Day: January 5, 2026

A Terrorism and Guerrilla War Expert’s Warning That “Venezuela is Primed For Resistance…Far Worse Than Iraq. Chaos is Coming…”

We begin with Maduro and his wife’s court appearance today in Manhattan in which he pled not guilty and claimed he is a victim of a kidnapping and is a prisoner of war. Joining us is an expert on guerrilla war and terrorism to discuss his warning he wrote on X that “Venezuela is primed for resistance to US controlling the oil. Perfect terrain for insurgency,”  “Plenty of armed groups already. Far worse than Iraq. Chaos is coming…”  Robert Pape is a Professor of Political Science and the director of the Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism at the University of Chicago specializing in political violence and international security affairs. He is the author of Cutting the Fuse: The Explosion of Global Suicide Terrorism and How to Stop It, Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism, and Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War.

Is Trump, Who Does Not Believe in Democracy, Replacing One Dictator With Another?

Then we examine whether Trump, who clearly does not believe in democracy, is swapping one dictator for another in Venezuela and speak with Jacob Heilbrunn, the Editor at the National Interest and a non-resident senior fellow at The Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center, and a columnist for The Spectator. His books include They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of the Neocons and America Last: The Right’s Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators. He is also editor-at-large of The Jerusalem Strategic Tribune.

In Two Months Trump Will be Erecting Another Monument to Himself 

Then finally we speak with Adele Stan, an independent journalist and longtime chronicler of the right wing of U.S. politics. A winner of the Hillman Prize in Opinion & Analysis Journalism, her work has appeared in Mother Jones, The Nation, and The American Prospect as well as on the op-ed pages of The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times and with Trump planning to start construction in two months on his latest monument to himself, the “Arc De Trump” at Arlington National Cemetery, we discuss her latest article at The New Republic, “How Jazz Great Chuck Redd Gave American Culture a Gift This Christmas.”