Did Jack Ryan predict the Venezuela attack? Why this clip is going viral

A viral video clip from the fictional series Jack Ryan may have eerily predicted some of the events in Venezuela over the weekend, but more than five years before the fact.

Did the Jack Ryan thriller TV series predict the U.S. attack on Venezuela? That’s the question some social media users are asking after a video clip from the series went viral over the weekend — more than five years after it first aired.

The Trump administration on Saturday conducted a “large-scale strike” in Venezuela, which resulted in the capture of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.

This came after several months of the U.S. military launching strikes off the shores of Venezuela, and the previous sinking of multiple regional vessels, which U.S. President Donald Trump and his team alleged were being used to smuggle drugs. 

Jack Ryan, a fictional American political thriller series on Amazon Prime, is the most recent version of the title character as written in novels by author Tom Clancy.

In this depiction, which began in 2018, Jack Ryan is played by actor John Krasinski.

During the second season of the show, which was released in October 2019, Krasinski’s character is seen delivering a presentation to a full lecture hall and poses the question to them, “What would you assume is the most major threat on the world stage?”

In response, some actors playing attendees raised their hands and gave responses including “Russia,” “China,” and “North Korea.”

Krasinski’s character then asks: “Venezuela?”