NOT SO DELUSIONAL — The Donroe Doctrine and Beijing's "Polar Silk Road": Last Month, a Report by None Other than Danish Intelligence Itself Warned About the Russian and Chinese Threat to Greenland and the Arctic

With Danish blood running through my veins, and having a familial connection to Greenland — my grand-father's cousin was one of the governors of the colony in the 1930s and in the 1940s, i.e., during World War II, and it was said Aksel Svane who walked down to the harbor of Godthaab (Good Hope, since rebaptized Nuuk) to welcome the first U.S. Navy ships in 1941 (prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor) — I cannot deny to being not entirely happy with the recent developments in the situation regarding the status of the planet's largest island.

At the same time, I understand why the Americans don't want — or, at least why Donald Trump doesn't want — to have another Cuba-type island among their neighbors, especially one of Greenland's size. (Indeed, it seems clear that Trump thinks that the 1960s "agreement" to leave the Castro dictatorship alone is madness, or at least utter weakness — especially now that China is not only trying to junk the Monroe Doctrine, it wants to establish itself as the head of the OAS — and that he is determined to ensure that Havana be the next socialist adversary to fall…)

Hardly strange, therefore, that Denmark's foreign minister says Trump has a point on China and Russia's threat to Greenland. Madison Colombo ofFox News:

"There's absolutely no Chinese footprint in Greenland," Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen said on "Special Report" Wednesday. "Having said that … there's always a bit of truth in what he [Trump] is saying.

 … "We definitely share the concern that [the] Arctic is not any longer a low-tension region. And, of course, we have to be aware of that. And that's why we have invested almost $15 billion U.S. dollars last year in capabilities in Greenland."

 … Former U.S. Ambassador to Denmark Carla Sands rejected Rasmussen's view, saying Denmark lacks the resources needed to defend the territory against adversaries. She warned both Russia and China are actively seeking to establish footholds in the region.    

"Greenlanders will go independent in the 21st century," Sands said on "The Ingraham Angle" Wednesday, pointing to Iceland’s separation from Denmark in the 20th century.

"President Trump's making sure they don't fall into the lap of China or Russia."

 … "The United States needs Greenland for the purpose of national security," Trump wrote in a Truth Social post Wednesday.

He has said Greenland is integral to the country’s Golden Dome project, a proposed U.S. missile-defense shield. Trump added that if the U.S. does not secure the territory, "Russia or China will" and called on NATO to back U.S. efforts to take control of Greenland.

Indeed, it turns out that in 2017, according to the Lexington Institute's Rebecca Grant, 

Greenland’s prime minister flew to Beijing and asked China to bankroll new airports, according to The Wall Street Journal. [To its credit,] Denmark stopped the deal. If anything like that happens again, Greenland will be flying a U.S. flag.

This may be a bombshell revelation: Indeed, this 2017 attempt sounds like it is probably what caused Trump to want to acquire Greenland in the first place. Moreover,

Put Chinese submarines in the Arctic and U.S. military bases, data centers and more are suddenly in range. The U.S. will do whatever it takes to halt that threat.

Denmark is a Capable Ally 

Denmark [does come] through when it matters.

In that perspective, you should check out this blog's China / Greenland posts, notably You Cannot Understand Trump's Greenland-Panama-Canada Declarations Unless You Recognize the Extent of the China Threat, a significant part of which quotes a number of articles from The Economist:

… the London weekly points out that

Mr Trump’s allies point to China’s “Polar Silk Road”, a spree of infrastructure-building in the Arctic, as a threat … It is undeniable that Greenland is important to America’s national security. The shortest route for Russian nuclear missiles to reach America’s east coast goes right over the island: Pituffik Space Base in the territory’s north-west hosts part of America’s missile-early-warning system. The so-called Greenland-Iceland-United Kingdom gap plays a central role in the high-stakes submarine contest between NATO members and Russia. … An independent Greenland could be vulnerable to coercion and be an unreliable ally.

An article linked by Instapundit reports that Danish intel warned last year about Russian and Chinese military goals toward Greenland and Arctic. 

Denmark's politicians are downplaying Trump's claims of Russian and Chinese threats to Greenland. But Danish intelligence [itself!] warned about Russia and China in stark terms.

Thus writes Jerry Dunleavy at Just The News.

While Denmark’s leaders downplay the threat to Greenland posed by Russia and China amidst President Donald Trump’s outspoken desire to acquire the frozen island, Denmark's Danish Defense Intelligence Service (DDIS [or Forsvarets Efterretningstjeneste (FE)]) recently released an assessment bluntly warning of Russian and Chinese military ambitions toward and expansion around Greenland and the Arctic.

Trump said last week that the U.S. needs Greenland “from the standpoint of national security” as he argued that the frozen autonomous territory owned by Denmark was “covered” with Russian and Chinese ships. Top Danish foreign policy and defense officials quickly sought to push back on Trump’s claims, claiming there are not Russian and Chinese ships near Greenland and going so far as to say that it is “delusional” to think Russia and China pose a threat to the massive frozen island.

Chinese propaganda outlets and its foreign ministry echoed the Danish denials and claimed the U.S. was acting out of a sense of self-interest, not based on security concerns.

But the "Intelligence Outlook 2025" report on the security of the Kingdom of Denmark, released just last month, had warned at great length that “China is preparing for a military presence in the Arctic” and that “China’s long-term Arctic interests include Greenland.” The report highlighted Chinese air-based, seaborne, and submersible activities in the Arctic.

The Danish intelligence report had further assessed that the militaries of China and Russia were collaborating more closely in the Arctic, displaying the growing “DragonBear” alliance between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin. … The Pentagon’s Arctic Strategy — penned in 2024 during the Biden Administration — also warned about growing Russian and Chinese military cooperation in the Arctic. …

Danish politicians — and China’s foreign ministry — push back on Trump’s concerns

 … Trump added over the weekend, “If we don’t take Greenland, Russia or China will take Greenland — and I’m not letting that happen. … One way or the other we will have Greenland.” The president said on Sunday that “you have Russian destroyers and submarines, and Chinese destroyers and submarines all over the place” near Greenland.

This has prompted a flurry of pushback from Danish politicians who downplayed the threat posed by Russia and China, with the Chinese government and its propaganda arms directly echoing some of the denials by the Danes.

“I am head of the defence committee in Denmark. It is my job to be on top of security in Greenland and I get all relevant information about it,” Rasmus Jarlov, the Chair of Denmark’s Parliamentary Defense Committee, said on X over the weekend. “I can assure you that your fantasies about a big threat from China and Russia against Greenland are delusional. You are the threat. Not them.” …

China to Trump: "Stop using so-called China threat"

 … But the Danish intelligence report painted a much more complicated picture than the denials from Danish politicians would suggest, laying out Chinese and Russian military objectives in the Arctic and interest in the Greenland region in particular as well. The report also found that the Russians viewed the ocean to the east of Greenland as key in any future war with NATO, and that China was eyeing Greenland for long-term strategic purposes as well.

 … “Although Chinese companies have shown interest in investing in Greenland, this has so far not produced tangible results,” the Danish report added. “Nevertheless, China’s long-term Arctic interests include Greenland, and it is expected to continue pursuing cooperation with Greenland, particularly in research but also in commercial ventures.”

The intelligence assessment noted that “for the United States, the Arctic represents the first and most crucial line of early warning in the event of a great-power conflict with Russia or China.” …

Danish intel maps detail Russian and Chinese moves in Arctic and near Greenland

 … Relatedly, the intelligence assessment made it clear that “China is Preparing for a Military Presence in the Arctic” as it stressed that “Chinese icebreakers and research vessels operate in the Arctic and have conducted joint patrol exercises with Russia in the region” and that “China aims to develop the capacity for independent military operations in the Arctic.”

 … This map also detailed joint patrol flights carried out by Russia and China north of the Bering Strait in 2024, Russian and Chinese coast guard vessels jointly patrolling the Arctic ocean the same year, and Chinese research vessels conducting Arctic expeditions in 2025, which demonstrated “China’s ambition to operate both surface ships and submarines in Arctic waters.” …

China seeks parity with Russia and U.S. sub-launched missile capabilities

The intelligence report highlighted Russian and Chinese intentions for the Arctic region — including securing prime submarine locations to launch their nuclear weapons at the U.S. in the event of war. …

U.S. assessments also warn of Russian and Chinese threats in Arctic and near Greenland

 … The Defense Department’s Arctic Strategy, published in the final year of the Biden Administration, also warned … that “the PRC and Russia are collaborating in the Arctic across multiple instruments of national power” and that “their growing alignment in the region is of concern.” …

Trump continues push for Greenland

Trump said Sunday on Air Force One that Greenland should make a deal with the U.S. as he criticized Denmark’s ability to protest [sic] the autonomous frozen island.

While RTBF's Annick Capelle turns to history to ask why Greenland belongs to Denmark in the first place and while Frank Gaffney explains why Greenland must be secured, Alexander B. Gray (a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council who served as chief of staff of the White House National Security Council, 2019-21) chose the Wall Street Journal to publish A Defense of the Donroe Doctrine in Greenland (Mange tak til Hr. Vincent Bourdonneau), stating that

Greenland can’t be allowed to fall under the sway of adversaries. … Mr. Trump’s bold action in Venezuela, and his commitment to the defense of the Western Hemisphere, will have a salutary global effect by restoring the U.S. deterrent. An assertive America confident in its power and role on the world stage is the surest guarantee of peace..

Richard James adds that 

Greenland’s security is critical. It sits in North America, exposed to Russian and Chinese ambitions. Denmark and the EU have neglected defence and investment; with a tiny population and immense strategic value, US control is the only credible guarantee..

While Phillip Millar offers a good short summary of Kalaallit Nunaat's strategic significance on Facebook (two minutes), Frank Gaffney turns to view the sorry state of the situation in Europe:

"Denmark and other European nations that have proven indifferent to the ongoing invasions of their countries by sharia-supremacists are denouncing our President’s resolve. But NATO also requires Greenland to be in safe hands and cannot otherwise assure it will be." 

Related: • The Systematic Destruction of Denmark's Military Over 30 Years: "Ships that cannot sail; Planes that cannot fly; And cannons that cannot fire — Everything is missing"

• Avoiding the NATO Burden: "Denmark has made the skill of tricking the US into an art" Writes Danish Editor; "Denmark Deserves No Respect from America"

• Beijing's Road & Belt: China is not only trying to junk the Monroe Doctrine, it wants to establish itself as the head of the OAS

Greenland’s security is critical. It sits in North America, exposed to Russian and Chinese ambitions. Denmark and the EU have neglected defence and investment; with a tiny population and immense strategic value, US control is the only credible guarantee.. https://t.co/l5XiIJjgh4

— Richard James (@skisidjames) January 8, 2026

What Is France in Need of in This Day and Age? Isn't It a Trump à la Française?

While Sébastien Laye believes that France’s economic collapse is inevitable and has been calling his country therefore nothing less than an Utter Merde-Show, his fellow author Nicolas Conquer — who has left his role as one of ROF's spokesmen (while remaining involved with the group) to become the founder of the Western Arc think tank — has just published a book saying that the solution is looking towards a French Trump. Or a Trump à la française, if you will.   

Subtitled "French Anger, American Mirror", Nicolas Conquer's book is described as follows by Fayard and by Amazon: 

America is not a model. It is a mirror. 

From the plains of the Midwest to the hedgerows of the Cotentin peninsula, the same anger rumbles, the same divide widens, the same yearning for a representative figure grows. Trumpism is not an American phenomenon. It is a symptom that is now ours [here in France]. 

A French-American citizen, a spokesperson for Republicans Overseas France, and a candidate in the Manche department, Nicolas Conquer has experienced the political realities on both sides of the Atlantic. He is not predicting the arrival of a "French Trump." He is proving that he is already on his way. 

Will you recognize him when he emerges? 

Fayard et Amazon :

L’Amérique n’est pas un modèle. Elle est un miroir.  

Des plaines du Midwest aux bocages du Cotentin, la même colère gronde, la même fracture s’élargit, la même attente d’incarnation monte. Le trumpisme n’est pas un phénomène américain. C’est un symptôme qui est désormais le nôtre.

Franco-américain, porte-parole de Republicans Overseas France, candidat dans la Manche, Nicolas Conquer a connu les réalités politiques des deux rives de l’Atlantique. Il ne prédit pas l’avènement d’un « Trump français ». Il prouve qu’il est en train d’arriver.

Saurez-vous le reconnaître quand il surgira ?

The book was reviewed in Valeurs Actuelles by Thomas Morel, while the founder of the Western Arc think tank appeared on the Les Français podcast (17-18 minutes).

AN UTTER MERDE-SHOW: In France, Meanwhile, Everything Is Paralyzed by "Useless Politicians" Across the Board

A couple of weeks after calling France’s economic collapse inevitable, Sebastien Laye has penned a new article on the subject of "France's descent into ungovernability" and "its useless politicians", titled An Utter Merde-Show.

While Italy, Greece and Spain have brought down their budget deficits to levels commensurate with EU rules … The exception is France, which for three years has run a huge deficit of over 5% of GDP. … France has failed even to pass a budget for 2026. It now faces the latest in a series of parliamentary battles to adopt one by the end of the month.

 … The budgetary impasse is one symptom of a deeper malady: a severe case of collective political uselessness. Emmanuel Macron is entering the last 15 months of his presidency. He can still act internationally but is a lame duck at home, viewed favourably by less than 20% of the French. His centrist coalition holds 161 of the 577 seats in the splintered National Assembly, making it virtually impossible to get anything done. The populist right and left delight in Mr Macron's paralysis. It is a dismal spectacle at a critical time, and everyone shares some of the blame.

 … France is paralysed, and … Every major actor in French politics should be ashamed. 

[Indeed,] one should not spare from blame the voters, who failed to appreciate Mr Macron's successful economic policies, refuse to accept that the welfare system needs reform and keep voting for the most irresponsible politicians.

Nonetheless, Sébastien Laye believes that, generally, the French are more fiscally conservative than generally believed. He is preparing articles for Valeurs Actuelles and l'Express this week on the economic policies of Donald Trump after his first (or his fifth) year in the White House (far from incomparable to Trump's '50 Wins in 50 Days').

Dilbert in Tears: RIP Scott Adams, the Cartoonist Who Predicted Donald Trump's First Victory

"Good-bye, friend," to Scott Adams, the Dilbert cartoonist who had been suffering from cancer and, as of today, is no longer with us.

I did a search of Scott Adams on the blog, and was surprized how often I had linked his cartoons offer the years. Here are two of the best…

The White House has been among the first to react:

Michael Walsh: "war may be hell but it is often necessary"

 

From the epilogue of Michael Walsh's Last Stands (Why Men Fight When All Is Lost): Echoing the Protest Warriors' tongue-in-cheek T-shirt "War has never solved anything (except for ending Nazism, Fascism, slavery, etc…)" — thanks for the Instalink — Michael Walsh writes that

 … war may be hell but it is often necessary. This may be regrettable, but unless one is a member of a suicide cult, it does neither an individual nor a nation any good to deny. In our iconoclastioc era, in which a segment of the American population thinnks it is somehow cathartic to tear down statues of great men of the past because they lacked the foresight to see how their actions and attitudes might play out hundreds or even thousands of years in the future, there can be no disagreement with transitory orthodoxy. The animated warriors of the "social justice" movement are quite brave when confronting inanimate objects; one wonders how far this bravado would extend to an existential threat. Let's hope we never have to find out, although one suspects they would suddenly discover the joys of conscientious objection, or a "Higher loyalty" to nonviolence over their preferred goal of international, borderless brotherhood.  

… The Kellogg-Briand Pact, signed in Paris in 1928, bound its signers to renounce war. … Eleven years later, World War II broke out, rendering the treaty nugatory and resulting in the disappearance of several of the signatories. 

 … Contemporary pacifists and feminists will argue that war is the result of "toxic masculinity," and that in a female-dominated world disputes will be amicably settled by tribal councils of conciliation and jawboning. Why, then, are contemporarty feminists so adamant about women in the military? Why do they insist, against all historical and empirical evidence, that women are the equals of men in every respect, including physical strength and and the nature of their enotions? Their ideal, the now-obsolete United Nations, is a monument on the East River to the naïveté of Kellogg-Briand. What has the UN brought us? Wars that drag on forever with "peacekeepers" in blue helmets there to referee, a bloated bureaucracy occupying valuable Manhattan real estate, and outbreaks of rape and exploitation in various hot zones around the world. Winston Churchill never said anything stupider than "jaw-jaw is better than war-war" — rich coming from a man who also said (of his experience on the North-West Frontier between Pakistan and Afghanistan), "Nothing on life is so exhilarating than to be shot at without result."

 … Santayana's oft-quoted aphorism, "Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it," is in a way supererogatory; the past will recur whether we remember it or not. Remembering it and learning from it, however, at least gives us a fighting chance.

Related: From 10 years ago: Greatest of all warriors on earth, the American soldier is capable of fighting fiercely, loving gently, living nobly, and forgiving totally

Comparing Renee Nicole Good to Charlie Kirk

Now all we need to do is wait for Leftists across the nation to be celebrating the death of Renee Nicole Good, calling her bigoted and hateful and ranting that the bullet (or the several bullets) to her head was/were entirely deserved. Oh wait! She is not linked to the right, so… No. 

No no no — instead she gets oppressed status, also known as the poor innocent victim treatment… Of course, Charlie Kirk never tried to run over his shooter (or anybody else, for that matter) with his car, but there you have it… (Thanks to Sarah for the Instalink.)

Speaking of which: Over at Instapundit —

One thing we know for certain.

If Renee Nicole Good had been killed by an illegal alien, it would not have even made the news. pic.twitter.com/TzeOBxQrLi

— Carmine Sabia (@CarmineSabia) January 8, 2026

Update — again from Instapundit:

I don't remember any Democrats holding protests for this white woman who was killed, or calling for action to stop it from happening again. I never once heard them yell "say her name."

They are hypocrites—disgusting, two-faced POS who protect criminals. pic.twitter.com/0rWdeAShd6

— Sadie (@Sadie_NC) January 9, 2026

EUROPE'S VIAGRA — French Radio Debate: Is Donald Trump the Old Continent's "Greatest Danger" or Is He "Europe's Viagra"?

When Philippe Karsenty was invited to a 21-minute debate on SudRadio with a French socialist about Donald Trump's latest actions (notice how PK cannot help smiling when Emma Rafowicz mentions Thierry Breton), the spokesman for le Comité Trump France pointed out that far from being Europe's "greatest danger", POTUS47 was the "Viagra of Europe". 

According to Philippe Karsenty, therefore, as Jean-François Achilli reports in his article, 

Donald Trump is in fact not breaking with Europe but is seeking to awaken it. He specifically cites J.D. Vance’s February 2025 speech, in which the American vice president had attacked Europe from every angle. According to him, this break with the Old Continent was actually “a declaration of love for Europe” that meant: “Wake up, you are totally collapsing!”

Throughout the debate, of course, the left-leaning guest seems incapable of letting Karsenty speak without interrupting him constantly. (Merci à Sarah pour l'Instalien.)

Le Grand Matin | La Vérité en Face 

Par Jean-François Achilli avec Philippe Karsenty, Emma Rafowicz 

Groenland : Trump, dangereux pour l'Europe et la France ? 

Épisode du mardi 6 janvier 2026 

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Groenland : Donald Trump est-il dangereux pour l'Europe et la France ? Débat Philippe Karsenty (Comité Trump France) x Emma Rafowicz (PS) 

Les invités

Philippe Karsenty

Porte-parole du Comité Trump France

Emma Rafowicz

Députée européenne PS

Donald Trump : « Viagra de l’Europe » ou « plus grand danger » du Vieux-Continent ? 

  “Without the United States, the war in Ukraine would be over and done with.” 

 … Philippe Karsenty, spokesperson for the Trump France Committee, asserts that the United States remains an indispensable ally for European interests. “Without the United States, the war in Ukraine would be over and done with,” he maintains. Beyond its support, Trump could even be “the last American president who loves Europe,” according to him. 

Thus, Donald Trump is not breaking with Europe but is seeking to awaken it. He specifically cites J.D. Vance’s February 2025 speech, in which the American vice president had attacked Europe from every angle. According to him, this break with the Old Continent was actually “a declaration of love for Europe” that meant: “Wake up, you are totally collapsing!”

Donald Trump : « Viagra de l’Europe » ou « plus grand danger » du Vieux-Continent ?  

« Sans les États-Unis, la guerre en Ukraine serait finie et pliée »

Face à elle, Philippe Karsenty, porte-parole du Comité Trump France, affirme que les États-Unis restent des alliés indispensables aux intérêts européens. « Sans les États-Unis, la guerre en Ukraine serait finie et pliée », estime-t-il. Au-delà de son aide, Trump pourrait même être « le dernier président américain qui aime l’Europe » d’après lui.

Ainsi, Donald Trump ne rompt pas avec l’Europe mais cherche à la réveiller. Il évoque notamment le discours de J.D. Vance en février 2025, où le vice-président américain avait enfoncé l’Europe par toutes les portes. Selon lui, cette rupture avec le Vieux continent était en réalité « une déclaration d’amour à l’Europe » qui signifiait : « Réveillez-vous, vous êtes totalement en train de vous effondrer ! ».

Related — wretchardthecat: Days after Europeans denounce US action in Venezuela they anticipate collecting debts from proceeds.

After Venezuela, How Far Will Trump Go? During a French TV Debate on the Capture of Maduro, Some Male Guests Sound like the Hysterical Ladies from "The View"

Monday, Isaac Barchichat was invited on TF1's Darius Rochebin talk show for an LCI debate on Trump's amazing capture of dictator Nicolas Maduro, but the ROF spokesman did not appear until after 57 minutes had passed, most of the other guests being partly or entirely against Donald Trump, qualified by some as an imperialist, a "gangster," and a "predator."

Regarding said guests, at least two of whom seem to be former generals or officers in the French Army, one member of Republicans Overseas France said that "the 'men' that Isaac has to debate on LCI sound more and more like the 'ladies' on The View."

LCI :

Le 22h Rochebin du lundi 5 janvier 2026 - Édition spéciale : après le Venezuela, jusqu'où ira Trump ? 

Au sommaire : Nicolas Maduro : exfiltration, hélico... les images historiques. Trump envisage une intervention en Iran (presse). Groenland : Trump va-t-il attaquer l'OTAN ? Trump : la Chine, le seul ennemi qui l'inquiète ?

TF1 : 

Jan 6, 2026 22H Rochebin

Au sommaire : Nicolas Maduro : exfiltration, hélico... les images historiques. Trump envisage une intervention en Iran (presse). Groenland : Trump va-t-il attaquer l'OTAN ? Trump : la Chine, le seul ennemi qui l'inquiète ?

LCI :

Le 22h Rochebin du lundi 5 janvier 2026 - Édition spéciale : après le Venezuela, jusqu'où ira Trump ?

Publié aujourd'hui à 0h00

Au sommaire : Nicolas Maduro : exfiltration, hélico... les images historiques. Trump envisage une intervention en Iran (presse). Groenland : Trump va-t-il attaquer l'OTAN ? Trump : la Chine, le seul ennemi qui l'inquiète ?

ROF: 

Tonight at 22H50 watch Isaac Barchichat, spokesperson Republicans Overseas France France, on LCI to debate Trumps amazing capture of dictator Nicolas Maduro. Don't miss it! Ce soir à 22h50 regardez Isaac Barchichat, porte-parole des Republicans Overseas France, sur LCI pour débattre de la capture spectaculaire du dictateur Nicolas Maduro par Trump. Ne manquez pas ça !

Fatal Mistake: China Won’t Bleed for You — Venezuela's Maduro Just Proved It

On LinkedIn, Sébastien Laye makes the following remarks:

China Won’t Bleed for You — Maduro Just Proved It.

Being China’s Partner Is a Fatal Mistake.

China spent over $100 billion propping up Venezuela — then watched as its “ironclad ally” was arrested and flown out in a flawless U.S. operation.

China’s “all-weather partnership” collapsed in real time, and the brutal lesson every regime flirting with Beijing just learned:when pressure hits, China doesn’t protect you. It exposes you.

Related: "Venezuela's Suicide" — Democrat whipsaw from one policy priority to the next: In 2018, Leftists Decried "A Failed State" Under Chavez and Maduro

• Once Again: Thanks, President Trump, for an Astounding Birthday Gift (This'll Be the Second Time…)

• From 2018: If you are wondering why you haven’t seen Venezuela's starving mobs on the news, it’s because the country is a Socialist disaster area that was once being used as a model by the left

• From 2016: Whether implemented by a mob or a single strongman, collectivism is a poverty generator, an attack on human dignity, and a destroyer of individual rights 

• From 2014: The U.S. and the Venezuelan administrations couldn’t be more similar: Chávez was the Obama of South America, and Maduro was his Biden 

• From 2013: Comparing Chávez to De Gaulle, French Government Minister Says: "The world would benefit from having many more dictators like him" 

• From 2010: Meta-capitalists are natural allies of the communists … What we have is a gigantic symbiosis of all globalist and statist forces around the world 

• From 2008: Is it safer to walk around in Baghdad than it is in Caracas? Hugo Chávez's socialist "sea of happiness" resembles a war zone 

"Venezuela's Suicide" — Democrat whipsaw from one policy priority to the next: In 2018, Leftists Decried "A Failed State" Under Chavez and Maduro

 

Duncan Hill brings us 

A reminder from 2018, Venezuela's Suicide, in Foreign Affairs, as to why action was warranted. 

Since Foreign Affairs is no friend of Trump, this article makes a good reference. 

However, typical of Foreign Affairs, the article ends with an idealistic solution (spoiler alert… just kidding… you can guess how it ends)… no military intervention. 

I suppose, if you're a magazine about diplomacy, anything else is unthinkable… even if necessary. Check out the video in [the Twitchy article] which reveals the hypocrisy of the Dems… their nonsense is getting old.

   

Duncan Hill is referring to Maduro Madness: Dems Who Condemned Trump for Not Removing the Venezuelan Dictator Are Furious When He Went Ahead and Did Exactly That by Warren Squire in addition to Maze Moore's X tweet and video at the bottom of this post. (Gracias a Sarah.)

This allows Damian Bennett a moment of glee:

What I love is the whipsaw from one policy flub priority to the next: busting wife beaters and child traffickers from CECOT, to the "your pain, our gain" "won by losing" Schumer Shutdown, to ballroom bawling, to defending massive government fraud, to "Trump said he was going to lower the price of eggs!" (not even second full day in office; oh, he and Ag Sec Brooke Rollins did that), to "You can't bomb the peaceable mullahs!", to claiming every diplomatic triumph is really part of a Biden master plan* Trump inherited, to "Release the Epstein files or else! NO! Wait!" -- dear God in Heaven, it just goes on and on and on and on. There is no rake they will not seek out and step on. I love the whipsaw because every Dem schtick has the half-life of a Steven Miller snort or a Scott Jennings eyeroll. The Dems know this. They're so desperate, everyone in the once disciplined party monolith is a free agent. The leadership may be scripted -- ridiculous, but same page ridiculosity -- but there are plenty of improv Dem jackasses jockeying for Orangeman Bad panelist slots. Essentially, the DNC has become an open mic (every) night improv venue. And Dems will say anything. ANYTHING! ANYTHING to try and throw shade on the Trump admin. It's pathetic, and what's delicious about the patheticism, is the Dems know it. They know while being maquillaged, they know it in the green room, they know it taking a seat, they know it when the red light cues them, and they especially know it when words leave their mouths -- AND! -- and a clip of those words is uploaded to the graveyard of morons, scil., the forever-everland of YouTube. 

* CNN reports unnamed exiting Biden staffers saw it rolled up in an empty Häagen-Dazs short pint of Bourbon Vanilla Bean Truffle left under the Resolute Desk; easy to follow bullet points, countries involved highlighted in yellow, RTG.

Meanwhile the Trump administration goes from strength to strength. Consider this, anyone in the Trump WH at the executive level (and probably several rungs down as well) would prove more capable a president than everyone in the Dem ranks. I would love someday to have a President Karoline Leavitt. Team Trump is the party of smart achievers. The Dems are the party of stupid. Self-actualized and inescapably self-aware stupid. But credit due, boldly, courageously stupid. Cut one down, nine talking heads spring up! Take two: imagine Rocky, but instead of Rocky Balboa going 15 rounds, it's cornerman Hakeem 'Paulie' Jeffries slobbering on Sean 'Apollo Creed' Spicer's bootlaces. 

And best BEST BEST, absolute BESTEST of all -- Team Trump doesn't give a flying Boasberg F*CK about the Dems and their snark and foot stomps and incontinent rage wee-wee and weak-tea minacity or the splintered socialist broomstick up their collective bum. 

What is not to love here? Help me out. What am I missing?

Related • And from 2016: Whether implemented by a mob or a single strongman, collectivism is a poverty generator, an attack on human dignity, and a destroyer of individual rights 

• And from 2014: The U.S. and the Venezuelan administrations couldn’t be more similar: Chávez was the Obama of South America, and Maduro was his Biden 

• And from 2013: Comparing Chávez to De Gaulle, French Government Minister Says: "The world would benefit from having many more dictators like him" 

• And from 2010: Meta-capitalists are natural allies of the communists … What we have is a gigantic symbiosis of all globalist and statist forces around the world 

• And from 2008: Is it safer to walk around in Baghdad than it is in Caracas? Hugo Chávez's socialist "sea of happiness" resembles a war zone 

• And from yesterday: Once Again: Thanks, President Trump, for an Astounding Birthday Gift (This'll Be the Second Time…)

• Again, from 2018: If you are wondering why you haven’t seen Venezuela's starving mobs on the news, it’s because the country is a Socialist disaster area that was once being used as a model by the left

During Trump's first term Maduro stayed in power after an illegitimate election.

The MSM/Democrats repeatedly claimed that Maduro remaining in power was proof that Trump was "Putin's puppet."

Everyone in this video will now be condemning Trump. It's so pathetic. pic.twitter.com/EpCcOxESNP

— MAZE (@mazemoore) January 3, 2026