By Raffique Shah
January 10, 2026

Over the past few months, the world has edged closer to war than it ever did since Vietnam. As someone with a keen interest in history, I have watched this dance of death, staged by one man, the President of the United States of America, as he orchestrated the deadliest of games, seemingly without a care in the world. Human lives will be lost-of that we are certain.

Trump personally directed the capture of the elected president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro-as dramatic a scene as one would encounter. I try to imagine the soldiers involved in the kidnapping of the president of a sovereign state, which-however simple it was, given America’s enormous military capability-will have had hundreds, if not thousands, of personnel “on edge” as the operation unfolded.
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