LESTER PHILIP<\/p>\n
THE NEWS from Venezuela has been dramatic \u2013 US special forces stormed in, captured Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, and Washington is already calling it a \u201cbig win.\u201d Fast, clean, and surgical. But let\u2019s be blunt: a headline moment is not a victory. LESTER PHILIP THE NEWS from Venezuela has been dramatic \u2013 US special forces stormed in,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":210318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210317-venezuela-trump-and-illusion-of-victory.jpg",813,1200,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210317-venezuela-trump-and-illusion-of-victory-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210317-venezuela-trump-and-illusion-of-victory-203x300.jpg",203,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210317-venezuela-trump-and-illusion-of-victory-768x1134.jpg",640,945,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210317-venezuela-trump-and-illusion-of-victory-694x1024.jpg",640,944,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210317-venezuela-trump-and-illusion-of-victory.jpg",813,1200,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210317-venezuela-trump-and-illusion-of-victory.jpg",813,1200,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210317-venezuela-trump-and-illusion-of-victory.jpg",813,1200,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210317-venezuela-trump-and-illusion-of-victory-813x575.jpg",813,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/210317-venezuela-trump-and-illusion-of-victory-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/210318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nYes, America\u2019s Delta Force commandos are highly trained and lethal…
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