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Venezuela on the Brink? The Truth from Caracas with Diego Sequeira · UK Column Radio

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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Silk and Steel
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podcast. I am your host Carl Zah.
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Today I have a very special guest all the way from Crackers
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Venezuela, a Venezuelan journalist, Diego Sequera, who
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had had joined us with before. But with the recent cranking up
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of even more aggressive rhetorics from United States
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government, I want to find out from Diego, how are things
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actually on the ground in Venezuela?
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So first, first of all, welcome Diego, welcome back to my show.
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And secondly, how are you? How how are the thing?
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How are things going inside Venezuela right now?
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Oh, first of all, thank you for having me again.
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I remember saying back then that we're going to do a Monty Python
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like saying that now for something completely different.
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And I might say that I think we didn't achieve the completely
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different, but they're slightly different.
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Maybe. You know, it's it's funny, this
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is my favourite time of the year.
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And I think that's a common feat among Venezuelans.
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I mean, December, it's like, you know, the festive year, they
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said the festive month and everyone is far more concerned
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about that than and you know, anything else.
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And this means, of course, trying to make the best to get
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enough money to buy, to buy everything you need for the end
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of the year. I mean, if you have kids, the
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new clothings and the toys and you know, the gifts and all
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that. And but also for the Ayaka,
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which is like the staple meal we have during this time of the
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year. And it's a very family thing to
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do. I mean, it goes throughout the
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whole month and everyone, I mean, everyone's challenging
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themselves who's going to get the first Ajaka.
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And everyone says that their moms Ajakas are the best.
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So it's a major controversy with that.
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But The thing is that that's basically what people are
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worried right now, that that's a big, biggest concern.
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And and of course, along with that, the money issue, which is
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always, you know, the value of of currency.
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It's always like the biggest problem people have here on
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daily. So in that sense, it is I don't
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know what why the phone is doing this.
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By the way, hold on, this is weird.
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Oh OK, no worries we can I can do some posts.
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Yeah, I'm here. Magic.
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Yeah, no worries. Yeah, exactly.
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Yeah, sorry about that. I mean, because I don't know why
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it fades into black suddenly. But anyway.
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And so The thing is that things haven't changed in that sense
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ever since the, the whole madness started since, yeah,
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September, since the first attacks on small speed boats in
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New York shores in the Caribbean, it hasn't changed.
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And maybe at moments, you know, which is also, it makes sense.
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Maybe people drop the question, is it going to happen?
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Do you think it's going to happen?
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What is going to happen? Those are the, but that's like a
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third question you get when you're talking to someone.
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It's not, it's not going to be the first thing that that that
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pops into mind, you know, and that's, and I think that's
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significant and that's important.
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And I also think that this is unwillfully or not, anti
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climatic or not, this is like the most descriptive aspect of
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yeah, you can call it resistance in a way.
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You know, it's of course it's not, you know, jingoistic style
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sloganeering and, and any, any, it has nothing to do with that.
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It's, it's basically it's about defending normalcy, which is
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something that has been going on through other very unpleasant
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chapters that we've gone through as a society.
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So, and it's funny how it is a massive gap if you compare it to
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what it's been said about us throughout social media,
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throughout the media, politicians, policy makers, I
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mean, everyone has like it's usually the case.
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I mean, everyone has something brilliant to say about this and
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it's not related to reality. And you know, and they, and not
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only that, and I think that this is important, Carl, I don't know
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if you've, if you, if you realise, if you've seen the,
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the, the, the science, but the narrative is basically shifting
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now. Now it's, I think they're trying
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to do a different offer. I mean, they're not as focused,
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laser focused on the narco state thing for obvious reasons,
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which, which we will, we'll go through them soon enough, I'm
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I'm sure. But yeah, it is shifting.
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Now They have, for example, one of the new spins.
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It's about election meddling. As you know, Venezuela has been
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used in an automatized voting system.
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You know where, where, where you put your your fingerprint and it
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brings your information. And it was highly reliable.
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And they started doing it with a company called Smartmatic.
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But Smartmatic is a private company that was originally
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based in the UKI don't know where it is right now.
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And it's not working with the Venezuelan government anymore,
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although Venezuela has its own digital system from a while on.
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But and they've worked in several elections throughout the
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world, including allegedly in the 2020 US elections, the one
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Trump lost. So, you know, and so they, so
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they're not trying to say that Venezuela is like this
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incredibly powerful octopus that's meddling in other
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elections and also placing the most, the least beneficial
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presidents for Venezuela in those places.
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You know, so I don't know this, I don't know the, the, the, the
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7017 D chess going on here from my president, but that's one of
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the craziest thing they're saying.
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But that's one of them. You are also, you have also the
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Wall Street Journal trying to link up the drug thing, but with
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Sahelian jihadist, which actually they do, they do drug
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trafficking, but they don't need Venezuela for that actually.
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And so they're trying to keep the steam going with different
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other significant threats that Venezuela represents.
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I. Saw a lot of social media
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agitprop, you know, I saw people posting AI generated videos of
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US Armanda just parking on the coast of Venezuela and the
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Venezuelan military is like pointing panicly at the incoming
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invasion. I mean, it's it's very crude.
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It's very crude propaganda, just like they're claimed that this
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whole thing is about stopping drug flow from Venezuela, which
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is completely bogus. And they even mentioned
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fentanyl. There's no fentanyl coming from
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Venezuela to United States. And, and is that war is actually
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not popular inside USI mean public opinion poll after public
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opinion polls shows that majority of the US public do not
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support military intervention and.
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They don't believe and they don't believe it's going to be
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better for them, you know, and I think that's as sensitive as as
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the as what you just remarked. I mean, I think that's that's
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really important. And of course, it's the same
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thing. It's in Venezuela regarding
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polls. And, and you know, I don't know
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if you saw the new national security strategy that was
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published. Oh yeah.
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They OK, now they upgraded Latin America to the second priority
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list, right? But the top priority is
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supposedly homeland migration, narcotics.
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And that's also tie, you know, they try to tie that together
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with the Operation Venezuela, which which is totally
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contradictory because if you're saying your goal is to stop
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migration, how is bombing Venezuela is going to help with
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that? Then I if anything, that's going
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to that's going to make make the migration crisis much, much
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worse. You know, anytime, yeah, US bomb
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a country or get involved in a war, there is a wave of refugees
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coming to shore of United States.
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You know, that started with Korean War, started with Vietnam
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War. You know, currently there's a
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huge ongoing social media fight between the right wing Americans
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with the Somali American community and the Somalis came
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over as result of US intervention in Somalia.
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You know, like those. Black.
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Hawk Dong and everything. So if their stated purpose is
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stopping migration, coming to U.S. military intervention in
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Venezuela is not going to help that at all.
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But of course, we know that it's all lies.
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It's not going to. This is really not about
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narcotics, not about stopping migration.
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This is has been always on the neo con agenda.
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That's why all these neocons establishing a neo con that had
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been opposing Trump all this time.
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Now they're come all coming out of the woodworks in support of
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this intervention. It's like this war is what unite
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the US upper class elite together.
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You know, they, they may fight other about other things, but
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when it's come to aggression to our other country, they're all
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like suddenly they're all as one.
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It's come. And you know, and regarding
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neocons that you also got like now you have the on from the
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front and centre like one of the worst wings of neocons, which is
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the southern Florida ones. You know, I mean from Rubio,
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Marielvira Salazar, Jesus Christ, Carlos Jimenez and those
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are the visible politicians, you know, and it's just so I I just
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got into last week, I got into a fight with a with one of these
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guys with part of the Cuban, you know, anti Cuban industrial
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company. There's a guy called Gutierrez
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Boromat, I think, I think he's a little a highly.
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Yeah, it's a high political figure and also a net tool.
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And I mean, he got so pissed when I told him that basically
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it's so childish because this is another one.
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This is another one of the spin. This is and this is shape for
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them saying that that Maduro it's actually a hostage of the
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Cuban Spooks of the Cuban security.
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And then they said that this Cuban security actually reached
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the US asking what they what what a world without Maduro
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should be like. They got everything for anyone
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you know. Yeah, I think this has like
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Rubio's fingerprint all over it because this.
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All over it. The intervention in Latin
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America has always been like Marco Rubio's political agenda.
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And, and I do think Marco Rubio has presidential aspirations.
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You know he ran. Absolutely.
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Against Trump. So he he's looking at that 2020
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a wrong and he's trying to build up his portfolio to prove
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himself to the military industrial complex to, you know,
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to, to, to, to, to others at least, Yeah.
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At least reaching the tick, the vice presidential ticket, at
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least you know, but being but but reaching, you know, getting
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there, that's what's important. That's what matters for him and
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that's what also matters for all this.
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The Cuban crisis, there's this the Miami spell.
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It's like it's in, it's like in it's wildest stage.
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And because this is the closest they've been to power, you know,
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to be in actual operational power.
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And that's that's make them making them go so nuts.
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I mean, just look at my Elvira Sarasar.
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She even got to say that we're giving Venezuela.
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It's giving uranium to Hamas. I mean, they, they, they just
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don't care, You know? That's funny.
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That you mentioned that this is the closest that got to power
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because US deep state have been have been weaponized.
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All these immigrants, all these diasporas to to to destabilise
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their home country to do regime. Yes, other revolution in the
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home country but what actually happened is it empowered these
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diaspora groups now became so powerful in the US domestic
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politics now they became the agenda setters it's.
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Yes, yes, but you know, but you know, it is yeah, you're
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absolutely right. But it's it's even more
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interesting than that. For once the Cuban had the
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Cuban, the anti gastro movement has always been a significant
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liability for them. So they always try to keep them
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busy, busy with stuff. You know, that's what they did
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in, in Nicaragua, that's what they did before that.
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And you know, Operacion Condor, they, they, they always have to
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be busy in order not to bother the government that much.
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So I think that's part of that's important.
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But then you have another thing that it is even as significant,
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which is the Florida factor beyond the, the, the southern
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Florida Cubans. I mean, Florida is like the
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model I've read. This is not my idea.
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I don't have ideas on my own. So I don't know where I stole
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this one, but it's like a it's like the fire model for the fire
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economic system, a successful 1, you know, finance, real estate
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and and what else? Yeah, and investment.
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So it it is like a a testing ground for the most turbo
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capitalists and also the range conservative kind of thing on
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the country. And look at this at the at the
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cabinet. Look at the cabinet.
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I mean, think about the most important people there.
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Most people don't are not that aware of how important Susie
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Wiles actually is. Her current his current chief of
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staff. I mean, she's she's really, you
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know, what's I forgot the name of the of the blockbuster
14:25
series. What?
14:26
What's the name of the like with Kevin Spacey with disgrace?
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Kevin Spacey, which is also a British remake.
14:32
Jesus Christ, I forgot the name of it, which, which is about
14:37
intrigue in the White House and he becomes president and no, not
14:43
the. West Wing, not the West.
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Wing. No, the other one, well, that's
14:47
after that one. Jesus Christ, it'll come back.
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And and and I know your viewers were, are, are already aware of
14:54
which series we're talking about anyways, but I mean, yeah,
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exactly, exactly, exactly. So then The thing is that this
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is like she's like a master of intrigues.
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Like she's, she's single handedly, you know, demolished
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and destroyed the Ron de Santis and it was revenge.
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So she even has like that sexy element of, you know, political
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destruction and, and Shakespearean approach to power,
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you know, and, and she's also very close to Netanyahu.
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And mind you, she had shares on a Venezuelan news channel back
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in the day, Global Vision. So, so, so the plug, the plug
15:39
could get thicker, you know, and but she's the one she's like,
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but also she's like the ultimate gatekeeper.
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She's the one that actually Trump trusts and she's the one
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who actually decides who goes into the meeting and who
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doesn't. That's why Tulsi Gabbard always
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stays outside, you know, and so, and you also have walls there.
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You had, I mean, he's out, but you have, you have, well, you
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it's, he's in back now. Again, I think it's UN
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ambassador now the, you know, the national security advisor.
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And so there's like this and there are more, there are more
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that have that related to Florida.
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And so this is a very so it's I think it's even it goes deeper
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than the just the crazy Cubans like Trump said about them
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according to Axios. And going back to the to the
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national security strategy, yeah, I mean you that's the
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literal hierarchy with the one you stated.
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But it's funny because it's, this is not about China, but
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it's, it is completely about China.
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You know, it is about reorganising everything in order
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to be able to face China to a peace with Russia.
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I mean, we and also the writer, I mean, the guy responsible for
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writing this document, which is of course, Eldritch Colby, you
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know, the son of Phoenix programme father as well.
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So Elvis Colby, it's actually Phoenix operation Phoenix
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brother. It's same, same father, you
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know, And The thing is that, and, and he has, he is the most
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cognizant, militant, incoherent China hawk around.
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And he's, and he's a talented guy.
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I mean, he's not, he's not a, he's not a fruitcake.
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You know, he's not that crazy. He really knows what he says.
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And you can also see the Rubio Impmatur there also.
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I mean, he's also there. I mean, there's so many things,
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especially regarding the the, yeah, regarding China, but yeah,
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even more so than Latin America. And you can see everything
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that's there is in Rubio's literature, be it legislative
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action, be it there articles, whatever it is, there it is all
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there. So I don't know, I'm trying to
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figure out which one's the proxy there because Covid's not it's,
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I mean, it's not like an easy to sway guy, you know,
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intellectually speaking. So it's interesting in that way.
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It looks to me it's like they're doing, they're trying to
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approach, they're trying to do imperialism, but little bit
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smarter that they're doing strategic sequencing.
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So they decide, OK, well our ultimate goal is China, but we
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can't come from China right now because China still had control
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of the rare earth supply chain. So what we first need to do is
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we need to consolidate our control in the West Hemisphere.
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We we got to go, go to Latin America to root out the Chinese,
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Russian, Iran, Iranian influence, whatever.
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And then we go to Africa and then after we get rid of clean
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seas continent of Chinese influence.
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And then the third step we need to do is to control the the
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natural resources, control the the critical mineral supply
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chain to rebuild that in United States, so we don't depend on
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China for the critical mineral supply.
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Chain that that was number. Three, that was #3 on their
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priority list is economic revitalization and and address
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the vulnerability in the supply chain.
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So after they have done that, then China because China is #4
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on the list exactly and is China and Indo Pacific.
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So I think that's their that's their new road map.
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Now their their road map. Is yeah, sure of our Go on, go
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on. In our net quote unquote
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neighbourhood, you know, then once we have firm control of
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Latin America, Africa and then we and, and, and once we have
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control on their resources and the supply chain, rebuild our
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industrial, military industrial complex capacity, then we got
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what it takes to come from China.
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I think that that that's what's going on.
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But whether they're going to be able to do that, that's another
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question. But.
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That's yeah. I mean, I mean, yes, yes, the
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wording actually is wonderful. I'm I'm.
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I'll check once we get to this part where we can quote some of
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it. It's just amazing, you know, and
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because it's it's like it's like a Norma Desmond moment, you
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know, from Sunset Blvd like this, you know, this old has
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been actress from the previous area of film, which was good
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because she was, she was of course from silent films
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suddenly tried to make this huge comeback.
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And for that he and by just by chance, he hires this crappy
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writer in order to to get there, you know, to write the script.
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That's going to be her big comeback.
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And of course, it's that's not what happens.
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A crime happens instead and they die basically his he dies the
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writer. So it is annoying, but it's but
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she's like, that's like, like, you know, it's like this very
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well crafted symbol of decadence.
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And they don't achieve at the end, of course, the goals
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they're stating. And I think you can see that
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there there's like just like this decline awareness there
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that makes it. We can't go full realist.
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We're going to go imperial realist in order to, you know,
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to be to get halfway and not lose everything, but at the same
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time don't go crazy, you know, go, go, go full hybrids.
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That's basically what it what it seems to, to be.
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And like I said it, it it shows so many times.
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I'll I'll just leave it there and see if I'm able to find
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something. But that's what one of the
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things that I think it's so, so fascinating in a way and so
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dangerous as well, you know, because that's also sets a a
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tone that's pretty much desperate.
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Yeah, I think, think thinking about.
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Yeah, go on vibe. Shift.
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I think there's a definitely a vibe shift in Washington.
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They're finally hitting their head really hard against the
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wall of reality and realise, yes, there are resource
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limitations on the US imperial project.
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So how can we do this on the cheap and how can we do it
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smarter? And they so so how to do a cheap
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is that they're trying to offsource some of this imperial
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a task to their quote unquote allies, but really vassal states
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like in Europe and and in Asia will be Japan and Korea.
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Yeah, I mean. Yeah, they call, they call it
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sharing the burden. And then and then they, you
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know, they're basically kind of finally implementing what
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Professor John Mearsheimer has been recommending.
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It's like, OK, we let's not waste our resources on war in
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Ukraine against Russia because, you know, Russia is not not
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going to be as a big competitor as China is going to be.
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So let's, let's not get involved too deeply in Middle East.
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Let's just all our resource together to come from China in
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the Western Pacific. But this is with A twist.
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This is with A twist is because they're, they're confronting
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China by a detour, detour through Latin America because
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they realise, OK, well, there's not much we can do about China
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at this point. But there are there there work,
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work can exploit vulnerabilities in the new multipolar world.
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This cold bricks network, the the Bri network that China is
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trying to build. You know, we can because we can
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still flex our military muscles to go into those countries.
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You know, as much. You know, China can put their
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money on the table all they want.
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They can, you know, invest, but we can blow shit up.
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We can, we can go there destabilised countries so we can
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play the role of a spoiler. I think that's what's what's
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going on right now or or what they think they they can do.
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Look, I'm, I'm going to quote you one regarding what you're
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just saying. I mean, in the Western
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Hemisphere and everywhere in the world, the United States should
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make clear that American goods, services and technologies are
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far better by on the long run because they are higher quality
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and do not come with the same kind of strings as other
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countries. Assistance again, to make
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ourselves the partner of first choice.
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As you know, talking about the, the Chinese death trap and, and
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the Chinese imperialism and, and you know what?
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And, and it's so funny because it, it's like double denial.
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I mean, they're actually projecting themselves.
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This is a psychological document as well.
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I mean, they're projecting themselves and they're doing and
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they're putting these actions on China in order to make it make
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sense. Every accusation is a
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confession, every accusation, I mean, including the whole thing.
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The excuse about anti narcotic operation of Latin America.
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You're like, are you kidding me? CIA is deeply involved in that.
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They're the ones who got the drugs into United States and,
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and have the mobs mafia distribute them.
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And especially, you know, they have a hand in the cold crack
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cocaine pandemic in the in the black community, because that
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was whole, the whole have a whole operation to destabilise
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the resistance in the black community by by flooding it with
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drugs. And, and they were they were
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like knee deep in the whole drug running operation.
25:39
So to say that US is somehow going after narcotics, that's
25:43
ridiculous. You know, like.
25:45
What do you mean? Yeah, if you want to go after
25:47
narcotics, you just have to go start with your own banks and
25:51
then you can go from there. It's going to be far easier, you
25:53
know, and. And Speaking of Southern
25:56
Florida, I mean, Miami, Miami was built on drug money.
26:01
That whole place, that's not even a secret that the whole
26:04
place in the 1980s was was fueled by, by the.
26:08
Drugs, even even Marco Rubio's brother in law, you know, this
26:12
guy Cecilia, which is, was very much involved in, in drug
26:16
trafficking and bringing drugs from Colombia and Bolivia and so
26:19
on into the United States and the Mexicans.
26:22
I think he was also connected to the Mexicans, if I'm not
26:24
mistaken. Leave your comment below.
26:26
And but you know, there's something else which is also
26:31
quite interesting. I'm just all of this make me
26:33
think about two readings. You know, first of all, it's
26:37
like classic Walter Benjamin in the sense that it's every
26:40
documentary, that every civilised document, it's also a
26:44
document of, of barbarity. And this is like one of the one
26:47
of the peak demonstrations of this.
26:50
And the other thing which I think is important is how they
26:52
address themselves as a Republic, as a nation state, and
26:56
how they also talk about other nation states with legitimate
27:00
interests and so on. But if you read The Defeat of
27:03
the West by Emmanuel Todd, which is a very thought provoking, one
27:07
of the most thought provoking aspects of the book, he says
27:10
basically, yeah. And he was quoting Mearsheimer
27:14
as, yes, Mearsheimer always thinks that nation states are
27:18
rational actors and they have rational interests, of course.
27:22
But what Mearsheimer is missing, this is me paraphrasing Todd, is
27:26
that the US and most of the West aren't nation states anymore.
27:32
They've been fragmented through and through.
27:35
And the main sign of this, which is also a very obsessive element
27:39
within the document, it's precisely debt and trade
27:43
deficit, which is of course, you know very well what kind of
27:48
problem they have regarding China in that sense.
27:50
But Todd says basically that that trade deficits are also
27:56
directly connected to the middle class capabilities in order to
28:00
strike this internal balance in order to produce and to process
28:04
this, you know, the industry and the and everything that's
28:07
related to that. So basically it is also a
28:11
confession in that sense. I mean, I think Todd one more
28:13
time has been quite visionary about that and that this is
28:18
also, I think it's also an interesting manifestation.
28:21
And then like we can talk about Latino America now.
28:24
I mean, Jesus Christ also the, well, now we have a Trump
28:30
corollary. You know what that means?
28:32
There's this, this is a history about the, the Monroe Doctrine.
28:37
You are very much aware as most of the people, it was issued,
28:41
quote unquote. It was written or it was made
28:44
doctrine in 1823 during James Monroe presidency, of course,
28:51
but it was written by John Quincy Adams.
28:53
And I'm, and I'm with the Larouche Crowder on this one.
28:56
Of course, I'm I'm I'm on many and most of their ideas are
28:59
actually with them. But this one in particular, I
29:02
think it's one of the it's one of the most thought provoking.
29:05
Of course, that was the original spirit.
29:07
Maybe, you know, because of John Quincy Adams, Sure, which I
29:10
which which shows the US virtue because that that still exists,
29:15
actually different in a very complicated way, but it
29:18
definitely exists with you. You know that far better than I
29:21
do. And The thing is that of course
29:24
it was mutating throughout time. It was of course, reinterpreted
29:29
in a way the way that Americans for the Americans were was a
29:32
literal thing. And then in 19 O 5, you had the
29:35
Roosevelt corollary, Teddy Roosevelt.
29:39
And he, and this is paraphrasing me, paraphrasing one more time,
29:42
but he basically says, if our neighbours are unable to solve
29:46
their problems and their problems are going to be a
29:49
problem for us, we hold the right to intervene directly to
29:55
solve these problems in order for good neighbourhood.
29:57
You know, and this is the guy from the Panama Canal, the
30:01
Panama succession from Colombia, the hey, IT Dominican Republic,
30:08
I mean, name it, he was, he was all around it.
30:11
And also the crazy frontier man that went into the Amazon.
30:14
You know, it's I don't see the Donald doing the same thing.
30:19
But anyway, so it is a, it is strictly related to that.
30:25
And let me see, I don't remember the exact one, I'm going to look
30:28
for it, but yeah. While you look for it, I just
30:30
want to make a comment on the, you know, Roosevelt Corollary
30:35
versus the Trump corollary. Well, Roosevelt is the one who
30:39
says you should you should talk softly, but carry a big stick.
30:45
What Trump is doing is talk very loudly but waving an
30:49
increasingly diminishing stick. So that is the.
30:54
Difference, yes. Because, you know, during
30:57
Roosevelt's times, US industrial strength was on the rise.
31:01
You know, you US was still growing, but now Trump is a
31:06
result of 40 decades, 4 decades of deindustrialization, willful
31:12
deindustrialization by the Wall Street elite.
31:15
And there's no, he's, he claimed that he wanted to
31:18
reindustrialize America, but everything he has done is
31:22
actually to accelerate it even further.
31:26
You know, there's no, no, there's no, no, no, no
31:30
reindustrialization of America on the horizon.
31:33
Because right now all the money, all the capital is going to the
31:37
AI right now. And that's sucking up all the
31:40
capital, all the electricity, all the energy and and actually
31:44
doesn't leave much for anything else.
31:47
Yeah, it's cloud, cloud economy, you know, and it's yeah, that's
31:51
yeah, that's what they call new philtres and so on.
31:54
It absolutely is that way. I mean, and and that that's why
31:58
they're kind of they're going to the basics in a way.
32:00
Go on. Sorry I.
32:02
Interrupted you and and and they they they have and they show if
32:06
you take away all the investment to AIUS economy is basically in
32:12
recession right now and and and and and this they they just came
32:17
out. A report says that the new
32:20
employment report looks worse than the Great Recession or the
32:25
financial crisis. And it's going to look to
32:28
surpass look look on the on it's on the path to surpass that of
32:33
the Great Depression. And you know the the AI actually
32:35
does not help because what the AI allowed company do is cutting
32:40
their workforces. You know they have been laying
32:42
off a lot of slight colour workers that's been replaced by
32:46
AI right now. So US is facing a lot of the
32:49
problems that, you know, that back that affected a lot of
32:56
economies back in the 1930s. You know, So what what he had
33:01
said, he had said himself even said we're at the moment of
33:05
1939. So I'm like, what do you mean?
33:09
You mean you're going to you're going to you're going to invade
33:11
Poland and start World War 2. What are you talking about?
33:14
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, so, but I think US of
33:18
course now instead of Poland, they're looking at Venezuela and
33:23
that's that is quite, you know, this could be quite dangerous
33:29
and very destabilising, not just for, you know, the immediate
33:34
neighbourhood of Venezuela, but for whole of Latin America and
33:39
even ripple effect, you know, abroad.
33:42
So I I honestly don't know if they really thought through all
33:49
the scenarios that could result from this.
33:53
Actually, I think there's where that's where they actually at
33:56
right now precisely. Maybe it sounds that way.
34:00
It's because what we just said, because look at how I mean,
34:04
they're losing. They've they've which is it's
34:06
good and it's also dangerous. They've just they've been losing
34:10
pace. Their own pace doesn't matter
34:13
what happens inside Venezuela. I mean, their own pace regarding
34:15
what they're going to do here. And now they're starting to get
34:18
like real trouble, real problems that are not that easy to
34:22
circumvent like the, well, the war crimes allegations, like
34:27
Senate being even more proactive about, you know, put on the
34:34
scrutiny the the authorization of military force.
34:38
I mean, and this guy could have like, legal consequences because
34:42
it has been proven, like to the top that they're responsible,
34:45
including the president and even by their own legal authorities
34:50
inside the Pentagon, that they did recognise that these are
34:54
extrajudicial killings and these are war crimes.
34:56
And that's not an easy 1, you know.
34:59
Yeah, for for people, my listeners, what Diego is
35:02
referring to is they're talking about the extra legal killings
35:06
of these fishermen and, and and, and especially the double, the
35:11
double tap you know they have. The double tap.
35:14
They have admitted themselves, they have targeted, they did
35:18
second strike against the survivors and the people who
35:22
came to rescue the survivors. I mean, that's, that's a war
35:26
crime that that is a war crime. They have admitted to to it
35:30
themselves. And you know, and you, by the
35:33
way, U.S. Navy do not have under any
35:37
authority to kill people, you know, like they that to to to
35:42
under the pretence of stopping a drug war.
35:45
You know, even in US that's, that falls under life.
35:50
The the, the, the domain of U.S. Coast Guard to intercept
35:54
possible drug runners, right? They have no authority to kill
35:59
people, right. I mean, that's, that's clearly a
36:02
violation and, and, and, and then the war crime and.
36:05
It's a world of lesson. Yeah.
36:08
Part of the problem is it's. Yeah.
36:09
Go on. No.
36:12
I'm just like, we're just having a conversation.
36:16
And and exactly. The US Navy is just pointing
36:18
itself. the US government is pointing itself as the judge
36:22
precisely and executioner, right.
36:24
I mean, there's no, there's no international law that says.
36:33
That's that's not, that's not imperial realism, as the
36:37
document shows. This is something else.
36:39
Of course, this is the same. But I mean, this is the world
36:42
after Gaza. You know, this is precisely how
36:46
it looks. This is precisely how it's going
36:48
to work. And mind you, we're not talking
36:50
only about, you know, being able to do the scribes and being.
36:54
And it's taking so long to actually decide.
36:57
I mean, the only reason it's like they're actually doing
36:58
something, especially the Democrats in the Senate.
37:02
I think Rand Paul is different in that sense.
37:04
But the Democrats, it's just basically because it's useful
37:08
for their own political internal battles.
37:11
That's basically it. They don't give a crap about us.
37:13
I mean, the the staunchest promoters of, of, of
37:16
scrutinising all this. We're all sponsors at some point
37:21
of bills, sanction bills against us.
37:24
They all have their two cents to say about the the authoritarian
37:29
narco dictatorship of Nicolas Maduro.
37:31
They all have to say something about how socialism doesn't
37:34
work. They all rule out and are
37:36
completely oblivious about sanctions and all the political
37:40
and other and unconventional interference in Venezuela.
37:42
So it's not about us at all. Yeah, but yeah.
37:46
And they're all on. Board, they're all on board with
37:49
sanctions and regime change. You know, they, they, they,
37:52
they, they're all unanimous. Yeah.
37:56
So the, the, the real question now the, the big question is
38:01
what are they going to go through and are they really
38:04
going to, you know, carry out the Libya plan, which could
38:09
involve as far as carrying out air?
38:12
Strikes against that's a plan. You know, that's the plan.
38:17
But don't forget what I what I described at the starting the
38:22
this show, which is that basically to do that they need
38:29
to rely on internal factors to do that and they're crazy about
38:35
this and not only them also think tank land thinks the same.
38:39
You need some sort of turn turning point from within that
38:46
would allow them to like finish up the job or try to, you know,
38:50
assume some sort of supporting role quote on quote one more
38:54
time. But that's that's basically it.
38:56
I mean, they are all of them are relying heavily on the
39:01
assurances that something is going to happen inside
39:05
Venezuela. And that's why also did we have
39:07
so much of the IG prop side of thing going on to try to force
39:13
that breaking point? Because they were told probably
39:16
by Mara Corina Machado, you know, the leading extremist
39:19
opposition and also Peace Prize, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, she
39:24
might say, this is just a done deal.
39:26
You have to just shove a little bit and it will and it will
39:29
crack, which is also classic Imperial miscalculation.
39:34
And then we're seeing it right now and mine.
39:36
And you know, I'm not talking about the Chavistas like myself.
39:40
I'm not talking about the people who actually support Nicola
39:42
Maduro. I'm talking about the common
39:44
Venezuelan that basically could be fed up from politics and but
39:49
doesn't maybe doesn't like the government.
39:51
Maybe he doesn't care, this hypothetical person.
39:54
And but then he certainly doesn't like Medicareina.
39:59
And but what they dislike the most is that the Gringo's coming
40:04
in to solve our problems. That's the thing that's and it's
40:09
it's going to and that's going to be the make major the big
40:12
backfire here. It already is to to some extent.
40:16
But many people that maybe still think that this could be a
40:18
surgical thing won't think won't think that when the first bomb
40:25
or whatever happens, something closer than the territorial war,
40:29
something closer to home. And that is one of them I think
40:32
is one of the most important elements.
40:34
And the honest people, the actual realist inside this
40:39
process might be cognizant, they might be aware of this, you
40:43
know, and then there's another layer that I don't know if
40:47
you've realised how, how low key it has been, how sort of watch
40:54
it has been with the oil energy markets factor here.
40:59
And because any, and this is very descriptive actually,
41:04
because any significant alteration, you know, disruption
41:09
of the market, of course it's going to push up.
41:13
It will start with the West TX and the gold and reach Brent
41:16
eventually to correct the all, the whole, you know, all the
41:19
indexes And it's going to impact directly on fuel price inside
41:25
the US and of course automatically inside Europe.
41:30
But this shows you how self harming this actually is.
41:34
I mean, they're actually hurting themselves trying to hurt us.
41:39
And it actually all these decades they've been hurting
41:43
themselves. And that's in just probably
41:49
going to be off the record. But talk to any of any, I mean
41:54
any real energy market player and see what they actually have
41:57
to say, especially how much money many people have lost just
42:02
because Venezuela is blocked or gatekeeps, whatever.
42:06
It's now paperwork sanctions like like DJI Prashad once said,
42:11
you know, and then but on that level, on a, on a more, you
42:17
know, philosophical, civilizational level, it's it
42:22
they already lost. Whatever they do, stepping back,
42:28
going further, moving, it's a catch 22 situation for them.
42:34
The, the, the danger is that they don't care.
42:36
You know, they don't care. There are, they're lighting fire
42:38
to their own houses. Because we saw that with the
42:41
Trump tariff war. I mean, what, what the hell?
42:44
No. What's the point of that?
42:46
And also not that it's not their houses, if they're going going
42:49
on fire, that's the other thing. It's not, you know, it's not
42:52
exactly their houses. It's going to be everyone else.
42:56
And talking about the document one more time, it says in a
42:59
national security study, it says we'll go back to the Golden Age
43:03
or as some people would remember another name for it, which is
43:06
the Gilded Age with its robber barons, you know, and with the
43:12
1929 crack also with to they were actually was the end and
43:17
this was the tragedy. Remember, we're waiting for the
43:20
farce now. I.
43:22
I I feel we're, we're already there.
43:24
I mean, we already have the Silicon Valley tech tycoon.
43:27
It's taking over, you know, Peter Deal, Elon Musk.
43:32
They all have their man in Washington.
43:34
Now, yeah, they all have their man in Washington and we are and
43:39
and the genie index of inequality, we're already at the
43:45
level of the roaring 20s. You know, we're just waiting for
43:49
the for the crash, the stock market crash, which I believe
43:52
will be coming because that that AI bubble can't sustain itself
43:55
forever. At some point that AI bubble is
43:58
going to pop and then. What?
44:00
Sure, sure. And talking about AI and what's
44:02
going on in the Caribbean, you remember that the war secretary
44:08
and war criminal, Pete Hexif said that he was officially
44:14
launching Operation Southern Spear, which is that to, you
44:19
know, to, they say it's to, you know, to control go, go, you
44:23
know, full containment of the, of the Caribbean basically.
44:26
And, but The funny thing is that this was issued, actually issued
44:31
on January the 18th, 19th, I don't know very even, I mean
44:37
28th, sorry, after the nomination, after, after Trump
44:41
arriving into office. But if you go through it, it's
44:45
actually, it's talking about one more time the world after Gaza.
44:50
It's actually it to a very significant extent an AI
44:57
takeover of the surveillance and screening mechanisms of the
45:02
Caribbean. So they're bringing all this
45:06
militarised AI into play also with its own target banks and
45:11
geolocation and SIGINT and, and everything else.
45:16
And I don't, I guess you remember that not so long ago, I
45:20
don't know their names, but for a new hybrid department or
45:24
something like that, they actually assimilated 3 executive
45:28
from one from I think it was from Alphabet, one from Palantir
45:35
and Front and one from Oracle I think.
45:37
And they're not, they're not, they're the three of them are
45:39
now Lieutenant commanders, but on behalf of these companies.
45:45
So it's a whole privatised profiteering digital algorithmic
45:55
warfare that they already used and tested and improved in Gaza.
46:01
They're also bringing that here with its political economy,
46:05
which is if you, if you, if we can call it that way, which is
46:08
basically, you know, primary accumulation through genocide,
46:12
just like they did like, well, like it's clearly stated by any
46:16
coherent measure in of course, in Gaza.
46:20
So this is also coming home. How long until we go back to the
46:26
document one more time? This is going to be used, if
46:30
it's not already being used against the internal enemy
46:33
inside the United States, which is basically everyone, I guess
46:37
everyone with an opinion, everyone with a problem, with an
46:41
economic problem, anyone with her health problem could be a
46:46
potential internal enemy, right? So it's really fucked up, you
46:52
know? And speak of drugs, the the the
46:55
Co founder of volunteer Alex Karp recently was on a interview
47:01
clearly coked out. I mean, that guy was high as a
47:05
kite. This.
47:08
Yeah, this. He looked, he looked like a trip
47:10
wire. He was just tense, yeah.
47:18
Where it's we live in 1984, man, we live in 1984.
47:23
Everything is upside down. Yeah.
47:26
So it's good to hear that things are still as normal as it can be
47:33
in, in, in Caracas. I, I think I like one of, I
47:36
think one of the biggest fear that I have is their, you know,
47:40
their plan might succeed to, to crack the Venezuelan society to
47:45
cause some kind of unrest. I mean, that has been their plan
47:48
all along, to, to, to, to instigate some sort of colour
47:51
revolution or, or regime change. Or have you tried?
47:57
For for your perspective right now, it it, it doesn't look it,
48:01
it looks still very unlikely, right?
48:05
But it's still a significant risk.
48:07
That's what actually and you know, and the problem with this,
48:09
it's it's this is a matter of intelligence and covert things.
48:13
This is something that us more and actually maybe if you think
48:18
about it in a, with a, with a, you know, with a from, from
48:22
spook world, if everyone is actually distracted with what
48:26
December means, maybe it's a perfect time to prepare
48:28
everything for January, which is like this, like this one of the
48:32
shittiest months throughout the year because it's like the
48:35
hangover month, economic and otherwise, you know, so and
48:41
before and if you look at the amount of operations that have
48:46
been foiled, be it terrorist plot, be it false flag attempts
48:51
being sabotage operations on, on the oil industry, on refineries
48:56
and so on, be reaching out and put a lot of heat on the person
49:03
president's personal pilot in order to, you know, divert the
49:06
flighting flighting to US jurisdiction.
49:10
So the signs are clearly there. And also you have the CIA
49:15
stunned by Trump announcing that they are, they are like, I mean,
49:18
it's like it's a stupid statement if you just leave it
49:21
at that. But it's APR 1, you know, in
49:24
order to also put up some heat on the psychological landscape.
49:29
And and also Marco Rubio, of course, is also national
49:34
security advisor. He has all the Title 50 legal
49:39
basis to go covert as much as he wants and it doesn't have to go
49:44
through Congress or Senate. So that's also he also has all
49:50
the slush fund money from the USUSAID.
49:54
So I mean, that's, I can't, it would be quite irresponsible for
49:59
me to actually rule out that possibility.
50:01
That's a real risk, I think. But that saying this doesn't
50:05
mean that I know that it, that something's brewing.
50:08
I don't actually don't, I don't feel it's actually happening.
50:13
And these things, sometimes you can even foretell a bit.
50:16
There are always some symptoms and we know how to identify them
50:20
as well because we're used to this.
50:22
But but that I think that's the most sensitive area, but also, I
50:28
mean, Venezuelan security agencies has proven to be quite
50:33
successful in, in, in, you know, foiling this kind of attempts.
50:37
So who knows this is that this this variant, Yes, I think it's
50:42
risky if we measure it based on the current mood, yes, it
50:48
doesn't seem that way, but we cannot basically talk about
50:53
that. I don't know 30% of close
50:56
information, unseen factors and place that we basically just
51:01
aren't unable to know because we're not inside the fault and
51:05
we're I guess we don't want to either.
51:07
So, you know, it's, it's, that's the only thing on, on, on on
51:12
speculative grounds that I would think it's a, it could be a
51:15
significant risk or something disruptive, you know, to find
51:20
the banking system or something these days.
51:21
That would be also, but it will be too obvious and too mean, you
51:25
know, and it's not going to be easy to put the blame on, on,
51:29
on, on the government necessarily.
51:30
When, when. And this is also part of that
51:34
economic terrorism, if you ask me.
51:35
And otherwise, what is going on with the, with the airspace,
51:39
with Venezuelan airspace. There's this war going on in
51:44
which, well, it started, you know, couple of weeks actually
51:49
the first note on the first note to airmen, it was actually from
51:54
October 31, but it didn't involve Venezuela.
51:57
It was just a small fragment of southern Puerto Rico.
52:01
Then two weeks ago, I think it was I'm, I'm with timing, I'm a
52:07
bit lost. But the first time there was
52:12
this no time was covering the whole country, which is not a no
52:18
fly zone. It's just a warning.
52:19
You have got to be careful because maybe military
52:22
operations at each and every altitude and from take off to
52:25
landing, it's going to be risky and but it's more like an an
52:29
advice, you know or a warning. It is not a no fly zone.
52:35
And this was challenged not only including International Airlines
52:41
at first, then six of them caved in.
52:45
And of course they were sanctioned by the Venezuelan
52:47
government because doing it including now no Turkish
52:49
Airlines. I mean, they might be losing a
52:51
huge amount of money just because of that.
52:54
And they don't talk about the refuelling that Venezuela also
52:57
represents as a as a logistical hub for other flights, you know,
53:02
because of all the benefits it has in that sense.
53:07
And it was challenged. It was challenged by the
53:10
government. It was challenged by flights.
53:12
It was challenged by the Colombian government and then
53:15
came the the Truth Social post by Trump declaring, you know,
53:19
with all caps that the the Venezuelan airspace, it was
53:24
addressed to pilots, drug traffickers, human smugglers.
53:27
It was just insane. Another another one insane post
53:30
with insane prose that saying that Venezuelan airspace was
53:35
completely closed and more but not all of them of the airlines
53:42
actually also caved in. But then, for example, President
53:48
Petro ordered that the the airlines that weren't flying to
53:53
resume otherwise it will be sanctioned by the Colombian
53:56
government and called the world to keep on their own and the
54:00
world airlines to keep their operations going in Venezuela.
54:03
But two days ago the Colombian Minister of transport was
54:09
denouncing that they're met doing they're messing, they're
54:15
messing with GPS, they're messing with, they're doing
54:19
cyber attacks. 2 flight itineraries 2 yeah, 22 flights
54:24
are coming into Venezuela. Sabotage and civilian commercial
54:30
flights we're talking about there are you know, they're,
54:33
they're, they've been their whole system is being intervened
54:36
by cyber warfare basically, and this and, and then signal
54:40
interruptions and and so forth and so on.
54:43
And this is unconventional war. This is part of the of the
54:48
repertoire. And if they're doing this, this
54:51
shows you how unsuccessful was everything they did before that,
54:55
including Trump full caps post. But this, of course, it's
55:00
harmful and this is economic terrorism, and that's the best
55:05
and most reliant tool they've still got against us.
55:10
Has there been a big impact as a result of trumping against the,
55:14
the, the, the closure of airspace?
55:16
I mean for for the average people on the ground, have there
55:20
been a a big impact? Not really, not not as, as they
55:27
expected, I think. And also, and who are they
55:30
blaming? As far as I've seen, of course,
55:33
there's they also play with the now the, the new Venezuelan
55:39
diaspora on this because some people are going to fly to
55:42
Colombia, some are going to fly to Spain or other places to meet
55:45
to see their families that left at some point throughout the
55:48
last 10 years. And, and it is a source of
55:53
anxiety for some, but not everyone is flying outside
55:56
Venezuela or inside Venezuela. I mean, not everyone, but yes,
56:00
it's a source of anxiety, of course.
56:02
And also it also add up, adds up for, you know, to try to
56:05
deteriorate the economic picture overall.
56:11
So in that sense, it's it's it's sensitive, but I don't see a
56:17
dive yet at least a direct social impact in that sense.
56:23
And people keep on also insisting and some flights are
56:26
keep are coming and going. I went look, just to tell you
56:30
two other crazy stories. I went to the beach on Tuesday
56:34
morning. I just escaped and went for a
56:37
few hours and there were a lot of normie families also just
56:41
enjoying the day at the beach. And that day I saw one flight,
56:46
just one, but it's that's, that's one, mind you, that the
56:50
beach here at Caracas, it's at the coastal city of Laguaya and
56:53
the beaches are on the coastline there.
56:55
It's 1/2 an hour and 40 minutes drive, depends on how you go.
56:59
And I also heard another one of my colleagues at Mission,
57:02
Bernard, who went on Sunday, and he saw several flights coming
57:06
and going and people and lots of people at the beach, which is
57:11
also a very Caracanian thing to do.
57:13
People from Caracas always take the weekend to go to the beach.
57:16
Most of them, yeah. It's a whole anthropological
57:20
phenomenon. But but that also tells you that
57:26
it still goes, it's still ongoing.
57:28
There are still flights coming in from Curacao and some from
57:31
Colombia. I guess it's not as smooth as it
57:35
should be. So that also, I think that also
57:39
mitigates a bit the, the anxiety factors for people.
57:44
But but it's still quite dangerous.
57:45
I mean, it's, it's quite, I mean, this is bad.
57:48
And heading back to, to wrap up the point, heading back to the
57:52
world after Gaza, be it the war crimes of the Caribbean or be it
57:59
this kind of things. You have radio silence from
58:04
Europe. You have radio silence from
58:07
countries in the region that they are just, they know they
58:12
could be the next, but they just don't say anything because
58:15
they're just, they have always been cowards.
58:18
And I'm, and I'm, and I'm saying this like, yeah, I'm being
58:21
nationalist, jingoistic, Venezuelan.
58:24
But as I say this, of course. But it has been the case, man,
58:28
even from the left, you know, but that's, that's what I'm that
58:33
the, the worrying part is that the, the threshold of
58:37
acceptability of this kind of thing, the threshold of
58:41
imagining this as something normal has been so expanded
58:46
after Gaza that this is part of the result.
58:52
Yeah, the Trump administration definitely have shifted the
58:55
overtone window of accept what, what is acceptable, Man.
59:02
I, I, I feel for you guys, man. We we're going to have to make
59:07
this more regular. Sure, sure, because.
59:11
I mean, I'm sure a lot of my listeners and, and viewer also
59:15
interested to find out what's actually going on on the ground
59:19
in Venezuela, you know, talking to an actual Venezuelan based
59:23
person about these issues because, because right now we're
59:27
getting so much propaganda flooding the social media space.
59:32
And thank you Diego for making the time to speak to us.
59:36
If people want to reach you on social media or whatever, where
59:41
would they go? Well, first of all, Miss
59:44
yomberdad.com MIS with just one SMISIONV short VERDAD truth
59:53
mission in spanish.com. That's the the main place.
59:59
And we also have a very dynamic Telegram channel.
1:00:02
And then my personal Twitter handle, it's at yeah, this is
1:00:08
all I have. I have to do something about
1:00:10
just look for my name and you're going to see them there.
1:00:13
You're going to see me there. Diego Sequera on Twitter and and
1:00:16
just you'll see me there. I don't want to go without
1:00:19
quoting man. We have to take this quote so
1:00:22
that I can take like the money quote for the whole document
1:00:25
regarding the. Yeah, the Trump corollary, it
1:00:28
says after years of neglect, and this is so Marco Rubio, by the
1:00:32
way. the United States will reassert and enforce the Monroe
1:00:35
Doctrine to restore American preeminence in the Western
1:00:37
Hemisphere and to protect our homeland and our access to key
1:00:41
geography geographies throughout the region.
1:00:44
We will deny non hemispheric competitors the ability to
1:00:49
position forces or other threatening capabilities or to
1:00:53
own or control strategically vital assets in our hemisphere.
1:00:58
This Trump corollary to the Monroe Doctrine is a common
1:01:01
sense and potent restoration of American power and priorities
1:01:05
consistent with American security interests.
1:01:07
And if you didn't thought about the port of Changhai in Peru, I
1:01:11
mean, where have you been? You know, it's like it's clearly
1:01:15
it's all about taking pushing China and, and behind China, of
1:01:21
course, Iran and Russia out of of the hemisphere, out of Latin
1:01:25
America. And that starts with the most
1:01:27
dynamic, better for multipolarity, which is
1:01:32
Venezuela in the region. Yeah, for my lessoner who who
1:01:36
may not be aware, the port of Chiang Kai in Peru is a Chinese
1:01:40
finance, Chinese build mega port in in Peru that's going to link
1:01:45
up on, you know, with a lot of the Latin American economic
1:01:50
networks. You know, they had they also had
1:01:53
plans to build a railroad from Brazil to to Chiang Kai.
1:01:59
And yeah, this is and as you say, you know, their their
1:02:03
biggest, they're not going to stop with Venezuela.
1:02:06
And you know, there Brazil is actually the biggest prize
1:02:10
because you. Know yeah, this is this is
1:02:11
regional change. This is nothing to do with with
1:02:14
regime change solely. It's also regional change.
1:02:20
Yeah. Well, thank you, Diego again for
1:02:24
keeping us updated and I hope everything is well with you and
1:02:28
your family. And we'll cap the check back
1:02:31
with you soon to find out what what really is going on.
1:02:34
Maybe maybe during the January hangover.
1:02:37
Yeah, like after. Sure, there will be.
1:02:42
There will be, like landscape after the battle.
1:02:45
Yeah, man, sure. I mean, anytime, brother.
1:02:47
I mean, it's always good to go, you know, as in death as
1:02:51
possible, as time allows us to do.
1:02:55
Well, it's been a pleasure and thank you, Diego and thank you
1:02:59
for for our listeners, thanks for watching on the next time.
1:03:03
Bye bye.