Jan. 15, 2026

MM#454--Peace Through Strength in Venezuela, Part 2

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Tyranny spreads by force, and so must the resolve to stop it. We take a clear-eyed look at what comes after a dictator falls in Caracas and argue for a blueprint that restores Venezuelan sovereignty without sliding into a quagmire. Our approach blends moral clarity with practical steps: empower a transitional council, reform and retrain security forces, and build a justice process that punishes violent crimes while creating space f...

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Tyranny spreads by force, and so must the resolve to stop it. We take a clear-eyed look at what comes after a dictator falls in Caracas and argue for a blueprint that restores Venezuelan sovereignty without sliding into a quagmire. Our approach blends moral clarity with practical steps: empower a transitional council, reform and retrain security forces, and build a justice process that punishes violent crimes while creating space for reconciliation.

We walk through a five-part plan designed to lock in stability. First, governance must return to Venezuelans with clean records and the capacity to rebuild services, courts, and media freedom. Second, security forces should be cleaned up rather than destroyed: purge cartel-linked generals, retrain mid-level officers, and sever foreign intelligence ties that turned the state into a proxy. Third, a truth, justice, and reconciliation commission can separate serious crimes from systemic corruption and ensure victims are heard. Fourth, we target the money: dismantle Cartel de los Soles, seize assets, and align banks, shippers, and insurers to choke illicit flows. Fifth, we end election fraud by replacing compromised systems with citizen-verifiable audits, transparent chains of custody, and independent oversight.

All of this sits inside a renewed Monroe Doctrine that focuses on our neighborhood: secure oil fields, stop hybrid attacks, and reduce the space for cartels and adversaries to operate. Special forces play a limited but crucial role by training local units and transferring capacity, not occupying. The aim is peace through strength—stability rooted in law, deterrence, and credible ballots. If Venezuela can anchor accountable governance and lawful commerce, the benefits ripple across the hemisphere with safer borders, steadier energy, and fewer reasons for families to flee.

Key Points from the Episode:

• opening quote from Jeane Kirkpatrick on tyranny and war sharing a source
• framing Maduro’s capture as a first step, not the finish
• goal to restore sovereignty and stability without nation building
• five major points to a restored and rehabilitated Venezuela
• rationale for a renewed Monroe Doctrine focused on regional security
• payoff: secure energy, reduced terror and cartel reach, rule of law

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00:00 - Welcome And Theme

00:50 - Kirpatrick’s Warning On Tyranny

02:08 - Capture Of Maduro Framed

02:43 - Mission: Restore Sovereignty

03:20 - Step 1: Transitional Council

03:48 - Step 2: Reform Security Forces

04:12 - Step 3: Truth And Reconciliation

04:38 - Special Forces Role

05:13 - Step 4: Crush Cartel De Los Soles

05:45 - Step 5: End Election Fraud

06:00 - Rationale And Monroe Doctrine

06:34 - Payoff And Closing

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Welcome to the Theory to Action Podcast, where we examine the timeless treasures of wisdom from the great books in less time to help you take action immediately and ultimately to create and lead a flourishing life.

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Now, here's your host, David Kaiser.

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Hello, I am David, and welcome back to another Mojo Minute and to our part two of diving into the topic of peace through strength and how Donald Trump is restoring that throughout our Western Hemisphere.

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This is an audio-only podcast.

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As always, let's begin with our opening quote.

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We cannot protect ourselves or others against the resurgence of aggressive powers or the recurrence of evil unless we face the fact that tyranny and war have the same source, and persons who's force to expand their control of others.

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These individuals use force to gain power inside and outside their own countries.

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When would be dictators manage by one means or another to get to the top of government?

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They seek to bend that government's resources to their own purposes, to malevolently maximize their own power, they destabilize existing institutions often ruthlessly, and create wars.

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The evidence against these interlopers has been plentiful in this century.

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And that was Jean Kirpatrick in making war to keep peace, the great UN ambassador under actually the first UN ambassador, first woman UN ambassador under Ronald Reagan.

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And she was the epitome of peace through strength.

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Now to dive straight in on our part two, we're going to say the capture, or the capture rather, of Nicholas Maduro and Caracas was a masterclass in American precision.

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But as every Reagan conservative and conservative realist knows, removing a dictator is the only first chapter.

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Restoring sovereignty is the book we must now finish.

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Early fears of another Iraqi style Quagmire have certainly come up.

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The mission in Venezuela isn't nation building, it's a surgical restoration of law and order in our own hemisphere.

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The goal is simple leave Venezuela stable, sovereign, and hostile to no one but its former captors.

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Step one, we believe, is to empower Venezuela's transitional council.

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U.S.

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forces have taken charge temporarily, but the governance must shift quickly to the National Reconstruction Council.

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This is Venezuelans with clean records ready to rebuild institutions and to restore services.

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This isn't about picking political favorites, that would be bad.

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It's about building a lawful foundation for free elections.

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Very important.

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Step two, we believe, is to rebuild, don't destroy the security forces.

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The security services must be cleaned up, not wiped out.

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We should remove the cartel linked generals.

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We should retrain their mid-level officers and cut Cuba's intelligence grip once and for all.

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That's how we prevent an Iraqi style collapse and ensure Cuba's proxy state ceases to exist, all the while hammering the rest of the intelligence services that have been in country, mainly Iran, China, and others.

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Step three, we believe, is truth, justice, and reconciliation commission must be established.

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To heal Venezuela, we need this type of commission.

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The murderers must face justice.

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Bureaucrats should be barred from power, and there should be no witch hunts, just principle reset, certainly grounded in human rights and justice.

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The Venezuelans can conduct that themselves.

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Certainly there will be boots on the ground in the form of special forces, and we should have some protection for them.

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But those guys have been trained.

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I mean, their whole entire being and training and their job position is to train indigenous folks on the ground.

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So they speak the language, they can see who are the good guys, who are the bad guys, will they get some people wrong?

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Certainly.

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But that is what they do.

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We should trust our Green Berets and our special forces to get that job done.

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Number four, we should dismantle the cartel de la Solas.

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That cartel must be crushed, not tolerated.

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It must be crushed.

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Delcy Rodriguez and her network cannot be recycled as moderates.

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She is part of the problem.

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They are the financial heart of the two point seven trillion dollar criminal empire.

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If we don't remove them entirely, that rot will remain as a cancer and will keep feeding the beast.

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Step five, we believe, is to destroy the fraud machine.

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Finally, we need to end the smartmatic fraud infrastructure.

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Without legitimate elections, oil investments mean nothing.

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We need to break the system, root and branch, and ensure elections serve citizens, not cartels.

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Now, why is all this necessarily necessary?

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Because the US acted out of necessity, not ambition.

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Donald Trump, after years of Biden's neglect and his failure to contain Venezuela's narco state, our southern hemisphere had become a base of operations very quickly for cartels, for foreign adversaries, and hybrid attacks on our borders.

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Certainly under this new Monroe Doctrine reborn.

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America is not policing the world, it's cleaning up its own neighborhood.

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When a dictator becomes a drug kingpin and a foreign proxy, he forfeits his sovereignty.

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The gamble was real, but so is the payoff.

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Secure those oil fields, eliminate the terror attacks, restore democracy and the rule of law, and we will have a safer Western hemisphere.

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It is peace through strength, and it begins in Caracas.

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As always, keep fighting the good fight.

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Thank you for joining us.

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We hope you enjoyed this theory to action podcast.

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