So what a great solution. Spin Venezuela as Nationalist not Socialist. That’s why they failed. Hollywood loved Hugo Chavez, or at least the Sean Penn faction did. So let’s sanitize his legacy.

You’re right about Clancy. He was about as pro-military, anti-enemies of America as you could get. Jack Ryan Sr., in his novels, became the President who created the Ryan doctrine - attacks against America would result in the national or religious leader who ordered the attack getting a special delivery smart bomb or cruise missile delivered into his lap. Jack Ryan Jr. was part of a team that travels the world eliminating high value terrorist threats, often by means of lead injections. He must be spinning in his grave fast enough to generate gravitational force at what is being done to his characters.