Why Venezuela Was the Move—and Taiwan Was the Message By now, the surface-level take has exhausted itself. Helicopters. Explosions. Maduro removed. Commentators arguing legality while anchors search for historical analogies. That layer is finished. What matters now is what this operation did to the global chessboard, particularly to China —and why Beijing should understand January 3, 2026, as a direct warning shot across the Taiwan Strait. This was not a regional cleanup. Thi

Welcome to 2026.We are no longer debating whether actions have consequences. We are watching the Find Out phase unfold at cruise missile speed. In the early hours of January 3rd, the United States executed the most aggressive foreign military action of the Trump era, striking Venezuelan military and infrastructure targets, decapitating the regime’s leadership, and transitioning seamlessly from kinetic warfare to federal criminal prosecution. The headline version: Nicolás Madu