FOUR reasons why ‘Operation Absolute Resolve’ simply ROCKED
It’s about time the world was reminded of the absolute superiority and skills of the U.S. military in action
Opinion-editorial by Summer Lane | January 5, 2026
Over the weekend, the U.S. military carried out what might have been the quickest and most effective modern operation in history, successfully extracting Nicolas Maduro and his wife from Venezuela in a mission that lasted just a handful of hours from start to finish.
The mission, “Operation Absolute Resolve,” showed off the unquestionable military superiority of the U.S. Armed Forces and gave the newly renamed U.S. Department of War some serious street cred.
And while screeching leftists, squawking media pundits, and clickbait commentators may try to paint the Venezuelan mission as an unnecessary American regime-change mission, there are many ways that this military operation represented nothing but success for the country.
1: Venezuela committed atrocious crimes against Americans and there must be justice
22-year-old Laken Riley, a burgeoning young nursing student at Augusta University in Georgia, was brutally murdered by a Venezuelan member of Tren de Aragua in early 2024. Her killer, Jose Antonio Ibarra, had entered the country illegally.
12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray was sexually assaulted and brutally murdered in Texas by two Venezuelan illegal migrants in June 2024.
In 2025, the Pew Research Center estimated that there were at least 14 million illegal migrants in the United States – a staggering official number, thanks to Joe Biden’s catastrophic open border horror show.
At least 650,000 of those illegal entrants came from Venezuela. Alarmingly, the deadly gang Tren de Argua’s very presence in the United States is directly linked to Venezuelan illegal migration in the U.S., and the crimes perpetrated by members of this group are horrifying: human trafficking, kidnappings, murders, drug trafficking, and more.
Venezuela’s leadership in Nicolas Maduro and the deadly cartels that have laid waste to the South American country have perpetrated unthinkable and horrific crimes against innocent Americans like Laken Riley and Jocelyn Nungaray.
Operation Absolute Resolve honored the memory of innocent Americans who have perished over the years in very real and very horrendous ways at the hands of the evil men Nicolas Maduro and others sent to the U.S.
2: The question about election meddling
Venezuela has been a mess for a long time, and Nicolas Maduro has long been accused of stealing the so-called “election” in his country to seize and maintain power. From disenfranchising voters by physically moving polling places to politically blocking opposition candidates from challenging him – and despite data that suggested Maduro’s votes were lower than his opponents’ – Maduro somehow “won” the election in 2024 and clung to power.
Sound familiar?
Even more disturbingly, it has been reported by multiple sources, including LindellTV’s own Emerald Robinson, that Venezuela itself could have been involved in the tumultuous voting problems and reported irregularities that unfolded during the 2020 presidential election in the United States – an election that inexplicably ousted President Trump and literally seemed to shoe-horn Joe Biden into the Oval Office.
“My sources? The team that saved the 2024 election. My proof? Venezuela is now surrounded by American warships,” she said on X.
It can be no coincidence that, just after Maduro’s arrest by U.S. forces, President Trump fired off a string of Truth Social posts centered entirely on reports of alleged 2020 election fraud in the United States.
Perhaps Venezuela’s offenses against the U.S. extend far beyond drug trafficking and cartel crime. Time will tell, but it certainly could explain why, beyond the war on drugs and gang violence, Venezuela has been such a focus of the Trump administration.
3: Iran, China, and Russia have been knocked down a peg
Shortly after the arrest of Nicolas Maduro, Russia called for the release of the Venezuelan dictator and his wife, Vasily. According to the Russian News Agency, a Russian representative called on American leadership to return Maduro to his home country and condemned U.S. action, citing “violation of all international law norms.”
The People’s Republic of China and the government of Iran did the same, calling on the United States to return Maduro and his wife to Venezuela, again citing a violation of so-called “international law.”
Russia, of course, is a close and dangerous ally to Venezuela, and its interests in the South American country (to the tune of billions) are purely postured at eroding American Western power.
The same goes for China (China buys considerable oil from Venezuela) and Iran (tied together, of course, due to oil and arms). Just a few days ago, for example, the U.S. Department of State cracked down on Venezuela and Iran’s partnership in the proliferation of UAVs that support the Iranian regime.
On the world stage, Venezuela is essentially a hub where anti-American entities can establish a toehold in the Western Hemisphere, hiding their murky actions beneath the shell of a South American country run by what appears to be a loose-cannon dictator – but who, in actuality, is selling access to America to the highest bidders.
4: America dominating Venezuela extends western sovereignty, diminishes globalism
Iran, China, and Russia may have their own national interests, but ultimately, these nations are part of a coalition meant to squeeze the United States into a wider global apparatus that destroys the sovereignty of the U.S. Constitution.
Hence why these power players like to cite violations of so-called “international law,” a blanket term for anything the United Nations and its shadowed stakeholders don’t like.
But conservative commentator Mike Cernovich said it best: “Told you international law is fake. Hope to not ever hear such nonsense again. There is only what a country can do, and what can be done to stop it.”
Indeed. The United States has been beaten down and abused for decades. The last memory most Americans have of the U.S. military conducting a real operation was in the Afghanistan withdrawal – a catastrophic display of failure from the Biden administration and a deliberately incompetent Pentagon.
The weakness of that withdrawal in 2021 signaled to the world that America was weak.
No more. This weekend’s lightning-fast operation was a brilliant feat of American strategy and finesse, achieving total surprise and complete success. The entire ground operation, according to General Dan Caine (Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff), lasted just 30 minutes.
Quite simply, no other military on the planet could have pulled this off. It was a massive morale-booster not just to U.S. military servicemembers, but to the American people who need to see their country rock.
And as an added bonus? America will gain access to the world’s largest oil reserves, which just so happen to be located in Venezuela – another blow to foreign enemies.
This wasn’t the beginning of a war. This was, if anything, a swiftly executed dose of justice in a pre-existing war that was launched against American sovereignty long ago.
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