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On this Saturday, January 3rd, I was expecting

to do a completely different topic.

Movie views are still in.

I promised those.

They will happen.

But I woke up this morning in this news

on Venezuela.

And many of you went, I don't know,

on Twitter and online.

It said, you're on.

You have to comment.

You have to comment.

Because today was a non-use day.

It was supposed to be something else.

Anyway, when the news happens, I have to comment.

And it seems like you guys are particularly interested

in my views on war.

I mean, a lot can happen, markets, stuff

happens all the time.

But if there's a war going on,

everybody tunes in to the one book show, which is great.

Thank you.

And hopefully you benefit from and enjoy the commentary today.

All right, so as I'm sure you all know,

Nicolas Maduro has been arrested to a military operation

in Venezuela.

We get into the details in a minute.

And is comically on the way to New York,

where he will, either in New York,

he's going to be indicted in New York,

but he will face federal charges of a detailed

in a just released grand jury indictment

for criminal activity related to drugs and a drug cartel.

He will face a trial by jury, either in New York

or in Miami, in, I guess, the months to come,

but he will be indicted.

He will be arrested formally on US soil.

In New York, later today, he is currently probably

in an aircraft carrier somewhere, and then will be transported

by airplane to New York.

All this transpired last night, starting just before midnight,

US planes from bases around the Caribbean and from US bases.

And so bases, I mean aircraft carriers around the Caribbean.

But also, I have no information, but my expectation

is that some of the F-35s came and some of the other planes

might have come from the Air Force Base here in Puerto Rico.

But 150 planes supposedly participated in this.

F-35s, F-22s, F-18s, F-18s are Navy,

so they would have come from the aircraft carrier.

F-35s could be either from the Air Force Base here

or from an aircraft carrier.

US had planes in the air of a variety of different,

planes, command control planes, refueling planes.

And of course, planes to gather intelligence and information.

Overall, as I said, 150 planes.

And it seems like priority number one

was priority number one of all these planes in the air

was basically to take out the air defense system

that the Venezuelans had.

Now, the Venezuelans had what military experts,

and you know, if you followed me,

you know what I think, military experts.

But this is from the financial times this morning.

I think this morning, yes, this morning,

financial times this morning say experts had warned.

Experts, military experts had warned

that Venezuela's layered air defense network

could complicate US operations.

But it apparently presented little or no resistance

to the United States strike that captured

President Nicolas Maduro.

In other words, US took out the Venezuelans air defense system

in the first hour, this air defense system.

The multi-layered air defense system

was comprised primarily of Russian air defense batteries

with the S-300 as the long distance one

and a variety of different others for short and medium

to distance as Israel has shown over and over and over and over.

And over again, over the last 40 years or so, Russian weapons

suck.

As Israeli Air Force has shown over and over and over again,

Russian air defense systems cannot deal with a modern electronically

advanced and stealthy Air Force.

Israel did that in Syria.

It did it in, of course, in Iran is the classic case,

where Iranian skies were Israeli.

Well, the American Air Force has just shown the same thing

in Venezuela.

Russian air defense systems suck.

I mean, even Turkey is trying to return the S-400 batteries

that they purchased from the Russians a few years ago.

They're returning them partially because it's a condition

for receiving F-35s in the US.

And partially because Russian air defense systems suck.

So don't rely on it if you're building a country

and you want to defend against Western weapons systems

primarily US built airplane don't by Russian air defense system.

Anyway, so those airplanes basically, as far as we know,

again, fog of war and all of that.

And I have no zero zilch knowledge that goes beyond what

I'm reading and I listen to Trump's press conference

a little while ago.

So beyond what has been said publicly, I know nothing.

So I'm just basically reaffirming what I have heard.

And again, from what I've heard, they took out

the defense system and that allowed helicopters.

Helicopters manned by special forces teams,

including Delta forces and what do you call it?

SEAL team.

I think SEAL team six, they mentioned that it was the same.

Among the special forces group with the same team

that took out bin Laden, it's different soldiers.

I mean, it's a different generation.

But SEAL team six, in addition to Delta forces,

in helicopters, off of carriers, off the coast of Venezuela,

could safely basically come into Caracas.

US had very precise, very accurate information

about the location of Maduro.

They knew where he was in this compound where he was.

And supposedly, again, I don't know, but supposedly,

there was a source high inside the Maduro regime

that was providing the CIA with information.

But if you take into account the NSA and satellites

and drones and just the sheer quantity

of US intelligence resources that are being built up,

I'm sure in Venezuela over decades, they knew.

They knew Maduro's whereabouts.

They always know where Maduro's whereabouts are.

I also had, you know, so anyway, a special force teams

a helicopter into the compound.

They faced some resistance from the ground.

One of the helicopters was hit.

But they're not crash and continue flying

and actually return home.

The troops were landed inside the compound.

They knew exactly where Maduro was.

Suppose he was trying to enter kind of a secure safe room

when he was surrounded by US troops, gave himself up.

And he and his wife were taking into US custody,

boarded onto the helicopters and flown out of Caracas.

And as I said, onto some kind of a craft carrier,

helicopter carrier, in the Caribbean Sea.

And from there, he will be moved to the US, to New York.

This is an operation.

Highly complex, difficult to pull off.

A few militaries in the world called pull this off.

Let's remember, you should remember,

that the Russians tried to pull off a similar operations

in February of 2022, was it?

When they tried to assassinate Zelensky,

they had special forces land at their ports,

very close right outside Kiev, with the idea of entering

Kiev and eliminating Zelensky, and they failed.

They failed.

They were stopped there by Ukrainian forces,

even though it was a surprise attack.

And Russians had overwhelming force and all of that.

They made the attempt to do what the United States

just did in Caracas.

They tried to do in Ukraine.

And arguably, Ukraine is no better armed,

was not better armed when Russia invaded than Venezuela's.

Ukraine, too, had mostly Russian weapons systems.

And it had some Americans, primarily some Western,

primarily anti-tank weapons.

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Ukraine managed to resist this.

Here, there was no possibility

that the Venezuelans could resist this.

The only other military that has done stuff like this,

and I think could easily pull this off,

is the Israeli military.

Arguably, some militaries in Europe

could probably pull this off,

but that's a, and maybe China,

although China is a completely unproven entity.

We have no clue what China can't account to do.

They haven't fought any war since a war with Vietnam

in the early 1980s, or was it the late 70s?

Anyway, early 1980s under Nick Champagne.

They haven't fought a modern war.

We have no idea what the capabilities are

other than what the capabilities are on paper,

and that doesn't count.

So really, there are only a few militaries in the world

who could pull this off.

European militaries, maybe,

Israeli military for sure, in the US.

Russia, no, we know, because they tried it in Ukraine,

and that's it, maybe China.

Again, China's the only one that's a maybe,

and maybe Europe.

But the United States and Israel

are the two that certainly could do this.

Of course, Israel couldn't do it

because they don't want to have aircraft carriers.

They couldn't do it in this distance,

but they proved to Iran that they can travel vast distances.

All right, so amazing operation by the United States.

They pulled it off, and the thing that I am most relieved of

and most happy about is that there's the Knoca casualties.

That is, we might have some injured special forces,

team members, sadly, and injury.

We don't know how severe the injuries are,

but it does sound like it's serious.

But it sounds like nobody was killed,

and that's good, because priority in war

should always be placed on, second to be to winning,

should be placed on preserving your own soldiers' lives.

So I'm happy that nobody died for the sake of deposing

the dictator of Venezuela.

So again, a well-executed mission, a complicated mission.

The US military performed brilliantly,

and succeeded in what in its mission.

You could compare this to what happened in Panama

in the early 90s under George Bush's senior,

but there it was literally an invading and occupying force

that moved into Panama.

Panama also didn't have the air defense systems

that Venezuela has had.

But if you remember, New Yega, who is the president of Panama,

who's also indicted for drug charges,

and the invasion was justified as trying to arrest

New Yega, just like trying to arrest Maduro,

for drug charges he was escaped into the Vatican's embassy.

And the US troops didn't enter the embassy.

It's Vatican's territory.

But what they did, and people, you know,

I forgot this, I read about it this morning.

What they did was, and I remember once I read it,

I remembered it, they blasted music

into the Vatican embassy for 24 hours straight,

for 11 days, they blasted heavy metal,

heavy metal into the embassy.

And I guess the priests representing the Vatican,

at some point said, okay, New Yega,

there's only so much HCDC we can stand out you go,

you know, out you go, and he surrendered to his forces.

So it was an example where heavy metal and heavy rock,

one, you know, won a military diplomatic victory.

But does it very similar, or the administration

is certainly trying to position it very similar?

George Bush, the invasion of Panama,

did not ask for authorization from Congress,

which is going to be important for how the Trump administration

will position this.

This, they've already positioned this.

This was a police action, not a military action.

Bush presented the same way in Panama.

It was a police action, not a military action.

Reagan invaded Grenada.

I can't even remember why he invaded Grenada.

But anyway, invaded Grenada.

He did not ask for congressional approval.

So, you know, the fact that there was no congressional approval

here will be justified in terms of precedence

that are related, that are related.

You know, there was no urgency here.

With regard to Maduro,

Sully could have received congressional approval

in a general sense, deposing Maduro

or regime change in Venezuela without giving specifics.

But Trump is not going to do that.

That's not what Trump does.

And indeed, he is quite the opposite.

Could have been done months ago

with the buildup of the Caribbean Sea,

they could have gotten congressional approval.

But again, it does not seem like modern presidents

have taken Congress seriously

when it comes to the deployment of US military force

overseas, this goes back to Vietnam.

And maybe even before that, but certainly since Vietnam.

All right, so for a military perspective,

this was an achievement.

Let's see.

Now, the question, of course, so legally,

I don't think they're going to face much problems

because again, this is this precedent for this.

Why did they do this?

Why did they do this?

So what is the stated arguments for this

and we'll get into what I think

the strategic consequence of this is all?

Rubio, if you ask Rubio why they did this,

he says, well, there was a dictator.

He was oppressing his people,

bring democracy to Latin America.

If you ask Hegseth why this was done, Hegsetheth,

it's about drugs.

They were smuggling drugs into the United States.

America first, we need a stop drug flow

into the United States and we can discuss

whether that makes any sense.

But we did it for the drugs.

And indeed, the legal justification for what was done

is the indictment that has been brought against

him, a federal indictment, a federal grand jury

is indicted him and his wife and his son over drugs.

So that's the official reason.

And Trump gives the Trumpian reason

and Trump is very clear about why he thinks this was done

and why he wanted to do this.

Oil, it's about oil.

It's all about oil.

And again, we're talking a little bit about legitimacy

or illegitimacy of that as a motivation.

So we're getting different stories and different people.

One thing that administration also in terms of legitimacy

is emphasizing and talking a lot about

is the fact that Maduro was the illegitimate

was an illegitimate president of Venezuela.

That is that he had actually lost the election in 2024.

And therefore he was not the legitimate president.

So this was not about regime change in that sense.

This was about arresting a fake president,

somebody who was an illegitimate position.

This does not violate international whatever law

and so on.

This is kind of the argument that they're making.

You know, the Trump administration is clearly saying

and I'm quoting Maduro is not the president of Venezuela.

Maduro is the head of the cartel,

De Los Soles, a narcoterror organization

which has taken possession of a country.

He is under indictment for pushing drugs into the United States.

That is the official reason for what happened last night.

All right.

Now before we get into, well, one other thing,

one thing I want to say, a big question now is,

and this is really determined, I think the meaning

of all of this, the big question is going to be,

what happens now?

What happens now?

It does this mean that Maduro regime is over.

You know, as last we heard, his vice president,

his hand-picked vice president,

has been sworn in as president of Venezuela,

not the opposition, not the so-called legitimate,

the people who won the election,

but Maduro is vice president.

Trump in his press conference mentioned a number of times

that now the United States runs Venezuela.

They control Venezuela, they run Venezuela.

This is a US territory, the way he was talking about it.

He was asked several times in the press conference

to clarify that statement, and he really couldn't.

He just repeated the same thing.

We control Venezuela.

We will now allow American oil companies into Venezuela.

We will control the revenue flow

that comes from the oil, Venezuela will get some of that oil,

the drunk, the oil companies will get some of that revenue,

and even will compensate Venezuelan migrants

in the United States with some of that money.

And some of them might even stay in the United States.

Magger can't be happy about that statement

by Trump about some of the Venezuelan staying in the US.

They want to kick 100 million people out of the US,

including the Venezuelans.

So, you know, he's basically saying,

we will control Venezuela, we will determine its fate.

He said that Marco Rubio had already talked

to the new president of Venezuela,

the vice president was sworn in,

and she's willing to cooperate with America

and do whatever we want, you know, who knows what that means

and who knows if that's even true.

When asked about Makado, the woman who just won

the Nobel Peace Prize instead of Trump,

Trump wanted it, she won it,

whether she would be the next president of Venezuela.

She had just praised this, she'd praised Trump.

She said this was amazing that, you know,

Maduro had been opposed, she looked forward to,

you know, Venezuela be free and all of this.

And Trump, I mean, this classic Trump.

Trump basically said, no,

I don't think she's going to be the president of Venezuela.

You know, she's not very popular in Venezuela.

She's not really, people don't really like her.

Which, to me, to me reads, and I know you're going to say,

it's just Trump due age with syndrome,

but that's okay.

To me, that reads as, she won the Nobel Peace Prize

instead of me.

I'm not going to give her Venezuela.

There's no way she's getting Venezuela.

She got my peace prize.

I get to get Venezuela instead.

So, you know, again, how to say,

how to say exactly who is going to govern Venezuela,

the opposition in Venezuela,

a suppose he's in the streets and intense to take control.

But look, taking out Maduro does not take out

the entire hierarchy of the Maduro and Chavez regimes,

which are basically based on the military,

the military, the police, the armed people in Venezuela,

are regime affiliate.

If it had been so easy to overturn this regime,

then the opposition would have done it long time ago.

It turned out it's not that easy.

Now, will the United States require now,

Venezuela to hold real elections

and see where it will legit elections?

Will they require a tomorrow or in a few years?

What exactly happens?

I don't think anybody knows,

other than somebody asked Trump,

who is going to run Venezuela?

And he says that people standing behind me,

which is basically Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth

are going to run Venezuela.

How does that work?

Does that mean ground forces enter Venezuela

in order to secure the ability of Marco Rubio

to go in and run Venezuela?

Did they run it from afar with the existing government?

Did they run it from afar with a new opposition government?

All of that is up in there.

How do you actually manifest the ability

to take over the oil fields of Venezuela?

Hard to tell.

But there's no question.

Look, what just happened is a clear signal

to the Venezuelan is that Trump is serious

and that they better straight now

and that they better behave themselves.

So I am sure that the vice president,

even though she's from the duress party,

is not going to behave herself

and get me a lot friendlier to Trump

and a lot more open to doing what Trump tells them to do.

So that, I think that is clear,

but is this the beginning of liberty and freedom

and the end of dictatorship in Venezuela?

Not clear.

I mean, it could be that the United States

manages Venezuela, controls Venezuela

through the existing dictatorial regime

who is now open to working with the United States.

Don't know.

And it's hard to tell what's happening

in Venezuela right now.

I see a lot of people, pictures of people celebrating

Maduro's arrest, but hard to tell if those pictures

are coming from Venezuela

or they're coming from other countries

where Venezuelans have immigrated to.

So for example, I saw some pictures of people

celebrating to an out of it was Madrid.

I'm sure in Miami, you've got a lot of celebrations.

It's gonna be interesting to see the extent

to which this actually prompts the opposition

and the people of Venezuela to go out into streets

and demand the replacement of the regime in totality,

not just of Maduro, but the regime in totality.

Okay, pause there for a second.

And what we're gonna do is what I wanna do

is cover a little bit of,

let me see if I can find this, I had it here open.

Yeah, of the history, we'll do this quickly.

Of the history of Venezuela, I wanna give you some context

about what's going, you know,

what happened in Venezuela over the years

and how we got to where we are today.

And then from there, I wanna go to kind of,

what's the teaching importance does this have?

Because I think it does have.

I think anytime in America,

such itself in the world, there are real consequences.

Even when administration is confused,

like this administration is confused,

about what the strategy is,

I think the real strategic outcomes of this,

whether explicit or implicit.

So they're gonna be, you know,

significant implications for this.

And most of them, I have to admit, a positive.

But let's quickly review the history of Venezuela.

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It was granted independence in 1810.

And it declared, sorry,

it declared independence in 1811 after years

of brutal war in spite of that declaration,

led by C1 Boulevard,

independence was secured in 1821.

And the Venezuela briefly joined a Bolivar Federation,

called Grand Columbia,

which is a whole of kind of Northern Latin America,

South America, but it left it in 1830

to become a separate republic.

Constant instability, like a lot of South American countries,

chronic political instability,

regional strong man, civil wars,

it's a big federal war in 1859, 1863.

And institutions and country institutions were crushed.

The country generally suffered from extreme poverty.

This was a poor country, a bad governance,

and badly run as many Latin American countries

indeed were.

Some of this changed in the early 20th century.

Basically, in the early 20th century,

oil was discovered in Venezuela,

and ultimately of the coast of Venezuela,

what ultimately turned out to be the largest oil reserves

in the world.

This oil was the revenue from this oil started funding

big infrastructure projects, urbanization,

and really an economy that was single-sourced,

like so many countries that have discovered oil,

it became the primary revenue source for the government.

Early part of the century was dictatorship.

There was a civilian democratic government in 1958

that ruled until 1998.

And relatively stable democratic government for 40 years,

a stand of living were rising.

This is a period in which Venezuela was on a GDP per capita basis,

the richest country in Latin America.

So oil resulted in a lot of wealth.

However, it was a very corrupt system.

That is, this is not capitalism.

This was a system of the equivalent of oligarchs,

a system of cognizm, a corrupt system

that relied on one industry to provide oil.

Now, I say one industry, other industries existed.

For example, Venezuela had a robust agricultural industry

that not only fed itself, but allowed it to export food.

We'll get to that, the decline of that in a minute.

But there was a significant resentment within Venezuela

among, primarily among the poor,

to the fact that people getting super rich off of oil,

but primarily because of corruption,

most of the technology, the ability to extract the oil

and to exploit the oil, that knowledge,

that capital came in from the United States

from American oil companies,

we'll get to the American oil companies in a minute.

And, you know, but Venezuelans officials

and variety of oligarchs, again,

we're getting super rich from this oil.

Let's see, in 1989, Hugo Chavez launched

the Bolivarian revolution.

I think Simon Bolivar would be horrified by Chavez.

Chavez was a socialist, a committed socialist,

a explicit socialist.

His program basically involved a state ownership

of the means of production, redistribution,

massive redistribution of wealth,

and a huge anti-US, anti-US rhetoric and sentiment.

Hugo Chavez aligned himself with Cuba

and other anti-American regimes in the area,

and of course with Russia and in the long run

on the Maduro with China.

During Hugo Chavez's term, we'll get to oil in a minute,

but one of the things that happened is agriculture,

for example, was nationalized, was socialized,

was owned by the government,

or really by the military, indeed,

the military was granted basically most of the industry,

most of the businesses in Venezuela

were handed over to military officials,

which made the military officials,

the generals, the colonels, the majors,

it made them relatively rich.

It made them wanna make sure the regime sustained itself

because they were directly benefiting from it.

As we'll see in the 2000s, Chavez also nationalized

the oil industry, and as a consequence,

what you saw is a dramatic decline in oil production.

By the time Chavez had died in 2013,

people were hungry in Venezuela.

Venezuela could not produce enough food to feed itself.

It had a massive refugee problem,

that is refugees were leaving Venezuela,

and settling in refugee camps in Colombia.

There was mass poverty, again, huge corruption,

primarily the beneficiaries of being people

within the military, and within the Chavez regime,

as socialism always does,

Chavez' socialism produced death, destruction,

poverty, starvation, and massive corruption.

Massive corruption.

In 2013, Nicolas Maduro replaced,

when Chavez died, he was his vice president,

so he took over.

He provided, he presided over continued economic collapse,

ultimately hyperinflation, mass emigration,

out of Venezuela, and increasing authoritarianism.

Indeed, in the last election in Venezuela,

Maduro clearly lost pretty much everybody

who looked at it, knew that he had lost,

and yet he maintained power and ruled,

even though he was recognized really by anybody.

Okay, quickly oil nationalization.

Between 2006 and 2007.

There was, now there'd be some nationalization before this,

I don't wanna make it out,

since from the beginning of Chavez's rise to power,

small-scale nationalization and taking over contracts

of US oil companies had been pursued.

But in 2006, 2007, this happened in large scale.

Venezuela ordered all foreign oil companies,

operating in the O'Nealco heavy oil belt,

and we'll get the heavy oil in its importance in a minute.

They ordered them all to accept a minority stake

of 40% or more by government entities,

or leave the country.

Companies refused the offer of a minority stake

of 40% or more, and the state oil company, PDVSA,

seized the assets.

The two major US companies affected

were Exxon Mobile and Connico Phillips.

Both of them, the assets were seized,

and they exited Venezuela.

Chevron stayed, it actually accepted,

Venezuela's state ownership and Chevron actually stayed,

and it's still functioning in Venezuela

under some significant accommodation of the state of Venezuela.

Between 2007 and 2019,

the Venezuelan government claimed that they had paid

fair compensation for the assets that they confiscated.

But an international arbitration

ruled the Venezuela owed Exxon Mobile $1.6 billion,

and that they owed Connico

about $8 billion.

Venezuela failed to pay for both of those.

And as a consequence,

the assets of the Venezuelan government were seized abroad.

Caribbean refineries owned by Venezuela,

oil shipments were seized in order to claw back

this funds from Venezuela.

And again, during the same period of time,

2009 to 2012,

other assets owned by all companies were seized.

Oil service companies, refineries,

storage facilities, power and infrastructure assets tied to energy.

All of these affected American and European firms,

and they basically were seized by government.

And of course, the consequence of that,

are not only that these companies lost revenue

and lost their property rights.

But beyond that,

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Their efficiency, their productivity,

their ability to produce oil,

refine oil, produce power and electricity,

all declined substantially, dramatically as a consequence.

So, Venezuela did steal American oil,

and to Trump's credit,

he uses that as justification

for going after the Venezuelan regime.

Now, imagine if Eisenhower or Kennedy or Johnson

or had used that as oil,

in this case, who was president George Bush, Jr.,

if they had used the seizure of American oil assets

as an excuse to replace the Venezuelan regime,

the Iranian regime,

the Saudi regime, and so on,

to replace them when those countries confiscated oil assets

of US companies back then.

They did not, and that's partially what emboldened

the Venezuelans and other countries to do so.

Indeed, it was Eisenhower that forced the French

and the British back when they tried to reclaim the Suez Canal,

which Nasser had nationalized and confiscated

from the British and French private company

that had built the canal and owned the canal

and ran the canal,

and it was taken over by the Egyptians.

All right, what else do we need to know in terms of history?

Yeah, so I mean, just comment on drugs, I think it's worth,

yeah, well, let's shift basically to discussing

the strategic importance of what happened

and what will start with the context of drugs.

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Let's talk about drugs, which is the nominal excuse

for all of this.

I mean, this all have no impact on drugs.

Zero-Zilch Nada.

Drugs coming into the United States,

a very few of them come from Venezuela.

Venezuela is a massive, has a massive industry

of exporting drugs from Colombia.

But it's not to the United States.

Almost all the drugs that the Venezuelanist export

go to Europe.

They go first to Africa.

And they use, indeed, they use Islamist militants.

Islamists in Venezuela, but then in North Africa.

The smuggled drugs across the Atlantic,

two Africa and in from Africa to Europe.

The consumption of cocaine has gone way up in Europe

over the last few years.

And all of that cocaine comes from Latin America.

And it is the Maduro regime that has been

funneling those drugs to Europe.

But the reality is, the reality is,

this is not gonna, you don't take up the top of the pyramid

and somehow this stops.

He will be replaced.

This is too much money to be involved.

It's not even clear how important Maduro,

Cuama-Duro was to the drug trade.

Even if the United States clamps down

on drug trading in Venezuela.

Again, there's too much money to ignore here.

They will find other routes.

There is no way to win the war on drugs.

The one drugs is a bogus idea, bogus mission,

a bogus war, a bogus attempt.

And indeed, all these indictments around drugs,

and no Trump's not serious about drugs.

He doesn't care about drugs.

The fact is that he pardoned the Honduras

for the Honduran president who was indicted

for drugs into the United States.

And from Honduras, they do indeed come to the United States.

They travel through Central America

all the way north to the United States.

But he pardoned him.

He doesn't care about drugs.

Drugs have no relevance to Trump.

He doesn't care what he owed about them.

So the fact that the majority is indicted about this

is irrelevant.

It doesn't matter strategically.

It makes no difference.

Drugs will continue to flow no matter

what the United States does.

The demand for drugs is so large.

It's so intense.

The profit from drug trade is so enormous

that no way is anything in the United States.

Remember the one drugs when we bombed fields in Colombia?

Did that stop the amount of cocaine coming into the country?

And the reality is that most of the overdose deaths

in the United States, the overwhelming number

of overdose deaths in the United States,

are the consequence of fentanyl.

Fentanyl is not a drug coming from Colombia or Venezuela.

It is a drug that is produced with chemicals from China

in Mexico and smuggled across the U.S. border.

The only way to stop fentanyl and you can't,

you never will, they'll always find ways in.

But if you wanted to, if you wanted to pretend

that that's what you were doing,

you would go after Mexican cartels, not after Venezuela.

So this has nothing to do with drugs.

It doesn't matter to the drug trade.

You know, most cocaine is still growing in Colombia

in spite of what the one drug has been going on

since the early 1970s when Nixon declared it.

It has made zero dents in the flow of drugs.

All the other one drugs does is it makes drugs more expensive

and therefore more of a profit opportunity

and therefore more violence and more murder

and more drugs flowing into the United States.

So you want to solve the drugs,

you want to do away with overdose deaths.

The only way to do that is to legalize drugs.

Not just decriminalize them, but legalize them.

Legalize them completely, 100%.

And then drugs will be safe.

The profit margin will drop to basically zero

because they're just a commodity.

Nobody will have an incentive to kill anybody over drugs anymore.

Violence will decline dramatically in Latin America

and in the United States.

And you know, overall, that is a solution of drugs.

So this idea that drugs and drugs coming into the United States

are some kind of strategic importance

is absurd and ridiculous.

Again, we've been fighting a war in drugs for 55 years

with no success, zero zilch.

And this will have no impact on it.

It doesn't matter.

It's completely bogus.

So that is gives Trump legal cover for what he's done.

But has no strategic value for the United States

in and of itself, really no strategic value

for the United States.

Now, Trump has said, and the one thing

that this is intended to do vis-a-vis drugs

and might have an effect, is he has said,

a president of Columbia, you're next, right?

He needs to, he said, he needs to watch his back.

It might be possible as a consequence of that.

It might be possible as a consequence of that.

That, you know, some of these political leaders

will be a little bit more cautious.

But it's not going to change the dynamics.

It's not going to change the fundamental flow of drugs.

Drugs have been flowing out of Columbia for decades.

And it doesn't matter who the president is there.

It doesn't matter what they do.

You could have a war against drugs in Columbia.

Columbia is too big of a country, too many jungles,

too ungovernable in what they grow

to be able to stop the production of cocaine.

So it's irrelevant.

And of course, maybe this is a warning sign

to the Mexican cartels that, you know, the US

can fly into any one of them, they're, you know,

strongholds and take the leadership.

I mean, that's true.

And maybe the cartels will now live in great fear.

Well, that's stopped them from smuggling drugs

into the United States.

Does that stop them from smuggling drugs

into the United States?

Yeah, absolutely not.

By the way, you know, in terms of legalizing drugs,

you know, fentanyl is used in medicine

in the United States every day.

You know, you go into get a procedure like,

I don't know, in a doscape, a colonoscopy or something

like that.

What do they give you to knock you out?

Fentanyl.

But it's high quality fentanyl that is reviewed

as a medical thing.

If drugs are legalized, you wouldn't have fentanyl

laced cocaine.

You wouldn't have fentanyl laced heroin.

Fentanyl might be sold as a drug,

but it would be solved in high quality.

There would be just like in any market,

there would be, you know, there would be a market regulation

of the quality of the product customers would not buy

from producer who produced and sold bad products.

I mean, imagine markets applying to drugs

and you get much higher safety, better quality use,

a truth in advertising and retailers

who are selling the drugs stand behind the product.

You just don't get the kind of stuff

where somebody's smoking a joint and it lands up being laced

or taking a zanic and it lands up being laced with fentanyl.

That would not happen if it was legalized.

All right, back to strategy.

So drugs, I think, is a bogus issue.

The solution again is legalization,

complete legalization.

It's not the illusion, you know,

there are plenty of products out there

that are not killing you, that could be killing you.

And if you made them illegal, it would kill you.

The quality of the alcohol you drink is far superior.

In a free market, then it was in prohibition, far superior.

And the quality of the drugs that you would take

would be far superior under legalization than otherwise.

But anyway, this is not a show today

about legalizing drugs.

Maybe we can do that another time.

My point is no effect on drugs

because Mexican cartels weren't,

while they might live in fear now more than they did before,

the profit margin is too large to stop this.

They're just going to continue.

And if one cartel stops, another cartel would pick it up.

No way is this going away.

Drug always continue, always continue.

Somebody says on the chat,

the highest estimated weekly income for cocaine cartel

was 420 million per week.

There's no way they're stopping that, right?

That is going to continue.

Nothing Trump has done has stopped it.

Okay, so the second argument was about bringing freedom

to Venezuela and bringing freedom to Latin America

and standing up for freedom.

I don't for one second believe that that is a motivation.

I don't believe Trump cares about freedom.

Anybody's freedom.

I don't think that's a motivation.

And it's yet to be seen.

What actually happens in terms of freedom.

This was the whole argument of America first.

We shouldn't be bringing freedom to the peoples of the world.

We shouldn't be imposing freedom on countries.

We shouldn't be engaging in operation,

freedom to country X.

This is the basis on which the whole agenda of mega

is based.

They don't want to bring freedom to the world

and I'm interested in bringing freedom to the world.

Now again, I think Marco Rubio's instincts

are in this direction.

His emotions lead him there.

He is a pro-freedom kind of guy.

He comes from a more neoconservative background

and he's inclined out where the Trump

doesn't care about freedom in Venezuela.

And we yet to see what the political outcome in Venezuela

is actually going to be.

Is there going to be more freedom in Venezuela?

Is that what Trump is seeking?

Is there regime change?

And if there is regime change to what?

Still unclear.

And it's not clear that taking out of Venezuela

is going to bring freedom to other places.

Now, you would say that the rulers in Cuba

are going to be worried now.

On the other hand, Cuba has no oil

and Cuba has no drugs.

It's not a source of drug thing.

So it's not clear what the US would use as an excuse

to go after the Cuban regime.

Maybe they will, anyway, one can hope.

But I'm doubtful that it will happen.

This is, though, strategically,

clearly an expression of US asserting power in the region.

This is the United States embracing something

like the Monroe doctrine.

We are going to pursue our interests in Latin America.

This is our region.

Stay out.

We'll get to China in a minute.

Stay out.

We are going to do what we want in this region.

We don't really care about what anybody thinks.

This is ours.

And this is the first time in Monroe doctrine

has really been asserting in many, many years post-Vietnam

really, the US has not been very assertive

except in the Middle East.

We did get Grenada and we did get Panama.

But those are small.

You know, Venezuela might turn out to be small as well.

We'll see.

Maybe it'll be more substantial in some military presence.

But this is definitely an assertion of American power

in the region, in particular.

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This is also a statement about oil.

Oil is crucial to the United States strategically.

It is something that the United States,

for a variety of reasons, oil is going to play a huge

strategic role throughout the world.

The kind of oil that Venezuela produces is a heavy oil.

I don't ask me what that actually means.

I don't know.

All I know is it's a particular type of oil

that's called heavy oil, that the United States

doesn't produce itself.

The United States produces light oil, not heavy oil.

And yet, many of our refineries in the South

were built to handle heavy oil.

There are basically three sources of heavy oil

that I know are large sources of heavy oil in the world.

Venezuela, Canada and Russia.

Heavy oil from Canada, the idea was that we would build a pipeline.

You remember the XL pipeline?

KL, what was it called?

Keystone pipeline.

There was going to come in from Canada,

down to the South where the refineries are,

to expand sport, heavy oil to the refineries.

Alas, that was never built because of the Obama administration,

because the Biden administration,

because of a variety of environmentalist groups stopping it.

And Trump has not really resurrected that

and not been able to get that completed.

He didn't manage to get it completed in his first term.

And he hasn't been able to complete it now.

The other source of heavy oil is, of course,

Russia.

We're trying not to buy off in Russia.

They're the bad guys.

And then Venezuela, where we basically

place an embargo on heavy oil for Venezuela

in response to Shavis and Maduers' actions in embargo,

I was never supportive of.

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All right, where was I?

Where was I?

All right, so heavy oil.

So the only real source for heavy oil that the United States

can get is Venezuela.

And it's a big deal, a big portion

of our production capacity in terms of refineries

is related to heavy oil.

And so if we did this, we did it probably because of oil.

But here's the thing.

This has your political implications

because of the oil, but also because it makes a statement.

China has been, as has real ambitions

in the Latin America, in the South American area.

It wants resources, whether those are different minerals.

It wants oil.

And the China buys a lot of oil from Venezuela,

often sanctioned oil.

And China, after Trump came out with his new,

you know, latest, what do you call it, a security strategy,

which I critiqued on the show a few weeks ago.

He basically announced in kind of a new Monroe doctrine.

China basically came out with his own statement two days ago,

no, December 31st, a four days ago,

came out with his own statement.

And basically said that China is not

going to give an inch to the United States and Latin America.

China is going to maintain its influence in Latin America.

It's going to fight for it.

It's going to keep it, not fight for it militarily,

but it's going to keep, try to keep its influence

in Latin America.

Well, I think what you were trying to,

the message China got today was, forget it,

that you're not going to be able to dominate Latin America.

We've got Latin America, Latin America is now ours.

So stay out of here.

If America really does get control over

Venezuelan oil fields, then America

indirectly has control of basically

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If the United States gains the oil,

I think this is the most important point of all of this.

If the United States gains control of the oil in Venezuela,

Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world.

Greater than Saudi Arabia.

Then the United States, directly and indirectly,

will have leverage over the entire supply of oil

in the world with two exceptions.

Exceptions of Russia and Iran.

In other words, China, China which depends on oil

to run its economy and natural gas, to run its economy,

will have nobody to buy oil from.

I mean, they can buy from Russia and they can buy from Iran,

but there's only so much they can buy from those countries.

Iran might be experiencing regime change soon

and might be under great American influence soon.

And then China only has Russia.

Imagine what happens if China invades Taiwan

and the United States alliance puts an oil embargo on China.

No oil from Venezuela, no oil from the United States,

which is a producer, no oil for Guiana,

which is right next to Venezuela and has huge oil reserves,

no oil from the Middle East,

because the United States has a lot of leverage in Saudi Arabia,

Kuwait and the other Middle East countries.

China is in trouble.

China is in deep, deep trouble.

So, you know, if this is really about oil and if the United States

does control the oil coming out, this is massive, massive.

And it now makes Iran even more important

because Iran stays the one last source of oil

for China with the exception of Russia, which is limited.

And if Iran falls, China is isolated

in terms of its access to world energy markets.

It can still buy, but if it ever goes to war,

if it's ever sanctioned, it could be really squeezed.

I think that if the United States gains control

over the Venezuelan oil,

the probability of China invading Taiwan goes down.

If the Iranian regime falls,

I think the probability of China invading Taiwan goes to zero.

China cannot afford it.

I mean, will they get the fuel for their ships

for any kind of prolonged war?

Now, you know, oil prices might go down.

They might not.

You know, even if Venezuela, it will take a few years.

Venezuela oil is in a sea mostly.

It's hard to reach.

It's expensive to exploit.

It's not easy.

Master capital investment will have to go into there.

We're talking about a few years before you actually see the fruits

in terms of oil flowing out there in quantity,

lowering the price of oil.

But, you know, Saudi Arabia could clamp down

in the amount of oil it produces

in order to drive prices up again.

So it's, it's,

oil prices are a function of a supply and demand

and supply is not fixed.

Supply can change.

One country can increase and another country can decrease.

It's hard to tell where oil prices are going to go in the future.

Though it's likely they're going to go down

in the, in the, in the near term,

or at least when Venezuela oil comes into production.

But it's not, for certain,

because other countries could, could reduce them

out of oil they produce.

Guiana, that country next to Venezuela,

which has a lot of oil,

its oil is not being produced.

So it now is, is pumping more oil into the world markets.

It's one of the reasons oil prices have come down.

Now, that's the other aspect of this.

Oil prices going down is bad for which country?

Well, it's bad for OPEC,

but you know, the United States supposedly

is allied with OPEC.

Who is it really bad for?

It's really bad for Russia.

Indeed, I've seen online,

many Russians panicking,

pro-Putin Russians panicking.

Russia's war is basically being funded by oil sales.

If global oil prices code down dramatically,

which they could over the next few years,

if the United States takes control of the Venezuelan oversuits,

then Russia is going to be squeezed.

So in terms of strategy,

I think all the benefits around oil,

all the benefits around oil,

reverberate to our relationship with China and with Russia.

We don't need oil,

the United States has plenty of oil itself,

but being able to control indirectly, even indirectly,

the majority of the oil being produced in the world

gives the United States massive leverage over China

and driving the price of oil down gives

the United States massive leverage over Russia.

And this helps.

This is, again, the largest oil reserves in the world,

the United States taking it back

and basically returning it into the hands of American oil companies.

That is a positive move.

And if that is the motivation,

if that's what's going to happen out of this,

if that's the ultimate outcome,

if this is really about oil, then I'm all for it.

See, I don't believe the United States should go out

and be the policeman of the world.

I don't think the United States should be out there

engaging in our war and drugs.

I don't believe the United States should be out there,

even bringing freedom to the world.

It's, you know, people need a fight for their own freedom.

But I do believe we should help people fight for freedom

to the extent that we can.

And I do believe that when, you know, governments steal

nationalized assets of US companies

on scale as Venezuela did,

the United States government should step in to protect them.

And since we didn't protect them back in the mid-2000s,

not a bad idea to do it now.

Now, Trump has mentioned this as a reason

for what he's done.

And to that, I give him credit.

He's the first president.

He's the first president ever that I know of.

That has actually made a big deal out

and a big deal in a sense of the United States

being willing to go out there and actually protect

property rights in the sense.

I don't think he thinks of it property rights,

but it doesn't matter.

He's the first president I know of

has actually made being willing to state that

and make that statement.

And for that, you know, I give him credit,

even though I know it comes from a very shallow, superficial,

you know, a narcissistic place.

And not from a real respect for property rights

or a real respect for the protection of American.

Real national interests,

so any kind of meaningful national interests.

Finally, yeah, we talked about Cuba that is now world.

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Marie Le Pen.

Marie Le Pen is, of course, the leader of the far right,

a political movement in political party in France.

This is what she writes.

There were a thousand reasons to condemn the regime

of Nicolas Madua, communist oligarchic authoritarian.

It had imposed on its people for far too many years,

a suffocating yoke that plunged millions of Venezuelans

into misery when it did not force them into exile.

But there is one fundamental reason to oppose

the regime change that the United States

has brought about in Venezuela.

Guess what that is?

The sovereignty of states is never negotiable.

Regardless of their size, their power, or their continent,

it is involable and sacred.

To announce this principle today for Venezuela

for any state would be an accept,

our own enslavement tomorrow.

It would thus be a moral peril at a time

when the 24th century is already the stage of major

geopolitical appeal that casts over humanity

the constant threat of war and chaos.

All that remained for us is to hope in the face of this situation

that a voice be given as soon as possible

to the Venezuelan people.

It is for them to reclaim the power

to define sovereignty and freely,

the future they wish to forge this nation.

Now, here's the thing about this.

This is powerful statement.

Sovereignty, the sovereignty of states is never negotiable.

This is the nationalist perspective.

This is the nationalist conservative perspective.

This is the perspective that no state has a right

to intervene in another state, that all sovereignty is sacred

and finite.

And that one has no right,

even in face of a dictator to unseat that dictator.

Now, this is the exact opposite of the position

that Ayn Rand held.

Ayn Rand held that sovereignty comes

from the protection of rights,

from the protection of individual rights.

That is that a regime that is dictatorial is not sovereign.

A regime that's authoritarian is not sovereign.

Now, it's not, that does not mean

that other countries should depose the leader.

But it does mean that it's 100% more

from the perspective of the country that's being deposed.

That they leader be deposed.

That is, the United States owes nothing to Venezuela

and knows nothing to this sovereignty

because they're not sovereign

because they're ruled by dictator.

If the only purpose of government is

the protection of rights,

then states that do not protect rights

are not sovereign states.

In that sense,

Iraq was not sovereign.

Iran is not sovereign.

Venezuela is not sovereign.

Russia today is not sovereign.

And assassinating the leaders replacing the regime

is completely moral.

It's completely okay.

It's only a question of your own interest in doing so.

Sovereignty comes from the people.

It does not come from the leader.

It does not come from drawing lines on a map.

It does not come from force.

Sovereignty comes from the people, the individual,

the only thing that's sovereign is the individual.

So individuals can elect a government

and give it sovereignty.

Otherwise, all governments are illegitimate

unless they are protecting the rights of individuals.

That's what gives them sovereignty.

Not some artificial, I'm the dictator

because I have a big gun.

I have a big gun.

So while Iran was not for democracy,

absolute democracy,

the sovereignty has to be gained through protection of rights

and authoritarians, dictators are never sovereign

because they violate rights.

Now, you can imagine a authoritarian state

that did protect rights, Singapore is an exception.

It mostly protect rights.

You would argue that that is a sovereign state

because it protects the rights of individuals in the state.

But almost no authoritarians protect individuals.

At any level.

So Venezuela is not sovereign.

The US is still sovereign, yes.

It's still, for the most part, protect rights.

But you can imagine the United States becoming non-sovereign

when it stops protecting those rights.

If it becomes an authoritarian.

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I know controversial view, but a true view, a right view.

I'm man's view.

Okay, that opposite of the nationalist view,

which is sovereignty because of history,

because of tradition, because of, I don't know,

why it's what makes it, what makes it sovereign.

Who?

I don't know who you mean.

All right, let's see.

What else did I want?

That was Marie Le Pen.

Here's, here's Seneca.

Now, this is not about this.

This is about the other bombing in Venezuela a few days ago,

but it's, I assume it applies the same way.

Seneca rights.

I agree with Steve Bannon.

There you go, you get the left agreeing with the right.

I agree with Steve Bannon.

The Trump is acting like Hillary Clinton

at her neo-con peak, bombing all over the planet,

Nigeria, Somalia, Venezuela,

and going back into Iran for regime change,

it's completely neo-conestablished from behavior.

Now, notice, why do we have to fight all of Israel's wars?

One thing that's common about the responses,

particularly from the far right,

and the far left is the blaming Israel for it.

All right, I don't see, is there a,

I don't see him on my, oh, I can't block him.

If somebody, do we have somebody who can,

I can't block him because I can't see him.

He's not in my feed.

This thing, Scotty, too hardy,

can somebody block him?

Miroslav, are you there?

Or maybe action, action, action, if Christian, if you're there?

Can you block this Scotty, too hardy?

For some reason, I can't do it.

It's at Scotty, too hardy.

He's been commenting nonstop.

Now, I don't know why I can't see him in my feed,

but I see him, I see him.

Miroslav, I see him, yes, I'll block him.

Okay.

All right, you guys got him.

Good, thank you.

Thank you, appreciate it.

I, for some reason, I could see him.

This is a Miroslav.

I could see him in the Super Chat Tracker.

I couldn't see him in my YouTube feed, which is weird.

Usually I see all the comments in both, weird.

Anyway, Israel's wars, all right.

Let's take Tucker Carlson.

This is again from before, which I assume it applies to today.

Maduro, whatever is many faults,

and I wouldn't hire him as an economist.

He has the most socially conservative country,

probably in the hemisphere.

Venezuela's band pornography, band abortion, band game average,

band sex change, and band usury.

This is Tucker.

Tucker would ban usury among many things.

So, you know, there you go.

It's, they like Maduro.

Tucker likes Maduro kind of.

Like Maduro.

Let's see, Nick Fuentes originally was against military action

in Venezuela just three months ago.

He warned that an invasion could activate domestic terror cells

and plunge America into an insurgency.

Where these hysterical nut cases,

and really pretty stupid people get the stuff from,

I don't know, but as of this morning, he has changed his tune.

And this morning he said, I've literally never said

no more foreign conflicts.

I support US Empire.

I support the Maduro doctrine.

I support hemisphere defense.

I always have, says Nick Fuentes.

Anyway.

Now he's saying, and then a little later, he said,

a little later in the morning today, he said,

initially seemed like a solid operation to cleanly bloodlusty

and quickly remove Maduro from power last night.

But this new policy of running Venezuela with US soldiers

sounds like a massive over commitment.

I have zero confidence in nation building, big mistake.

Representative Marjory Taylor Greene.

Very unhappy.

I've served on Homeland Security Committee

for the past three years.

I'm 100% for strong, safe, secure borders,

and strong Nalco terrorists and cartels,

and stopping Nalco terrorists and cartels from trafficking.

Deadly drugs.

Mr. Love, we've got, he's come back under different names.

So please block him or action Jackson,

you guys take care of whoever,

they keep coming back in different names.

Anyway, so she's all for stopping the cartels.

And then she said, fentanyl is responsible for over 70%

of US drug over those deaths.

And fentanyl comes from Mexico and cartels

made with chemical precursors from China

and trafficked across US, Mexican border.

Mexican cartels are primarily an overwhelmingly responsible

for killing Americans with deadly drugs.

If US military action and regime change in Venezuela

was really about saving American lives and deadly drugs,

then why hasn't the Trump administration

taken action against Mexican cartels?

And if persecuting Nalco terrorists is a high priority,

then why did President Trump pardon the former Honduran president,

who was convicted and sentenced for 45 years

for trafficking hundreds of tons of cocaine into America?

Ironically, cocaine is the same drug

that Venezuela primarily trafficked into the United States.

The next obvious observation is that by removing a Maduro,

this is a clear move for control over Venezuela

and all the supplies that will ensure stability

for the next obvious regime change war in Iran.

So, you know, Marjorie Taylor Greene,

representing a certain wing of MAGA,

is very wrong, very anti this.

She goes, Americans discussed with our own governments,

never ending military aggression and support of foreign wars

is justified because we are forced to pay for it

in both parties, we're probably going to Democrats,

always keep the Washington military machine

funded and going.

This is why many MAGA thought they voted to end.

Boy, where were we wrong?

As the baby boomers slip away, both in votes and power,

the electoral future will be decided for candidates

that focus on American economic populism

and promising prosperity for Americans only.

Let's see who else?

This guy, Ian Malcolm,

and some anti-Semitic guy on Twitter.

A few months ago, he wrote, this is actually a year ago,

a year and a half ago in July of 2024, he wrote,

some Maduro, a Jew, maintains power in Venezuela

while Jews in Israel escalate conflict with Lebanon

having already set up a conflict with Iran

while the UK's new prime minister, another Jew,

launches the Kierstahmer era of politics.

Why are Jews all over the global political,

whatever, what the hell?

And then he writes, today he writes,

so the MAGA peace president to promise no new wars

is just blowing up anyone, Jews ask him to.

Is that it?

Is this not treason?

So Jews asked him to blow up Maduro.

Then anti-Semitic guy stopped.

By the way, I thought I had it.

There's Candace Owen saying basically the same thing.

Candace saying, is this, yeah.

Venezuela has been liberated like Syria, Afghanistan,

and Iraq were liberated in quotation marks.

The CIA has staged another hostile takeover of a country

on the behest of the global, globalist psychopaths.

Guess who those are?

That's it.

That's what is happening, always, everywhere.

And here is the key.

Zionists cheer every regime change.

There's never been a single regime change

that Zionists have not applauded because it means

they get to steal land, oil, and other resources.

Hope this helps.

So again, even this is Zionists and Jews.

They're responsible for everything.

And finally, the Katari government is upset.

The Katari government does not like this.

The state of Katari expresses its deep concern

over the current developments in the Bolivarian Republic

of Venezuela, calling in this context

for restraint, de-escalation, and adoption of dialogue

as the appropriate measure to address all outstanding issues.

So we know that Katari is upset.

Maybe Trump will back.

We know, therefore, what's his name.

Tucker's position will be as the official representative

of Katari in the United States.

We know that he will be upset as well.

All right, there you have it.

Might take on this.

It makes overall great performance of our military.

If indeed the opposition gets to control

and you get actual elections in Venezuela,

this will turn out to be ultimately a good thing.

We could also, if the United States threw that through an actual

an actual, what do you call it?

Actual proper government in legitimate government in Venezuela

actually gets to control the oil.

This will be a huge geopolitical victory

for the United States in a sense of both restraining China

and maybe putting Russia into real problem.

OK, now we have this guy.

This guy I can stop.

Let's see.

Remove either I got him or Christian got him.

Somebody got him.

No, mirrors love got him.

Thank you, most love.

Most love got him.

Oh, I was trying.

Yes, there are plenty of tools out there

trying to disrupt the show.

OK, that is what I have to say about this invasion.

I'm happy to take questions about this topic right now.

If you want to ask a question, don't do it in the chat.

Don't do it in your own head.

Actually put it together on a super chat and send it over.

We are way behind on our goals for today.

So please consider making supporting the show.

So I can do these shows as events happen.

They have to be profitable.

They have to make sense.

The Iran shows that I did.

And Israel shows that I did.

We got massive super chat support.

So I'm not sure why Venezuela should be any less profitable

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All right, Dan, what are the risks of the only effective uses of US military in decades

being associated to someone like Trump?

I mean, it's horrible.

And this is maybe what makes this overwhelmingly negative.

Even when Trump does something good, only bad can come of it because he is such a horrible

human being and such a, in a global sense, such a horrible president, president.

So when Trump does something good and that good gets associated with Trump and Trump's

views and Trump's attitude and Trump's action, that is, right?

That is, does not bode well for the future because people will start associating that kind

of action with all his irrationality and it elevates Trump one, which is bad.

But it elevates a relationship between his, you know, his just grossness, his immaturity,

his bum bass, his irrationality with somehow a competent military.

I mean, I would say that the military is competent in spite of Trump, Trump has luckily

nothing to do with the military.

They are competent in spite of him, not because of him.

So yes, they bombed you on.

And that was good.

That was one of the good things he did.

This might turn out to be good.

There's some things that he did, but to the extent, like moving the embassy to Jerusalem

is first term, to the extent that those actions get associated with Trump attitude, with

and deep trouble.

So even when he does something good, well, semi good, it's not good for the country, long

term.

Now I know the accusations of TDS will implode.

NM says maybe sometimes Trump has a strategy.

I don't think he has a really a strategy.

Now the people around him who have a strategy, whether it's good or not, is a question.

I don't think Trump himself has strategy.

Some of the people again, I think Rubio has a strategy and Rubio has been advocating for

doing this for a while.

He's been anti-Venituela and regime changing Venezuela for a while.

They might be people in the feminist department that understand how this affects China and

how this affects Russia.

I don't get any sense from the news conference and from other times that Trump has talked

about this stuff, that he is, you know, that he is in any way strategic about these

issues.

All right, Neil, seems like the UAE and Saudis are also in conflict in the year.

Oh, I'm going to answer that afterwards.

I'm just going to answer this stuff.

There's a bunch on real, real spoke says, well, Mamdani, give me a duo, he was welcome

in New York City.

No, I don't expect though.

So although I'm sure Mamdani will condemn the operation and what the U.S. did, just as

Bernie Sanders was in OEC, John says, Trump, 2028, God help us.

If that happens, it causes blasting the music to get your opponent to change.

See so far on another episode where Tony wanted to get out of a deal.

Good story about blasting the Vatican Embassy, yeah, it is a good story and they did that.

Action Jackson says, what should be done to or about Venezuela now?

What should be done to Maduro and his wife?

Well, Maduro and his wife will face a court of law based on the drug laws that we have

in the United States and I'm fine with that.

That's the law.

They should face the consequence of the law, you know, they might be pardoned ultimately

by Trump, who knows, but for now they will face a jury, a judge in a jury.

It doesn't what should be done with Venezuela, it should be handed, you know, what the United

States should insist is that this, that should be handed over to the opposition party that

won the election and then the opposition party should basically organize an election as soon

as feasible within months, I guess.

And you know, return Venezuela to a kind of a democratic state as part of that, the

United States should insist on the privatization of Venezuelan oil, Venezuel oil assets.

And you know that everybody should be able to bid for American companies, European companies,

and it's willing companies, anybody should be able to bid for, I think the Americans would

win or the Europeans would win, but it should be an open bidding unless, unless you can

tie some of it to compensate the two companies, Conoco, and it was the other one, it wasn't

shell.

Anyway, anyway, compensate the mobile, compensate them for the asset, for the opposite theft

that happened a couple of decades ago.

So some process needs to be with the oil assets not held by the government at all anymore.

So that has to happen as part of the process.

And hopefully that's what will happen, we'll see, that's what should happen.

Cook says being looking for your reaction to this, thanks for a swift show.

Of course now you guys need to come through in terms of trading with me for the swift

show.

You guys cooked it, but everybody else needs to as well.

All right, Catherine says, do you think Canada, Greenland, a Panama could be the next

goals of the US administration to do you think they are busy with Venezuela, Iran and

US itself?

No, I wouldn't be surprised, I don't know what they do, they might go, I don't think

I'll do anything about Canada, that's far fetched.

The Greenland is certainly possible, and I certainly think that if China maintains ownership

of the ports in Panama, the Panama is possible.

And I also think the Cuba is possible, Marco Rubio in the press conference this morning indicated

that Cuba would be next.

I wouldn't be surprised if some kind of operation happened in Cuba to try to overthrow the regime.

Again, I don't think Trump is super motivated because there's no oil, there's nothing for

him to immediately benefit from it.

But who knows, I mean, Rubio will be pushing and maybe Rubio's watching credibility with

a Venezuelan thing and he'll be able to get a Cuba thing.

Greenland is of course the trickiest one because it means going to war with an ally, not

a very long war because I mean it's not like Denmark would actually fight America, but

it would shake up global politics in a way that I'm not sure the Trump administration

wants to engage in.

I mean, that would be the opposite of Venezuela.

That would be a massive strategic era.

That would be a massive, massive, handing a gift, a gift to Russia and China.

And you can ask me about why, but if the United States tried to take or took Greenland,

it's possible.

All right, let's see.

Andrew says, is no-caterrism an anti-concept?

Terrorism does not denote victims who choose to risk their lives.

Yeah, I mean, no-caterrism is, I mean, look, terror, anybody can terrorize.

So terrorizing is possible.

Terrorism has come to mean a political goal, a political goal.

So you're terrorizing people with a political goal.

And Noko cartels are not about a political goal, they're about a monetary goal, they're

about a financial goal, they're about the ability to sell drugs and continue to sell those

drugs.

Yeah, no, I think it's an anti-concept, you know, terrorism is a political issue, narcotics

are not a political issue, they're a crime issue because they've been legal.

Somebody says that the European Union would fight on the side of Denmark, it's not going

to happen, guys.

I mean, Europe is not going to go to war with the United States, it ain't happening.

I mean, basically what will happen is a Denmark and the EU will be super upset with the United

States, they'll do, they'll yell, they'll shout, they'll make accusations, they'll, I

don't know, boycott something, they'll condemn Trump, they'll have a UN resolution and

all of that, but that'll be it.

I mean, the US will basically end next Greenland, it could end next Greenland and nothing

would happen.

What is the constitutional legality of removing Maduro?

I mean, I don't know, from what I understand is there's a warrant for his arrest, it's

a police action backed up by the military, you know, to facilitate it in order to serve

a warrant.

Now, I don't know how US law treats the issue of serving warrants outside the United

States.

I don't know.

I don't know how you would think about this from a constitutional basis.

You know, to the extent this is war, Congress has to approve it.

All I'm saying is, it's got the same constitutionality as Nuyega and as Grenada and as a bunch of

things the United States has already done, there's nothing new here to litigate and nothing

was made of those.

I don't expect anything to be made of this.

WCZN, I think Bannon and Aldmiss Reed Americans, they don't hate wars, they hate losing wars.

I think that's right.

I think you're right.

Of course, they don't want to enter into wars because they're convinced they're going

to lose them.

But you're right.

Once they win them, Americans will come around to support them.

And Jackson said, I like Venezuelan shows because I really like history segments.

Thank you.

Let's see.

Reel Spock says, Christians wanted peace in early century AD.

They thought civilization survives if people expect one another.

It's absolutely nonsense.

It's absolutely nonsense.

What's his name?

God, the first Christian emperor, the first Christian empire was a man of war and he used

Christianity to motivate his troops and the cross.

You know, when the cross became popular in Christianity, when the cross really was brought

out and started to be a symbol of Christianity, it was under Constantine.

Constantine, Constantine, not Solomon, Constantine used the cross to motivate his troops

to go fight and slaughter and kill.

And his whole so-called conversion of Christianity, if it ever happened, happened because he claimed

to have seen a cross in the sky.

God was on his side in being victorious over the other army.

There was nothing about wanting peace in Christianity.

You need Augustine rights and rights about justifying war in the name of Christianity and

the name of converting people to Christianity.

This is okay if you're doing it for good cause.

So Christians did not want peace, maybe pre-constantine Christians, but they were meaning less

and got overruled very quickly by Constantine, by Augustine, by the fathers of Christianity

that came after them.

They're the ones who shaped Christianity.

Christianity is not knowing near a religion of peace, it is a religion of war, it always

has been a religion of war.

The victims of Solomon, asked the victims of Constantine, asked the victims of all, you

know, the various, Constantine legalized Christianity, not in 200 or 300's.

Yes, he legalized Christianity and became emperor and fought in the name of Christianity in Augustine.

Justified is just a theory, justified, fighting in the name of Christianity to kill people.

And the Crusades were not exactly peaceful, anyway, in the world.

Anyway, that's a whole other topic.

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Daniel says, notably Absent was vanced from the press conference.

Do you think he's trying to placate the libertarian tweets?

No, I think, I think it just, it wasn't appropriate.

We'll see what he says in his statements in the days to come.

We'll see how all this evolves in the days to come, but I wouldn't read too much into

his not being there.