{"id":311548,"date":"2026-01-12T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T12:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=311548"},"modified":"2026-01-07T15:19:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T15:19:35","slug":"amb-chas-freeman-attack-on-venezuela-will-destroy-the-us-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2026\/01\/amb-chas-freeman-attack-on-venezuela-will-destroy-the-us-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"Amb. Chas Freeman: Attack on Venezuela Will Destroy the US Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>5 Jan 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">Can a superpower simply kidnap a foreign leader and charge them with possessing weapons on their own soil? Now that the U.S. has effectively &#8220;caught the car&#8221; in Venezuela, is there any road left for international law, or have we fully entered the era of the outlaw state? To make sense of this unprecedented aggression, I brought back Ambassador Chas Freeman. As a former Assistant Secretary of Defense and Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Chas has seen the machinery of empire from the inside, and his assessment of this latest intervention\u2014and the constitutional crisis accompanying it\u2014is as chilling as it is essential. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Attack On Venezuela Will Destroy The US Empire | Amb. Chas Freeman\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x33LoXHqUCk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 Jan 2026 &#8211; Can a superpower simply kidnap a foreign leader and charge them with possessing weapons on their own soil? Now that the U.S. has effectively &#8220;caught the car&#8221; in Venezuela, is there any road left for international law, or have we fully entered the era of the outlaw state?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[867,1441,417,3614,1126,1050,950,541,559,3530,86,2571,1190,329,2137,880,249,124,1888,70,557],"class_list":["post-311548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-depth-videos","tag-anglo-america","tag-big-oil","tag-bullying","tag-disaster-capitalism","tag-hegemony","tag-imperialism","tag-invasion","tag-latin-america-caribbean","tag-maduro","tag-military-capitalism","tag-occupation","tag-official-lies-and-narratives","tag-regime-change","tag-resources","tag-south-america","tag-state-terrorism","tag-trump","tag-united-nations","tag-unsc","tag-usa","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311550,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311548\/revisions\/311550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}