Hello and welcome to the GZero World Podcast.

This is where you can find extended versions of my conversations on public television.

I'm Ian Bremmer, and it's been about a week since the Trump administration greenlit

a dramatic U.S. military operation that captured Venezuelan strongman Nicholas Maduro

and his wife in Caracas, bringing them back to New York City.

The rate itself was a striking demonstration of American power.

The intelligence coordination and execution involved made clear that this was in operation only the United States could have carried out.

There's also little international sympathy for a dictator whose rule

collapsed Venezuela into a failed state and produced a refugee crisis larger than Syria's after its

civil war. What comes next is far less certain. How does the United States run, as Trump says,

a country of 30 million people, even temporarily? Will acting president Delci Rodriguez, a longtime Maduro ally, actually follow Washington's lead?

And will Venezuela and its powerful military accept that arrangement?

The balance of power, of course, favors Washington.

Politically, this operation was a major win for Donald Trump, a president under pressure

at home who has now shown he can act decisively abroad without allies, without large-scale

strikes, and without losing a single American troop. Trump has framed this moment in terms

of raw power, openly embracing what he calls the Don Roe doctrine and signaling that American

dominance in its sphere of influence will not be questioned.

This is the law of the jungle, where the biggest stick sets the rules and others adjust accordingly.

And it's a message being heard well beyond Caracas from Latin America to Europe.

Joining me with the latest reactions from Capitol Hill is the Democratic Senator from Arizona,

Ruben Gallego.

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