Megyn Kelly took listeners by surprise.

No one was prepared for what Kelly was about to say.

And Megyn Kelly delivered some bad news that her audience was stunned to hear.

Kelly returned from her Christmas and New Year’s break with commentary on President Trump ordering an operation to arrest Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

And began her commentary with criticism of her former employer, Fox News.

Kelly, who worked at Fox for 13 years, criticized the tone of Fox’s coverage as something akin to “Russian propaganda.”

“I turned on Fox News yesterday, and I’m sorry, but it was like watching Russian propaganda,” Kelly began. “There was nothing skeptical. It was all rah-rah cheerleading, yes, let’s go.”

Kelly said she supports the military and supports Trump, but that conservative media should be waiting to see what happens next now that Trump said America is “running” Venezuela. 

“And that’s fine. I love our military as much as anyone, and I believe in President Trump, but there are serious reasons to just exercise a note of caution before we just get on the rah-rah train, alright?” Kelly continued.

Kelly supported the operation to arrest Maduro because of Venezuela’s role in America’s national security interests.

But Kelly said she was “yellow light” on the overall strategy because of past failed efforts at nation-building.

“I have done that enough times in my career as a Fox News anchor to have been embarrassed enough to know I’m going to stay on the yellow light for this. I’m not in the green-light territory. I’m not in the red-light territory either. But I am staying in the yellow-light territory for now,” Kelly added.

Kelly told listeners that she agreed with Trump’s plan to counter Russia and Communist China, as well as America controlling the largest oil reserve in the world.

“I see all of the strategic advantages of what he’s done. Trust me, I do. I see that other countries like Russia, China, and Cuba were all over Venezuela and its oil, posing a potential threat to the United States,” Kelly went on to say.

Kelly explained that oil and pushing America’s enemies out of the Western Hemisphere were the best reasons to support this military intervention.

“I get that. That’s actually the most persuasive argument and obviously the real one, and none of this bull***about law enforcement,” Kelly declared.

However, Kelly said she learned her lesson from supporting past U.S. interventions to oust dictators only to watch them devolve into endless wars and failures,

“But I have seen what happens when you cheerlead, unabashedly, U.S. intervention in foreign countries, thinking it’s for our good and for the national and international good only to wind up with what we’ve called a quagmire in places like Iraq, not to mention Libya,” Kelly said.

America is good at crushing enemies, but nation-building is where it all falls apart.

“We’re not great at going into these foreign countries, decapitating them at the leadership level, and then saying either we’re going to steer the country to a better place or it’s going to steer itself. Either one. They just, nine times out of 10, they don’t work out well,” Kelly remarked.

Kelly also expressed concern over President Trump saying he’s willing to deploy American troops to Venezuela.

That concerned Kelly because she has two teenage sons, and those are the people who end up deploying to fight regime change wars.

“Well, whose boots? Because I have a 16-year-old boy, and I have a 12-year-old boy, and I have a 14-year-old girl, and a lot of my listeners have children too who are actually the ones who might have to fill the boots,” Kelly concluded.

A Washington Post poll taken after Maduro’s arrest showed 40 percent of Americans supported the operation and 42 percent opposed it.

Successful military operations typically poll much more strongly than this, as Americans love victory.

But the split likely stems from the fear Kelly spoke to: that this operation could extend into another nation-building operation.

And so, Americans are taking a wait-and-see approach.

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