There’s a lot of talk about President Donald Trump being on the verge of launching the umpteenth American regime change war against Venezuela. The Trump administration has also talked about stopping Barack Obama’s onslaught of Islamic militants in Nigeria, who are systematically exterminating the Christian population there. The usual suspects are salivating at the prospect of another American “forever war.” The other usual suspects are worried about it. Maybe they should all calm down and finally trust that Donald Trump knows what he’s doing.

Think back to June of this year.

Nearly everyone thought that President Trump was going to rush headlong into a full-blown, boots-on-the-ground, regime change war that Israel wanted with Iran. At the last minute, the ever-pragmatic 47 obliterated Iran’s nuclear capabilities with some bunker busters, and it was all over. Iran no longer has any nuclear enrichment capability and Israel was forced to calm down.

All of the prognosticators (including myself) who were predicting another doom and gloom forever war got it wrong. President Trump stuck to his campaign promise (no new wars) and found a way to resolve the conflict that no one else anticipated.

We suspect similar minimally invasive solutions to the Venezuela and Nigeria problems. Although it’s probably a really bad time to be a Venezuelan narco boat captain. Those guys might want to think about changing careers soon.

On Saturday, the Department of War annihilated the fifteenth known drug smuggling boat in the Caribbean. This is an 80-20 issue with the public, no matter how much Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) whines about the civil rights of terrorist drug smugglers in international waters. Nearly every American family knows at least one person whose life has been wrecked—or ended—by the flood of drugs into our country.

Our southern border with Mexico is sealed off and we now have operational control of it for the first time in history. Yet the FBI and Homeland Security continue seizing huge quantities of drugs from cartel stash houses across the country. The drugs have to be getting in by air or by sea at this point. The cartels are eventually going to run out of boats and boat captains, and in the meantime, tens of thousands of Americans won’t be dying from fentanyl poisoning.

So, how is President Trump going to deal with the Maduro regime? We can only guess, but Nicolas Maduro’s days are numbered, one way or another. Trump is shifting American foreign policy to this hemisphere, which is smart. China has become way too cozy with Central and South American regimes.

For the good of the USA, Trump is dealing with this. We should trust that he’s going to solve “the Venezuela problem” without putting 100,000 troops there.

The same goes for Nigeria. This is yet another mess that was created by Barack Obama and his bloodthirsty former Secretary of State, Crooked Hillary Clinton. When Obama and Crooked Hillary toppled the governments of Egypt and Libya, they showered the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qaeda in those countries with guns.

Just look at a map of Africa. Ever since the Obama administration armed radical Islamic terrorists in the northern countries, the guns have been flowing south and toppling one government after another. Al Qaeda has gone hog wild in Mali, Niger, Chad, Sudan, and the Central African Republic.

They’ve been rampaging through Nigeria for years with guns supplied by Obama and Crooked Hillary. Over 19,000 Christian churches have been burned to the ground there since Obama’s “Arab Spring.” Just in 2025, over 7,000 unarmed Christian civilians have been exterminated, and another 7,800 have been abducted. At least 12 million Christians have been forced out of their homes in Nigeria since Obama armed Boko Haram and other Al Qaeda offshoots there.

This problem wouldn’t require boots on the ground from America, either. The Islamic militants are easy to spot from the air. Since War Secretary Pete Hegseth and President Trump have both telegraphed upcoming action against the terrorists, we can expect to start hearing about drone strikes soon. Instead of drug boats, they’ll be targeting convoys of motorcycles and Toyota Hilux pickup trucks.

Refusing to start any new wars was a central campaign promise that President Trump made to the American people. He kept that promise in Iran. We should trust that he’ll keep it when it comes to Venezuela and Nigeria, too.