Did We Just Start WW3? RUSSIA AND CHINA React To Venezuela

Keeping It Real: Conversations with Jillian Michaels

Jillian Michaels

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🗓️ 7 January 2026

⏱️ 70 minutes

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They told you it was about narco-terrorism. They told you it was about justice. They lied. The capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro isn't just a win for the DEA—it is a geopolitical earthquake involving oil, gold, silver, the war on terror, and a battle for global supremacy. In this explosive episode of Keeping It Real, Jillian Michaels sits down with Ex-CIA Covert Ops Officer Mike Baker (host of The President’s Daily Breif) and Constitutional Attorney Josh Hammer to reveal what the mainstream media and partisan pundits aren’t telling you. We strip away the headlines to expose the truth about what’s really going on, why, and what is likely to happen next: 🔥 INSIDE THIS EPISODE: PART 1: THE OPERATION & THE STRATEGY (w/ Mike Baker) The Intel: How the U.S. really pulled off the capture of Maduro (and the message it sends to Cuba and Iran.) Follow the Money: The role of Venezuela’s massive oil and gold reserves in the decision. The Adversaries: How Russia, China, Iran, and Cuba are reacting to losing their key ally in the Western Hemisphere. Checkmate or Chaos? Is this the move that forces Putin and Xi to the negotiating table, or have we just locked ourselves into another "Forever War” in the jungles of South America? PART 2: THE LAW & THE FALLOUT (w/ Josh Hammer) Legal Deep Dive: Did President Trump effectively break international law to get this done? The Precedent: Does this now open the door for China to take Taiwan? The Constitution: Is there any foundation for the domestic legal battles that are about to explode? The Verdict: Is there a loophole that could see Maduro walk free? This conversation goes beyond the "official story." If you want to understand the new rules of global power, you need to watch this. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Early in the morning of January 3, 2026, the world woke up to a geopolitical earthquake.
0:09.1	In a brazen pre-dawn military operation, codenamed Absolute Resolve, U.S. Special Forces descended on Caracas,
0:17.7	capturing Nicholas Maduro and extracting him to U.S. worship. Within hours, the man who
0:24.6	reigned terror upon Venezuela for over a decade was in federal custody, facing a litany of
0:31.2	narco-terrorism charges. Now, both sides have weighed in. It's all good, it's all bad, and people
0:37.3	have already gone to war over it figuratively here in the states. But it's important to be clear that this is a nuanced, rapidly developing situation that goes far beyond black and white thinking with serious strategic and legal implications still unfolding. So to help us break this down, we're going to be joined by two experts who are approaching
0:57.8	this from two different angles.
0:59.7	Mike Baker, a former CIA covert operations officer, will explain the why, the how, and what
1:06.2	comes next.
1:07.0	People shouldn't be paying attention to China's interpretation of this move with Venezuela,
1:15.6	meaning how do they take what we're doing and move it over to the Taiwan Strait and their actions towards Taiwan.
1:26.6	And then Josh Hammer joins us, a constitutional attorney and senior editor at large at Newsweek,
1:31.3	and he's going to walk us through the legal basis for this move, both under U.S. law and international law.
1:38.3	What it means for Congress to declare war is actually something of a formality.
1:42.3	It actually literally is a post hoc measure for Congress to declare that we are actually in a state of war.
1:49.1	And what that means is that it triggers certain diplomatic actions.
1:52.4	It triggers certain sanctions.
1:54.0	It triggers certain economic proceedings.
1:56.2	But it's something actually of a formality.
1:58.6	It's usually after the fact.
2:00.0	I think what you're going to learn
2:02.1	will absolutely shock you.
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