Bannon`s War Room
Episode 5051: What Comes Next For Venezuela; Remembering J6 Five Years Later
07 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What recent event has escalated tensions between the US and Venezuela?
Moments ago, sources just confirmed to CNN that the United States has seized an oil tanker that had been linked to Venezuela. Now Russia is responding to this seizure saying they are the owners.
of this vessel the trump administration has not acknowledged the russian status claiming the ship to be stateless but nevertheless you can see the sensitive nature of the situation russia had sent ships to track and maybe even protect this vessel over the last 24 hours the united states has been tracking it across the atlantic it's the same ship that the coast guard had tried to seize last month near venezuela they were unable to board it and the ship changed course and fled but now the breaking news
The United States has seized it.
Tracking this ship as it came into the northern Atlantic, it's been heading sort of skirting wide of Ireland, heading up towards Iceland and that sort of gap to go towards the north of Russia, the Arctic Circle. Marine tracking experts believe a vessel of this size was likely headed towards Mamanse. That was the track that it was on. But that all came to a sudden halt.
screeching halt about two and a half hours ago. Marine trackers noticing that the ship turned direction at that moment.
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Chapter 2: How is Russia responding to the US seizure of the oil tanker?
And this really comports with the information we're getting now that the ship has been seized by US military and Coast Guard. It has been tracked closely by them, as we say, since it fled the coast of Venezuela about two weeks ago. What makes this even more interesting, if you will, The ship, when it started its journey two weeks ago, was called the Bella One.
Halfway along that route, it changed its name to the Marinera and re-flagged itself as Russian. Not clear why. Were they trying to get protection from Russia? Was it always Russian? Unclear. The port that it appeared to be headed for in the past couple of days does appear to have been a Russian port.
But now that ship has turned around, no longer heading north for the last couple of hours, heading south. not clear where it will end up. It is believed to be empty or at least devoid of oil.
We don't know what else or who else may be on board of it, but certainly enough for Russia to deploy military assets to try to give it some shadow of some kind of protection and clearly not enough to deter the U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S. military assets that seized it a few hours ago, John.
This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people. I got a free shot on all these networks lying about the people. The people have had a belly full of it. I know you don't like hearing that. I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen.
And where do people like that go to share the big lie? Mega media.
I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann.
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Chapter 3: What is the significance of the Dark Fleet in global oil trade?
You know, you wake up in Caracas today. You still got really bad people calling the shots. So we have to be addressing that.
Sam, last question. Regarding the mullahs in Persia, you've seen the power of using naval forces smartly. You've seen the power of quarantines to effectuate American policy and now blockades. I have argued forever, let the Persians deal with the mullahs. We don't need the Mossad. We don't need the IDF. We particularly don't need United States commandos, special forces or, you know,
horribly, maybe even American infantry or more air assets. You can do this by doing what you're doing in the Caribbean right now, in the Gulf of America, to shut down these oil shipments because you've sanctioned them. Couldn't we do the same thing in the North Arabian Sea and outside the Straits of Hormuz to shut down the mullahs and cut off the Chinese Communist Party?
Yeah, absolutely. There's no question we could. I mean, look, you know this as a naval officer. We are set up already with a basis to support that in the Fifth Fleet right there. And God knows we should not go down the road of even thinking about putting American troops on the ground in Iran. And we also shouldn't think that this is going to be resolved overnight.
I mean, the people are fed up and they want the regime to go, but the regime is really good at killing and torturing and disappearing people and hanging on despite the fact that the Persians have wanted them gone for a long time.
Sam, you spent, just for the audience, before you bounce, how much of your career did you spend at the CIA and how much of your career did you spend in that particularly broader bad neighborhood, sir?
So I spent 30 years total in the IC and 20 of that was undercover with CIA. And virtually all of that was in the Middle East and South Asia and working against, amongst other people, the Iranians for a really, really long time and running Iranian assets cross-border into Iran for a very long time.
Sam Faddis has a lot of street cred. Sam, where do people go? You're one of the leaders of the grassroots part of the MAGA movement. Where do folks find you?
Best to go to Substack, substackandmagazine.substack.com, A-N-D magazine.
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Chapter 4: What military strategies are being discussed regarding Venezuela?
So we just gained another chip in the great game, and President Trump seems to be very adept at playing this. And so I think he's going to be sensitive to that. And there's a way that we can do this to where we can buy time to regain our resources, regain our military strength, and to demonstrate to China that they don't want to go there.
And I think that's the real challenge right now is, do we have enough time to restore our military power, the naval power that we've gutted for 35 years. And I think the president's well on his way to do that. This thing about Switzerland seizing the assets of Maduro and his cronies, that's phenomenal because it shows the power of what the tariffs did.
A year ago, when the president imposed those tariffs last year, the Swiss government at the time, they kind of played games and didn't want to believe that that was happening. And Trump didn't lift them. And they were shocked. So now you have a new president. They put a new president on January 1st. They rotate among seven.
And the new president immediately made this move without any consultations, without a referendum, without a national debate, because he understood that he needs to get across to President Trump that Switzerland is going to play ball. And they may not like that in Switzerland. They may say that's an infringement on their neutrality.
But the reality is the terrorists have had a great impact and are a game changer in how we deal with other nations. And I think the president understands that. And he's playing, he's adjusting those knobs, if you will, in the ways that I can't even comprehend. And it seems to be working.
5D chess. Captain Fennell, thanks. We'll push your writings out. Look forward to having you back on here, sir.
Thank you.
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Chapter 5: How does the US plan to enforce sanctions against Venezuela?
Talk to the pros at Tax Network USA. Cody Weddle joins us from the Daily Telegraph, one of my favorite papers, one of my early first reads every day. It's published in London. Of course, the site's up 24-7. It's becoming a global player. Huge footprint here in the United States. Cody, if we put the headline up, brother, I absorb news, as people know, just for doing the War Room.
One of the most shocking stories I have read, but to me it made total sense, was your story the other day where you say ā And you've got sources, you and the Miami Herald have sources that say that this whole operation with Maduro was basically about a negotiated deal in Qatar.
With Qatar being an intermediary with the United States, for the vice president of Venezuela today, who's kind of running the show down there under, obviously, the direct or indirect guidance of the president of the United States, she made a deal to serve up Maduro to save the regime. Can you walk us through this, sir?
Yeah, so we know that back in October, these meetings started taking place. They involved the UAE and Delcy Rodriguez, who is now the acting president there in Venezuela, and as well her brother, who is highly involved in the government. And we know there were at least two offers made, one in April and one in September. for some type of transition in the country that would not include Maduro.
One of them was to have Delcy Rodriguez as the acting president, which is what we have now. Another one was to allow a former general who had defected from the government to return to the country and serve as the acting president. Now, this is all reporting originally from the Miami Herald. but certainly relevant now that Delcy Rodriguez is actually in power.
The United States clearly didn't accept that offer at the time, but quite clear that those channels remained open and that there was some type of deal to allow this sort of to all happen.
Well, hang on a second, because at the same time, Grinnell, and I know the president, in fact, Marco summed it up, I think, pretty well the other day at the press conference. The president gave Maduro every opportunity, different proposals, listened to him, had Grinnell involved, other people involved, over and over again.
Basically, I think it was to go into exile, either Spain or probably Turkey, maybe take some money with him, but get off all charges and live happily ever after. And he continued to blow the president off. And eventually, with Trump, knowing him personally... You're going to hit a trip wire after a while.
As that was going on, you're saying that Delcy, she approached, she initiated this because she's an interesting character. Remember, her family is kind of what I call a mafia or mob family that's been around for decades. I think it was her father. was in the business of kidnapping American executives of oil companies back in like the 60s, 70s, and 80s and holding them for ransom.
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