Did ‘Jack Ryan’ Predict U.S.’ Venezuela Intervention?

Jack Ryan presents a Venezuela that is very much the same as the real one, same hyperinflation, same poverty and starvation, same human rights abuses. Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan is joining The Simpsons as a series online sleuths are convinced has predicted the future. Following U.S.’ military strike that led to the deposition and capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, a clip from Season 2 of the Prime Video political action thriller, originally released in 2019, has gone viral. It features the eponymous CIA analyst Jack Ryan (John Krasinski) breaking down why Venezuela should be considered “a major threat on the world stage” alongside — and even over — usual suspects such as Russia, China and North Korea.