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Posted by BW Actual on Jan 7th 2026

Venezuela

U.S. officials held a meeting with Venezuela's new president, Delcy Rodriguez, in which they reportedly presented Rodriguez with a list of demands for her interim government to comply with.
The U.S.'s biggest demand was that Venezuela reopen its oil trade with the U.S. Rodriguez's administration duly agreed to export up to 50 million barrels of oil - worth up to $3 billion - to the U.S.
The U.S. also demanded that Rodriguez's government expel spies and military advisors from Iran, Russia, China, and Cuba from the country. Rodriguez's ousted predecessor, Nicolas Maduro, had embraced their help as he cultivated ties with other sanctioned regimes.

Greenland

Following the successful operation in Venezuela, several of Pres. Trump's close advisors seem to be turning their sights to the possibility of the U.S. acquiring Greenland, which is part of Denmark. The White House said it's considering "a range of options for exerting U.S. control over Greenland, including some involving military force.
The Economist speculates that a U.S. move on Greenland is more likely to take the shape of a campaign to appeal to Greenlanders to strike resource deals with the U.S. - rather than outright annexation by force.

Central African Republic

Provisional results showed that Pres. Faustin Archange Touadera easily won re-election to a third term in Central African Republic (CAR), thanks to an opposition boycott over his electoral engineering to lift term limits and enable him to run again.
Touadera wasted no time thanking his top benefactor: Russia's Pres. Putin.
Touadera called Putin a "great leader" and said he'd been "very attentive" to the needs of CAR - a country that otherwise gets little attention from abroad.
Putin's interest in CAR is rooted in securing access to the country's gold and diamond mines, which are already largely under the control of Russia's Africa Corps (formerly Wagner Group).

Sudan

In a move that's possibly related to Russia's meddling in CAR, Africa Corps troops forced a newly-reopened supply route between Sudan and CAR to close again.
It's not clear whether the Africa Corp's objective was to consolidate its control of the tri-border region linking CAR, Sudan, and Chad; or to help Sudan's military in its civil war against the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which painstakingly negotiated the reopening of this supply route a few weeks ago and has been using it to import weapons and military supplies from UAE to Darfur and Kordofan.
Regardless of its objective, Moscow now controls the RSF's main supply line into western Sudan and may use that control as leverage in its negotiations with the Sudanese military for a Red Sea base.