We wish everyone a happy New Year. With fresh energy, a clear outlook, and new ambitions, we step into 2026. But for anyone who thought the year would begin quietly, reality had other plans. Not even a week in, the world was shaken by an event that seemed taken straight from a film script. In less than five hours, the United States abducted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro straight out of Caracas. A meticulously planned military operation, executed by the elite of the US armed forces and followed live by President Trump. Helicopters, drones, cyberattacks, disabled air defences, and a lightning-fast extraction. It was a demonstration of US military dominance in its purest form and caused global astonishment. Regime change, sovereignty, and geopolitical escalation are suddenly no longer abstract terms but very real developments.