Former Fox News host Megyn Kelly has sharply criticized her previous employer for what she described as one-sided coverage of President Donald Trump’s military actions against Venezuela, comparing the network’s reporting to “Russian propaganda.”

On Monday’s episode of “The Megyn Kelly Show” on SiriusXM, the conservative commentator expressed dismay at what she perceived as uncritical cheerleading for intervention in the South American nation.

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

Kelly, who emphasized her support for both the military and Trump, nonetheless argued that caution is warranted when considering military action in foreign countries. “There are serious reasons to just exercise a note of caution before we just get on the rah-rah train,” she stated.

Drawing from her own experiences during her tenure at Fox News, Kelly indicated she had learned hard lessons about premature support for foreign interventions. “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,” she explained, describing her current stance as neither fully supportive nor entirely opposed.

The military operation in Venezuela targets Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, whom the Trump administration seeks to remove from power. Kelly questioned the administration’s characterization of the action as a “law enforcement operation” aimed at curtailing drug trafficking rather than a military invasion.

“I see all of the strategic advantages of what he’s done. Trust me, I do,” Kelly acknowledged. “I see that other countries like Russia and China and Cuba were all over Venezuela and its oil, posing a potential threat to the United States. I get that. That’s actually the most persuasive argument and obviously the real one, and none of this bullshit about law enforcement.”

Kelly drew parallels to past U.S. interventions that began with high hopes but resulted in protracted conflicts. “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 the international good, only to wind up with what we’ve called [a] quagmire in places like Iraq, not to mention Libya,” she warned.

The commentator expressed particular concern about Trump’s suggestion that American troops could be deployed to Venezuela. “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,” she said. “They just, nine times out of 10, they don’t work out well.”

Her criticism took a more personal turn when she questioned whose “boots on the ground” would be involved in such an operation. “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 said.

Venezuela, a country rich in oil resources, has become increasingly aligned with U.S. adversaries like Russia, China, and Cuba in recent years, making it a focus of geopolitical concern for American policymakers. The Trump administration’s approach represents a significant escalation in U.S. policy toward the Maduro regime, which has long been accused of human rights abuses and corruption.

In concluding her remarks, Kelly firmly stated she “will not be joining the Fox News cheerleading brigade this time,” adding, “I’ve been burned too many times.”

The criticism from Kelly comes amid broader debate about the wisdom of military intervention in Venezuela and highlights divisions among conservative voices about Trump’s foreign policy decisions in what some are now calling the “Don-roe Doctrine,” a reference to the historic Monroe Doctrine that has shaped U.S. policy toward Latin America.