EMERGENCY POD: Venezuela!

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Commentary Magazine

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🗓️ 3 January 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump's decision to arrest Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro and his wife in a massive and brilliant kinetic military action may prove to have long-lasting political, ideological, and strategic ramifications of an almost unprecedented scale. That's what we talk about on this rare emergency edition. Happy New Year and give a listen! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	this
0:01.0	hope for the best
0:08.2	expect the worst
0:10.6	some drink champagne
0:12.1	some die of
0:13.7	the way of knowing
0:16.6	which way it's going
0:18.6	hope for the best
0:20.2	expect the worst.
0:22.3	Oh, for the bad.
0:24.5	This emergency edition of the Commentary Magazine Daily Podcast, Emergency, because it is
0:29.0	Saturday, January, what is it, January 3rd.
0:33.7	We're recording this at 4 in the afternoon, not our usual 8 o'clock of the morning.
0:38.3	And, of course, we're doing this because the United States did a two-hour invasion of Venezuela last night, arrested Nicholas Maduro and his wife,
0:50.4	and it brought them to the United States for arrest,
0:55.8	that have already been arrested, but to be tried on the indictment of Maduro that was first
1:04.0	brought down in 2020. So I'm John Pod Horst. The editor of commentary with me, as always,
1:09.6	Executive Editor, Abe Greenwald.
1:10.9	Hi, Abe.
1:11.5	Hi, John.
1:12.5	Social commentary columnist Christine Rosen.
1:14.4	Hi, Christine.
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