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PopCon #128: ‘If You Didn’t Know, Now You Know’: Maduro and the Monroe Doctrine
In our first episode of 2026, Thomas, Sterling, and Andrew break down the geopolitics, the precedent, and the meme culture explosion that have followed the U.S. operation to extract illegitimate Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
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We unpack what the successful mission in Venezuela means for U.S. power in the Western Hemisphere, why Venezuela suddenly became the focal point of a bigger chessboard involving China, Russia, and Iran, and how this operation functions as both deterrence and narrative warfare.
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