Jon Finer

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The MeidasTouch Podcast · Furious World Leaders Freeze Trump Out of New Alliances · 11 Jan 2026 podcast

But the key point is the one that you made.

There are a lot of bad people around the world, a lot of bad governments around the world.

And the United States is a very powerful country, and at least in theory, has the ability to go in and disrupt any number of these governments, go and grab criminals in any number of places.

there are good reasons why we don't just go around the world doing that one is you know my view and i i began my career as a journalist covering the us invasion of iraq uh which started by the way as a relatively easy intervention the the initial invasion to topple the saddam hussein regime and quickly spiraled totally out of control at enormous cost to the united states in terms of

number of service members we lost, economic cost, and our standing in the world.

And what I guess I'm getting at is that war should be necessary.

If you're going to use this tool of policy, which has a lot of risk associated with it, and a lot of risk that you start with some limited mission, grab Maduro, bring him to US court, subject him to justice,

Next thing you know, you're threatening the new leader of Venezuela, which Trump has already done, and threatening to go back into Venezuela, maybe with boots on the ground, and then coming out and saying, actually, it's not the new leadership of Venezuela that's in charge.

The United States is in charge and might actually be in charge for several years to come.

And whether or not Americans think that it's a good thing that Maduro is gone,

As I said, I believe it's a good thing that he's gone.

The notion of the United States governing Venezuela for the next several years, given all of the challenges we have at home and the Trump administration shifting its attention, getting distracted by this adventure, which did not pose a direct threat in a serious way to the United States that warrants a military intervention, I think is going to age very badly over time.

Yeah, look, I think that Saturday press conference on the day that this operation was conducted, and by the way, this operation, they should get some credit for the extraordinary skill of the execution of this operation.

And by they, I really mean the US military.

I got to see up close

how many difficult things the US government asks our military to do and how extraordinarily they perform almost 100% of the time.

And that includes in this case where by all accounts, they took no serious casualties and executed this mission.

But in that press conference where Trump could have

described this as very limited mission, very successful operation.

We got this bad guy.

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