Venezuela is not the Poland of September 1, 1939, about which Hitler unleashed the ‘blitzkrieg’, the lightning war, but it is no less true that Trump ordered a air warthe lightning low flight of 150 helicopters over Caracas and other cities, in the early hours of January 3, 2026, after besieging the coasts with two aircraft carriers, almost 15,000 soldiers and marines, and ordering summary murders of 140 citizens who crewed, since the beginning of September, 34 vessels, whom the Trump Administration summarily condemned for alleged drug trafficking, without providing a single piece of evidence against them, and having finished off two survivors of one of the same at the beginning of last December.
Venezuela is not the Poland of September 1, 1939, but immediately Trump reiterated, emboldened by the kidnapping of the president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduroand the promotion of her bet in Caracas, the new president in charge Delcy Rodriguezhis interest in incorporating the territory of Greenland, an autonomous island part of Denmark, a member of the European Union, into the United States. Without forgetting that it also aspires to achieve the “return” or “recovery” of the Panama Canal, whose control the Carter Administration transferred to Panama in 1977 after keeping it in its orbit since 1903.
The foreign policy or ‘Donroe’ doctrine – what is called the corollary Trump of the Monroe Doctrine of 1823 – is the continuation of foreign policy by similar means. Trump has waged an internal war against immigrants with the creation of ICE, a special police force, and has sent the National Guard to patrol important cities in the country.
The “internal militarization” has had its correlate in external militarization: the total support for the consummation of the genocide of the Palestinian people promoted by Netanyahu in Gaza, the missile attacks against Iran and other countries. And, more recently, as a prelude to sending the helicopters to Venezuela, the bombing of Nigeria on December 25, 2025.
Can such internal and external activity be deployed without a ‘fascistization’, so to speak, of the American Armed Forces and Security forces?
An important clue came from a retired four-star Army general. Is called John Kelly. He was National Security Advisor and later, White House Chief of Staff, during Trump’s first term 2017-2021.
It was during a visit to Europe, in 2018, in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the end of the Great War 1914-1918, when Kelly He summarized for his president which countries were among the “good” and which among the “bad,” and the “atrocities committed by Hitler.”
Trump He said, “Well, Hitler “He did many good things.” This story circulated in 2021, following the book published by the journalist Michael Benderde ‘The Wall Street Journal’.
But it was two weeks before the November 5 presidential election that the story was resurrected. Because Kellyformer Secretary of Internal Security (Homeland Security), decided it was time to speak out when Trump He announced in the final phase of the campaign that he planned to use the military against his political adversaries.
I wanted to prevent the return of Trump to the White House. KellyTherefore, he held interviews with several media outlets, including ‘The New York Times’ and ‘The Atlantic’. “Certainly, the former president is on the extreme right, he is an authoritarian and he admires people who we could define as dictators. So yes, he falls into the general definition of a fascist, for sure,” he told the ‘Times’. And he confirmed reports that were circulating that Trump had spoken positively about Adolf Hitler.
In his interview with ‘The Atlantic’, Kelly He remembered that, on one occasion, Trump He said that his military personnel should profess the same deference that characterized German generals. “You mean the generals of Otto Bismarck [el canciller alemán del siglo XIX]? Surely you are not referring to the generals of Hitler”asked Kelly.
“Yes, yes the generals of Hitler”he answered Trump.
Jeffrey Goldbergeditor-in-chief of ‘The Atlantic’, explained in a CNN program on October 23, 2024, two weeks before the presidential elections on November 5: “The admiration of Trump by Hitler “It was the most shocking thing I heard in the White House.”
Now that prediction of Kelly has become a reality, both in domestic policy and foreign policy. A picture is worth a thousand words. And that image was that of the Air Force general John Daniel “Raizin” Cainehead of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, alongside Trump, whom he kept praising, during the press show on Saturday, January 3, 2026.
CainePrecisely, he was elevated to that position by Trumpwho in February 2025, dismissed Charles Q. Brown Jr. Trump, Caineand other generals, therefore, have begun to “steal Venezuela’s oil at gunpoint,” according to the senator. Chris Murphy“in a crazy operation for an indefinite period of time.”
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