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Venezuela and Trump's Plan to Control The Western Hemisphere · World Ablaze with George Fontes

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Welcome back to another episode of World Ablaze.
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This is episode 106.
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That's right, 106.
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This year kicked off with a bang.
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And everybody's talking about Venezuela, Maduro.
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And so many have missed the mark on the reasons
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for the actions that have been taken.
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Now, this episode is normally I try to do two to three topics, but I'm going to make this episode strictly.
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I'm going to keep this episode rather strictly about Venezuela.
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And I don't know how long this is going to go.
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My goal is to keep this an hour or less, hopefully about 45 minutes, because I'm sure you all heard everybody already.
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There's a thousand other podcasters, news outlets, all chiming in, giving their opinions,
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even though 95% of them all, let's say 95, and I'm being generous, 95% of them all are
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wrong and have been wrong.
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So I'm going to attempt to give you a valid explanation based on facts, historical facts,
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to hopefully help you better understand the situation.
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Now, a lot of what has happened,
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we don't all have to agree with.
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Nobody agrees with regime change.
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Another country stepping into another sovereign nation
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to purposely force regime change is,
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I mean, historically has never been great.
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It just hasn't.
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But what happened here, what happened here with the capture of Maduro was really less to do with regime change and more to do with protecting our own backyard, period.
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And for anybody who says that it's something else, you might want to listen to another news outlet, podcast, or whoever.
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But the reality is all the mainstream media outlets right now, all the podcast bros, even some of the Intel guys who are way behind on their assessments in terms of being over the target on this situation are now all saying now chiming lockstep.
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Lockstep.
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Well, you know, maybe, maybe this really wasn't about the oil.
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Maybe it wasn't all about the oil.
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I mean, it had a little bit to do with it, but maybe it wasn't really the main issue.
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Well, maybe, maybe it was the drugs.
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Maybe it wasn't.
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I don't know.
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But, you know, it was partially the drugs.
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But before, everyone said that this was nothing more than a grab for resources.
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Nothing more than Trump trying to step in and steal the oil out from under the Venezuelan government.
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There's some merit to that.
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I'm not going to deny it.
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There's some merit to that.
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But again, not the whole story.
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And so I want to point this out to everybody.
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well now you have your um megan kelly's your fox news is like everybody's suddenly like they all
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don't agree with each other but they're all saying well you know it's it's kind of about the oil but
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not really wait wait wait what is that what is that word what is that nation that everyone's
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talking about now all of a sudden oh was this about china was it was it about china i remember
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talking about it being China about, I don't know, over two months ago. I remember talking about it
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being about Iran over two months. I remember discussing Russia's involvement over two months
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ago. I mean, honestly, I've been bringing these points up further than about three months ago now,
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actually, but nobody paid attention. Nobody paid attention. Why? Well, look, I know my place.
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I know I'm not as big as a Megyn Kelly or a Tucker Carlson or whoever you like to listen
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to on the side.
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But if anything has been proven, is this.
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If you're not consistently listening to my show and you're not paying attention to what
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I'm saying because you just got it on in the background, you're doing yourself a disservice
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and you are behind the eight ball in information.
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Do I get everything right?
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Hell no.
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But I'm telling you right now, my geopolitical record thus far has been pretty damn accurate.
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And listen, I have friends.
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I have friends who know a lot more than I do.
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And I have these discussions with these friends just so I could bounce things back and forth,
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check my assessments, test my theories.
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But in the end, I've been mostly right on things.
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I really have.
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And I'm not trying to pat my own back here, toot my own horn, but it's kind of vindicating
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that a small podcaster like me has been getting it right, been told that I don't know what
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I'm talking about.
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But all of a sudden, all of a sudden, everyone is parroting the same shit that I've been
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saying for nearly three damn months.
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And so look, I got a lot to go over and I do not like repeating myself.
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I'm just going to tell you right now.
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This could be a much longer podcast to go through everything that is happening in that
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region, in the Caribbean.
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It's not just about Venezuela, by the way.
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It's about Peru.
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It's about Panama.
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It's about Colombia.
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It's about Brazil.
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There is so much going on.
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Even Cuba.
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There's so much going on there that is not just about Venezuela.
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And no, it's not all about drugs.
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And no, it's not all about oil, but oil is a major tool that has been used by all parties involved in the region.
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So I'm just going to refer you to these two episodes here.
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So listen, I have episode 102 right here titled Terrorist Attack, Preserving America,
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No to Tolerance, and U.S. vs. Venezuela.
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In that particular episode, I do a bit of a deep dive into the history of Maduro, the
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drug trade and trafficking in Venezuela that goes all the way back to 1993, by the way.
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and under Hugo Chavez just exploded.
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The military themselves were involved in the narco-trafficking dealings.
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And by the time Maduro took power,
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the government of Venezuela was literally selling protection
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to narco-trafficking routes,
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especially after the US clamped down on the Colombian drug trade.
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They needed to find new routes to move their product.
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And so all roads from Mexico, from Peru, from Colombia led to Venezuela.
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And once it was in Venezuela, Venezuela protected the trafficking routes for these narcos.
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Some of it went up through South America past the Venezuelan border.
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most of it left the ports of Venezuela.
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And it's very important for everybody to realize this.
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Venezuela, just in cocaine.
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Now, we're not going to talk about all drugs
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because there's a lot of low IQ mouth breathers like,
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well, you know, Venezuela doesn't produce fentanyl.
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So, you know, Trump is an idiot and he's like,
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first off, stop making this about Trump
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because shocker, this goes back to Obama.
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In fact, it goes back further than Obama.
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Hell, it goes all the way back to President Monroe.
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That's right.
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I think it was back, what, 1800, something like that?
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So this area has been an area of interest and contention for many years.
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Now, the drug trade in and of itself has been there for many years.
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And under the Obama administration is when everything was really, really tested and tensions
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rose because before 2005, by the way, before 2005, the DEA was able to work with the Venezuelan
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government to go after narco terrorists, to go after drug traffickers. But in 2005,
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the Venezuelan government decided, you know what? We're kicking the DEA out. We're no longer working
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with you. And why? Because Mr. Hugo Chavez decided the drug trade was good business.
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It wasn't just about the money. It was about the connections. And so there's a deep history of drug
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trafficking that was partly to do about money. I think it was about an $8 billion a year business
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for Venezuela, which by American standards, if we're just talking about money, by the way,
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isn't a lot of money. But for a country the size of Venezuela, it's a good chunk. The oil business
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This is really what made the money for Venezuela.
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And it was about double, maybe two and a half times more than the drug trade.
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But still, you can't shake a stick at $8 billion a year.
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And with that came relationships, the nefarious actors behind the drug trade.
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A lot of power there, a lot of corruption, a lot of means to get things done.
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Now, the other episode I want to draw your attention to is episode 100 right here with
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my guest, Kervin O'Quinn.
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Now, Kervin O'Quinn is a 20-year Intel veteran, and he still, to this day, works in intelligence.
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Now, a lot of times when we talk, he can't tell me everything because there's ongoing
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operations, investigations, et cetera.
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But I will say without confirming or denying, we usually are able to bounce some stuff off
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of each other.
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Of course, he's much more informed than I am.
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But in the end, this particular episode 100, we did a very good deep dive and assessment
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on the implications of attacking Venezuela, on the implications of possibly capturing Maduro.
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We were talking about all of this well over a month ago.
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and just now everyone's coming around to it.
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So without me getting too deep, going into too much detail,
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I'm not going to keep repeating myself.
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Look, listen to episode 100 and listen to episode 102.
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Those two episodes that I did, there's chapters on YouTube.
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If you just want to skip to where you want to get to,
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if you want to listen to all the other bullshit, fine, great, good on you.
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I appreciate it.
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But those two episodes that I already put out previously
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will give you a lot of information that you have been missing
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when it comes to the whole Venezuela situation.
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Now, this is where I have to quote Andrews from Alien 3.
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This is rumor control.
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Here are the facts.
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Venezuela wasn't really about the drugs.
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I'll be honest with you.
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The drugs were a major play.
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The drugs were a way to get people to buy in.
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Now, was it important to stop the illicit drug trafficking routes, the drug trade?
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Absolutely.
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Why?
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Because, again, it came down to the relationships that was involved.
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The government of Colombia, Colombia, look, is also a narco state.
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Colombia was involved.
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Peru was involved.
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Panama involved.
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Mexico involved.
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Now, not necessarily the nation states themselves, but every one of these countries have very
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powerful narco terrorist organizations or cartels, if you'd rather call them that.
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all roads led to Venezuela.
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The other thing that was very important about Venezuela,
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since we're talking facts, is China.
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That's right.
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A lot of people dismissed China.
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A lot of people didn't talk about China.
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China was really part of the major reasons that Trump even acted.
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The reality is this.
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The whole thing with the drug trade, as I said previously,
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it goes back a long ways.
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you know Obama ramped it up He the one who really really put his eye on Venezuela And he the one who actually declared Venezuela a threat to national security The American national security that is
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And he saw this.
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And whether you like Obama or not,
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this is how far it went back.
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Period.
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Even under Biden, for as much of a...
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Well, all right, I'm going to hold my tongue.
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For as much as some don't like Biden,
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I will just say that he also recognized the threat in what was going on with Venezuela.
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And when it came to Maduro specifically, Maduro's bounty on his head for crimes when it came to
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drug trafficking, human rights violations, etc. wasn't just about the United States of America.
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There are many countries, many countries who wanted Maduro captured. But the US being the
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bigger country, the superpower in all of this is the one who really, really had the means to make
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it happen. So the bounty of Maduro goes back quite a few years and it started at 15 million.
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The Biden administration increased that to 25 million. And then it was later increased to 50
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million. So again, I said this in another episode, a previous episode, I believe it was episode
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102.
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Was this about drugs?
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Yes and no. Partially.
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Yes, it's a huge feather
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in the cap of the United States
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to
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squash that industry.
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To further put pressure on the
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drug trade in the area.
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To further
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put more stumbling blocks, roadblocks.
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Look, we're not going to be naive. We're not going to be able
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to shut it down entirely, even though we would love to.
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But
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so much came out of Venezuela.
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Many people claim that Venezuela didn't even produce anything, which was also a lie.
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Look, most of the drugs came from, again, it came from Peru and Colombia and Mexico.
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All went into Venezuela.
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250 metric tons of cocaine alone, just cocaine alone, was trafficked through Venezuela.
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Just cocaine.
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And that made up literally 10, I think, up to 15% of the entire cocaine trade in the world.
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Think about that.
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Think about that.
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And just specifically talking cocaine, by the way, this isn't all drugs that were funneled
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through Venezuela, just cocaine.
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I want to say it was about 10% to 13% of that was destined to the United States, the rest
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to Europe and Asia.
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So was it about drugs?
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Was there a problem?
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Damn right there was.
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There was a huge problem.
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And again, it was more than just the drugs.
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It was the connections.
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It was the power.
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It was the means to get things done
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by other very dangerous individuals and organizations.
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And all these organizations were protected
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by the Venezuelan government.
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So what did Venezuela get out of it?
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Again, connections.
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Connections.
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They can call in a favor.
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They got money.
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Absolutely got money.
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Again, about eight, maybe $9 billion a year out of it.
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Still a good revenue stream.
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But let's get past the drugs.
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Let's get back to China.
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So what was China doing there?
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You know, before the operation happened,
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I believe it was like literally the day before,
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China was there with delegates meeting with Maduro
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before the strike on Caracas
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that involved very elite United States military personnel.
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I mean, we're talking about an air mission
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by the Army's 160th, also known as the Night Stalkers.
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I mean, these guys are elite helicopter pilots.
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They train to do nothing but fly at night
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at extremely low altitudes.
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I mean, these guys are the badasses of helicopter pilots,
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period. I mean, they are the special forces of helicopter operations, period. And then the other
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people that were tapped to go after Maduro, look, as badass as the Navy SEALs are,
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they called in Delta Force. And they're also known as special operations in the army. And if you
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don't know who Delta Force is, well, that's by design. Their name isn't really pushed around
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that much.
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The military community absolutely knows
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about them, but these are the
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elite of the elite of the elite.
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Like, this is
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the team that pulls
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from all the other special forces teams.
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Like, you got SEALs,
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which, much respect
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because damn, they do shit that, I mean,
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I would tap out.
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And then you got
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Delta Force. I mean, it just goes from here to
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here, like here to here, to here,
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here,
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here.
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Trying to keep my hand in the frame here.
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But listen,
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you all get the point.
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These are bad hombres.
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These are people that you do not fuck with.
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And if these guys are going after you,
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it's job done.
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Let me just say that.
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This operation was so well planned,
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so strategic that the entire operation from air support,
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taking out any kind of retaliatory,
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means by the Venezuelan military, all the way to the 160th or Night Stalkers, bringing
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them to Delta Force Special Operations Unit, like capturing him and then even taking him
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back and putting him on the boat was all less than three hours.
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All of it was less than three hours.
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All of it.
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And Delta Force, they trained.
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they had a full-scale model of Maduro's complex where they trained day and night
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to know every turn, every nook and cranny. Like the CIA was out there doing intel for months,
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doing nothing but tracking his movements, how he ate, by the way, even the times he ate,
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when he went to bed, his every single habit so that there were absolutely no surprises.
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So this was absolutely not just a display of the most elite military in the world in operation, taking action, but a clear message to China, Iran, and Russia.
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China's involvement in the region is not just to do with Venezuela.
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But again, I know I digressed a bit.
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But China was there literally the day before having a meeting with Maduro.
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China had warned the US previous to this a few months ago to leave Venezuela alone.
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Well, why?
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Why is that?
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Well, China was making major investments in Venezuela, in cash, mostly by loans.
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They were also selling military armaments to Venezuela.
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They were also training Venezuelan troops.
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So this goes well beyond just diplomatic relationships here.
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This was China digging in their heels and offering much more than needed.
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Why?
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For the same reason everybody is blaming Trump for going into Venezuela.
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The oil, the resources, and not just that, the hemispherical position to the United States.
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Having a strategic base of operations, an ally in the Western Hemisphere, which is literally right here in the United States' backyard, is huge.
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and before Venezuela,
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China was making
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many, many investments
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and growing the relationship with Peru.
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They were also doing the same in Panama.
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In fact, they helped Panama
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build infrastructure.
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They control the port, by the way,
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the Panama Canal at both ends.
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Now, I know not the Chinese government directly,
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but two Chinese companies.
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so I mean we all know what that means
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look in China if you get into business
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China is your partner
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the actual government of China is one of the partners
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of that business regardless
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and when they want to
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when they want to
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they're going to punch your ticket
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they're going to use your company
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for the betterment of their government
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as they see anyway
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as they see
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so China was intentionally
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intentionally going around
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trying to create these relationships,
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giving all these countries loans,
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building their infrastructure,
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selling weapons and arms to Venezuela,
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training Venezuelan troops.
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They were digging themselves in
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to become the major power
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that controlled the Western hemisphere,
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our own backyard.
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You know who else was doing this?
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Iran.
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That's right.
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Iran had a relationship with Venezuela as well.
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They would offer to go help repair their oil refineries.
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and you know what else Iran did?
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They sold advanced weaponry as well.
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Well, more like technologies.
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They would sell them drones
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and surface-to-air missiles,
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and they were also involved
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in military trainings and operations as well.
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So we got China and Iran in our backyard
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trying to get cozy with our neighbors.
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I mean, it's like you looking out your door,
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and then let's just say the neighbor behind you
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is like, I don't know,
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for, let's say your house is America
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and you look in the backyard
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and then that's Russia.
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Like that house is Russia
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or in this case, China or Iran.
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And when you look at the world,
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you look at the map
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and even though it's a big world,
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that's literally what this was.
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This is what was going on.
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Russia was also involved.
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Russia had many investments
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in the area as well.
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Russia was involved in trading certain goods,
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certain services, or consulting and whatnot.
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Anyway, Russia was also involved.
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So Russia and Iran, they traded for oil.
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China, I will be honest,
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I'm not sure how much oil actually went to China,
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but China was there for other reasons.
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China wanted to control the Western Hemisphere.
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China wants to be the United States.
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They want to be the world power.
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China wants to solidify their Belt and Road Initiative.
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Now, they can already do that with Panama,
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but if you cozy up to Venezuela and Peru,
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well, that is three nations right next to each other.
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And if you can get that whole region right there under your control,
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under your grasp,
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then you pretty much own the hemisphere right there.
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You own that Western hemisphere.
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So again, was this about drugs?
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Partly.
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Was this about oil?
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Well, here's the thing with the oil.
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Yes and no.
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The thing with the oil is this.
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Iran was relying on the oil.
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They were using that oil regardless.
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But the bigger thing was Russia, Russia's use of the oil.
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So in controlling the oil there, stepping and controlling the oil,
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you're cutting off major energy, major supply of energy to these nations,
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as well as revenue streams to these nations.
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Secondly, the oil industry in Venezuela goes back a long way.
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And a lot of it had to do with America stepping in.
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helping develop the oil industry for Venezuela.
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Companies like Chevron, for example,
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they specialized in making refineries
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that could process their certain brand or type of oil
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because it's not like the fine wine of oil.
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It needs a little work.
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It needs a little, you know, you need to massage it a bit.
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You need to do a few more things to get it to be
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the oil that we need to use.
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but Venezuela is abundant in it So U manufacturers U oil manufacturers created the refineries built the refineries to be able to process this particular type of oil
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And just like in 2005, when Venezuela refused to work with the U.S. government or with the DEA to try to get a handle on the illegal drug trade and the trafficking,
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Venezuela also, this wasn't in 2005,
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I'm not sure the exact date,
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but Venezuela also closed out
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and turned their back to the US in the oil trade.
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With that being said,
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Trump made some remarks here.
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Trump absolutely made some remarks.
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He said, we're taking the oil back.
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He said that we are also going to run Venezuela.
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Well, choice words for sure.
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I understand controlling the oil, but Trump also did say that the revenues from the oil,
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he's going to make sure to go back to Venezuela, go back to the people of Venezuela.
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So this isn't the intention of the Trump administration to just rob, pillage, and rape
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Venezuela.
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He's looking at a partnership with Venezuela.
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So I'm not really too concerned on how the US is going to be working with Venezuela in
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terms of the oil, because Venezuela, their oil industry was not huge.
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They have so much reserve, but they didn't have the capability or capacity to get it
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out of the ground and refine it in the levels that they needed to be extremely profitable
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and rich.
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Were they rich in resources?
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Yes.
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Were their exports making them rich?
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No, because they had limited means of production.
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So the US stepping in is a good thing for Venezuela.
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I personally hope that Trump does what he says and that he truly is going to work with the nation state of Venezuela and the Venezuelan people to make sure that they are a once again wealthy, healthy nation.
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And look, I do not want to see Trump rape Venezuela whatsoever.
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I really don't.
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And I'm hoping that is not his intention.
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Time will tell.
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What I'm more concerned with is Trump's statement in saying that we are going to run Venezuela for a while.
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Until we can find the appropriate transitionary time or period.
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So what that means is there's a lot that can happen here.
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Okay, so vice president of Venezuela was voted in or was sworn in to become president.
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But Trump swooped in and said,
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nah, we're not recognizing that.
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We're pumping the brakes.
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And I get it.
28:49
I get it.
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When it comes to a democracy, for example,
28:53
if the people voted,
28:55
if the people want a certain individual,
28:57
it's that country's right to get behind that individual
28:59
to be the de facto leader or representative of that country.
29:03
But again, this is bigger than drugs.
29:05
This is bigger than just Venezuela.
29:06
This is about keeping control of the Western hemisphere,
29:11
keeping it safe.
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And one of the ways we're going to do that is by continuing to root out communism and the socialist practices within our own hemisphere.
29:24
And by doing so, that is keeping Russia and China at bay and absolutely keeping Iran out of the picture.
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So controlling the area, I understand.
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Now, do we have to agree with this whole situation and how it was handled?
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No.
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We absolutely do not.
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Do we have to say that Trump is right in his assessment and his actions?
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We don't have to.
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But the unfortunate truth here, and you can take your emotions and just throw them out the window.
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Because as I said earlier, this is rumor control.
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These are the facts.
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The reality of the situation is it was necessary.
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for too many years under previous administrations, going back many, many years.
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The encroachment of China in our own Western Hemisphere over the years was unchecked.
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And it has gotten to the point that China was ramping up, was ramping up their plans,
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was not hiding it anymore.
30:26
It was making it very known that they were going to control the region.
30:31
We can't wake up to seeing China in our backyard with turrets of rockets, missiles, etc. pointed our way.
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We can't have China in our backyard controlling the oceans and the trade routes going through South America.
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That is not going to happen.
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So while we don't agree with it, we don't like regime change, and we don't want to see Trump take these actions,
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it had to happen because it went unchecked for too long.
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And if something didn't happen now,
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we would have woke up one day in a major war with China.
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We would have woke up one day with Iran right there outside our ports.
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And you may think that I'm wrong here,
31:19
but my track record has been pretty right.
31:22
So I think we just averted a major crisis by stepping in,
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taking care of the situation and sending a very, very clear message to China, Russia, and Iran.
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That message is, this is our backyard. We say what happens here. And you, you need to get the
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fuck out. And so, look, I've been talking a while. What I want to do is I want to play a clip.
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this is from First Post.
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Now, they give a nice, unbiased reporting
31:57
of what was going on there recently
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and the whole situation.
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And so I want to play this.
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It's a four-minute clip, okay?
32:07
I don't know how long I'm going to go with it,
32:08
but I have to play this clip
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because I thought it was a very well-put-together clip
32:12
and what really seemed to be like an unbiased report.
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You know, real news.
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not like what I'm doing apparently real news like just telling it like it is just saying this
32:22
happened that happened this person said this and so here's the clip I want to play for you
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I'm going to go ahead and full screen that out so you can see it and give this a listen
32:33
a major diplomatic storm has erupted at the United Nations China has strongly condemned
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the United States for seizing Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and flying him to
32:43
New York to face criminal charges. Beijing called the move illegal, bullying and a direct attack on
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Venezuela's sovereignty, warning it could set a dangerous global precedent. At an emergency meeting
32:56
of the UN Security Council, China said it was shocked by what it described as a unilateral use
33:02
of force, adding that the United States had ignored international law and disregarded
33:07
sovereign equality. Beijing demanded the immediate release of Maduro and his wife
33:12
and called on Washington to resolve disputes through dialogue and not force.
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The U.S. has placed its own power above multilateralism and military action above diplomatic efforts,
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posing a grave threat to peace and security in Latin America and the Caribbean, and indeed internationally.
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China firmly opposes this, and the international community has also expressed widespread grave concern and strong condemnation.
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the dramatic developments followed a late night raid in caracas on saturday
33:45
when maduro and his wife were detained and transported to the united states
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maduro is now facing charges including narco-terrorism and weapons related offenses
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all right uh i'm gonna pause this and interject here so remember how i discussed earlier that
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everybody is suddenly talking about china and the china involvement when this happened i i posted on
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my social medias right away. I was like, look, I'm sitting here
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waiting for the China response. And everyone was like,
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huh? What the hell are you talking about?
34:12
This isn't about China. It's about oil.
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Alright, it took a couple
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days, and then all of a sudden
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Xi Jinping was everywhere
34:20
with his statement. Everyone was like,
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oh, China said this and condemns the U.S.
34:25
Here's what's rich
34:26
about China's statement.
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These are the same
34:30
people that
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in the Indo-Pacific
34:34
region
34:35
terrorized the Philippines,
34:40
the Filipino fishing boats and whatnot.
34:43
So they terrorized that area.
34:46
They terrorized South Korea,
34:50
not as much as North Korea does,
34:52
but they give Japan a hard time.
34:57
And they absolutely give Taiwan a hard time.
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So they're out there antagonizing Taiwan,
35:02
South Korea and Japan
35:05
and the Philippines daily.
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All sovereign nations, by the way.
35:11
But yet it's okay for China to do that.
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And if we're talking about violations,
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I mean, are we even talking about
35:17
China's consistent and insistent
35:21
genocide of the Uyghurs?
35:25
The native Muslim Uyghurs in China?
35:32
I mean, they're literally like capturing these people
35:38
and chemically castrating them so that they can't breed
35:43
and they can't continue their race.
35:47
So it's very rich for China to speak up against the US's actions here.
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But again, why is China concerned?
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Because of everything I said.
35:54
China was investing heavily into the area.
35:58
China was making inroads with Venezuela.
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China was giving money to Peru.
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in developing Peru. They were very heavily involved in Panama. This whole thing that Trump
36:09
decided to do just disrupted China's plans. It dealt a major blow to China's plans to control
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the area in our backyard. All right, we can continue this report.
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Accusations he is strongly denied. He has pleaded not guilty in a New York court.
36:27
Now, Washington has defended its actions, saying this was a law enforcement operation
36:31
based on long-standing indictments.
36:34
In fact, President Donald Trump had referenced the Monroe Doctrine
36:37
to justify the operation,
36:39
a principle that has shaped U.S. policy in Latin America for nearly two centuries.
36:44
First articulated by President James Monroe in the 1800s,
36:48
the doctrine was originally designed to warn European powers
36:51
against intervening in the Western Hemisphere.
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All of these actions were in gross violation
36:58
of the core principles of American foreign policy,
37:02
dating back more than two centuries,
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and not anymore.
37:08
All the way back, it dated to the Monroe Doctrines,
37:13
and the Monroe Doctrine is a big deal,
37:17
but we've superseded it by a lot, by a real lot.
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They now call it the Donroe Doctrine, I don't know.
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is Monroe Doctrine.
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We sort of forgot about it.
37:31
It was very important, but we forgot about it.
37:33
We don't forget about it anymore.
37:34
Under our new national security strategy,
37:37
American dominance in the Western Hemisphere
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will never be questioned again.
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Won't happen.
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I'm pausing here because it's important.
37:48
Now, look, whether you like Donald Trump or not,
37:50
sometimes it sounds like he's just fumbling around
37:53
and making stuff up on the fly.
37:55
And many times he is, you know, he's never been a person to stay on script, but what he said is very important.
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And what was reported earlier before they cut to this clip is true.
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Now, we need to understand what the Monroe Doctrine, sorry for that flub.
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Let me say that again.
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What the Monroe Doctrine represents.
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listen this this was created at a time when america was sending a message to europe and saying look
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you have no right to be in our hemisphere and we're going to stand up to european colonialism
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in our backyard but more importantly what the monroe doctrine did is it established the western
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hemisphere, the Western hemisphere that was to be controlled and ran by the United States of America.
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Look the U S has been a superpower for a very long time The United States of America is the big dog And I not just saying that because I American and I born here It just a fact And before America the big dog was well the UK
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It was Britain.
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I mean, we cannot argue Britain's history and its power,
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its control, its prowess, what it contributed to the world.
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And so before America, it was Britain.
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But for a very long time, to this day,
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it is the United States of America.
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And the Monroe Doctrine established
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the ability for America to say
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what happens in the Western Hemisphere
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and that nobody,
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nobody has a right to control,
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manipulate,
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or get involved in our hemisphere
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without our permission,
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without our say.
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And that we will not allow anybody
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to do what we don't give permission to do.
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Now, that is a very slippery slope
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because you can take that many ways.
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You can take that as,
40:03
well, that's America just being authoritarian
40:04
within the Western hemisphere
40:07
and basically even telling other sovereign nations,
40:10
like, no, you answer to us.
40:11
It's almost like, yeah, we're the boss.
40:13
You kick up to us.
40:14
And if you want to do something,
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we'll have a meeting and we'll decide
40:16
whether or not you can look out for your nation
40:18
and move forward and progress, et cetera.
40:20
But the U.S. has never done that.
40:23
They've never really came out and really did that.
40:25
What the U.S. has done, though, has been vigilant, has been cautious, and they have kept watch.
40:31
At some point, though, in history, we lost our way in establishing our presence and prowess in the Western Hemisphere and taking action in the Western Hemisphere.
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I think a lot of that happened after the Cold War.
40:45
we kind of just got away from it because the big threat was Russia and all
40:49
sudden the, well, no, the USSR at that time.
40:52
And then it was suddenly like, well, it's over now.
40:55
Everything's good.
40:56
They were the threat.
40:57
Like we weren't even considering China necessarily back then.
41:00
But, you know, things have shifted.
41:03
Russia, the current USSR, well, it's not USSR, but Russia today,
41:08
still an absolute superpower, still an issue,
41:12
but nothing compared to China and their capabilities right now.
41:16
And so China has been taking over where Russia left off
41:20
and they've been doing it differently.
41:23
They've been trying to take a diplomatic approach
41:25
to controlling the area.
41:27
But Donald Trump just said, fuck that.
41:30
Let me put my foot down to show you who we are
41:32
just because it seemed like you forgot a little bit
41:34
and basically just squashed all that.
41:38
So now China's trying to figure out,
41:39
well, how are we going to approach this?
41:40
What are we going to do?
41:41
because China knows right now that Trump is serious.
41:43
If they come in and they try to press any harder,
41:47
there will be a war.
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There will be a war.
41:51
And I'm not sure China wants that.
41:53
And I'll be honest,
41:54
I don't think the United States wants that either.
41:56
I mean, we don't want two big, giant superpowers going at it.
41:59
It's not good for either of the countries
42:02
in discussion right now.
42:05
And it's also not good for the world whatsoever.
42:08
so anyway that was that is what was important about the Monroe Doctrine it wasn't just
42:16
oh you know we you know we have the right to control Latin America no no no no that's not
42:21
what it was about what it was about was establishing the Western Hemisphere and letting the world know
42:27
like this is our backyard what we say goes down here and don't even try to fuck around or you
42:33
will find out. And the Monroe
42:35
Doctrine is back. And Trump
42:36
is the president,
42:38
surprisingly, that
42:40
recognized this, stepped up
42:42
and made the statement that needed to be
42:45
made well before the
42:47
Trump administration, by the way. I mean, this should have been had,
42:49
this should have been done a long
42:51
time ago. Alright, let me get back
42:53
to this video clip. Now,
42:55
the United States insisted there
42:57
was no war against Venezuela
42:58
and no occupation, only a move
43:00
to protect its citizens from narco
43:02
terrorism. Meanwhile, Russia sided with China, accusing the United Nations of international
43:08
banditry and saying there could be no justification for the operation in Caracas. The United Nations
43:14
has voiced serious concern, warning that the raid could worsen instability in Venezuela
43:19
and create a troubling example of how states deal with each other. Now, Colombia, which requested
43:25
the emergency meeting with support from China and Russia, urged all sides to focus on the well-being
43:30
of the Venezuelan people,
43:32
warning that civilians often pay
43:34
the highest prices in such crises.
43:36
Isn't it interesting that
43:38
the people who spoke up against
43:40
what the U.S. did in Venezuela
43:42
are China and Russia and Colombia,
43:47
a narco state
43:48
and two authoritarian nations
43:55
built on the backbone of communism.
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i i mean you can't you just can't make this shit up all right let's continue this china has deep
44:08
economic and strategic ties with venezuela analysts say china may not offer direct material
44:14
support but its diplomatic weight could shape international opinion against washington
44:19
Cooperation between China and Venezuela is collaboration between sovereign states.
44:28
It is protected by international law and the respective national legislation of both countries.
44:34
Regardless of political developments in Venezuela,
44:38
China's commitment to deepening practical cooperation across various fields remains unchanged,
44:43
and China's legitimate interests in Venezuela
44:46
shall be safeguarded in accordance with the law.
44:52
So what are those interests there, China?
44:57
What are you trying to safeguard?
45:00
Your interests are resources, are oil.
45:04
They're a strategic position in the Western Hemisphere.
45:07
That's what it is.
45:09
That's what you're not saying.
45:11
And a great choice of words there earlier.
45:13
right? This is about a relationship between two sovereign nations. You're right. You and
45:21
Venezuela are, China and Venezuela are sovereign nations. But the reason you're there is nefarious.
45:26
The reason you're there is to antagonize and disrupt United States power in relationship
45:35
within our own backyard. That is all there is to it. And the fact that you were there negotiating
45:40
was for what?
45:41
For the oil.
45:41
Don't act like you weren't looking at the oil,
45:44
looking at the gold,
45:45
all the resources that you could rape
45:46
and pillage from that land,
45:47
just like you have done in Africa.
45:52
See, the Chinese are really snakes.
45:54
They really are.
45:56
They're trying to look diplomatic,
45:59
professional,
46:00
trying to cite United Nations laws,
46:02
while at the same time doing everything
46:04
against what they are chastising the U.S. for.
46:08
the U.S. went in strategically, took care of a situation. Maduro's alive. He wasn't killed.
46:14
He's in custody. He is on trial. And China would have done it a lot differently.
46:24
The difference here is the United States is not trying to take over, rule, and absorb Venezuela.
46:31
China was trying to do that through money and through big air quotes here, people.
46:38
diplomatic relations.
46:41
So while China may be opposed,
46:43
don't be fooled.
46:45
China was there for the resources.
46:47
China was there for the strategic position.
46:50
And China,
46:51
like in this report earlier,
46:53
said, well,
46:53
while China doesn't offer
46:54
any materials
46:58
or material goods or whatever,
47:00
that's a complete lie.
47:01
Well, okay, maybe not a lie.
47:03
The reporter probably didn't even know
47:04
that China absolutely sells arms
47:07
on armaments to the Venezuelan government for the military,
47:11
and China trains the Venezuelan military.
47:14
Why would China be training the Venezuelan military
47:17
to help protect China's interests in the region
47:21
against, you know who, United States of America?
47:26
Period.
47:28
All right, let me go ahead and keep playing this video a little bit more.
47:30
Well, for nearly two decades, China and Venezuela
47:33
have built a unique oil-backed financial partnership.
47:37
Through loans for oil arrangements, Beijing extended billions of dollars in credit to Caracas.
47:43
This episode exemplifies the dynamics of great power competition on the global stage.
47:48
For many, the seizure of Maduro without multilateral authorization reinforces longstanding claims that international law is applied selectively.
47:57
How this moment is absorbed by global institutions will signal whether multilateralism can still restrain power.
48:04
All right, so they do have a point there.
48:08
This does set the precedent for other nations, right?
48:12
It's like, well, if the United States can just step in and snatch Maduro to take care
48:16
of this situation, then what's stopping China or Russia?
48:19
It's like, how can we talk about what's going on in the Ukraine while, on the other hand,
48:23
you know, the US is invading another sovereign nation and just like snatching their president?
48:27
Well, it's not quite the same thing because Russia, if you're talking about Russia and
48:32
Putin's legacy is reuniting the old USSR.
48:40
When it was broken up, it was broken up a few times.
48:44
Putin has made it very clear many times that he wants to reunite the great old USSR.
48:51
His interests in Ukraine aren't necessarily just for resources or to take out a corrupt leader.
48:58
No, he wants to take over the entire area and make it part of Russia
49:05
and in doing so, increasing Russia's landmass and territory.
49:11
And of course, Russia has their eye on Poland.
49:14
Russia has its eye on Belarus.
49:17
Russia has its eye on, I mean, Russia wants the entire region, period.
49:25
And so take what Russia says or what Putin says with a grain of salt.
49:32
Take what China says with a grain of salt.
49:35
Iran has no leg to stand on.
49:38
The reality is they're pissed that we disrupted their plans again
49:43
to gain a strategic position in the Western Hemisphere
49:47
where they can have a bit of control and power to stand up
49:55
against the United States of America.
49:57
That is exactly what this whole situation was about.
50:03
Now, with that being said,
50:06
how does Venezuela feel about all this?
50:09
You know what's funny is after this happened,
50:11
all the protesters out there,
50:16
like, let me do a little thing, a little history here.
50:18
So remember Ukraine,
50:20
all the protesters that were protesting on behalf of Ukraine,
50:24
Like, we've got to save Ukraine.
50:25
Send Ukraine all the money.
50:26
Let's do everything we can to save Ukraine
50:28
from the big, bad Russian oligarchy.
50:32
And then Palestine happened.
50:35
And then suddenly everybody forgot about Ukraine.
50:37
Then it was like, save Palestine.
50:38
Free, free Palestine.
50:39
Palestine, Palestine, Palestine.
50:43
Excuse me.
50:44
And so now everyone forgot about Palestine.
50:48
Now it's free Venezuela.
50:49
What are we doing?
50:50
How we should be stepping into a sovereign nation.
50:53
let Maduro go
50:55
now you have all these protesters protesting
50:57
on behalf of Maduro
50:59
and it's like
51:01
it's the next thing
51:03
right it's the next thing to get behind
51:05
it's like it's the trend
51:07
what's crazy about all these protesters
51:09
is most of them are actually
51:11
paid protesters you know there's a company
51:13
I should know this you know I brought
51:15
it up I'll bring it up on
51:17
next episode
51:18
well hopefully I remember
51:21
to. But anyway, there's a company specifically, there's more than one, but there's a company out
51:26
there that all they do is they provide protesters. Like you pay them and they will provide protesters
51:33
to go out and protest on the issues on your behalf. Like literally. And so a lot of what
51:41
you're seeing is fake. It's like, it's opposition for opposition's sake. It's just like whatever is
51:47
against what the Trump administration is doing or more to the point, whatever the American
51:52
government is doing is what they are protesting. It's not about America. It's not about American
51:56
interests. It's not about, you know, what's good for the rest of the world. It's really just
52:00
opposition to the American government. And so all these protesters are out there and they're
52:08
protesting what happened in Venezuela. I got a video that's really, really cool here. So this
52:14
guy, let me switch over here. This guy here, blow this up. He went out and he actually started
52:21
questioning these people. And this isn't Switzerland. This is a worldwide thing. This
52:26
isn't just the United States. This is
52:28
everywhere people are protesting what
52:30
the United States did. So this guy is
52:32
like questioning everybody. He's like, are you
52:34
even Venezuelan? Do you, are you
52:36
from Venezuela? Like, do you even know what
52:38
you're protesting for? Check this clip
52:40
out.
52:40
Are you Venezuelan?
52:42
No, but Latin American.
52:44
Are you Venezuelan? Are you Venezuelan?
52:46
Are you there?
52:46
Call her.
52:49
Call her because there's a Venezuelan
52:51
here. There's a Venezuelan
52:53
here.
52:54
if you guys don't understand what he's saying he's basically asking everybody
53:02
is anyone here venezuelan like are you venezuelan anybody here and so far everyone is not answering
53:09
they're like saying no no no maybe this guy over here so that's what's happening right he's like
53:13
are you venezuelan is anybody here venezuelan i'm gonna continue playing this
53:16
he just said i want to talk to a venezuelan around
53:22
Are you Venezuelan?
53:23
Of course.
53:24
Huh?
53:24
Of course.
53:25
What part of Venezuela?
53:27
Of Carabobo.
53:28
Of Carabobo?
53:29
What part of Carabobo?
53:31
You're not Venezuelan.
53:33
There's a Venezuelan here.
53:36
Because he has the Venezuela flag.
53:38
And they're supporting the Chavismo.
53:41
But there's no Venezuelan here.
53:42
So he just said, you know, you got everybody out here with these Venezuelan flags.
53:46
And he just pointed out one guy saying, you know, you guys are supporting the Chavismo.
53:51
and not one of these people is from Venezuela.
53:54
Not one of them.
53:55
Not a single one.
53:56
So you got a lot of this going on
54:00
where people are just calling out all the fake bullshit.
54:03
And here's a few more clips.
54:04
Now, this is from Uriel Cohen.
54:09
And I'm sorry if I said your name wrong,
54:11
but this guy's here on X.
54:12
And what he did is he put a thread together
54:14
of people from Venezuela who made social media posts
54:18
to explain how they feel about the situation.
54:21
And I'm just going to scroll and run through some of these
54:23
just so you guys get an idea of what's going on.
54:26
All right, let's start with the first one here.
54:28
If you are not from Venezuela, you better shut the fuck up.
54:31
I've seen a lot of videos of gringos trying to explain Venezuela to Venezuelans.
54:36
You don't even know the difference between Venezuela and Mexico.
54:40
You can't even point at Venezuela in a fucking mouth.
54:42
You don't know what is to live in a starvation.
54:44
You never saw a family member dying because you didn't have the medication while the members of the chavismo are walking with Rolex in their hands.
54:54
Do you want to know how many people died trying to come to America, going through a jungle?
54:59
Do you want to know how many women were raped there?
55:02
We are eight millions of Venezuelans who have left Venezuela.
55:07
You don't know what is to live like that.
55:09
You are too freaking busy eating your Starbucks with almond milk, you motherfucker.
55:13
I have a question for you guys. Where were you when they were killing us?
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Where were you when they were killing students? Students who didn't have any weapons.
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You were too freaking busy drinking your Starbucks with old milk.
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So you better shut the fuck up and take Venezuela out of your filthy mouth.
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Okay, here's another one.
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Hi, my name is Paula and I am Venezuelan, born and raised. I've lived in the United States for
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almost 10 years to the date and I am an American citizen also by the way. The main reason why I'm
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coming here today, I'm literally nobody and if this reaches one person, my job here, that one
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person that didn't know what was happening in Venezuela and now they do, my work here is done.
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I am outraged about the comments I been seeing today I made the mistake myself of going on social media and reading all the news outlets reporting on the news of the Venezuelan strikes
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Well, military strikes to remove Maduro. Thank you.
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And everybody, a ton of Americans and then from whatever you're from, but you've never been to Venezuela.
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You have no idea about the political situation in Venezuela, the history of Venezuela, and trying to be like our saviors.
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Like, I can't. Let me set some things straight.
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First of all, the regime has been going on since 1998 when Chavez was elected president.
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From there on, their country is the mess, in good words, that it is today.
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We have suffered a lot. The Senate was dissolved. The Constitution was changed.
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um they bought the military all the armed forces um many people have been killed kidnapped you can
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go do the google search yourself or just ask because clearly google is not working for you
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people um three things i want to get across today one the islands are set no we're not
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this is literally the happiest days of day of our life um this is our second independence
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um we are still in shock complete shock about what finally happened we have been wanting this
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We have been praying for this. We have been literally anybody that we have been able to go to and ask and nobody listened to us.
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So we are happy. Enjoy. And even if you're a Venezuelan in Venezuela or a Venezuelan outside of Venezuela, in any country that you are, if you left 10, 15 years ago, five days ago or a week ago, we are all happy.
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so don't worry about us we're happy the united states only attacking venezuela because of the
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oil people we do not control our oil we haven't seen our oil um russia iran cuba um china
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sorry i had to pause it because it's exactly what i've been telling everybody man i'm not even from
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venezuela but you know i could read the tea leaves and read through the bullshit and the headlines
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and go deeper.
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And I mean, here's someone from Venezuela
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just telling you how it is like firsthand.
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All right, I'm going to keep playing her.
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Whatever other countries, Central America and South America,
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we've been giving away our oil to all these countries.
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Like we're not seeing that.
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Anyways, so, and we used to have trades
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and whatever other things with the United States
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before tariffs about our oil
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and our country was working fine.
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So the way we don't care, don't worry about us.
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If the United States wants to take our oil, we will be happy to be giving away the oil to the United States if that means that our country is going to be safe.
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And that us citizens, residents of whatever of Venezuela are going to be good, are going to be able to make money, are going to be able to retire, which none of those things are happening right now.
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And then number three, if you're worried about what United States lead to Venezuela and what's going to happen now, nothing, literally, and I mean this, nothing can be worse than the hell we've lived up until now.
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So stop, and I mean this, stop trying to explain Venezuela to Venezuelans.
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Stop.
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If you want to know, reach out to someone from Venezuela.
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Okay?
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Right?
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Good point.
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Here's another clip from another Venezuelan right here.
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I'm Venezuelan, and let me tell you something.
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This is the happiest day of my f***ing life.
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They have massacred us, intimidated us, humiliated us.
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And today we finally recover hope.
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It's been 25 years of dictatorship.
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How can you defend that?
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They have forced more than 8 million Venezuelans
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to flee the country, including me.
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And I'm not going to let anyone to tell me
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that this is not good for us This is the best thing that could happen to Venezuela This is what all venezuelans want all right here another guy right here this is a video for all those liberals and leftists
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um mostly american that i've seen in the media complaining about what's going on in venezuela
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complaining about uh these military attacks against military uh buildings against um government
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buildings that were attacked today in the early morning. What the fuck is wrong with you? Like,
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we have had 27 years of dictatorship in our country that has censored us, that has tortured us,
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that has killed us, and that made us go away from our country. Like, they made us run away from our
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own homeland. Do you ever imagine that you will have to do that? Like, do you even put yourself
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in the situation of what does that mean? I'm pretty sure you don't because you still live here,
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even though you complain about everything about this country. You still choose to stay here. So
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why don't you go to Venezuela? Why don't you go to Cuba? Why don't you go to Nicaragua? Why don't
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you go to any of these countries that very pretty much share the views you have the political views
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you have so also i'm doing this message in english because um unfortunately american liberals are the
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ones uh talking about how bad this is and how the u.s uh wants to steal our oil wants to steal
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our natural resources. Do you know that Russia, that Cuba, that Nicaragua, that all these communist
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countries pieces of shit have been stealing all that from my country already? Did you even know
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that? Like why do you care what happens with our natural resources now? Why do you care about what
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happens in our land now. When not too long ago, people were being killed on the streets for
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protesting against the regime. While nowadays, we have a center of torture in the capital of
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our country with thousands of political prisoners. So I ask you this, why do you feel that you are
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in the right to defend a dictator.
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Fair enough.
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Look, I'm going to scroll a little bit so you can see if you're on X.
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This guy has a lot of videos in this thread from various peoples.
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And so these are all people from Venezuela.
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These are all videos from Venezuelans.
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And it's definitely something you should check out
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and get a better grasp on what's happening out there.
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And look, I'm sure there are people out there
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that can argue, well, those are all just propagandists, videos.
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Look, we're going to get it all.
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It's really on you to read between the lines
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and filter through the bullshit.
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And someone like me, listen,
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if you listen to the show consistently,
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you already know that's what I do.
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I go deeper.
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I dive beyond the headline.
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But I don't expect for you to take everything I say
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as face value, for example.
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I mean, look, you can even challenge me.
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Please do.
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And look, and if you find something like,
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look, legitimately find something
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like real information that really like corrects
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or conflicts what I'm saying,
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then let me know.
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But make sure it's legitimate information.
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I'm always open to knowledge
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and knowing what's going on out there.
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But everything I presented to you is true.
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And again, as I said in the beginning of this episode,
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This is rumor control.
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These are the facts.
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And to be honest there is so much more I can go over I just didn want to get into the weeds too much because I didn want to bore everybody out there But I think you got enough information in this episode alone to give you a better idea of
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why we got involved, what the whole Venezuelan operation was about, and how Venezuelans feel
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about what happened.
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The only thing I have to say is I hope Trump absolutely says what he, I'm sorry, does what
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he says and that he says
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what he means.
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I hope that he helps
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make Venezuela rich. I hope that
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he actually does get the money back to the
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Venezuelans.
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And I hope that he does
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carefully
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and strategically work with the
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Venezuelans to get a democratic
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government
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that is not built on
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the backbone of communism or socialism.
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Socialism doesn't work.
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Socialism destroyed that country.
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And with socialism always comes corruption.
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It always sounds good on the surface,
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but it started with Hugo Chavez.
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As it was stated earlier by one of these people
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in the video clips I just played,
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all the way back to 93, 98,
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somewhere in there in that five-year period,
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all of a sudden the Constitution was rewritten.
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Everything was thrown out the window
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and it just became a dictatorship.
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Same thing happened under Maduro.
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And while on the surface, it looked like they had elections.
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Maduro himself literally ran a rigged election.
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In the 11th hour, suddenly there was all these votes to side with Maduro.
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So it looked like he was overwhelmingly the winner when in fact he wasn't.
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And to this day, I forgot the number of countries, but the majority of countries in the world
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right now don't even recognize Maduro as a legitimate president.
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He's a thug.
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He's a gangster, period.
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He's an opportunist.
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He's using a nation to basically fund his lifestyle and to gain connections and further
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his power, not just within the Caribbean, but throughout the world.
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so
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with all of that
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look I'm going to end it here I think we went long
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enough I appreciate all you
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listen happy new year
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have an amazing 2026
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and please look as we move forward
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in 2026 if 2025
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proved anything is that people
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became much more savvy
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as to you know
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legacy media even social media
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like people are now starting
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to question and challenge the headlines
1:07:03
They're being able to better spot the bullshitters out there.
1:07:06
And please continue to do so.
1:07:08
Fact check, everybody.
1:07:10
Don't take anything for face value.
1:07:12
And look, we'll all meet back in the middle somewhere.
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Appreciate your support, everybody.
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1:07:26
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1:07:27
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1:07:29
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1:07:31
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1:07:35
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1:07:37
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1:07:43
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Have a great 2026 until the next episode.
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