Jack Ryan clip goes viral over Krasinski's Venezuela speech after Maduro capture

People reports a clip from Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan in which John Krasinski's titular character delivers a speech about Venezuela is going viral amid the U.S. capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife.

The excerpt, from a 2019 episode of the Amazon Prime Video series, shows Jack Ryan asking CIA colleagues which countries pose the world’s biggest threats and raising Venezuela as a focal point. In the scene he points to charts and says Venezuela has “arguably the single greatest resource of oil and minerals on the planet,” notes its humanitarian crisis and calls it a “failed state,” and warns it is “also the only one of these places within 30 minute range from the U.S., of N-Gen nuclear missiles.” As the video circulated on social media, a number of users described the clip as “prophetic,” CNN reported.

On Jan. 3, President Donald Trump announced he launched military strikes in Venezuela, confirmed the capture of Maduro and said the U.S. would now “run” Venezuela and “get the oil flowing the way it should be.” Series co-creator Carlton Cuse told Deadline that “the goal of that season wasn’t prophecy — it was plausibility,” adding that grounding the story in real geopolitical dynamics made it feel credible rather than predictive.

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World, Jack Ryan, John Krasinski, Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, Donald Trump