The Operation Heard Round the World: Maduro in Chains, Oil Up for Grabs When U.S. forces stormed into Caracas in early January and snatched Nicolás Maduro and his wife out of Venezuela like it was Panama 2.0, the headlines barely scratched the surface of what really happened. This wasn’t just regime change—it was asset capture. Washington immediately began freezing and seizing Venezuelan oil assets, luxury properties, private jets, and hard currency reserves tied to the Maduro regime. Swiss banks followed suit. The West cheered. But in the halls of power from Moscow to Beijing, alarm bells went nuclear. What they saw wasn’t justice—it was a precedent. If the U.S. can take down a sovereign oil-rich nation, capture its leader, and…
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