What Trump wants from Venezuela, with Daniel McCarthy

The Brendan O'Neill Show

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News, Society & Culture, Government, Politics

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🗓️ 8 January 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Daniel McCarthy – editor of Modern Age – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show following Donald Trump’s raid on Venezuela. Daniel and Brendan discuss the new realpolitik in US security strategy and the dangers of foreign-imposed regime change. Plus, how Tim Walz turned a blind eye to industrial-scale welfare fraud in the Somali community. Sign up today for your £1-a-month trial with Shopify and start selling today: https://shopify.co.uk/brendan Become a spiked supporter to access all of spiked’s exclusive content, and get unlimited, ad-free reading and other perks: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Order Brendan O’Neill’s After the Pogrom now from: 🇬🇧 📕 Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/ 🇺🇸 📕 Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/ Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:35.4	He got in, he got Maduro, and he got out. So far, at least, it seems as if President Trump knows how to measure the course of about two and a half hours. He got in, he got Maduro, and he got out. So far at least, it seems as if President Trump knows how to measure the amount of force he wants
0:42.1	to use to get the objective that he has in mind, and then he doesn't have any more grandiose
0:47.0	ambitions beyond that. It really is ingenious to be able to get, you know, millions, maybe even
0:52.0	billions of dollars from taxpayers by starting completely fraudulent entities.
0:56.0	The very sinister quality of so many, you know, in the American statist left,
1:00.0	who say that, you know, they know that things like this are happening,
1:04.0	and they do not want you to investigate it, they will discourage it, they will call you a racist.
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