October 8th, 2025: Venezuelans Already Turning on Maduro? & China’s Close Call with Canada

In this episode of The President's Daily Brief:

• Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro puts on a show of military strength—but new reporting says his call to arms is falling flat. We’ll look at what this reveals about cracks inside his regime.

• A Canadian surveillance plane enforcing sanctions on North Korea gets dangerously close to Chinese fighter jets—part of a growing pattern of risky aerial encounters.

• Syria holds its first elections since the fall of Bashar al-Assad. We’ll tell you who’s now in charge—and why many say it’s democracy in name only.

• And in today’s Back of the Brief—another mysterious death among Russia’s elite, after a former newspaper publisher falls from his apartment window.

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