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A Return to the Only Real ‘Rule-Based International Order’: National Interest, by Srdja Trifkovic – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

A Return to the Only Real ‘Rule-Based International Order’: National Interest, by Srdja Trifkovic

On Pope Leo and Media Attempts to Misrepresent Papal Remarks About Venezuela, by Anne Hendershott

January 9, 2026

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By Srdja Trifkovic, Chronicles, Jan. 8, 2026

Dr. Srdja Trifkovic, foreign affairs editor of Chronicles, is the author of The Sword of the Prophet and Defeating Jihad.

Operation Absolute Resolve in the early hours of Jan. 3 showcased military professionalism bolstered by first-class intelligence. It opened with shock-and-awe air strikes that neutralized Venezuela’s air defenses and provided the cover for the Delta Force raid on President Nicolás Maduro’s compound and his prompt transfer to USS Iwo Jima.

The character of the operation defies easy definition. It was not a coup d’état, like the one the Nixon administration helped organize against Salvador Allende in Chile in 1973. It was not an invasion, like Operation Urgent Fury in Grenada in 1983 or the invasion of Panama in 1989.

It was neither a classic regime-change operation nor an occupation, like that of Afghanistan in 2001 or in Iraq two years later. It was a truly unprecedented event: a de facto extradition of a head of state, with the objective of effecting major policy changes by his successors. …

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A Return to the Only Real ‘Rule-Based International Order’: National Interest, by Srdja Trifkovic

On Pope Leo and Media Attempts to Misrepresent Papal Remarks About Venezuela, by Anne Hendershott

Kennedy Criticizes Corporate Influence, Defends New Dietary Guidelines at HHS Event, by Elise Winland

By Srdja Trifkovic, Chronicles, Jan. 8, 2026

The character of the operation defies easy definition. It was not a coup d’état, like the one the Nixon administration helped organize against Salvador Allende in Chile in 1973. It was not an invasion, like Operation Urgent Fury in Grenada in 1983 or the invasion of Panama in 1989.

It was neither a classic regime-change operation nor an occupation, like that of Afghanistan in 2001 or in Iraq two years later. It was a truly unprecedented event: a de facto extradition of a head of state, with the objective of effecting major policy changes by his successors. …

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