Well, howdy there, Internet people, it's Bell again.

So today, we're going to talk about Trump's New Year, explaining why you didn't get a Peace Prize.

Trump looks to be getting ready to start the new year off with a bang.

Unfortunately, there might be a few of them. We're going to run through the potential

hotspots that Trump has inserted the U.S. into, and those we might end up dragged into. First,

let's talk about those that have already gotten hot. Trump has now acknowledged that the U.S. has struck Venezuelan soil, though he hasn't

really said whether it was the military or a covert action by an intelligence agency, and

something he shouldn't have talked about. Either way, the situation in Venezuela is escalating,

and it's hard to see an off-ramp.

It's almost amazing how he's been able to frame what seems to be a long-time establishment

regime change goal as somehow anti-establishment and have his base buy it.

Then we have Nigeria, where Trump cut aid funding that was helping to keep the various militant

groups at bay.

And now the U.S. has conducted strikes.

When shock, all of the counterinsurgency experts were right.

I'll have a link down below.

There's also serious questions about whether or not the targeting was on point now. Much like Venezuela, this is another resource-rich country that the U.S. has wanted a footprint in for quite some time.

In the run-up to the New Year, Trump threatened Iran with another strike, saying, quote,

Now I hear that Iran is trying to build up again.

And if they are, we're going to have to knock them down.

We'll knock them down. It's weird to think that they've reconstituted their programs so quickly after

Trump declared them obliterated, even though intelligence assessments said the strike only bought

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