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Director Paul G. Buchanan was quoted in a Radio New Zealand explainer of what the US security agency ICE is and does: rnz.co.nz/news/world/583…


Reminder: In light of the MAGA administration's actions in Venezuela and threats against Greenland, coupled with its divisive domestic agenda, the cause of its undoing may be its hubris-driven multi-front policy overreach--i.e., it may be biting off more than it can chew.


Regardless of outcome, the legal proceedings against the Maduros are just a fig leaf on the real reasons for their extraordinary rendition: post-Maduro regime subservience, control of oil, US regional military dominance and geopolitical reassertion of US spheres of influence.


Further thoughts from Director Paul G. Buchanan on the US-Venezuela situation: kiwipolitico.com/2026/01/using-…


For a country that claims to champion the rules based international order, NZ is oddly muted in its response to blatant violations such as the Israeli collective punishment campaign in Gaza and the US attack on Venezuela under false pretences. Has it lost its ethical compass?


Trump's team thinks that the 1989 US invasion of Panama and capture of Manuel Noriega on drug charges is a good model for the armed attack and capture of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela. Trump says that the US will "take over" Venezuela for the time being. Both assumptions are wrong.


For a guy who campaigned on removing the US from unnecessary foreign conflicts, Trump sure has a way of picking fights with states that pose non-existential threats (or any serious threat) to the US. The schoolboy tyrant is now a global bully with no regard for int'l law. MAGA!


Here is Director Paul G. Buchanan's take on some aspects of Trump 2.0's foreign policy foundations: kiwipolitico.com/2025/12/the-ho…


Trump has announced a new class of US infantry assault weapons. They are called the "musket."


Director Paul G, Buchanan offers a small corrective to some media mistruths regarding the Bondi Beach mass murder event. kiwipolitico.com/2025/12/addres…


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