Phil Stewart

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Interrupted by Matt Jones · Episode 27 - Phil Stewart · 9 Jan 2026 podcast

And people aboard were injured, at least one person.

And, you know, had there been casualties, you know, would the media have seen it as a debacle with the United States or hostages?

Right.

Have you had a Black Hawk down, you know, moment kind of like, you know, the U.S.

saw in Somalia?

What would that have been like?

And so I think we're trying to understand the risk appetite, what it was that got the president to decide that this was an operation worth pursuing.

But I would say the success of both those operations probably will lead the president to think this is a valid way of accomplishing foreign policy goals.

So today, you know, you've seen the extraction of President Nicolas Maduro from Venezuela.

But Maduro's government is still very much intact.

And it is, you know, according to President Trump, is very responsive to Washington and its interests and its plans.

But this is a government that has been fiercely isolated.

anti-American for many years, fiercely concerned about the United States.

And a lot of its supporters are very skeptical of the United States.

So it really remains to be seen, you know, how long the cooperation will last, if there'll be a breaking point, if there'll be a request that it just goes too far for them.

And then also this sort of, you know,

There are a lot of private discussions, we understand, between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the interim president.

And it remains to be seen whether the kind of goodwill that's been described to the media, the goodwill in private, will become something public that the Venezuelan government would talk about.

I would say that the Venezuelan government would certainly say that.

And I would say that the Venezuelan government is very concerned about being seen as a U.S.

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