Texas Public Policy Foundation Vice President Chuck DeVore analyzes the role Venezuela's oil reserve may have had in the U.S. deciding to capture Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro on 'The Will Cain Show.'

By arresting Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro in Caracas, President Donald Trump has again thrown America’s enemies — and his critics — into disarray. His continued bold defiance of convention and expectations reminds the world he will stop at nothing to protect America’s interests.

The fallout from the U.S. military attack on Venezuela and the extraction of one of the globe’s most dangerous drug lords is still spooling out, but there are three likely outcomes that are underappreciated, and may prove consequential.

1) First, the law enforcement and military operation could determine who succeeds President Trump as the GOP contender in 2028. The controversial event showcases an ongoing divide, not only in the MAGA movement, but also in the White House. Trump announced the arrest of Maduro flanked by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. JD Vance was nowhere to be seen.

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The vice president was at his Cincinnati home the day of the Venezuela operation. Did Vance’s absence indicate that isolationist MAGA types disapproved of the Venezuelan incursion? Some of the more vocal members of that group, like Candace Owens and Marjorie Taylor Greene, lambasted the attack. Could this be the issue that determines the Trump succession battle?

2) The arrest........

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