(Day 819) Swords of Iron – “USA captures Venezuela dictator”

And just like that, the first Shabbat of 2026.

Look what’s happening to these who curse Israel, who cozy up with the terrorists in Iran. This drug pushing dictator Nicholas Maduro of Venezuela is behind bars. A lightning fast military operation took down one of the world’s most dangerous dictators in under an hour. After 13 years of dictatorship of people being killed, tortured, and suffering, just like that, gone.

I hope this message is being received by other dictators like those in Iran heading up an empire of evil. All these proxies that have been attacking us like Hamas and Hezbollah. The arrest of this Venezuelan president Maduro is really on a global level. This is huge for global terror. Venezuela had been a safe backyard for all these groups to be armed and funded, especially Hezbollah which gets its money from the drug trade and weapons from Iran. But this whole empire—human trafficking, weapons trafficking, money laundering—this is so big.

For Iran, this represents a strategic loss of an asset. They were beginning to grow and in their mind, they were going to do whatever they want until someone stopped them. The free world wants to be free, but these dictators don’t want freedom. They want their criminal empire to grow and to steal resources from the free world.

So you have three possible outcomes in Venezuela. One, the vice president Delcy Rodriguez will take over in a few days. Opposition forces will seize control of the government, or the armed forces will take direct control of the whole regime in Caracas. I don’t know if there will be a pro-American group that comes in—I don’t know. I’m just saying Iran has received a strong message. Super strong. Dictators and terrorists everywhere are receiving a strong message.

This is why I wear the uniform. This is why I continue to serve.

Trump said to Iran that if they continue to shoot their own protesters, “the United States will come to their rescue as well.” What would that mean for Khamenei? He’d go underground like Nasrallah, and look what happened to him.

There are waves of strikes that Israel is doing against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. The people of Iran, the people of Lebanon, the people of Venezuela, the people of Gaza—they all deserve to be free from evil dictator leaders. They do.

Hezbollah is busy trying to rearm and reinstate their elite Radwan Force. Israel has emphasized we will continue to decisively act to remove any threats against the State of Israel.

These are historic, global-level days. It’s a global shift. Choose where you stand. I stand with Israel. I stand with the prophecies of the Bible. As aliyah increases—Jewish people returning home—it says in Jeremiah 24:6, “I will bring them back to this land. I will build them up and not tear them down. I will plant them and not uproot them.”

May the good guys and girls win this year.