<p>No matter who controls Venezuela when all is said and done, Vice President JD Vance said that they will have no choice but to &#8220;play ball with the United States&#8221; moving forward.</p>
<p>Vance told Salem radio host Scott Jennings that President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration certainly wanted to see the Venezuelan people do well — but that it was far more important for the American people to do well and face no imminent threat from an adversarial neighbor.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">.<a href="https://twitter.com/VP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VP</a> on Venezuela: &#8220;Whoever the leader of that country is, is going to have to play ball with the United States.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;It was a very important operation. It was carried out flawlessly&#8230; I think it will create great benefits for the American people.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/l8qLZnOd05">pic.twitter.com/l8qLZnOd05</a></p>
<p>— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/2008616131368808482?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 6, 2026</a></p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;We want what&#8217;s best for the Venezuelan people,&#8221; he explained, &#8220;But more importantly than that by a factor of a hundred, we want what&#8217;s best for the American people — and whoever the leader of that country is, is going to have to play ball with the United States. That is the whole problem that we&#8217;ve had in that region of the world.&#8221;</p>
<p>Vance explained that a &#8220;whole host of American competitors&#8221; had been invited in to do business and set up shop in Venezuela, bringing additional threats to the United States into the western hemisphere and posing a very real danger to American national security.</p>
<p>&#8220;They&#8217;ve used their own energy money to fund this terrible narco-terrorism against the United States of America,&#8221; Vance continued. &#8220;What the president did — and really, the entire team made possible — is to cut off that flow of energy money to narco-terrorists, to then of course cut off the amount of narco-terrorism being imported into the United States of America. I think it&#8217;s going to save lives, it&#8217;s going to mean cheaper gas and energy prices for Americans, and maybe most importantly, it&#8217;s going to mean that we have more control over the energy resources that exist in the world.&#8221;</p>
<p>With regard to the Saturday mission to capture Maduro, Vance said that he&#8217;d initially been skeptical that such a precision operation could be carried out — but was happy to have been proven wrong: &#8220;It was a very important operation. It was carried out flawlessly &#8230; I think it will create great benefits for the American people.&#8221;</p>

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