Global Daily: The tone for 2026 has been set

Happy New Year! Brace yourselves, we’re in for a rough ride. In our last Monthly Outlook for 2025, we looked ahead to this year. We warned that it would be foolish to assume that this year would be any calmer. President Trump wasted no time to make that prediction accurate. You will undoubtedly have seen the headlines. This weekend, President Trump launched a military operation in Venezuela and in a matter of hours, Venezuelan President Maduro was in US custody. He faces charges for “pushing drugs into the United States.”