It’s About So Much More than Venezuela & Oil - Top 3 Takeaways January 6th, 2026
Takeaway #1 Why is Trump talking about Greenland again?
For the same reason he was last January. For the same reason he acted to end Chinese influence over the Panama Canal. For the same reason he made the rounds in the middle east last spring. Related to a similar reason he dropped the MOPs on Iran’s nuclear facilities. For the same reason he ordered the operation to arrest and extradite Maduro and wife. And actually, for the same reason that 32 Cuban intelligence officials were confirmed by Cuba to have been killed in Venezuela during the operation to remove and extradite Maduro on Saturday. It’s also the same reason that for the better half of a decade you’ve frequently heard me say this... China isn’t just China, it’s Russia, it’s Iran, it’s North Korea (with Little Rocket Man), it’s Cuba, it’s Venezuela and Nicaragua. As explained in yesterday’s Q&A: (the reason) China and Russia – two major economies, militaries and players on the world stage would even bother with the other countries. It’s all been strategic. North Korea has nuclear capabilities, Iran has oil, Cuba has proximity to the United States, Nicaragua has vast natural resources including “rare earths” and Venezuela... They’ve got the oil. Venezuela sits on the world’s largest energy reserves – larger than the U.S., larger than Russia, larger than Saudi Arabia. China needs energy – they must import essentially all of their energy needs. During the four years of the Biden administration, it wasn’t just a matter of Russia using the occasion of U.S. weakness to invade Ukraine. It wasn’t just that China began to militarily threaten Taiwan's sovereignty (in addition to tightening the ropes on Hong Kong). It wasn’t just that they had gained influence over the Panama Canal. It wasn’t just that China became the top trading partner for Brazil, Cuba, Paraguay, Peru and Venezuela – but also that China began populating those countries in mass. Btw, China didn’t stop there. So back to Greenland for a moment. Following Maduro’s ouster speculation has run rampant about what Trump might order next. Could he try to remove Columbia or Brazil’s presidents? What about Putin? Or maybe it’ll be the Danish PM? After all President Trump did once again say ‘we need Greenland’ for national security reasons. While many Americans still aren’t sure what to make out of all of this and all TDSers around the world are scared Trump will try to take over the world...there’s this. A story out of ArcticToday. Now I’m going to run out on a limb and guess that ArcticToday isn’t part of your daily news consumption cycle...but consider this story. Headline...
Takeaway #2 Greenland warns it may turn to China if US and EU shun mining investments
The lead line to the article is this: Greenland’s government is calling on the United States and European Union to step up investments in its mining sector — or risk losing influence in the Arctic to China. Imagine for a moment what the future for us would look like if China had total control of the Panama Canal, proxy governments in place in most central and South American countries, control of Venezuela's oil supply, control of Greenland’s rare earth minerals and the ability base military operations from Cuba. How do you think that would work out for us in the end? So, it’s like this. President Trump isn’t trying to take over the world; however, China and its Axis proxies have been. And what Trump has been systematically doing since becoming president once again is to very carefully rollback China’s systematic takeover of the Americas and to isolate the Axis powers from one another. Trump’s aggressive foreign policy maneuvers aren’t a diversion from America First policy. They’re exceedingly America First policy. As in preventing World War III from happening, while protecting U.S. economic interests and American jobs. All of his foreign policy actions as president have been geared towards peace and U.S. defense and economic interests. What’s already happened and what is happening is all part of this. Isolating the new axis powers from each other while realigning countries with U.S. interests as opposed to Chinese interests is in the entire free world’s interest. On that note President Trump also stated yesterday that Cuba is “ready to fall” following Maduro’s capture. Notice how China and Russia have been relatively quiet during all of this? That’s an indication that Trump’s plan is working and perhaps Cuba in addition to Venezuela could soon be free and prosperous, and aligned with the U.S. as opposed to Chinese and Russian communists. There’s been so much more to the story than what meets the eye. Speaking of failed leaders...
Takeaway #3 Timpon is out
Yesterday Nicolas Maduro and his wife pled not guilty to a host of narco terror and drug trafficking charges. They’ll now sit in jail until their March 17th court date. But while that case plays out, another bit of news played out in Minnesota yesterday. As the layers of the Somali daycare fraud onion continue to be peeled back suggesting that perhaps as much as $9 billion in fraud dating back to 2018 had been allowed under the watch of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, the governor previously best known for instituting a policy of installing tampon dispensers in boys locker rooms, and looking like Elmer Fud while running for Vice President, announced he was dropping his reelection bid. The end of Walz’s political career is neigh. The question now is whether his freedom is too. Was Walz truly that incompetent or was he complicit? His desire to dropout may be an effort to try to keep future prosecutorial heat off of him. There’s much more to the Somali story of corruption and the biggest question isn’t even whether Walz and Minnesota’s AG Ellison were guilty of looking the other way due to the desire to win the Somali vote (which btw, just think about that for a minute), but whether similar behaviors exist in other blue states. If that much fraud could happen in a relatively small blue state – what's happening, for example, in the Golden State?