LinkedIn on Thursday, December 11, 2025

It’s not Donald Trump. He’s not bright enough to be pulling this off. It’s not Stephen Miller. He’s too loud and talks way too much.

No, it’s one or more other people, more reserved, more determined, who are pulling the President’s strings. Smarter and more knowledgeable than Trump and Miller.

When you have time, do what I just did and Google “What does Project 2025 have to say about South America? About Venezuela?” and read the AI summary. Here’s an excerpt from the first paragraph…

“Project 2025, associated with a potential future Trump administration, views South America, especially Venezuela, through a lens of strategic opportunity, focusing on resource access (oil) and combating regional instability (drugs, migration, criminality) with assertive, unilateral action, including military threats and economic pressure, to reshape hemispheric dynamics and challenge, even risking conflict or broader regional realignment.”

So, if you’ve been wondering why Trump has been blowing up drug boats – that weren’t even on their way to the United States – and has seized a Venezuelan oil tanker… I think the bigger, more urgent question is, “Precisely whose idea was it and that are they really up to?”

-Les