost it to begin with.

Absolute brilliance.

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