Donald Trump's extraordinary Venezuela intervention has lit the fuse for regime change in Britain - Lee Cohen

Sir Keir Starmer issues response after America launches air strikes on Venezuela |

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Lee Cohen

By Lee Cohen


Published: 05/01/2026

- 11:45

It's high time Britain is delivered from Keir Starmer's destruction, writes US columnist Lee Cohen

Does anyone buy the rubbish the BBC and the Guardian are spinning after Trump’s extraordinary Venezuela intervention? The truth is millions of ordinary Britons aren't condemning Donald Trump's audacious capture of Nicolás Maduro they're openly admiring, pleading for the same kind of decisive action to deliver Britain from Keir Starmer's failing, repressive Labour regime.

My inbox and social media feeds are exploding with this theme since that dramatic January 3rd operation. Messages - not just from British patriots, a broad church that includes Brexit die-hards, Reform supporters, or lifelong conservatives, but from Britons-at-large seething at national betrayal, aren't hiding their admiration.


They're shouting it: "Trump's just done what real leaders do. When do we get rid of Starmer the same way?"

Forget the scripted outrage from the Guardian class and the usual suspects. This isn't horror – it's hunger for the strength and survival Britain has been denied for far too long.

Trump has single-handedly revived the forgotten art of genuine leadership — the sort that delivers strength, accountability, and real consequences instead of endless apologies.

On January 3rd, in a meticulously planned overnight assault dubbed Operation Absolute Resolve, US forces hammered military sites in Caracas, dismantled air defences, and extracted dictator Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores from a safe house. No casualties on the American side, no dithering with toothless UN resolutions.

Maduro's now in New York, facing narco-terrorism charges, while Trump declares the US will temporarily run Venezuela to ensure a proper transition and tap its oil wealth for stability.

This is sovereignty in action: a regime that rigged elections, crushed free speech, and poisoned borders with drugs has finally lost its illegitimate grip.

Donald Trump (left), Keir Starmer (right)

Donald Trump's extraordinary Venezuela intervention has lit the fuse for regime change in Britain - Lee Cohen

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In ordinary times, the US president would have conferred with his British counterpart. But, a surprise to no one, Keir Starmer wasn’t consulted, and rightly so.

His omission isn't a slight; it's a brutally accurate judgement of his stature. Starmer's a global irrelevance, a bureaucratic nobody who's diminished Britain at every turn: handing over Chagos, cosying up to EU remnants, letting the BBC pump out partisan poison without challenge.

Real power recognises real power not mealy-mouthed sermons from a leader who seems embarrassed by his own nation's history. You don't invite clerks to the table when decisive action is required.

Trump knows better than to broadcast plans to the Left beforehand. They'd sabotage it instantly — leaks to activists, lawsuits from NGOs, media hysteria to derail everything. Operational secrecy isn't shady; it's the street-smart caution of a leader who's battled obstructionists for years. Labour's whole machine runs on blocking progress, not delivering it.

The parallels with Labour are glaring, and it's why Britons are drawing them so sharply. Regimes scared of genuine opposition don't engage — they suppress.

Starmer's government arrests citizens for social media posts deemed "hateful," enforces laws selectively to shield favoured groups, and captures institutions with activist ideologues.

It governs in open disdain for millions who dare question mass immigration, cultural erosion, or Brexit's full promise. When leaders shield themselves from electoral accountability and muzzle dissent, they've forfeited legitimacy — just as Maduro did.

Starmer's fetish for "international law" is pure self-sabotage, a crutch for the weak. He parrots phrases that Russia, China, Iran, and their terrorist allies deploy to deflect criticism while committing atrocities. It's the delusion of a career lawyer, cocooned from real-world threats, pretending parchment rules bind the ruthless.

Trump grasps what Starmer can't: true deterrence demands strength, not empty proclamations. Thanks to Starmer's naivety, Britain's influence wanes, our alliances fray, and we're humiliated internationally.

Borders expose the stark truth. Trump neutralised drug-smuggling routes, safeguarded American communities from fentanyl floods, and now holds a narco-tyrant accountable.

Starmer? He preaches humanitarianism while ferrying in boatloads of unchecked migrants, including extremists who strain services and threaten security — all so cosmopolitan elites can pat themselves on the back from afar. One protects his people's safety, sovereignty, and dignity. The other undermines it for ideological points.

Britain cries out for deliverance from this government — not literal invasion, but the fierce political resolve Trump wields: unrelenting diplomatic pressure, transatlantic solidarity, and unyielding defence of liberty.

Nigel Farage stands poised, ready to restore British pride, security and solvency, but waiting until 2029 feels like an eternity under Labour's accelerating decline into irrelevance and repression.

Starmer's crew is hostile to free speech, to Britain’s freedoms, to the will of the British people. Catastrophic regimes like his inevitably confront reckoning — through votes, diplomacy, or the revitalised Special Relationship Trump champions.

My British friends' plea isn't controversial; it's common sense. Their envy of Trump's resolve is the spark of hope. He proves weakness and decline aren’t inevitable they are choices. Starmer has made them repeatedly. It's high time Britain is delivered from his destruction.

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