Venezuela: A show of US force, a testament of US decline
Published: January 13, 2026
Duration: 25:00
Trump’s invasion of Venezuela and kidnapping of President Maduro is “a performance” of the kind of US imperial power “that [Trump] knows is waning” on the global stage, scholar and author Geo Maher tells us.
Marc Steiner speaks with Geo Maher, abolitionist scholar and author of We Created Chávez: A People's History of the Venezuelan Revolution, about the untenable goals behind President Trump’s invasion of Venezuela—and what the US bid to reassert imperial dominance in the Western hemisphere reveals about its declining place on the global stage.
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Marc Steiner speaks with Geo Maher, abolitionist scholar and author of We Created Chávez: A People's History of the Venezuelan Revolution, about the untenable goals behind President Trump’s invasion of Venezuela—and what the US bid to reassert imperial dominance in the Western hemisphere reveals about its declining place on the global stage.
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