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The Buck Sexton Show

Buck Brief - Venezuela is Trump's Biggest Foreign Policy Win Ever

The Buck Sexton Show

Premiere Networks

News, Government, Politics

4.24.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

The Trump administration kicks off the new year with a massive foreign policy move in Venezuela, seizing Nicolás Maduro and sending a shockwave through the region and beyond. Buck is joined by Steve Yates of the Heritage Foundation to break down what comes next, why this operation is fundamentally different from past U.S. interventions, and how adversaries like China, Russia, and Iran are likely interpreting the message. They also discuss the implications for Cuba, Latin America, global energy markets, and what this signals about America’s willingness to exert power closer to home.

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0:00.0

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0:02.5

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You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast.

0:08.9

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0:14.4

Kicking off the new year with a huge bang, actual banks, many of them, in Caracas in the surrounding area, Trump administration, swinging for the fences right away with a tactically incredible operation to seize Maduro and take him now to the United States where he faces the full weight of the federal criminal

0:38.4

justice system.

0:39.8

Massive, massive move in Venezuela.

0:42.0

Our friend Stephen Yates joins us now.

0:43.9

Let's talk about the what's next and the big strategic implications of this.

0:48.2

We went into Steve.

0:49.1

Steve's with the Heritage Foundation.

0:50.4

You know, he's a senior fellow there.

0:51.8

He was a senior national security guy to a former White House.

0:56.8

And Steve, let's start with it. I want to get into the immediate what's next a little bit, but also the implications for how the rest of the world is looking at this with you.

1:06.9

Let's start with, I get it. There's this concern always of the non-interventionist sound a little one note to me on this one.

1:14.6

And non-interventious might be a little two kinds.

1:16.4

I think some of them are a little more isolationist, even the non-interventionist.

1:20.3

But, oh my gosh, this is going to be Iraq again.

1:24.6

I want you to give me your sense of why that's certainly to, it's not the case

1:30.9

yet and why it's unlikely to be the case that this is the quagmire that every, that's not everyone,

1:37.5

but that some people are freaking out about. Well, Buck, yeah, you're definitely right that the

1:42.6

chorus has already begun, and they're

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