Gregory Brew
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first heard Jan 2026
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And Trump
Apparently lost his patience and decided to do something pretty risky, but it turns out was w was very successful.
The government that Maduro led, which incidentally he inherited from Hugo Chavez, is still there.
It's led by Delcy Rodriguez and others.
It still controls the military.
It still manages most of the country.
Parts of the country are are are slightly out of its control.
On are run by uh essentially drug cartels and militias further inland, but the capital, the major cities, the oil fields are still under control of the government that used to be led by Maduro.
What happens next, I think, depends on what kind of modus of vendi is reached between Washington and Caracas.
And some of that comes down to what it is that Trump actually wants out of this.
I think the first goal was demonstrating US power, and I think they've done that.
Signaling to the rest of the world, but particularly the Western hemisphere, that the US is now willing to use its power much more assertively and aggressively than it has in the past.
But that's not much.
What else could the US gain from having done this?
And obviously now it's all talk about gaining access to the oil reserves and and bringing in US companies, but that's gonna be very, very difficult to do.
So I think in the short term, the first thing that Caracas is gonna wanna see from the US is lifting the oil blockade and allowing tankers to move.
Most of those tankers are going to want to go to China because that's who's been taking most of Venezuelan oil.
That might not be too difficult for Trump to accept because Trump also wants to reach uh modus vivendi with Beijing.
He wants to have a better relationship with Xi Jinping.
That's also something that the administration has been trying to prioritize.
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