Venezuela and Trump's Plan to Control The Western Hemisphere
I break down the real reason behind Trump's decision to grab Maduro, and it's not just drugs or oil. I pick up where I left off nearly 3 months ago explaining the geopolitical play that is Venezuela, while pointing out that big media is late to the party as usual. Just facts and truth without the fluff.
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Welcome back to another episode of World of Blaze.
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This is episode 106.
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That's right, 106.
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This year kicked off with a bang and everybody's talking about Venezuela, Maduro, and so many
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have missed the mark on the reasons for the actions that have been taken.
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Now, this episode is normally I try to do, you know, two to three topics, but I'm going
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to make this episode strictly, I'm going to keep this episode rather strictly about
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Venezuela.
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And I don't know how long that's going to go.
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My goal is to keep this an hour or less, hopefully about 45 minutes, because I'm sure
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you all heard everybody already.
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It's a thousand other podcasters, news outlets, all chiming in, giving their opinions, even
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though 95% of them all, let's say 95, not being generous, 95% of them all are wrong
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and have been wrong.
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So I'm going to attempt to give you a valid explanation based on facts, historical
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facts, to hopefully help you better understand the situation.
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Now a lot of what has happened, we don't all have to agree with.
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Nobody agrees with regime change.
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Another country stepping into another sovereign nation to purposely force regime change
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is, I mean, historically has never been great.
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It just hasn't.
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But what happened here, what happened here with the capture of Maduro was really less
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to do with regime change and more to do with protecting our own backyard period.
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And for anybody who says that it's something else, you might want to listen to another
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news outlet, podcast or whoever.
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But the reality is all the mainstream media outlets right now, all the podcast bros,
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even some of the Intel guys who are way behind on their assessments in terms of being over
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the target on this situation are now all saying now chiming lockstep.
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Well, you know, maybe maybe this really wasn't about the oil.
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Maybe it wasn't all about the oil.
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I mean, it had a little bit to do with it, but maybe it wasn't really the main issue.
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Well, maybe it was the drugs.
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Maybe it wasn't.
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I don't know.
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But it was partially the drugs.
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But before, everyone said that this was nothing more than a grab for resources,
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nothing more than Trump trying to step in and steal the oil out from under the
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Venezuelan government.
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There's some merit to that.
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I'm not going to deny it.
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There's some merit to that.
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But again, not the whole story.
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And so I want to point this out to everybody.
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Well, now you have your Megan Kelly's, your Fox News is like everybody suddenly,
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like they all don't agree with each other, but they're all saying, well, you
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know, it's kind of about the oil, but not really.
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Wait, wait, wait, wait.
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What is that?
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What is that word?
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What is that nation that everyone's talking about now all of a sudden?
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Oh, was this about China?
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Was it?
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Was it about China?
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I remember talking about it being China about, I don't know, over two
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months ago.
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I remember talking about it being about Iran over two months.
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I remember discussing Russia's involvement over two months ago.
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I mean, honestly, I've been bringing these points up further than about
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three months ago now, actually, but nobody paid attention.
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Nobody paid attention.
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Why?
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Well, look, I know my place.
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I know I'm not as big as a Megan Kelly or a Tucker Carlson or
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whoever you like to listen to on the side.
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But if anything has been proven, is this, if you're not consistently
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listening to my show and you're not paying attention to what I'm saying
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because you just got it on in the background, you're doing yourself a
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disservice and you are behind the eight ball in information.
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Do I get everything right?
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Hell no, but I'm telling you right now, my geopolitical record
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thus far has been pretty damn accurate.
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And listen, I have friends who know a lot more than I do.
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And I have these discussions with these friends just so I could
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bounce things back and forth, check my assessments, test my theories.
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But in the end, I've been mostly right on things.
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I really have.
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I'm not trying to pat my own back here, toot my own horn,
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but it's kind of vindicating that a small podcaster like
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me has been getting it right, been told that I don't know
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what I'm talking about.
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But all of a sudden, everyone is parroting the same shit
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that I've been saying for nearly three damn months.
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And so look, I got a lot to go over and I do not like repeating myself.
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I'm just going to tell you right now, this could be a much longer
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podcast to go through everything that is happening in that region,
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in the Caribbean.
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It's not just about Venezuela, by the way, it's about Peru.
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It's about Panama.
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It's about Colombia.
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It's about Brazil.
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There is so much going on, even Cuba.
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There's so much going on there that is not just about Venezuela.
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And no, it's not all about drugs.
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And no, it's not all about oil, but oil is a major tool
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that has been used by all parties involved in the region.
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So I'm just going to refer you to these two episodes here.
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So listen, I have episode 102 right here titled Terrorist Attack,
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Preserving America, No to Tolerance and US vs Venezuela.
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In that particular episode, I do a bit of a deep dive into
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the history of Maduro, the drug trade and trafficking in Venezuela
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that goes all the way back to 1993, by the way, and under
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Hugo Chavez just exploded.
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The military themselves were involved in the narco trafficking
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dealings, and by the time Maduro took power, the government
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of Venezuela was literally like selling protection to
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narco trafficking routes, especially after the US clamped
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down on the Colombian drug trade.
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They needed to find new routes to move their product.
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And so all roads from Mexico, from Peru, from Colombia
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led to Venezuela.
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And once it was in Venezuela, Venezuela protected
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the trafficking routes for these narcos.
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Some of it went up through South America, past the
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Venezuelan border, most of it left the ports of Venezuela.
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And it's very important for everybody to realize this.
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Venezuela just in cocaine.
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Now we're not going to talk about all drugs because
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there's a lot of low IQ mouth breathers like, well,
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you know, Venezuela doesn't produce fentanyl, so Trump
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is an idiot.
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First off, stop making this about Trump because shocker,
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this goes back to Obama.
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In fact, it goes back further than Obama.
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Hell, it goes all the way back to President Monroe.
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That's right.
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I think it was back, what, 1800, something like that.
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So this area has been an area of interest and
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contention for many years.
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Now, the drug trade in and of itself has been there
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for many years.
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And under the Obama administration is when everything
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was really, really tested and tensions rose because
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before 2005, by the way, before 2005, the DEA was able
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to work with the Venezuelan government to go after
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narco terrorists, to go after drug traffickers.
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But in 2005, the Venezuelan government decided, you
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know what, we're kicking the DEA out.
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We're no longer working with you.
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And why?
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Because Mr.
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Hugo Chavez decided the drug trade was good business.
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It wasn't just about the money.
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It was about the connections.
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And so there's a deep history of drug trafficking that
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was partly to do about money.
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I think it was about an $8 billion a year business
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for Venezuela, which, you know, by American
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standards, if we're just talking about money, by
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the way, isn't a lot of money.
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But for a country the size of Venezuela, it's a
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good chunk.
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The oil business is really what made the money
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for Venezuela.
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And it was about double, maybe two and a half
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times more than the drug trade.
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But still, you can't shake a stick at $8
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billion a year.
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And with that came relationships, the nefarious
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actors behind the drug trade.
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A lot of power there, a lot of corruption, a lot
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of means to get things done.
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Now, the other episode I want to draw your
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attention to is episode 100 right here with my
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guest, Kervin O'Quinn.
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Now, Kervin O'Quinn is a 20 year Intel veteran,
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and he still to this day works in intelligence.
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Now, a lot of times when we talk, he can't tell me
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everything because there's ongoing operations,
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investigations, et cetera.
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But I will say without confirming or denying,
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we usually are able to bounce some stuff off
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of each other.
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Of course, he's much more informed than I am.
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But in the end, this particular episode 100,
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we did a very good deep dive and assessment on
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the implications of attacking Venezuela, on
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the implications of possibly capturing
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Maduro.
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Like we were talking about all of this well over
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a month ago, and just now everyone's coming
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around to it.
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So without me getting too deep, going into too
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much detail, I'm not going to keep repeating
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myself.
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Look, listen to episode 100 and listen to
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episode 102.
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Those two episodes that I did, there's chapters
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on YouTube if you just want to skip to where
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you want to get to.
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If you want to listen to all the other
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bullshit, fine, great, good on you.
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I appreciate it.
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But those two episodes that I already put
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out previously will give you a lot of
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information that you have been missing when
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it comes to the whole Venezuela situation.
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Now, this is where I have to quote Andrews
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from Alien 3.
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This is rumor control.
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Here are the facts.
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Venezuela wasn't really about the drugs.
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I'll be honest with you.
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The drugs were a major play.
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The drugs were a way to get people to buy in.
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Now, was it important to stop the illicit
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drug trafficking routes, the drug trade?
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Absolutely.
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Why?
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Because again, it came down to the
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relationships those involved.
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The government of Colombia, Colombia, look,
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is also a narco state.
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Colombia was involved.
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Peru was involved.
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Panama involved.
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Mexico involved.
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Now, not necessarily the nation states
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themselves, but every one of these
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countries have very powerful narco terrorist
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organizations or cartels, if you'd
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rather call them that.
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All roads led to Venezuela.
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The other thing that was very important
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about Venezuela, since we're talking
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facts, is China.
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That's right.
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A lot of people dismissed China.
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A lot of people didn't talk about China.
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China was really part of the major
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reasons that Trump even acted.
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The reality is this.
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The whole thing with the drug trade,
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as I said previously, it goes back
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a long ways.
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Obama ramped it up.
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He's the one who really, really put
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his eye on Venezuela, and he's the one
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who actually declared Venezuela a threat
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to national security, the American
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national security, that is.
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And he saw this.
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And whether you like Obama or not,
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this is how far it went back, period.
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Even under Biden, for as much of a,
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well, all right, I'm going to hold my tongue.
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For as much as some don't like Biden,
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I will just say that he also recognized
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the threat in what was going on with Venezuela.
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And when it came to Maduro specifically,
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Maduro's bounty on his head for crimes
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when it came to drug trafficking,
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human rights violations, et cetera,
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wasn't just about the United States of America.
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There are many countries, many countries
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who wanted Maduro captured.
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But the US, being the bigger country,
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the superpower in all of this,
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is the one who really, really had
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the means to make it happen.
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So the bounty on Maduro goes back
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quite a few years, and it started at 15 million.
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The Biden administration increased that to 25 million.
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And then it was later increased to 50 million.
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So again, I said this in another episode,
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a previous episode, I believe it was episode 102.
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Was this about drugs?
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Yes and no, partially.
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Yes, it's a huge feather in the cap
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of the United States to squash that industry,
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to further put pressure on the drug trade in the area,
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to further put more stumbling blocks, roadblocks.
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Like, look, we're not going to be naive.
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We're not going to be able to shut it down entirely,
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even though we would love to.
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But so much came out of Venezuela.
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Many people claim that Venezuela didn't even produce
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anything, which was also a lie.
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Look, most of the drugs came from, again,
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it came from Peru and Colombia and Mexico.
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All went into Venezuela.
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250 metric tons of cocaine alone, just cocaine alone,
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was trafficked through Venezuela, just cocaine.
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And that made up literally 10,
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I think up to 15% of the entire cocaine trade in the world.
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Think about that, think about that.
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And just specifically talking cocaine, by the way,
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this isn't all drugs that were funneled
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through Venezuela, just cocaine.
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I want to say it was about 10 to 13% of that
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was destined to the United States,
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the rest to Europe and Asia.
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So was it about drugs?
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Was there a problem?
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Damn right, there was, there was a huge problem.
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And again, it was more than just the drugs,
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it was the connections, it was the power,
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it was the means to get things done
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by other very dangerous individuals and organizations.
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And all these organizations were protected
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by the Venezuelan government.
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So what if Venezuela get out of it?
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Again, connections, connections.
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They can call in a favor.
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They got money, absolutely got money.
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Again, about eight, maybe $9 billion a year out of it.
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Still a good revenue stream.
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But let's get past the drugs, let's get back to China.
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So what was China doing there?
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You know, before the operation happened,
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I believe it was like literally the day before,
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China was there with delegates meeting with Maduro
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before the strike on Caracas
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that involved very elite United States military personnel.
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I mean, we're talking about an air mission
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by the Army's 160th, also known as the Night Stalkers.
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I mean, these guys are elite helicopter pilots.
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They train to do nothing but fly at night
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at extremely low altitudes.
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I mean, these guys are the bad asses
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of helicopter pilots, period.
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I mean, they are the special forces
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of helicopter operations, period.
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And then the other people
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that were tapped to go after Maduro,
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look, as bad ass as the Navy SEALs are,
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they called in Delta Force.
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And they're also known as special operations
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in the Army.
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And if you don't know who Delta Force is,
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well, that's by design.
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Their name isn't really pushed around that much.
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The military community absolutely knows about them,
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but these are the elite of the elite of the elite.
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This is the team that pulls
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from all the other special forces teams.
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Like, you got SEALs, which, much respect,
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because damn, they do shit that, I mean, I would tap out.
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And then you got Delta Force.
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I mean, it just goes from here to here,
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like here to here, to here, here, here.
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Trying to keep my hand in the frame here.
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But listen, you all get the point.
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These are bad hombres.
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These are people that you do not fuck with.
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And if these guys are going after you, it's job done.
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Let me just say that.
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This operation was so well planned, so strategic,
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that the entire operation, from air support,
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taking out any kind of retaliatory means
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by the Venezuelan military,
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all the way to the 160th or night stalkers
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bringing them to Delta Force Special Operations Unit,
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like capturing him, and then even taking him back
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and putting him on the boat was all less than three hours.
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All of it was less than three hours, all of it.
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And Delta Force, they trained.
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They had a full-scale model of Maduro's complex,
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where they trained day and night
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to know every turn, every nook and cranny.
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Like the CIA was out there doing intel for months,
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doing nothing but tracking his movements.
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How he ate, by the way, even the times he ate,
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when he went to bed, his every single habit,
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so that there were absolutely no surprises.
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So this was absolutely not just a display
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of the most elite military in the world, in operation,
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taking action, but a clear message
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to China, Iran, and Russia.
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China's involvement in the region
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is not just to do with Venezuela.
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But again, I know I digressed a bit,
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but China was there literally the day before
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having a meeting with Maduro.
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China had warned the US, previous to this,
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a few months ago, to leave Venezuela alone.
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Well, why?
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Why is that?
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Well, China was making major investments in Venezuela,
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in cash, mostly by loans.
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They were also selling military armaments to Venezuela.
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They were also training Venezuelan troops.
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So this goes well beyond just diplomatic relationships here.
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This was China digging in their heels
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and offering much more than needed.
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Why?
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For the same reason everybody is blaming Trump
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for going into Venezuela.
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The oil, the resources, and not just that,
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the hemispherical position to the United States.
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Having a strategic base of operations,
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an ally in the Western Hemisphere,
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which is literally right here
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in the United States backyard, is huge.
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And before Venezuela,
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China was making many, many investments
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and growing the relationship with Peru.
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They were also doing the same in Panama.
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In fact, they helped Panama build infrastructure.
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They control the port, by the way,
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the Panama Canal, at both ends.
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Now, I know not the Chinese government directly,
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but two Chinese companies.
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So, I mean, we all know what that means.
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Look, in China, if you get into business,
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China is your partner.
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The actual government of China
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is one of the partners of that business, regardless.
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And when they want to,
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they're gonna punch your ticket
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and they're gonna use your company
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for the betterment of their government,
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as they see anyway, as they see.
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So, China was intentionally going around
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trying to create these relationships,
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giving all these countries loans,
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building their infrastructure,
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selling weapons and arms to Venezuela,
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training Venezuelan troops.
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They were digging themselves in
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to become the major power
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that controlled the Western Hemisphere,
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our own backyard.
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You know who else was doing this?
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Iran.
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That's right.
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Iran had a relationship with Venezuela as well.
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They would offer to go help repair their oil refineries.
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And you know what else Iran did?
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They sold advanced weaponry as well.
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Well, more like technologies.
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They would sell them drones
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and surface-to-air missiles.
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And they were also involved in military trainings
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and operations as well.
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So, we got China and Iran in our backyard,
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trying to get cozy with our neighbors.
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I mean, it's like you looking out your door
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and then, let's just say the neighbor behind you
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is like, I don't know,
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for, let's say your house is America
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and you look in the backyard and then that's Russia.
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Like that house is Russia,
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or in this case, China or Iran.
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And when you look at the world,
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you look at the map,
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and even though it's a big world,
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that's literally what this was.
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This is what was going on.
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Russia was also involved.
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Russia had many investments in the area as well.
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Russia was involved in trading certain goods,
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certain services or consulting and whatnot.
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Anyway, Russia was also involved.
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So, Russia and Iran, they traded for oil.
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China, I will be honest,
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I'm not sure how much oil actually went to China,
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but China was there for other reasons.
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China wanted to control the Western Hemisphere.
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China wants to be the United States.
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They want to be the world power.
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China wants to solidify their Belt and Road Initiative.
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Now, they can already do that with Panama,
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but if you cozy up to Venezuela and Peru,
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well, that is three nations right next to each other.
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And if you can get that whole region right there
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under your control, under your grasp,
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then you pretty much own the hemisphere right there.
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You own that Western Hemisphere.
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So again, was this about drugs?
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Partly.
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Was this about oil?
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Well, here's the thing with the oil.
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Yes and no.
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The thing with the oil is this.
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Iran was relying on the oil.
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They were using that oil regardless.
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The bigger thing was Russia.
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Russia's use of the oil.
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So in controlling the oil there,
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stepping in control of the oil,
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you're cutting off major energy,
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major supply of energy to these nations,
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as well as revenue streams to these nations.
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Secondly, the oil industry in Venezuela
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goes back a long way.
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And a lot of it had to do with America,
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stepping in, helping develop the oil industry
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for Venezuela.
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Companies like Chevron, for example,
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they specialized in making refineries
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that could process their certain brand or type of oil.
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Because it's not like the fine wine of oil.
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It needs a little work.
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It needs a little, you know,
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you need to massage it a bit.
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You need to do a few more things
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to get it to be the oil that we need to use.
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But Venezuela's abundant in it.
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So US manufacturers, US oil manufacturers
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created the refineries, built the refineries
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to be able to process this particular type of oil.
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And just like in 2005,
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when Venezuela refused to work with the US government
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or with the DEA to try to get a handle
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on the illegal drug trade and the trafficking,
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Venezuela also, this wasn't in 2005.
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I'm not sure the exact date,
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but Venezuela also closed out
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and turned their back to the US in the oil trade.
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With that being said, Trump made some remarks here.
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Trump absolutely made some remarks.
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He said, we're taking the oil back.
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He said that we are also going to run Venezuela.
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Well, choice words for sure.
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I understand controlling the oil,
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but Trump also did say that
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the revenues from the oil,
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he's going to make sure go back to Venezuela,
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go back to the people of Venezuela.
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So this isn't the intention of the Trump administration
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to just rob, pillage, and rape Venezuela.
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He's looking at a partnership with Venezuela.
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So I'm not really too concerned
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on how the US is going to be working with Venezuela
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00:27:14.800 --> 00:27:15.620
in terms of the oil,
526
00:27:15.880 --> 00:27:18.720
because Venezuela, their oil industry was not huge.
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They have so much reserve,
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but they didn't have the capability or capacity
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00:27:22.360 --> 00:27:26.920
to get it out of the ground and refine it
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00:27:27.720 --> 00:27:29.480
and the levels that they needed
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to be extremely profitable and rich.
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Were they rich in resources? Yes.
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00:27:36.220 --> 00:27:37.720
Were their exports making them rich?
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No, because they had limited means of production.
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So the US stepping in is a good thing for Venezuela.
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I personally hope that Trump does what he says
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and that he truly is going to work
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with the nation state of Venezuela
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00:27:53.280 --> 00:27:55.120
and the Venezuelan people to make sure
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that they are once again, wealthy, healthy nation.
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00:28:02.420 --> 00:28:05.320
And look, I do not want to see Trump
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00:28:05.320 --> 00:28:07.260
rape Venezuela whatsoever.
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00:28:07.900 --> 00:28:09.000
I really don't.
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00:28:09.300 --> 00:28:10.920
And I'm hoping that is not his intention.
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Time will tell.
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00:28:14.930 --> 00:28:17.350
What I'm more concerned with is Trump's statement
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in saying that we are going to run Venezuela for a while
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00:28:21.570 --> 00:28:27.050
until we can find the appropriate
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00:28:28.850 --> 00:28:31.350
transitionary time or period.
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00:28:32.590 --> 00:28:37.310
So what that means is there's a lot that can happen here.
551
00:28:37.750 --> 00:28:40.450
Okay, so vice president of Venezuela was voted in
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00:28:40.450 --> 00:28:43.130
or was sworn in to become president,
553
00:28:43.670 --> 00:28:44.930
but Trump swooped in and said,
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00:28:45.390 --> 00:28:47.770
we're not recognizing that, we're pumping the brakes.
555
00:28:48.510 --> 00:28:49.550
And I get it.
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00:28:49.550 --> 00:28:50.630
I get it.
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00:28:50.630 --> 00:28:54.010
When it comes to a democracy, for example,
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00:28:54.130 --> 00:28:56.210
if the people voted, if the people want
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00:28:56.210 --> 00:28:58.310
a certain individual, it's that country's right
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00:28:58.310 --> 00:29:01.610
to get behind that individual to be the de facto leader
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00:29:01.610 --> 00:29:02.950
or representative of that country.
562
00:29:03.750 --> 00:29:05.690
But again, this is bigger than drugs.
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00:29:05.710 --> 00:29:07.090
This is bigger than just Venezuela.
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00:29:07.170 --> 00:29:11.810
This is about keeping control of the Western hemisphere,
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keeping it safe.
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00:29:13.570 --> 00:29:15.730
And one of the ways we're gonna do that
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is by continuing to root out communism
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00:29:18.950 --> 00:29:23.730
and the socialist practices within our own hemisphere.
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00:29:24.930 --> 00:29:29.010
And by doing so, that is keeping Russia and China at bay
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00:29:29.850 --> 00:29:32.530
and absolutely keeping Iran out of the picture.
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00:29:34.090 --> 00:29:35.970
So controlling the area, I understand.
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00:29:36.690 --> 00:29:40.490
Now, do we have to agree with this whole situation
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and how it was handled?
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00:29:41.750 --> 00:29:44.230
No, we absolutely do not.
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00:29:44.570 --> 00:29:47.410
Do we have to say that Trump is right
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00:29:47.410 --> 00:29:49.450
in his assessment and his actions?
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00:29:51.610 --> 00:29:55.390
We don't have to, but the unfortunate truth here,
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00:29:55.650 --> 00:29:56.890
and you can take your emotions
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00:29:56.890 --> 00:29:58.070
and just throw them out the window
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00:29:58.070 --> 00:30:01.930
because as I said earlier, this is rumor control.
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00:30:02.270 --> 00:30:03.290
These are the facts.
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00:30:05.050 --> 00:30:07.430
The reality of the situation is it was necessary
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00:30:07.430 --> 00:30:10.290
for too many years under previous administrations,
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going back many, many years.
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00:30:12.890 --> 00:30:16.030
The encroachment of China in our own Western hemisphere
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00:30:16.030 --> 00:30:18.570
over the years was unchecked.
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00:30:18.570 --> 00:30:19.850
And it has gotten to the point
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that China was ramping up their plans,
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00:30:25.630 --> 00:30:26.970
was not hiding it anymore.
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00:30:27.350 --> 00:30:28.710
It was making it very known
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00:30:28.710 --> 00:30:30.670
that they were going to control the region.
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00:30:31.650 --> 00:30:34.650
We can't wake up to seeing China in our backyard
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with turrets of rockets, missiles, et cetera,
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pointed our way.
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We can't have China in our backyard
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00:30:41.830 --> 00:30:45.450
controlling the oceans and the trade routes
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going through South America.
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That is not gonna happen.
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00:30:50.600 --> 00:30:52.080
So while we don't agree with it,
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we don't like regime change
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00:30:53.860 --> 00:30:57.640
and we don't want to see Trump take these actions,
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00:30:59.120 --> 00:31:02.620
it had to happen because it went unchecked for too long.
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00:31:03.120 --> 00:31:05.120
And if something didn't happen now,
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00:31:05.500 --> 00:31:07.060
we would have woke up one day
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00:31:07.060 --> 00:31:08.840
in a major war with China.
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00:31:09.520 --> 00:31:11.460
We would have woke up one day
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with Iran right there outside our ports.
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00:31:17.660 --> 00:31:19.840
And you may think that I'm wrong here,
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00:31:19.840 --> 00:31:21.880
but my track record has been pretty right.
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00:31:22.220 --> 00:31:24.260
So I think we just averted a major crisis
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00:31:24.260 --> 00:31:26.640
by stepping in, taking care of the situation
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00:31:26.640 --> 00:31:30.580
and sending a very, very clear message
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00:31:30.580 --> 00:31:33.340
to China, Russia, and Iran.
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00:31:34.040 --> 00:31:35.900
That message is this is our backyard.
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00:31:37.240 --> 00:31:38.940
We say what happens here.
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00:31:40.180 --> 00:31:43.380
And you, you need to get the fuck out.
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00:31:44.720 --> 00:31:46.340
And so, look, I've been talking a while.
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00:31:46.360 --> 00:31:48.660
What I wanna do is I wanna play a clip.
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This is from First Post.
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00:31:52.540 --> 00:31:57.860
Now, they give a nice unbiased reporting
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00:31:57.860 --> 00:32:00.160
of what was going on there recently
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00:32:00.160 --> 00:32:01.820
and the whole situation.
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00:32:03.100 --> 00:32:06.440
And so I wanna play this and it's a four minute clip.
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00:32:07.060 --> 00:32:08.620
I don't know how long I'm gonna go with it,
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00:32:08.620 --> 00:32:09.840
but I have to play this clip
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00:32:09.840 --> 00:32:12.700
because I thought it was a very well put together clip
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00:32:13.840 --> 00:32:16.660
and what really seemed to be like an unbiased report.
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00:32:16.720 --> 00:32:17.480
You know, real news.
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00:32:18.100 --> 00:32:19.380
Not like what I'm doing apparently.
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00:32:20.160 --> 00:32:22.060
Real news, like just telling it
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00:32:22.060 --> 00:32:24.180
like it is just saying this happened, that happened,
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00:32:24.760 --> 00:32:25.860
this person said this.
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00:32:26.140 --> 00:32:28.480
And so here's the clip I wanna play for you.
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00:32:28.880 --> 00:32:30.520
I'm gonna go ahead and full screen that out
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00:32:30.520 --> 00:32:33.140
so you can see it and give this a listen.
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00:32:33.460 --> 00:32:35.940
A major diplomatic storm has erupted
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00:32:35.940 --> 00:32:37.100
at the United Nations.
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00:32:37.100 --> 00:32:39.920
China has strongly condemned the United States
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00:32:39.920 --> 00:32:42.540
for seizing Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro
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00:32:42.540 --> 00:32:45.580
and flying him to New York to face criminal charges.
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00:32:47.380 --> 00:32:48.760
Beijing called the move illegal,
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00:32:49.280 --> 00:32:52.180
bullying and a direct attack on Venezuela's sovereignty,
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00:32:52.540 --> 00:32:55.120
warning it could set a dangerous global precedent.
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00:32:55.600 --> 00:32:58.700
At an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council,
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China said it was shocked by what it described
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00:33:01.280 --> 00:33:03.280
as a unilateral use of force,
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00:33:03.660 --> 00:33:05.660
adding that the United States had ignored
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00:33:05.660 --> 00:33:08.640
international law and disregarded sovereign equality.
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00:33:09.420 --> 00:33:11.240
Beijing demanded the immediate release
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00:33:11.240 --> 00:33:13.640
of Maduro and his wife and called on Washington
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00:33:13.640 --> 00:33:16.460
to resolve disputes through dialogue and not force.
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00:33:18.760 --> 00:33:21.940
The US has placed its own power above multilateralism
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00:33:21.940 --> 00:33:24.740
and military action above diplomatic efforts,
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posing a grave threat to peace and security
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00:33:26.980 --> 00:33:28.980
in Latin America and the Caribbean
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and indeed internationally.
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China firmly opposes this
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00:33:33.080 --> 00:33:35.460
and the international community has also expressed
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00:33:35.460 --> 00:33:38.380
widespread grave concern and strong condemnation.
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00:33:41.220 --> 00:33:43.800
The dramatic developments followed a late night raid
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00:33:43.800 --> 00:33:45.160
in Caracas on Saturday,
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00:33:45.520 --> 00:33:47.200
when Maduro and his wife were detained
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00:33:47.200 --> 00:33:49.260
and transported to the United States.
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00:33:49.760 --> 00:33:51.220
Maduro is now facing charges,
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00:33:51.420 --> 00:33:54.460
including narcoterrorism and weapons related offenses.
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00:33:55.280 --> 00:33:57.420
All right, I'm gonna pause this interjector.
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00:33:57.740 --> 00:34:00.340
So remember how I discussed earlier
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00:34:00.340 --> 00:34:02.340
that everybody is suddenly talking about China
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00:34:02.340 --> 00:34:03.080
and the China involvement.
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00:34:03.580 --> 00:34:07.580
When this happened, I posted on my social medias right away.
671
00:34:07.640 --> 00:34:08.699
I was like, look, I'm sitting here
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00:34:08.699 --> 00:34:09.800
waiting for the China response.
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00:34:09.840 --> 00:34:12.480
And everyone was like, huh, what the hell you talking about?
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00:34:12.620 --> 00:34:14.380
This isn't about China, it's about oil.
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00:34:15.900 --> 00:34:17.400
All right, it took a couple of days
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00:34:17.400 --> 00:34:18.659
and then all of a sudden,
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00:34:19.139 --> 00:34:22.139
Xi Jinping was everywhere with his statement.
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00:34:22.239 --> 00:34:23.800
Everyone was like, oh, China said this
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00:34:23.800 --> 00:34:24.880
and condemns the US.
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00:34:25.739 --> 00:34:27.699
Here's what's rich about China's statement.
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00:34:29.340 --> 00:34:31.360
These are the same people
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00:34:31.909 --> 00:34:35.880
that in the Indo-Pacific region
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00:34:37.800 --> 00:34:39.440
terrorize the Philippines,
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00:34:41.179 --> 00:34:42.840
the Filipino fishing boats and whatnot.
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00:34:43.639 --> 00:34:44.780
So they terrorize that area.
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00:34:47.940 --> 00:34:50.139
They terrorize South Korea,
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00:34:51.260 --> 00:34:52.480
not as much as North Korea does,
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00:34:52.960 --> 00:34:57.560
but they give Japan a hard time
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00:34:58.050 --> 00:35:00.620
and they absolutely give Taiwan a hard time.
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00:35:00.620 --> 00:35:02.780
So they're out there antagonizing Taiwan,
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00:35:04.000 --> 00:35:07.720
South Korea and Japan and the Philippines daily.
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00:35:08.660 --> 00:35:10.840
All sovereign nations, by the way,
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00:35:11.780 --> 00:35:13.900
but yet it's okay for China to do that.
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00:35:14.120 --> 00:35:15.800
And if we're talking about violations,
695
00:35:16.540 --> 00:35:20.200
I mean, are we even talking about China's consistent
696
00:35:20.200 --> 00:35:25.560
and insistent genocide of the Uyghurs?
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00:35:25.560 --> 00:35:30.900
The native Muslim Uyghurs in China?
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00:35:34.260 --> 00:35:39.370
I mean, they're literally like capturing these people
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00:35:39.870 --> 00:35:42.590
and chemically castrating them
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00:35:42.590 --> 00:35:43.750
so that they can't breed
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00:35:43.750 --> 00:35:45.830
and they can't continue their race.
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00:35:48.260 --> 00:35:50.320
So it's very rich for China to speak up
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00:35:50.320 --> 00:35:51.740
against the US's actions here.
704
00:35:51.820 --> 00:35:53.780
But again, why is China concerned?
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00:35:53.820 --> 00:35:55.100
Because of everything I said.
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00:35:55.220 --> 00:35:57.780
China was investing heavily into the area.
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00:35:58.240 --> 00:36:00.060
China was making inroads with Venezuela.
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00:36:00.060 --> 00:36:03.740
China was giving money to Peru and developing Peru.
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00:36:04.040 --> 00:36:06.440
They were very heavily involved in Panama.
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00:36:06.980 --> 00:36:11.100
This whole thing that Trump decided to do
711
00:36:11.100 --> 00:36:14.900
just disrupted China's plans.
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00:36:15.180 --> 00:36:18.120
It dealt a major blow to China's plans
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00:36:18.120 --> 00:36:20.640
to control the area in our backyard.
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00:36:21.340 --> 00:36:22.600
Or I can continue this report.
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00:36:22.820 --> 00:36:24.500
Accusations, he is strongly denied.
716
00:36:24.920 --> 00:36:26.960
He has pleaded not guilty in a New York court.
717
00:36:27.400 --> 00:36:29.220
Now Washington has defended its actions,
718
00:36:29.220 --> 00:36:31.780
saying this was a law enforcement operation
719
00:36:31.780 --> 00:36:33.980
based on longstanding indictments.
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00:36:34.280 --> 00:36:35.920
In fact, President Donald Trump
721
00:36:35.920 --> 00:36:37.720
had referenced the Monroe Doctrine
722
00:36:37.720 --> 00:36:39.200
to justify the operation,
723
00:36:39.640 --> 00:36:41.780
a principle that has shaped US policy
724
00:36:41.780 --> 00:36:43.860
in Latin America for nearly two centuries.
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00:36:44.620 --> 00:36:48.760
First articulated by President James Monroe in the 1800s,
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00:36:48.920 --> 00:36:50.600
the doctrine was originally designed
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00:36:50.600 --> 00:36:53.260
to warn European powers against intervening
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00:36:53.260 --> 00:36:54.260
in the Western Hemisphere.
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00:36:56.020 --> 00:36:58.640
All of these actions were in gross violation
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00:36:58.640 --> 00:37:02.240
of the core principles of American foreign policy,
731
00:37:02.560 --> 00:37:07.460
dating back more than two centuries, and not anymore.
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00:37:08.840 --> 00:37:13.220
All the way back, it dated to the Monroe Doctrines,
733
00:37:14.100 --> 00:37:17.040
and the Monroe Doctrine is a big deal,
734
00:37:17.400 --> 00:37:22.040
but we've superseded it by a lot, by a real lot.
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00:37:23.240 --> 00:37:25.060
They now call it the Monroe Doctrine.
736
00:37:25.060 --> 00:37:29.380
I don't know, it's Monroe Doctrine.
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00:37:30.140 --> 00:37:31.680
We sort of forgot about it.
738
00:37:31.680 --> 00:37:33.440
It was very important, but we forgot about it.
739
00:37:33.460 --> 00:37:34.940
We don't forget about it anymore.
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00:37:35.200 --> 00:37:37.760
Under our new national security strategy,
741
00:37:37.860 --> 00:37:40.780
American dominance in the Western Hemisphere
742
00:37:41.350 --> 00:37:42.900
will never be questioned again.
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00:37:43.420 --> 00:37:44.160
Won't happen.
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00:37:46.160 --> 00:37:48.580
I'm pausing here because it's important.
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00:37:48.720 --> 00:37:51.000
Now look, whether you like Donald Trump or not,
746
00:37:51.180 --> 00:37:53.200
sometimes it sounds like he's just fumbling around
747
00:37:53.200 --> 00:37:55.320
and making stuff up on the fly.
748
00:37:56.120 --> 00:37:57.280
And many times he is.
749
00:37:58.420 --> 00:38:00.460
He's never been a person to stay on script,
750
00:38:00.500 --> 00:38:02.080
but what he said is very important,
751
00:38:02.800 --> 00:38:04.500
and what was reported earlier
752
00:38:04.500 --> 00:38:08.260
before they cut to this clip is true.
753
00:38:08.740 --> 00:38:12.660
Now, we need to understand what the Monroe Doctrine,
754
00:38:13.440 --> 00:38:16.000
sorry for that flub, let me say that again,
755
00:38:16.340 --> 00:38:19.440
what the Monroe Doctrine represents.
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00:38:21.100 --> 00:38:24.060
Listen, this was created at a time
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00:38:24.060 --> 00:38:26.960
when America was sending a message to Europe
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00:38:26.960 --> 00:38:30.260
and saying, look, you have no right
759
00:38:30.260 --> 00:38:33.780
to be in our hemisphere and we're going to stand up
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00:38:33.780 --> 00:38:36.280
to European colonialism in our backyard.
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00:38:36.700 --> 00:38:39.440
But more importantly, what the Monroe Doctrine did
762
00:38:39.440 --> 00:38:43.440
is it established the Western Hemisphere.
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00:38:44.380 --> 00:38:48.060
The Western Hemisphere that was to be controlled
764
00:38:48.060 --> 00:38:52.080
and ran by the United States of America.
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00:38:52.680 --> 00:38:55.560
Look, the US has been a superpower for a very long time.
766
00:38:56.420 --> 00:38:59.440
The United States of America is the big dog.
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00:38:59.960 --> 00:39:00.860
And I'm not just saying that
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00:39:00.860 --> 00:39:02.360
because I'm American and I'm born here.
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00:39:02.780 --> 00:39:03.960
It's just a fact.
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00:39:04.320 --> 00:39:07.020
And before America, the big dog was,
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00:39:07.020 --> 00:39:08.700
well, the UK, it was Britain.
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00:39:08.940 --> 00:39:12.080
I mean, we cannot argue Britain's history
773
00:39:12.080 --> 00:39:15.360
and its power, its control, its prowess,
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00:39:15.500 --> 00:39:16.780
what it contributed to the world.
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00:39:17.080 --> 00:39:20.100
And so before America, it was Britain.
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00:39:21.320 --> 00:39:24.180
But for a very long time, to this day,
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00:39:24.240 --> 00:39:26.320
it is the United States of America.
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00:39:26.820 --> 00:39:31.980
And the Monroe Doctrine established the ability
779
00:39:31.980 --> 00:39:36.160
for America to say what happens in the Western Hemisphere
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00:39:36.760 --> 00:39:41.200
and that nobody, nobody has a right to control,
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00:39:41.860 --> 00:39:46.320
manipulate, or get involved in our hemisphere
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00:39:46.320 --> 00:39:48.440
without our permission, without our say.
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00:39:49.500 --> 00:39:52.420
And that we will not allow anybody
784
00:39:53.120 --> 00:39:56.820
to do what we don't give permission to do.
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00:39:57.800 --> 00:40:00.420
Now, that is a very slippery slope
786
00:40:00.420 --> 00:40:01.820
because you can take that many ways.
787
00:40:02.220 --> 00:40:03.300
You can take that as, well,
788
00:40:03.300 --> 00:40:05.320
that's America just being authoritarian
789
00:40:05.940 --> 00:40:07.440
within the Western Hemisphere.
790
00:40:07.720 --> 00:40:10.040
And basically even telling other sovereign nations,
791
00:40:10.220 --> 00:40:11.380
like, no, you answered to us.
792
00:40:11.400 --> 00:40:13.540
It's almost like, yeah, we're the boss.
793
00:40:13.560 --> 00:40:14.440
You kick up to us.
794
00:40:14.440 --> 00:40:15.560
And if you want to do something,
795
00:40:15.560 --> 00:40:17.460
we'll have a meeting and we'll decide whether or not
796
00:40:17.460 --> 00:40:18.740
you can look out for your nation
797
00:40:18.740 --> 00:40:20.760
and move forward and progress, et cetera.
798
00:40:21.420 --> 00:40:22.940
But the U.S. has never done that.
799
00:40:23.080 --> 00:40:25.560
They've never really came out and really did that.
800
00:40:26.340 --> 00:40:27.720
What the U.S. has done though,
801
00:40:27.980 --> 00:40:29.860
has been vigilant, has been cautious,
802
00:40:29.860 --> 00:40:31.300
and they have kept watch.
803
00:40:32.260 --> 00:40:33.740
At some point though in history,
804
00:40:34.260 --> 00:40:38.960
we lost our way in establishing our presence and prowess
805
00:40:38.960 --> 00:40:40.020
in the Western Hemisphere
806
00:40:40.020 --> 00:40:42.220
and taking action in the Western Hemisphere.
807
00:40:42.860 --> 00:40:45.900
I think a lot of that happened after the Cold War.
808
00:40:46.040 --> 00:40:47.820
We kind of just got away from it
809
00:40:47.820 --> 00:40:50.060
because the big threat was Russia and all of a sudden,
810
00:40:50.640 --> 00:40:52.540
well, no, the USSR at that time.
811
00:40:52.920 --> 00:40:55.460
And then it was suddenly like, well, it's over now.
812
00:40:55.500 --> 00:40:56.140
Everything's good.
813
00:40:56.220 --> 00:40:57.240
They were the threat.
814
00:40:57.300 --> 00:40:58.600
Like we weren't even considering China
815
00:40:58.600 --> 00:40:59.920
necessarily back then.
816
00:41:01.400 --> 00:41:03.020
But, you know, things have shifted.
817
00:41:04.400 --> 00:41:07.040
Russia, the current USSR, well, it's not USSR,
818
00:41:07.180 --> 00:41:10.180
but Russia today, still an absolute superpower,
819
00:41:10.180 --> 00:41:14.980
still an issue, but nothing compared to China
820
00:41:14.980 --> 00:41:16.760
and their capabilities right now.
821
00:41:17.180 --> 00:41:21.220
And so China has been taking over where Russia left off
822
00:41:21.220 --> 00:41:22.880
and they've been doing it differently.
823
00:41:23.040 --> 00:41:25.460
They've been trying to take a diplomatic approach
824
00:41:25.460 --> 00:41:26.720
to controlling the area.
825
00:41:27.440 --> 00:41:29.980
But Donald Trump just said, fuck that.
826
00:41:30.880 --> 00:41:32.680
Let me put my foot down and show you who we are
827
00:41:32.680 --> 00:41:34.820
just because it seemed like you forgot a little bit
828
00:41:34.820 --> 00:41:38.140
and basically just squashed all that.
829
00:41:38.480 --> 00:41:39.840
So now China's trying to figure out,
830
00:41:39.840 --> 00:41:40.800
well, how are we gonna approach this?
831
00:41:40.860 --> 00:41:41.260
What are we gonna do?
832
00:41:41.300 --> 00:41:43.360
Because China knows right now that Trump is serious.
833
00:41:44.260 --> 00:41:47.320
If they come in and they try to press any harder,
834
00:41:48.600 --> 00:41:49.680
there will be a war.
835
00:41:50.620 --> 00:41:51.760
There will be a war.
836
00:41:52.080 --> 00:41:53.640
And I'm not sure China wants that.
837
00:41:53.900 --> 00:41:54.520
And I'll be honest,
838
00:41:54.560 --> 00:41:55.980
I don't think the United States wants that either.
839
00:41:56.520 --> 00:41:58.980
I mean, we don't want two big giant superpowers
840
00:41:58.980 --> 00:41:59.740
going at it.
841
00:41:59.900 --> 00:42:02.760
It's not good for either of the countries
842
00:42:03.940 --> 00:42:05.500
in discussion right now.
843
00:42:05.660 --> 00:42:09.140
And it's also not good for the world whatsoever.
844
00:42:11.660 --> 00:42:14.780
So anyway, that is what was important
845
00:42:14.780 --> 00:42:15.960
about the Monroe Doctrine.
846
00:42:15.980 --> 00:42:19.500
It wasn't just, oh, we have the right
847
00:42:19.500 --> 00:42:20.520
to control Latin America.
848
00:42:20.680 --> 00:42:21.380
No, no, no, no.
849
00:42:21.400 --> 00:42:22.920
That's not what it was about.
850
00:42:22.980 --> 00:42:26.360
What it was about was establishing the Western Hemisphere
851
00:42:26.360 --> 00:42:29.300
and letting the world know this is our backyard.
852
00:42:29.480 --> 00:42:30.740
What we say goes down here.
853
00:42:30.800 --> 00:42:32.740
And don't even try to fuck around
854
00:42:32.740 --> 00:42:33.920
or you will find out.
855
00:42:34.300 --> 00:42:36.060
And the Monroe Doctrine is back.
856
00:42:36.060 --> 00:42:39.620
And Trump is the president, surprisingly,
857
00:42:41.000 --> 00:42:43.120
that recognized this, stepped up,
858
00:42:43.700 --> 00:42:45.500
and made the statement that needed to be made
859
00:42:46.080 --> 00:42:47.960
well before the Trump administration, by the way.
860
00:42:48.080 --> 00:42:52.160
I mean, this should have been done a long time ago.
861
00:42:52.580 --> 00:42:54.460
All right, let me get back to this video clip.
862
00:42:54.760 --> 00:42:56.840
Now, the United States insisted
863
00:42:56.840 --> 00:43:00.000
there was no war against Venezuela and no occupation,
864
00:43:00.380 --> 00:43:03.840
only a move to protect its citizens from narco-terrorism.
865
00:43:03.840 --> 00:43:05.920
Meanwhile, Russia sided with China,
866
00:43:06.320 --> 00:43:09.520
accusing the United Nations of international banditry
867
00:43:09.520 --> 00:43:11.620
and saying there could be no justification
868
00:43:11.620 --> 00:43:13.520
for the operation in Caracas.
869
00:43:14.000 --> 00:43:16.440
The United Nations has voiced serious concern,
870
00:43:16.740 --> 00:43:18.840
warning that the raid could worsen instability
871
00:43:18.840 --> 00:43:21.700
in Venezuela and create a troubling example
872
00:43:21.700 --> 00:43:23.820
of how states deal with each other.
873
00:43:24.120 --> 00:43:26.500
Now, Colombia, which requested the emergency meeting
874
00:43:26.500 --> 00:43:28.640
with supports from China and Russia,
875
00:43:29.100 --> 00:43:31.060
urged all sides to focus on the wellbeing
876
00:43:31.060 --> 00:43:32.680
of the Venezuelan people,
877
00:43:32.680 --> 00:43:35.600
warning that civilians often pay the highest price
878
00:43:35.600 --> 00:43:36.460
in such crises.
879
00:43:37.440 --> 00:43:40.260
Isn't it interesting that the people who spoke up
880
00:43:40.260 --> 00:43:42.880
against what the U.S. did in Venezuela
881
00:43:43.300 --> 00:43:46.320
are China and Russia and Colombia,
882
00:43:47.800 --> 00:43:55.380
a narco state and two authoritarian nations
883
00:43:55.380 --> 00:43:57.660
built on the backbone of communism?
884
00:43:57.660 --> 00:44:06.080
I mean, you can't, you just can't make this shit up.
885
00:44:06.760 --> 00:44:07.680
All right, let's continue this.
886
00:44:08.040 --> 00:44:10.180
China has deep economic and strategic ties
887
00:44:10.180 --> 00:44:11.000
with Venezuela.
888
00:44:11.680 --> 00:44:13.420
Analysts say China may not offer
889
00:44:13.420 --> 00:44:14.940
direct material support,
890
00:44:15.180 --> 00:44:17.560
but its diplomatic weight could shape
891
00:44:17.560 --> 00:44:19.560
international opinion against Washington.
892
00:44:22.380 --> 00:44:24.900
Cooperation between China and Venezuela
893
00:44:25.330 --> 00:44:27.940
is collaboration between sovereign states.
894
00:44:27.940 --> 00:44:30.800
It is protected by international law
895
00:44:30.800 --> 00:44:33.080
and the respective national legislation
896
00:44:33.080 --> 00:44:34.600
of both countries.
897
00:44:35.400 --> 00:44:37.600
Regardless of political developments in Venezuela,
898
00:44:38.200 --> 00:44:41.080
China's commitment to deepening practical cooperation
899
00:44:41.080 --> 00:44:43.840
across various fields remains unchanged,
900
00:44:44.480 --> 00:44:47.100
and China's legitimate interests in Venezuela
901
00:44:47.100 --> 00:44:50.040
shall be safeguarded in accordance with the law.
902
00:44:53.400 --> 00:44:55.740
So what are those interests there, China?
903
00:44:57.940 --> 00:44:59.280
What are you trying to safeguard?
904
00:45:00.420 --> 00:45:03.900
Your interests are resources, are oil,
905
00:45:04.360 --> 00:45:07.100
they're a strategic position in the Western hemisphere.
906
00:45:07.980 --> 00:45:09.100
That's what it is.
907
00:45:09.140 --> 00:45:10.380
That's what you're not saying.
908
00:45:11.160 --> 00:45:14.300
And a great choice of words there earlier, right?
909
00:45:15.060 --> 00:45:17.540
This is about a relationship
910
00:45:17.540 --> 00:45:19.320
between two sovereign nations.
911
00:45:19.540 --> 00:45:22.880
You're right, you and Venezuela are,
912
00:45:22.880 --> 00:45:24.500
China and Venezuela are sovereign nations,
913
00:45:24.680 --> 00:45:26.780
but the reason you're there is nefarious.
914
00:45:26.780 --> 00:45:30.700
The reason you're there is to antagonize
915
00:45:31.760 --> 00:45:36.140
and disrupt United States power in relationship
916
00:45:36.140 --> 00:45:37.020
within our own backyard.
917
00:45:37.140 --> 00:45:38.740
That is all there is to it.
918
00:45:38.760 --> 00:45:40.980
And the fact that you were there negotiating was for what?
919
00:45:41.240 --> 00:45:41.900
For the oil.
920
00:45:42.000 --> 00:45:43.860
Don't act like you weren't looking at the oil,
921
00:45:44.180 --> 00:45:45.980
looking at the gold, all the resources
922
00:45:45.980 --> 00:45:47.600
that you could rape and pillage from that land,
923
00:45:47.800 --> 00:45:49.980
just like you have done in Africa.
924
00:45:52.620 --> 00:45:54.260
See, the Chinese are really snakes.
925
00:45:54.320 --> 00:45:55.640
They really are.
926
00:45:56.240 --> 00:46:00.240
They're trying to look diplomatic, professional,
927
00:46:00.800 --> 00:46:02.920
trying to cite United Nations laws,
928
00:46:03.060 --> 00:46:05.600
while at the same time doing everything against
929
00:46:05.600 --> 00:46:08.680
what they are chastising the U.S. for.
930
00:46:09.460 --> 00:46:12.160
The U.S. went in strategically, took care of a situation,
931
00:46:12.320 --> 00:46:13.860
Maduro's alive, he wasn't killed.
932
00:46:14.740 --> 00:46:19.100
He's in custody, sorry, he is on trial.
933
00:46:20.600 --> 00:46:24.160
And you know, China would have done it a lot differently.
934
00:46:24.920 --> 00:46:27.140
The difference here is the United States
935
00:46:27.140 --> 00:46:31.200
is not trying to take over rule and absorb Venezuela.
936
00:46:32.220 --> 00:46:34.380
China was trying to do that through money
937
00:46:35.040 --> 00:46:38.540
and through big air quotes here, people,
938
00:46:38.820 --> 00:46:40.160
diplomatic relations.
939
00:46:42.220 --> 00:46:44.720
So while China may be opposed, don't be fooled.
940
00:46:45.860 --> 00:46:47.660
China was there for the resources.
941
00:46:47.900 --> 00:46:49.840
China was there for the strategic position.
942
00:46:50.780 --> 00:46:53.140
And China, like in this report earlier,
943
00:46:53.140 --> 00:46:58.300
said, well, while China doesn't offer any materials
944
00:46:58.300 --> 00:47:01.900
or material goods or whatever, that's a complete lie.
945
00:47:02.080 --> 00:47:03.080
Well, okay, maybe not a lie.
946
00:47:03.140 --> 00:47:04.580
The reporter probably didn't even know
947
00:47:04.580 --> 00:47:07.560
that China absolutely sells arms,
948
00:47:07.820 --> 00:47:11.260
armaments to the Venezuelan government for the military,
949
00:47:11.540 --> 00:47:14.340
and China trains the Venezuelan military.
950
00:47:14.640 --> 00:47:17.780
Why would China be training the Venezuelan military
951
00:47:17.780 --> 00:47:21.920
to help protect China's interests in the region
952
00:47:21.920 --> 00:47:27.060
against you-know-who United States of America, period?
953
00:47:28.580 --> 00:47:29.340
All right, let me go ahead
954
00:47:29.340 --> 00:47:30.800
and keep playing this video a little bit more.
955
00:47:31.120 --> 00:47:32.560
Well, for nearly two decades,
956
00:47:33.000 --> 00:47:34.900
China and Venezuela have built a unique
957
00:47:34.900 --> 00:47:37.020
oil-backed financial partnership.
958
00:47:37.480 --> 00:47:38.960
Through loans for oil arrangements,
959
00:47:39.420 --> 00:47:41.240
Beijing extended billions of dollars
960
00:47:41.240 --> 00:47:42.320
in credit to Caracas.
961
00:47:43.200 --> 00:47:45.440
This episode exemplifies the dynamics
962
00:47:45.440 --> 00:47:48.440
of great power competition on the global stage.
963
00:47:48.800 --> 00:47:50.640
For many, the seizure of Maduro
964
00:47:50.640 --> 00:47:52.660
without multilateral authorization
965
00:47:52.660 --> 00:47:54.620
reinforces longstanding claims
966
00:47:54.620 --> 00:47:57.440
that international law is applied selectively.
967
00:47:57.800 --> 00:48:01.020
How this moment is absorbed by global institutions
968
00:48:01.020 --> 00:48:03.080
will signal whether multilateralism
969
00:48:03.080 --> 00:48:04.980
can still restrain power.
970
00:48:05.720 --> 00:48:08.680
All right, so they do have a point there.
971
00:48:09.200 --> 00:48:12.460
This does set the precedent for other nations, right?
972
00:48:12.740 --> 00:48:14.120
It's like, well, if the United States
973
00:48:14.120 --> 00:48:15.780
can just step in and snatch Maduro
974
00:48:15.780 --> 00:48:17.260
to take care of this situation,
975
00:48:17.320 --> 00:48:19.160
then what's stopping China or Russia?
976
00:48:19.160 --> 00:48:20.560
It's like, how can we talk about
977
00:48:20.560 --> 00:48:21.720
what's going on in the Ukraine
978
00:48:21.720 --> 00:48:23.580
while on the other hand,
979
00:48:23.840 --> 00:48:26.040
the U.S. is invading another sovereign nation
980
00:48:26.040 --> 00:48:27.560
and just snatching their president?
981
00:48:28.160 --> 00:48:29.820
Well, it's not quite the same thing
982
00:48:29.820 --> 00:48:32.300
because Russia, if you're talking about Russia
983
00:48:33.180 --> 00:48:40.540
and Putin, Putin's legacy is reuniting the old USSR.
984
00:48:40.920 --> 00:48:44.020
When it was broken up, it was broken up a few times.
985
00:48:45.300 --> 00:48:46.760
Putin has made it very clear many times
986
00:48:46.760 --> 00:48:50.780
that he wants to reunite the great old USSR.
987
00:48:51.200 --> 00:48:53.940
His interests in Ukraine aren't necessarily
988
00:48:54.480 --> 00:48:59.100
just for resources or to take out a corrupt leader.
989
00:48:59.620 --> 00:49:02.840
No, he wants to take over the entire area
990
00:49:03.280 --> 00:49:07.040
and make it part of Russia and in doing so,
991
00:49:07.440 --> 00:49:10.460
increasing Russia's landmass and territory.
992
00:49:11.600 --> 00:49:13.740
And of course, Russia has her eye on Poland.
993
00:49:14.460 --> 00:49:16.380
Russia has its eye on Belarus.
994
00:49:17.140 --> 00:49:19.720
Russia has its eye on, I mean,
995
00:49:22.320 --> 00:49:25.560
Russia wants the entire region, period.
996
00:49:27.040 --> 00:49:30.300
And so, take what Russia says
997
00:49:30.300 --> 00:49:32.480
or what Putin says with a grain of salt.
998
00:49:33.360 --> 00:49:35.260
Take what China says with a grain of salt.
999
00:49:36.160 --> 00:49:38.320
Iran has no leg to stand on.
1000
00:49:38.880 --> 00:49:40.280
The reality is, is they're pissed
1001
00:49:40.280 --> 00:49:43.540
that we disrupted their plans again
1002
00:49:44.480 --> 00:49:47.720
to gain a strategic position in the Western hemisphere
1003
00:49:47.720 --> 00:49:53.740
where they can have a bit of control and power
1004
00:49:54.300 --> 00:49:57.600
to stand up against the United States of America.
1005
00:49:57.740 --> 00:50:00.620
That is exactly what this whole situation was about.
1006
00:50:03.850 --> 00:50:06.730
Now, with that being said,
1007
00:50:06.770 --> 00:50:08.550
how does Venezuela feel about all this?
1008
00:50:09.510 --> 00:50:11.210
You know what's funny is after this happened,
1009
00:50:13.980 --> 00:50:15.540
all the protesters out there,
1010
00:50:16.380 --> 00:50:18.580
like let me do a little thing, a little history here.
1011
00:50:18.580 --> 00:50:22.300
So remember Ukraine, all the protesters
1012
00:50:22.300 --> 00:50:24.340
that were protesting on behalf of Ukraine,
1013
00:50:24.440 --> 00:50:25.620
like we've got to save Ukraine,
1014
00:50:25.800 --> 00:50:26.680
send Ukraine all the money.
1015
00:50:26.860 --> 00:50:28.980
Let's do everything we can to save Ukraine
1016
00:50:28.980 --> 00:50:31.140
from the big bad Russian oligarchy.
1017
00:50:33.120 --> 00:50:35.400
And then, Palestine happened.
1018
00:50:35.620 --> 00:50:37.220
And then suddenly everybody forgot about Ukraine.
1019
00:50:37.380 --> 00:50:38.640
Then it was like, save Palestine,
1020
00:50:38.820 --> 00:50:41.260
free, free Palestine, Palestine, Palestine, Palestine.
1021
00:50:43.720 --> 00:50:44.520
Excuse me.
1022
00:50:44.900 --> 00:50:48.260
And so now, everyone forgot about Palestine.
1023
00:50:48.480 --> 00:50:49.860
Now it's free Venezuela.
1024
00:50:49.940 --> 00:50:50.620
What are we doing?
1025
00:50:50.620 --> 00:50:53.640
We shouldn't be stepping into a sovereign nation.
1026
00:50:54.420 --> 00:50:55.720
Let Maduro go.
1027
00:50:55.920 --> 00:50:57.880
Now you have all these protesters protesting
1028
00:50:57.880 --> 00:50:59.840
on behalf of Maduro.
1029
00:51:01.460 --> 00:51:04.220
And it's like, it's the next thing, right?
1030
00:51:04.220 --> 00:51:05.960
It's the next thing to get behind.
1031
00:51:06.100 --> 00:51:07.300
It's like, it's the trend.
1032
00:51:07.680 --> 00:51:09.560
You know what's crazy about all these protesters
1033
00:51:09.560 --> 00:51:12.660
is most of them are actually paid protesters.
1034
00:51:12.780 --> 00:51:15.240
You know, there's a company, I should know this.
1035
00:51:15.280 --> 00:51:16.360
You know, I brought it up.
1036
00:51:16.720 --> 00:51:18.860
I'll bring it up on next episode.
1037
00:51:21.030 --> 00:51:22.010
Well, hopefully I'll remember it too.
1038
00:51:22.090 --> 00:51:23.590
But anyway, there's a company specifically,
1039
00:51:24.090 --> 00:51:26.750
there's more than one, but there's a company out there
1040
00:51:27.550 --> 00:51:31.330
that all they do is they provide protesters.
1041
00:51:31.410 --> 00:51:33.950
Like you pay them and they will provide protesters
1042
00:51:33.950 --> 00:51:38.470
to go out and protest on the issues on your behalf.
1043
00:51:38.730 --> 00:51:39.430
Like literally.
1044
00:51:40.450 --> 00:51:43.150
And so a lot of what you're seeing is fake.
1045
00:51:43.730 --> 00:51:46.370
It's like, it's opposition for opposition's sake.
1046
00:51:46.530 --> 00:51:48.330
It's just like whatever is against
1047
00:51:48.330 --> 00:51:49.870
what the Trump administration is doing
1048
00:51:49.870 --> 00:51:52.690
or more to the point, whatever the American government
1049
00:51:52.690 --> 00:51:54.510
is doing is what they are protesting.
1050
00:51:54.970 --> 00:51:56.170
It's not about America.
1051
00:51:56.250 --> 00:51:57.370
It's not about American interests.
1052
00:51:57.430 --> 00:52:00.230
It's not about what's good for the rest of the world.
1053
00:52:00.310 --> 00:52:03.370
It's really just opposition to the American government.
1054
00:52:04.930 --> 00:52:07.590
And so all these protesters are out there
1055
00:52:07.590 --> 00:52:11.250
and they're protesting what happened in Venezuela.
1056
00:52:12.010 --> 00:52:13.950
I got a video that's really, really cool here.
1057
00:52:14.030 --> 00:52:15.910
So this guy, let me go ahead and switch over here.
1058
00:52:16.030 --> 00:52:19.350
This guy here, blow this up.
1059
00:52:19.870 --> 00:52:22.590
He went out and he actually started questioning these people.
1060
00:52:22.870 --> 00:52:23.950
And this isn't Switzerland.
1061
00:52:24.550 --> 00:52:26.530
Like this is a worldwide thing.
1062
00:52:26.550 --> 00:52:28.110
This isn't just the United States.
1063
00:52:28.210 --> 00:52:30.410
This is everywhere people are protesting
1064
00:52:30.410 --> 00:52:31.610
what the United States did.
1065
00:52:32.070 --> 00:52:33.630
So this guy is like questioning everybody.
1066
00:52:33.850 --> 00:52:35.970
He's like, are you even Venezuelan?
1067
00:52:36.190 --> 00:52:37.610
Are you from Venezuela?
1068
00:52:37.710 --> 00:52:39.650
Like, do you even know what you're protesting for?
1069
00:52:40.290 --> 00:52:41.090
Check this clip out.
1070
00:53:00.010 --> 00:53:01.290
If you guys don't understand what he's saying,
1071
00:53:01.450 --> 00:53:02.750
he's basically asking everybody,
1072
00:53:03.490 --> 00:53:04.990
is anyone here Venezuelan?
1073
00:53:05.050 --> 00:53:06.590
Like, are you Venezuelan?
1074
00:53:06.830 --> 00:53:07.550
Anybody here?
1075
00:53:07.930 --> 00:53:09.710
And so far everyone is not answering.
1076
00:53:09.790 --> 00:53:10.970
They're like saying, no, no, no.
1077
00:53:11.150 --> 00:53:12.310
Maybe this guy over here.
1078
00:53:12.590 --> 00:53:13.530
So that's what's happening right now.
1079
00:53:13.530 --> 00:53:14.530
He's like, are you Venezuelan?
1080
00:53:14.670 --> 00:53:16.190
Is anybody here Venezuelan?
1081
00:53:16.270 --> 00:53:17.070
All right, continue playing this.
1082
00:53:20.150 --> 00:53:22.790
He just said, I want to talk to a Venezuelan around here.
1083
00:53:42.890 --> 00:53:44.330
So he just said, you know,
1084
00:53:44.330 --> 00:53:46.530
you got everybody out here with these Venezuelan flags.
1085
00:53:46.590 --> 00:53:47.810
And he just pointed out one guy saying,
1086
00:53:47.810 --> 00:53:51.310
you know, you guys are supporting the Chavismo
1087
00:53:51.710 --> 00:53:53.910
and not one of these people is from Venezuela.
1088
00:53:54.590 --> 00:53:56.510
Not one of them, not a single one.
1089
00:53:58.290 --> 00:54:00.610
So you got a lot of this going on
1090
00:54:00.610 --> 00:54:02.710
where people are just calling out all the fake bullshit.
1091
00:54:03.670 --> 00:54:04.890
And here's a few more clips.
1092
00:54:05.090 --> 00:54:09.010
Now, this is from Uriel Cohen.
1093
00:54:10.050 --> 00:54:11.850
And I'm sorry if I said your name wrong,
1094
00:54:11.850 --> 00:54:12.810
but this guy's here on X.
1095
00:54:13.050 --> 00:54:15.050
What he did is he put a thread together
1096
00:54:15.730 --> 00:54:17.210
of people from Venezuela
1097
00:54:17.210 --> 00:54:18.670
who made social media posts
1098
00:54:19.530 --> 00:54:21.750
to explain how they feel about the situation.
1099
00:54:22.070 --> 00:54:23.770
And I'm just going to scroll and run through some of these
1100
00:54:23.770 --> 00:54:26.890
just so you guys get an idea of what's going on.
1101
00:54:27.070 --> 00:54:28.170
All right, let's start with the first one here.
1102
00:54:47.250 --> 00:54:49.890
Dying because you didn't have the medication
1103
00:54:49.890 --> 00:54:51.970
while the members of the Chavismo
1104
00:54:51.970 --> 00:54:54.250
are walking with Rolex in their hands.
1105
00:54:54.550 --> 00:54:56.150
Do you want to know how many people died
1106
00:54:56.150 --> 00:54:58.910
trying to come to America, going through a jungle?
1107
00:54:59.290 --> 00:55:01.710
Do you want to know how many women were raped there?
1108
00:55:02.730 --> 00:55:05.150
We are eight millions of Venezuelans
1109
00:55:05.150 --> 00:55:06.990
who have left Venezuela.
1110
00:55:07.330 --> 00:55:09.190
You don't know what is to live like that.
1111
00:55:09.210 --> 00:55:11.650
You are too freaking busy eating your Starbucks
1112
00:55:11.650 --> 00:55:13.550
with almond milk, you motherfucker.
1113
00:55:13.750 --> 00:55:15.130
I have a question for you guys.
1114
00:55:15.130 --> 00:55:18.050
Where were you when they were killing us?
1115
00:55:18.450 --> 00:55:21.150
Where were you when they were killing students?
1116
00:55:21.510 --> 00:55:23.510
Students who didn't have any weapons.
1117
00:55:23.890 --> 00:55:25.610
You were too freaking busy
1118
00:55:25.610 --> 00:55:28.230
drinking your Starbucks with almond milk.
1119
00:55:28.390 --> 00:55:30.510
So you better shut the fuck up
1120
00:55:30.510 --> 00:55:33.710
and take Venezuela out of your filthy mouth.
1121
00:55:34.590 --> 00:55:37.170
Okay, here's another one.
1122
00:55:37.830 --> 00:55:43.370
Hi, my name is Paula and I am Venezuelan, born and raised.
1123
00:55:43.370 --> 00:55:44.970
I've lived in the United States
1124
00:55:44.970 --> 00:55:46.970
for almost 10 years to the date.
1125
00:55:47.190 --> 00:55:50.670
And I am an American citizen also, by the way.
1126
00:55:51.310 --> 00:55:52.930
The main reason why I'm coming here today,
1127
00:55:53.090 --> 00:55:53.990
I'm literally nobody.
1128
00:55:54.350 --> 00:55:56.610
And if this reaches one person, my job here,
1129
00:55:56.850 --> 00:55:57.910
that one person that didn't know
1130
00:55:57.910 --> 00:56:00.190
what was happening in Venezuela and now they do,
1131
00:56:00.350 --> 00:56:01.910
my work here is done.
1132
00:56:03.950 --> 00:56:08.730
I am outraged about the comments I've been seeing today.
1133
00:56:08.890 --> 00:56:11.930
I made the mistake myself of going on social media
1134
00:56:11.930 --> 00:56:14.110
and reading all the news outlets,
1135
00:56:14.390 --> 00:56:16.310
reporting on the news of the Venezuelan strikes,
1136
00:56:16.790 --> 00:56:19.970
well, military strikes to remove Maduro, thank you.
1137
00:56:21.610 --> 00:56:25.390
And everybody, ton of Americans
1138
00:56:25.390 --> 00:56:27.230
and then from wherever you're from,
1139
00:56:27.250 --> 00:56:28.690
but you've never been to Venezuela.
1140
00:56:28.950 --> 00:56:31.110
You have no idea about the political situation
1141
00:56:31.110 --> 00:56:33.250
of Venezuela, the history of Venezuela
1142
00:56:35.370 --> 00:56:38.130
and trying to be like our savior's account.
1143
00:56:38.930 --> 00:56:40.790
Let me set some things straight.
1144
00:56:40.790 --> 00:56:44.870
First of all, the regime has been going on since 1998
1145
00:56:44.870 --> 00:56:46.910
when Chavez was elected president.
1146
00:56:47.310 --> 00:56:50.430
From there on, their country is the mess
1147
00:56:50.430 --> 00:56:52.450
in good words that it is today.
1148
00:56:53.110 --> 00:56:54.850
We have suffered a lot.
1149
00:56:55.390 --> 00:56:58.110
The Senate was dissolved, the constitution was changed.
1150
00:56:58.570 --> 00:57:00.690
They bought the military, all the armed forces.
1151
00:57:01.310 --> 00:57:03.130
Many people have been killed, kidnapped.
1152
00:57:03.550 --> 00:57:07.110
You can go do the Google search yourself or just ask
1153
00:57:07.110 --> 00:57:09.410
because clearly Google is not working for you people.
1154
00:57:10.830 --> 00:57:12.170
Three things I wanna get across today.
1155
00:57:12.330 --> 00:57:13.790
One, Venezuelans are sad.
1156
00:57:13.830 --> 00:57:14.370
No, we're not.
1157
00:57:14.770 --> 00:57:17.670
This is literally the happiest day of our life.
1158
00:57:17.950 --> 00:57:19.550
This is our second independence.
1159
00:57:20.910 --> 00:57:23.530
We are still in shock, complete shock
1160
00:57:23.530 --> 00:57:26.010
about what finally happened.
1161
00:57:26.110 --> 00:57:27.390
We have been wanting this.
1162
00:57:27.450 --> 00:57:28.950
We have been praying for this.
1163
00:57:29.390 --> 00:57:32.330
We have been literally anybody
1164
00:57:32.330 --> 00:57:34.430
that we have been able to go to and ask
1165
00:57:34.430 --> 00:57:35.630
and nobody listened to us.
1166
00:57:35.630 --> 00:57:40.130
So we are happy, enjoy.
1167
00:57:40.910 --> 00:57:43.570
And even if you're a Venezuelan in Venezuela
1168
00:57:43.570 --> 00:57:45.530
or a Venezuelan outside of Venezuela
1169
00:57:45.530 --> 00:57:46.810
in any country that you are,
1170
00:57:47.010 --> 00:57:50.250
if you left 10, 15 years ago, five days ago
1171
00:57:50.250 --> 00:57:52.170
or a week ago, we are all happy.
1172
00:57:52.250 --> 00:57:53.390
So don't worry about us.
1173
00:57:53.890 --> 00:57:54.950
We're happy.
1174
00:57:56.130 --> 00:57:57.550
The United States only attacking Venezuela
1175
00:57:57.550 --> 00:57:58.430
because of the oil.
1176
00:57:58.770 --> 00:58:00.950
People, we do not control our oil.
1177
00:58:01.790 --> 00:58:03.290
We haven't seen our oil.
1178
00:58:03.290 --> 00:58:08.590
But Russia, Iran, Cuba, China.
1179
00:58:09.270 --> 00:58:10.470
Sorry, I had to pause it
1180
00:58:10.470 --> 00:58:14.130
because it's exactly what I've been telling everybody, man.
1181
00:58:14.950 --> 00:58:16.030
I'm not even from Venezuela,
1182
00:58:16.110 --> 00:58:17.570
but I could read the tea leaves
1183
00:58:17.570 --> 00:58:19.450
and read through the bullshit and the headlines
1184
00:58:19.450 --> 00:58:20.210
and go deeper.
1185
00:58:20.990 --> 00:58:22.910
I mean, here's someone from Venezuela
1186
00:58:22.910 --> 00:58:25.870
just telling you how it is firsthand.
1187
00:58:27.170 --> 00:58:28.510
All right, I'm gonna keep playing her.
1188
00:58:28.890 --> 00:58:29.570
Whatever other countries,
1189
00:58:29.770 --> 00:58:31.030
Central America and South America,
1190
00:58:31.030 --> 00:58:33.770
we've been giving away our oil to all these countries.
1191
00:58:33.990 --> 00:58:35.510
We're not seeing that.
1192
00:58:36.070 --> 00:58:39.610
Anyways, so, and we used to have trades
1193
00:58:39.610 --> 00:58:43.350
and whatever other things with the United States
1194
00:58:43.350 --> 00:58:47.630
before tariffs about our oil
1195
00:58:47.630 --> 00:58:49.230
and our country was working fine.
1196
00:58:49.970 --> 00:58:53.350
So the way we don't care, don't worry about us.
1197
00:58:53.530 --> 00:58:55.210
If United States wants to take our oil,
1198
00:58:55.270 --> 00:58:57.910
we will be happy to be giving away the oil
1199
00:58:57.910 --> 00:58:59.350
to United States if that means
1200
00:58:59.350 --> 00:59:01.250
that our country is gonna be safe
1201
00:59:01.250 --> 00:59:06.250
and that us citizens, residents of whatever of Venezuela
1202
00:59:06.250 --> 00:59:08.830
are gonna be good, are gonna be able to make money,
1203
00:59:08.950 --> 00:59:09.910
are gonna be able to retire,
1204
00:59:10.050 --> 00:59:11.630
which none of those things are happening right now.
1205
00:59:12.230 --> 00:59:13.210
And then number three,
1206
00:59:13.430 --> 00:59:16.510
if you're worried about what United States
1207
00:59:16.510 --> 00:59:19.070
think to Venezuela and what's gonna happen now,
1208
00:59:19.530 --> 00:59:21.110
nothing, literally, and I mean this,
1209
00:59:21.530 --> 00:59:24.830
nothing can be worse than the hell
1210
00:59:24.830 --> 00:59:27.430
we've lived up until now.
1211
00:59:27.430 --> 00:59:30.990
So stop, and I mean this,
1212
00:59:32.510 --> 00:59:36.510
stop trying to explain Venezuela to Venezuelans.
1213
00:59:36.890 --> 00:59:37.410
Stop.
1214
00:59:37.770 --> 00:59:42.190
If you wanna know, reach out to someone from Venezuela.
1215
00:59:42.870 --> 00:59:43.210
Okay?
1216
00:59:44.430 --> 00:59:44.910
Right?
1217
00:59:45.830 --> 00:59:46.330
Good point.
1218
00:59:46.950 --> 00:59:49.870
Here's another clip from another Venezuelan right here.
1219
00:59:50.430 --> 00:59:51.790
I'm Venezuelan and let me tell you something.
1220
00:59:51.830 --> 00:59:53.770
This is the happiest day of my life.
1221
00:59:54.050 --> 00:59:55.710
They have massacred us, intimidated us,
1222
00:59:55.890 --> 00:59:56.610
humiliated us.
1223
00:59:56.610 --> 00:59:58.310
And today we finally recover hope.
1224
00:59:58.530 --> 01:00:01.130
It's been 25 fucking years of dictatorship.
1225
01:00:01.230 --> 01:00:02.510
How can you defend that?
1226
01:00:02.610 --> 01:00:04.950
They have forced more than eight million Venezuelans
1227
01:00:04.950 --> 01:00:06.970
to flee the country, including me.
1228
01:00:06.990 --> 01:00:08.610
And I'm not going to let anyone to tell me
1229
01:00:08.610 --> 01:00:10.170
that this is not good for us.
1230
01:00:10.410 --> 01:00:12.490
This is the best thing that could happen to Venezuela.
1231
01:00:12.630 --> 01:00:14.530
This is what all Venezuelans want.
1232
01:00:16.310 --> 01:00:18.090
All right, here's another guy right here.
1233
01:00:18.230 --> 01:00:21.810
This is a video for all those liberals and leftists,
1234
01:00:22.430 --> 01:00:24.950
mostly American, that I've seen in the media,
1235
01:00:24.950 --> 01:00:27.730
complaining about what's going on in Venezuela,
1236
01:00:27.970 --> 01:00:30.730
complaining about this military attacks
1237
01:00:30.730 --> 01:00:33.310
against military buildings,
1238
01:00:34.150 --> 01:00:35.710
against government buildings
1239
01:00:35.710 --> 01:00:41.290
that were attacked today in the early morning.
1240
01:00:41.710 --> 01:00:43.030
What the fuck is wrong with you?
1241
01:00:43.790 --> 01:00:50.230
We have had 27 years of dictatorship in our country
1242
01:00:50.230 --> 01:00:55.010
that has censored us, that has tortured us,
1243
01:00:55.370 --> 01:00:56.550
that has killed us,
1244
01:00:56.810 --> 01:00:59.870
and that made us go away from our country.
1245
01:01:00.430 --> 01:01:04.730
Like they made us run away from our own homeland.
1246
01:01:04.910 --> 01:01:09.030
Do you ever imagine that you will have to do that?
1247
01:01:09.050 --> 01:01:12.650
Like, do you even put yourself in the situation
1248
01:01:13.190 --> 01:01:14.690
of what does that mean?
1249
01:01:14.950 --> 01:01:16.690
I'm pretty sure you don't,
1250
01:01:16.690 --> 01:01:18.370
because you still live here,
1251
01:01:18.370 --> 01:01:22.190
even though you complain about everything about this country,
1252
01:01:22.230 --> 01:01:24.450
you still choose to stay here.
1253
01:01:24.470 --> 01:01:26.170
So why don't you go to Venezuela?
1254
01:01:26.270 --> 01:01:27.510
Why don't you go to Cuba?
1255
01:01:27.650 --> 01:01:29.330
Why don't you go to Nicaragua?
1256
01:01:29.630 --> 01:01:31.490
Why don't you go to any of these countries
1257
01:01:31.490 --> 01:01:35.690
that pretty much share the views you have,
1258
01:01:36.270 --> 01:01:38.130
the political views you have?
1259
01:01:38.370 --> 01:01:41.330
So also I'm doing this message in English
1260
01:01:41.330 --> 01:01:46.290
because unfortunately American liberals are the ones
1261
01:01:47.090 --> 01:01:49.470
talking about how bad this is
1262
01:01:49.470 --> 01:01:55.270
and how the US wants to steal our oil,
1263
01:01:55.630 --> 01:01:58.990
wants to steal our natural resources.
1264
01:01:59.210 --> 01:02:04.450
Do you know that Russia, that Cuba, that Nicaragua,
1265
01:02:04.890 --> 01:02:08.990
that all these communist countries, pieces of shit
1266
01:02:08.990 --> 01:02:12.450
have been stealing all that from my country already?
1267
01:02:12.690 --> 01:02:14.170
Did you even know that?
1268
01:02:14.290 --> 01:02:15.750
Like, why do you care?
1269
01:02:15.750 --> 01:02:19.430
What happens with our natural resources now?
1270
01:02:19.610 --> 01:02:23.590
Why do you care about what happens in our land now?
1271
01:02:23.870 --> 01:02:25.130
When not too long ago,
1272
01:02:25.250 --> 01:02:27.810
people were being killed on the streets
1273
01:02:27.810 --> 01:02:30.510
for protesting against the regime.
1274
01:02:30.930 --> 01:02:34.950
Well, nowadays we have a center of torture
1275
01:02:34.950 --> 01:02:37.590
in the capital of our country
1276
01:02:37.590 --> 01:02:41.790
with thousands of political prisoners.
1277
01:02:42.070 --> 01:02:43.870
So I ask you this,
1278
01:02:43.870 --> 01:02:47.350
why do you feel that you are in the right
1279
01:02:48.050 --> 01:02:50.370
to defend a dictator?
1280
01:02:52.650 --> 01:02:53.730
Fair enough.
1281
01:02:55.030 --> 01:02:56.330
Look, I'm gonna scroll a little bit
1282
01:02:56.330 --> 01:02:57.890
so you can see if you're on X.
1283
01:02:58.130 --> 01:03:00.510
This guy has a lot of videos in this thread
1284
01:03:00.510 --> 01:03:01.810
from various peoples.
1285
01:03:02.570 --> 01:03:04.650
And so these are all people from Venezuela.
1286
01:03:04.750 --> 01:03:06.730
These are all videos from Venezuelans.
1287
01:03:07.370 --> 01:03:13.170
And it's definitely something you should check out.
1288
01:03:15.130 --> 01:03:18.030
And get a better grasp on what's happening out there.
1289
01:03:18.030 --> 01:03:19.370
And look, I'm sure there are people out there
1290
01:03:19.370 --> 01:03:19.810
that can argue,
1291
01:03:19.810 --> 01:03:22.390
well, those are all just propagandas, videos.
1292
01:03:23.490 --> 01:03:24.630
Look, we're gonna get it all.
1293
01:03:25.330 --> 01:03:28.530
It's really on you to read between the lines
1294
01:03:28.530 --> 01:03:29.710
and filter through the bullshit.
1295
01:03:30.350 --> 01:03:31.450
And someone like me,
1296
01:03:32.270 --> 01:03:34.710
listen, if you listen to the show consistently,
1297
01:03:34.750 --> 01:03:37.270
you already know that's what I do.
1298
01:03:37.350 --> 01:03:38.130
I go deeper.
1299
01:03:38.310 --> 01:03:39.590
I dive beyond the headline.
1300
01:03:39.910 --> 01:03:42.710
But I don't expect for you to take everything I say
1301
01:03:43.770 --> 01:03:45.470
as face value, for example.
1302
01:03:45.590 --> 01:03:47.190
I mean, look, you could even challenge me.
1303
01:03:47.370 --> 01:03:47.630
Please do.
1304
01:03:48.090 --> 01:03:49.530
And if you find something like,
1305
01:03:49.690 --> 01:03:54.330
look, legitimately find something like real information
1306
01:03:54.330 --> 01:03:56.750
that really like corrects or conflicts what I'm saying,
1307
01:03:57.330 --> 01:03:58.010
then let me know.
1308
01:03:58.790 --> 01:04:00.710
But make sure it's legitimate information.
1309
01:04:02.450 --> 01:04:04.710
I'm always open to knowledge
1310
01:04:04.710 --> 01:04:06.690
and knowing what's going on out there.
1311
01:04:06.950 --> 01:04:09.370
But everything I presented to you is true.
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And again, as I said in the beginning of this episode,
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this is rumor control.
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These are the facts.
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And to be honest, there is so much more I can go over.
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I just didn't want to get into the weeds too much
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because I didn't want to bore everybody out there.
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But I think you got enough information
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in this episode alone to give you a better idea
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of why we got involved,
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what the whole Venezuelan operation was about
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and how Venezuelans feel about what happened.
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The only thing I have to say is I hope Trump
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absolutely says what he,
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I'm sorry, does what he says
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and that he says what he means.
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I hope that he helps make Venezuela rich.
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I hope that he actually does get the money back
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to the Venezuelans.
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And I hope that he does carefully and strategically
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work with the Venezuelans to get a democratic government
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that is not built on the backbone
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of communism or socialism.
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Socialism doesn't work.
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Socialism destroyed that country.
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And with socialism always comes corruption.
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It always sounds good on the surface,
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but it started with Hugo Chavez.
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And as it was stated earlier by one of these people
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in the video clips I just played,
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back all the way back to 93, 98,
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somewhere in there in that five-year period,
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all of a sudden the constitution was rewritten,
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everything was thrown out the window
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and it just became a dictatorship.
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Same thing happened under Maduro.
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And while on the surface it looked like
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they had elections, Maduro himself literally
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like ran a rigged election.
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Like in the 11th hour suddenly there was like
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all these votes to side with Maduro
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so it looked like he was overwhelmingly the winner
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when in fact he wasn't.
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And to this day, I forgot the number of countries,
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but I mean the majority of countries
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in the world right now don't even recognize Maduro
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as a legitimate president.
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He's a thug, he's a gangster, period.
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He's an opportunist.
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He's using a nation to basically fund his lifestyle
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and to gain connections and further his power,
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not just within the Caribbean, but throughout the world.
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So with all of that, look, I'm gonna end it here.
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I think we went long enough.
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I appreciate all of you.
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Listen, happy new year.
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Have an amazing 2026.
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And please look, as we move forward to 2026,
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if 2025 proved anything,
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is that people became much more savvy
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as to legacy media, even social media.
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People are now starting to question and challenge
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the headlines, they're being able to better spot
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the bullshitters out there.
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And please continue to do so.
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Fact check, everybody.
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Don't take anything for face value.
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And look, we'll all meet back in the middle somewhere.
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Appreciate your support, everybody.
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By the way, like, share, subscribe to the show.
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Literally tell other people about World of Blaze.
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That's one thing I'm doing in 2026.
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We're gonna push the show harder.
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We wanna grow the show even more.
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Look, I'm going into my third year.
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I'm still a young show, but man,
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has it been a ride for sure.
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The support I have gotten has been amazing.
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I've made some changes for this year.
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Welcome back to another episode of World of Blaze.
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This is episode 106.
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That's right, 106.
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This year kicked off with a bang and everybody's talking about Venezuela, Maduro, and so many
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have missed the mark on the reasons for the actions that have been taken.
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Now, this episode is normally I try to do, you know, two to three topics, but I'm going
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to make this episode strictly, I'm going to keep this episode rather strictly about
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Venezuela.
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And I don't know how long that's going to go.
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My goal is to keep this an hour or less, hopefully about 45 minutes, because I'm sure
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you all heard everybody already.
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It's a thousand other podcasters, news outlets, all chiming in, giving their opinions, even
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though 95% of them all, let's say 95, not being generous, 95% of them all are wrong
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and have been wrong.
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So I'm going to attempt to give you a valid explanation based on facts, historical
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facts, to hopefully help you better understand the situation.
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Now a lot of what has happened, we don't all have to agree with.
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Nobody agrees with regime change.
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Another country stepping into another sovereign nation to purposely force regime change
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is, I mean, historically has never been great.
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It just hasn't.
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But what happened here, what happened here with the capture of Maduro was really less
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to do with regime change and more to do with protecting our own backyard period.
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And for anybody who says that it's something else, you might want to listen to another
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news outlet, podcast or whoever.
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But the reality is all the mainstream media outlets right now, all the podcast bros,
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even some of the Intel guys who are way behind on their assessments in terms of being over
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the target on this situation are now all saying now chiming lockstep.
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Well, you know, maybe maybe this really wasn't about the oil.
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Maybe it wasn't all about the oil.
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I mean, it had a little bit to do with it, but maybe it wasn't really the main issue.
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Well, maybe it was the drugs.
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Maybe it wasn't.
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I don't know.
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But it was partially the drugs.
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But before, everyone said that this was nothing more than a grab for resources,
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nothing more than Trump trying to step in and steal the oil out from under the
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Venezuelan government.
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There's some merit to that.
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I'm not going to deny it.
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There's some merit to that.
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But again, not the whole story.
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And so I want to point this out to everybody.
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Well, now you have your Megan Kelly's, your Fox News is like everybody suddenly,
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like they all don't agree with each other, but they're all saying, well, you
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know, it's kind of about the oil, but not really.
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Wait, wait, wait, wait.
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What is that?
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What is that word?
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What is that nation that everyone's talking about now all of a sudden?
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Oh, was this about China?
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Was it?
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Was it about China?
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I remember talking about it being China about, I don't know, over two
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months ago.
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I remember talking about it being about Iran over two months.
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I remember discussing Russia's involvement over two months ago.
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I mean, honestly, I've been bringing these points up further than about
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three months ago now, actually, but nobody paid attention.
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Nobody paid attention.
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Why?
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Well, look, I know my place.
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I know I'm not as big as a Megan Kelly or a Tucker Carlson or
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whoever you like to listen to on the side.
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But if anything has been proven, is this, if you're not consistently
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listening to my show and you're not paying attention to what I'm saying
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because you just got it on in the background, you're doing yourself a
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disservice and you are behind the eight ball in information.
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Do I get everything right?
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Hell no, but I'm telling you right now, my geopolitical record
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thus far has been pretty damn accurate.
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And listen, I have friends who know a lot more than I do.
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And I have these discussions with these friends just so I could
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bounce things back and forth, check my assessments, test my theories.
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But in the end, I've been mostly right on things.
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I really have.
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I'm not trying to pat my own back here, toot my own horn,
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but it's kind of vindicating that a small podcaster like
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me has been getting it right, been told that I don't know
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what I'm talking about.
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But all of a sudden, everyone is parroting the same shit
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that I've been saying for nearly three damn months.
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And so look, I got a lot to go over and I do not like repeating myself.
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I'm just going to tell you right now, this could be a much longer
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podcast to go through everything that is happening in that region,
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in the Caribbean.
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It's not just about Venezuela, by the way, it's about Peru.
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It's about Panama.
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It's about Colombia.
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It's about Brazil.
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There is so much going on, even Cuba.
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There's so much going on there that is not just about Venezuela.
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And no, it's not all about drugs.
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And no, it's not all about oil, but oil is a major tool
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that has been used by all parties involved in the region.
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So I'm just going to refer you to these two episodes here.
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So listen, I have episode 102 right here titled Terrorist Attack,
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Preserving America, No to Tolerance and US vs Venezuela.
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In that particular episode, I do a bit of a deep dive into
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the history of Maduro, the drug trade and trafficking in Venezuela
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that goes all the way back to 1993, by the way, and under
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Hugo Chavez just exploded.
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The military themselves were involved in the narco trafficking
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dealings, and by the time Maduro took power, the government
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of Venezuela was literally like selling protection to
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narco trafficking routes, especially after the US clamped
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down on the Colombian drug trade.
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They needed to find new routes to move their product.
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And so all roads from Mexico, from Peru, from Colombia
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led to Venezuela.
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And once it was in Venezuela, Venezuela protected
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the trafficking routes for these narcos.
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Some of it went up through South America, past the
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Venezuelan border, most of it left the ports of Venezuela.
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And it's very important for everybody to realize this.
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Venezuela just in cocaine.
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Now we're not going to talk about all drugs because
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there's a lot of low IQ mouth breathers like, well,
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you know, Venezuela doesn't produce fentanyl, so Trump
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is an idiot.
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First off, stop making this about Trump because shocker,
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this goes back to Obama.
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In fact, it goes back further than Obama.
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Hell, it goes all the way back to President Monroe.
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That's right.
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I think it was back, what, 1800, something like that.
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So this area has been an area of interest and
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contention for many years.
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Now, the drug trade in and of itself has been there
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for many years.
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And under the Obama administration is when everything
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was really, really tested and tensions rose because
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before 2005, by the way, before 2005, the DEA was able
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to work with the Venezuelan government to go after
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narco terrorists, to go after drug traffickers.
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But in 2005, the Venezuelan government decided, you
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know what, we're kicking the DEA out.
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We're no longer working with you.
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And why?
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Because Mr.
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Hugo Chavez decided the drug trade was good business.
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It wasn't just about the money.
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It was about the connections.
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And so there's a deep history of drug trafficking that
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was partly to do about money.
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I think it was about an $8 billion a year business
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for Venezuela, which, you know, by American
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standards, if we're just talking about money, by
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the way, isn't a lot of money.
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But for a country the size of Venezuela, it's a
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good chunk.
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The oil business is really what made the money
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for Venezuela.
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And it was about double, maybe two and a half
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times more than the drug trade.
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But still, you can't shake a stick at $8
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billion a year.
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And with that came relationships, the nefarious
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actors behind the drug trade.
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A lot of power there, a lot of corruption, a lot
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of means to get things done.
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Now, the other episode I want to draw your
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attention to is episode 100 right here with my
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guest, Kervin O'Quinn.
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Now, Kervin O'Quinn is a 20 year Intel veteran,
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and he still to this day works in intelligence.
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Now, a lot of times when we talk, he can't tell me
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everything because there's ongoing operations,
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investigations, et cetera.
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But I will say without confirming or denying,
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we usually are able to bounce some stuff off
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of each other.
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Of course, he's much more informed than I am.
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But in the end, this particular episode 100,
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we did a very good deep dive and assessment on
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the implications of attacking Venezuela, on
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the implications of possibly capturing
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Maduro.
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Like we were talking about all of this well over
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a month ago, and just now everyone's coming
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around to it.
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So without me getting too deep, going into too
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much detail, I'm not going to keep repeating
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myself.
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Look, listen to episode 100 and listen to
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episode 102.
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Those two episodes that I did, there's chapters
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on YouTube if you just want to skip to where
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you want to get to.
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If you want to listen to all the other
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bullshit, fine, great, good on you.
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I appreciate it.
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But those two episodes that I already put
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out previously will give you a lot of
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information that you have been missing when
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it comes to the whole Venezuela situation.
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Now, this is where I have to quote Andrews
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from Alien 3.
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This is rumor control.
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Here are the facts.
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Venezuela wasn't really about the drugs.
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I'll be honest with you.
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The drugs were a major play.
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The drugs were a way to get people to buy in.
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Now, was it important to stop the illicit
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drug trafficking routes, the drug trade?
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Absolutely.
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Why?
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Because again, it came down to the
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relationships those involved.
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The government of Colombia, Colombia, look,
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is also a narco state.
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Colombia was involved.
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Peru was involved.
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Panama involved.
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Mexico involved.
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Now, not necessarily the nation states
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themselves, but every one of these
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countries have very powerful narco terrorist
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organizations or cartels, if you'd
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rather call them that.
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All roads led to Venezuela.
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The other thing that was very important
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about Venezuela, since we're talking
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facts, is China.
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That's right.
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A lot of people dismissed China.
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A lot of people didn't talk about China.
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China was really part of the major
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reasons that Trump even acted.
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The reality is this.
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The whole thing with the drug trade,
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as I said previously, it goes back
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a long ways.
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Obama ramped it up.
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He's the one who really, really put
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his eye on Venezuela, and he's the one
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who actually declared Venezuela a threat
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to national security, the American
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national security, that is.
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And he saw this.
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And whether you like Obama or not,
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this is how far it went back, period.
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Even under Biden, for as much of a,
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well, all right, I'm going to hold my tongue.
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For as much as some don't like Biden,
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I will just say that he also recognized
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the threat in what was going on with Venezuela.
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And when it came to Maduro specifically,
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Maduro's bounty on his head for crimes
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when it came to drug trafficking,
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human rights violations, et cetera,
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wasn't just about the United States of America.
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There are many countries, many countries
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who wanted Maduro captured.
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But the US, being the bigger country,
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the superpower in all of this,
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is the one who really, really had
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the means to make it happen.
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So the bounty on Maduro goes back
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quite a few years, and it started at 15 million.
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The Biden administration increased that to 25 million.
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And then it was later increased to 50 million.
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So again, I said this in another episode,
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a previous episode, I believe it was episode 102.
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Was this about drugs?
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Yes and no, partially.
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Yes, it's a huge feather in the cap
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of the United States to squash that industry,
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to further put pressure on the drug trade in the area,
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to further put more stumbling blocks, roadblocks.
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Like, look, we're not going to be naive.
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We're not going to be able to shut it down entirely,
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even though we would love to.
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But so much came out of Venezuela.
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Many people claim that Venezuela didn't even produce
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anything, which was also a lie.
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Look, most of the drugs came from, again,
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it came from Peru and Colombia and Mexico.
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All went into Venezuela.
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250 metric tons of cocaine alone, just cocaine alone,
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was trafficked through Venezuela, just cocaine.
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And that made up literally 10,
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I think up to 15% of the entire cocaine trade in the world.
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Think about that, think about that.
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And just specifically talking cocaine, by the way,
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this isn't all drugs that were funneled
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through Venezuela, just cocaine.
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I want to say it was about 10 to 13% of that
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was destined to the United States,
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the rest to Europe and Asia.
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So was it about drugs?
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Was there a problem?
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Damn right, there was, there was a huge problem.
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And again, it was more than just the drugs,
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it was the connections, it was the power,
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it was the means to get things done
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by other very dangerous individuals and organizations.
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And all these organizations were protected
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by the Venezuelan government.
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So what if Venezuela get out of it?
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Again, connections, connections.
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They can call in a favor.
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They got money, absolutely got money.
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Again, about eight, maybe $9 billion a year out of it.
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Still a good revenue stream.
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But let's get past the drugs, let's get back to China.
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So what was China doing there?
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You know, before the operation happened,
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I believe it was like literally the day before,
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China was there with delegates meeting with Maduro
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before the strike on Caracas
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that involved very elite United States military personnel.
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I mean, we're talking about an air mission
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by the Army's 160th, also known as the Night Stalkers.
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I mean, these guys are elite helicopter pilots.
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They train to do nothing but fly at night
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at extremely low altitudes.
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I mean, these guys are the bad asses
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of helicopter pilots, period.
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I mean, they are the special forces
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of helicopter operations, period.
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And then the other people
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that were tapped to go after Maduro,
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look, as bad ass as the Navy SEALs are,
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they called in Delta Force.
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And they're also known as special operations
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in the Army.
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And if you don't know who Delta Force is,
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well, that's by design.
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Their name isn't really pushed around that much.
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The military community absolutely knows about them,
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but these are the elite of the elite of the elite.
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This is the team that pulls
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from all the other special forces teams.
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Like, you got SEALs, which, much respect,
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because damn, they do shit that, I mean, I would tap out.
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And then you got Delta Force.
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I mean, it just goes from here to here,
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like here to here, to here, here, here.
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Trying to keep my hand in the frame here.
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But listen, you all get the point.
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These are bad hombres.
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These are people that you do not fuck with.
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And if these guys are going after you, it's job done.
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Let me just say that.
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This operation was so well planned, so strategic,
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that the entire operation, from air support,
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taking out any kind of retaliatory means
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by the Venezuelan military,
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all the way to the 160th or night stalkers
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bringing them to Delta Force Special Operations Unit,
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like capturing him, and then even taking him back
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and putting him on the boat was all less than three hours.
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All of it was less than three hours, all of it.
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And Delta Force, they trained.
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They had a full-scale model of Maduro's complex,
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where they trained day and night
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to know every turn, every nook and cranny.
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Like the CIA was out there doing intel for months,
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doing nothing but tracking his movements.
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How he ate, by the way, even the times he ate,
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when he went to bed, his every single habit,
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so that there were absolutely no surprises.
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So this was absolutely not just a display
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of the most elite military in the world, in operation,
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taking action, but a clear message
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to China, Iran, and Russia.
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China's involvement in the region
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is not just to do with Venezuela.
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But again, I know I digressed a bit,
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but China was there literally the day before
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having a meeting with Maduro.
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China had warned the US, previous to this,
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a few months ago, to leave Venezuela alone.
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Well, why?
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Why is that?
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Well, China was making major investments in Venezuela,
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in cash, mostly by loans.
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They were also selling military armaments to Venezuela.
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They were also training Venezuelan troops.
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So this goes well beyond just diplomatic relationships here.
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This was China digging in their heels
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and offering much more than needed.
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Why?
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For the same reason everybody is blaming Trump
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for going into Venezuela.
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The oil, the resources, and not just that,
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the hemispherical position to the United States.
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Having a strategic base of operations,
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an ally in the Western Hemisphere,
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which is literally right here
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in the United States backyard, is huge.
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And before Venezuela,
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China was making many, many investments
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and growing the relationship with Peru.
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They were also doing the same in Panama.
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In fact, they helped Panama build infrastructure.
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They control the port, by the way,
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the Panama Canal, at both ends.
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Now, I know not the Chinese government directly,
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but two Chinese companies.
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So, I mean, we all know what that means.
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Look, in China, if you get into business,
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China is your partner.
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The actual government of China
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is one of the partners of that business, regardless.
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And when they want to,
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they're gonna punch your ticket
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and they're gonna use your company
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for the betterment of their government,
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as they see anyway, as they see.
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So, China was intentionally going around
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trying to create these relationships,
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giving all these countries loans,
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building their infrastructure,
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selling weapons and arms to Venezuela,
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training Venezuelan troops.
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They were digging themselves in
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to become the major power
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that controlled the Western Hemisphere,
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our own backyard.
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You know who else was doing this?
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Iran.
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That's right.
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Iran had a relationship with Venezuela as well.
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They would offer to go help repair their oil refineries.
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And you know what else Iran did?
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They sold advanced weaponry as well.
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Well, more like technologies.
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They would sell them drones
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and surface-to-air missiles.
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And they were also involved in military trainings
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and operations as well.
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So, we got China and Iran in our backyard,
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trying to get cozy with our neighbors.
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I mean, it's like you looking out your door
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and then, let's just say the neighbor behind you
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is like, I don't know,
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for, let's say your house is America
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and you look in the backyard and then that's Russia.
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Like that house is Russia,
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or in this case, China or Iran.
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And when you look at the world,
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you look at the map,
446
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and even though it's a big world,
447
00:23:21.550 --> 00:23:23.270
that's literally what this was.
448
00:23:23.310 --> 00:23:24.450
This is what was going on.
449
00:23:25.710 --> 00:23:27.010
Russia was also involved.
450
00:23:27.130 --> 00:23:29.410
Russia had many investments in the area as well.
451
00:23:29.410 --> 00:23:35.090
Russia was involved in trading certain goods,
452
00:23:35.970 --> 00:23:39.970
certain services or consulting and whatnot.
453
00:23:40.690 --> 00:23:42.150
Anyway, Russia was also involved.
454
00:23:42.490 --> 00:23:46.950
So, Russia and Iran, they traded for oil.
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00:23:49.400 --> 00:23:52.920
China, I will be honest,
456
00:23:52.940 --> 00:23:55.280
I'm not sure how much oil actually went to China,
457
00:23:56.060 --> 00:23:57.860
but China was there for other reasons.
458
00:23:58.500 --> 00:24:01.780
China wanted to control the Western Hemisphere.
459
00:24:01.960 --> 00:24:04.660
China wants to be the United States.
460
00:24:04.720 --> 00:24:06.740
They want to be the world power.
461
00:24:08.340 --> 00:24:11.020
China wants to solidify their Belt and Road Initiative.
462
00:24:11.260 --> 00:24:13.100
Now, they can already do that with Panama,
463
00:24:13.540 --> 00:24:15.920
but if you cozy up to Venezuela and Peru,
464
00:24:16.500 --> 00:24:21.020
well, that is three nations right next to each other.
465
00:24:21.040 --> 00:24:23.420
And if you can get that whole region right there
466
00:24:23.420 --> 00:24:25.580
under your control, under your grasp,
467
00:24:26.240 --> 00:24:28.760
then you pretty much own the hemisphere right there.
468
00:24:28.760 --> 00:24:29.960
You own that Western Hemisphere.
469
00:24:31.940 --> 00:24:34.820
So again, was this about drugs?
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00:24:35.780 --> 00:24:36.320
Partly.
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00:24:36.620 --> 00:24:37.500
Was this about oil?
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00:24:37.700 --> 00:24:39.240
Well, here's the thing with the oil.
473
00:24:41.120 --> 00:24:42.520
Yes and no.
474
00:24:43.080 --> 00:24:44.700
The thing with the oil is this.
475
00:24:47.890 --> 00:24:49.930
Iran was relying on the oil.
476
00:24:50.670 --> 00:24:53.330
They were using that oil regardless.
477
00:24:54.110 --> 00:24:56.390
The bigger thing was Russia.
478
00:24:56.390 --> 00:24:58.130
Russia's use of the oil.
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00:24:59.890 --> 00:25:02.230
So in controlling the oil there,
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00:25:02.490 --> 00:25:03.470
stepping in control of the oil,
481
00:25:03.530 --> 00:25:06.310
you're cutting off major energy,
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00:25:06.830 --> 00:25:08.650
major supply of energy to these nations,
483
00:25:09.750 --> 00:25:11.570
as well as revenue streams to these nations.
484
00:25:13.730 --> 00:25:17.470
Secondly, the oil industry in Venezuela
485
00:25:17.470 --> 00:25:18.950
goes back a long way.
486
00:25:19.070 --> 00:25:21.830
And a lot of it had to do with America,
487
00:25:22.210 --> 00:25:27.240
stepping in, helping develop the oil industry
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00:25:27.240 --> 00:25:27.940
for Venezuela.
489
00:25:29.060 --> 00:25:31.440
Companies like Chevron, for example,
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00:25:31.740 --> 00:25:33.740
they specialized in making refineries
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00:25:33.740 --> 00:25:36.760
that could process their certain brand or type of oil.
492
00:25:37.000 --> 00:25:42.340
Because it's not like the fine wine of oil.
493
00:25:42.960 --> 00:25:44.200
It needs a little work.
494
00:25:44.440 --> 00:25:45.900
It needs a little, you know,
495
00:25:45.900 --> 00:25:47.620
you need to massage it a bit.
496
00:25:47.740 --> 00:25:49.500
You need to do a few more things
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00:25:49.500 --> 00:25:52.500
to get it to be the oil that we need to use.
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00:25:53.660 --> 00:25:55.680
But Venezuela's abundant in it.
499
00:25:56.760 --> 00:25:59.960
So US manufacturers, US oil manufacturers
500
00:25:59.960 --> 00:26:02.540
created the refineries, built the refineries
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00:26:02.540 --> 00:26:05.360
to be able to process this particular type of oil.
502
00:26:08.360 --> 00:26:11.000
And just like in 2005,
503
00:26:12.080 --> 00:26:14.260
when Venezuela refused to work with the US government
504
00:26:14.260 --> 00:26:17.220
or with the DEA to try to get a handle
505
00:26:17.760 --> 00:26:21.260
on the illegal drug trade and the trafficking,
506
00:26:22.160 --> 00:26:24.560
Venezuela also, this wasn't in 2005.
507
00:26:25.080 --> 00:26:26.100
I'm not sure the exact date,
508
00:26:26.100 --> 00:26:29.740
but Venezuela also closed out
509
00:26:29.740 --> 00:26:32.800
and turned their back to the US in the oil trade.
510
00:26:34.700 --> 00:26:36.920
With that being said, Trump made some remarks here.
511
00:26:37.180 --> 00:26:38.800
Trump absolutely made some remarks.
512
00:26:39.860 --> 00:26:42.280
He said, we're taking the oil back.
513
00:26:42.660 --> 00:26:45.740
He said that we are also going to run Venezuela.
514
00:26:46.660 --> 00:26:50.020
Well, choice words for sure.
515
00:26:51.420 --> 00:26:52.640
I understand controlling the oil,
516
00:26:52.720 --> 00:26:55.040
but Trump also did say that
517
00:26:55.040 --> 00:26:56.580
the revenues from the oil,
518
00:26:56.880 --> 00:26:58.880
he's going to make sure go back to Venezuela,
519
00:26:58.960 --> 00:27:00.300
go back to the people of Venezuela.
520
00:27:01.140 --> 00:27:04.400
So this isn't the intention of the Trump administration
521
00:27:04.400 --> 00:27:07.220
to just rob, pillage, and rape Venezuela.
522
00:27:07.840 --> 00:27:10.040
He's looking at a partnership with Venezuela.
523
00:27:10.660 --> 00:27:12.260
So I'm not really too concerned
524
00:27:12.260 --> 00:27:14.800
on how the US is going to be working with Venezuela
525
00:27:14.800 --> 00:27:15.620
in terms of the oil,
526
00:27:15.880 --> 00:27:18.720
because Venezuela, their oil industry was not huge.
527
00:27:18.740 --> 00:27:20.280
They have so much reserve,
528
00:27:20.280 --> 00:27:22.360
but they didn't have the capability or capacity
529
00:27:22.360 --> 00:27:26.920
to get it out of the ground and refine it
530
00:27:27.720 --> 00:27:29.480
and the levels that they needed
531
00:27:29.480 --> 00:27:33.780
to be extremely profitable and rich.
532
00:27:33.980 --> 00:27:35.700
Were they rich in resources? Yes.
533
00:27:36.220 --> 00:27:37.720
Were their exports making them rich?
534
00:27:37.780 --> 00:27:40.140
No, because they had limited means of production.
535
00:27:40.940 --> 00:27:43.220
So the US stepping in is a good thing for Venezuela.
536
00:27:44.420 --> 00:27:49.220
I personally hope that Trump does what he says
537
00:27:49.220 --> 00:27:50.800
and that he truly is going to work
538
00:27:50.800 --> 00:27:53.280
with the nation state of Venezuela
539
00:27:53.280 --> 00:27:55.120
and the Venezuelan people to make sure
540
00:27:55.120 --> 00:28:01.340
that they are once again, wealthy, healthy nation.
541
00:28:02.420 --> 00:28:05.320
And look, I do not want to see Trump
542
00:28:05.320 --> 00:28:07.260
rape Venezuela whatsoever.
543
00:28:07.900 --> 00:28:09.000
I really don't.
544
00:28:09.300 --> 00:28:10.920
And I'm hoping that is not his intention.
545
00:28:13.210 --> 00:28:13.970
Time will tell.
546
00:28:14.930 --> 00:28:17.350
What I'm more concerned with is Trump's statement
547
00:28:17.350 --> 00:28:21.570
in saying that we are going to run Venezuela for a while
548
00:28:21.570 --> 00:28:27.050
until we can find the appropriate
549
00:28:28.850 --> 00:28:31.350
transitionary time or period.
550
00:28:32.590 --> 00:28:37.310
So what that means is there's a lot that can happen here.
551
00:28:37.750 --> 00:28:40.450
Okay, so vice president of Venezuela was voted in
552
00:28:40.450 --> 00:28:43.130
or was sworn in to become president,
553
00:28:43.670 --> 00:28:44.930
but Trump swooped in and said,
554
00:28:45.390 --> 00:28:47.770
we're not recognizing that, we're pumping the brakes.
555
00:28:48.510 --> 00:28:49.550
And I get it.
556
00:28:49.550 --> 00:28:50.630
I get it.
557
00:28:50.630 --> 00:28:54.010
When it comes to a democracy, for example,
558
00:28:54.130 --> 00:28:56.210
if the people voted, if the people want
559
00:28:56.210 --> 00:28:58.310
a certain individual, it's that country's right
560
00:28:58.310 --> 00:29:01.610
to get behind that individual to be the de facto leader
561
00:29:01.610 --> 00:29:02.950
or representative of that country.
562
00:29:03.750 --> 00:29:05.690
But again, this is bigger than drugs.
563
00:29:05.710 --> 00:29:07.090
This is bigger than just Venezuela.
564
00:29:07.170 --> 00:29:11.810
This is about keeping control of the Western hemisphere,
565
00:29:12.070 --> 00:29:12.950
keeping it safe.
566
00:29:13.570 --> 00:29:15.730
And one of the ways we're gonna do that
567
00:29:15.730 --> 00:29:18.190
is by continuing to root out communism
568
00:29:18.950 --> 00:29:23.730
and the socialist practices within our own hemisphere.
569
00:29:24.930 --> 00:29:29.010
And by doing so, that is keeping Russia and China at bay
570
00:29:29.850 --> 00:29:32.530
and absolutely keeping Iran out of the picture.
571
00:29:34.090 --> 00:29:35.970
So controlling the area, I understand.
572
00:29:36.690 --> 00:29:40.490
Now, do we have to agree with this whole situation
573
00:29:40.490 --> 00:29:41.490
and how it was handled?
574
00:29:41.750 --> 00:29:44.230
No, we absolutely do not.
575
00:29:44.570 --> 00:29:47.410
Do we have to say that Trump is right
576
00:29:47.410 --> 00:29:49.450
in his assessment and his actions?
577
00:29:51.610 --> 00:29:55.390
We don't have to, but the unfortunate truth here,
578
00:29:55.650 --> 00:29:56.890
and you can take your emotions
579
00:29:56.890 --> 00:29:58.070
and just throw them out the window
580
00:29:58.070 --> 00:30:01.930
because as I said earlier, this is rumor control.
581
00:30:02.270 --> 00:30:03.290
These are the facts.
582
00:30:05.050 --> 00:30:07.430
The reality of the situation is it was necessary
583
00:30:07.430 --> 00:30:10.290
for too many years under previous administrations,
584
00:30:10.370 --> 00:30:12.190
going back many, many years.
585
00:30:12.890 --> 00:30:16.030
The encroachment of China in our own Western hemisphere
586
00:30:16.030 --> 00:30:18.570
over the years was unchecked.
587
00:30:18.570 --> 00:30:19.850
And it has gotten to the point
588
00:30:19.850 --> 00:30:25.190
that China was ramping up their plans,
589
00:30:25.630 --> 00:30:26.970
was not hiding it anymore.
590
00:30:27.350 --> 00:30:28.710
It was making it very known
591
00:30:28.710 --> 00:30:30.670
that they were going to control the region.
592
00:30:31.650 --> 00:30:34.650
We can't wake up to seeing China in our backyard
593
00:30:34.650 --> 00:30:38.870
with turrets of rockets, missiles, et cetera,
594
00:30:39.090 --> 00:30:39.790
pointed our way.
595
00:30:39.790 --> 00:30:41.830
We can't have China in our backyard
596
00:30:41.830 --> 00:30:45.450
controlling the oceans and the trade routes
597
00:30:45.450 --> 00:30:46.750
going through South America.
598
00:30:47.550 --> 00:30:48.810
That is not gonna happen.
599
00:30:50.600 --> 00:30:52.080
So while we don't agree with it,
600
00:30:52.080 --> 00:30:53.860
we don't like regime change
601
00:30:53.860 --> 00:30:57.640
and we don't want to see Trump take these actions,
602
00:30:59.120 --> 00:31:02.620
it had to happen because it went unchecked for too long.
603
00:31:03.120 --> 00:31:05.120
And if something didn't happen now,
604
00:31:05.500 --> 00:31:07.060
we would have woke up one day
605
00:31:07.060 --> 00:31:08.840
in a major war with China.
606
00:31:09.520 --> 00:31:11.460
We would have woke up one day
607
00:31:11.460 --> 00:31:15.580
with Iran right there outside our ports.
608
00:31:17.660 --> 00:31:19.840
And you may think that I'm wrong here,
609
00:31:19.840 --> 00:31:21.880
but my track record has been pretty right.
610
00:31:22.220 --> 00:31:24.260
So I think we just averted a major crisis
611
00:31:24.260 --> 00:31:26.640
by stepping in, taking care of the situation
612
00:31:26.640 --> 00:31:30.580
and sending a very, very clear message
613
00:31:30.580 --> 00:31:33.340
to China, Russia, and Iran.
614
00:31:34.040 --> 00:31:35.900
That message is this is our backyard.
615
00:31:37.240 --> 00:31:38.940
We say what happens here.
616
00:31:40.180 --> 00:31:43.380
And you, you need to get the fuck out.
617
00:31:44.720 --> 00:31:46.340
And so, look, I've been talking a while.
618
00:31:46.360 --> 00:31:48.660
What I wanna do is I wanna play a clip.
619
00:31:49.520 --> 00:31:51.980
This is from First Post.
620
00:31:52.540 --> 00:31:57.860
Now, they give a nice unbiased reporting
621
00:31:57.860 --> 00:32:00.160
of what was going on there recently
622
00:32:00.160 --> 00:32:01.820
and the whole situation.
623
00:32:03.100 --> 00:32:06.440
And so I wanna play this and it's a four minute clip.
624
00:32:07.060 --> 00:32:08.620
I don't know how long I'm gonna go with it,
625
00:32:08.620 --> 00:32:09.840
but I have to play this clip
626
00:32:09.840 --> 00:32:12.700
because I thought it was a very well put together clip
627
00:32:13.840 --> 00:32:16.660
and what really seemed to be like an unbiased report.
628
00:32:16.720 --> 00:32:17.480
You know, real news.
629
00:32:18.100 --> 00:32:19.380
Not like what I'm doing apparently.
630
00:32:20.160 --> 00:32:22.060
Real news, like just telling it
631
00:32:22.060 --> 00:32:24.180
like it is just saying this happened, that happened,
632
00:32:24.760 --> 00:32:25.860
this person said this.
633
00:32:26.140 --> 00:32:28.480
And so here's the clip I wanna play for you.
634
00:32:28.880 --> 00:32:30.520
I'm gonna go ahead and full screen that out
635
00:32:30.520 --> 00:32:33.140
so you can see it and give this a listen.
636
00:32:33.460 --> 00:32:35.940
A major diplomatic storm has erupted
637
00:32:35.940 --> 00:32:37.100
at the United Nations.
638
00:32:37.100 --> 00:32:39.920
China has strongly condemned the United States
639
00:32:39.920 --> 00:32:42.540
for seizing Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro
640
00:32:42.540 --> 00:32:45.580
and flying him to New York to face criminal charges.
641
00:32:47.380 --> 00:32:48.760
Beijing called the move illegal,
642
00:32:49.280 --> 00:32:52.180
bullying and a direct attack on Venezuela's sovereignty,
643
00:32:52.540 --> 00:32:55.120
warning it could set a dangerous global precedent.
644
00:32:55.600 --> 00:32:58.700
At an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council,
645
00:32:59.200 --> 00:33:01.280
China said it was shocked by what it described
646
00:33:01.280 --> 00:33:03.280
as a unilateral use of force,
647
00:33:03.660 --> 00:33:05.660
adding that the United States had ignored
648
00:33:05.660 --> 00:33:08.640
international law and disregarded sovereign equality.
649
00:33:09.420 --> 00:33:11.240
Beijing demanded the immediate release
650
00:33:11.240 --> 00:33:13.640
of Maduro and his wife and called on Washington
651
00:33:13.640 --> 00:33:16.460
to resolve disputes through dialogue and not force.
652
00:33:18.760 --> 00:33:21.940
The US has placed its own power above multilateralism
653
00:33:21.940 --> 00:33:24.740
and military action above diplomatic efforts,
654
00:33:25.140 --> 00:33:26.980
posing a grave threat to peace and security
655
00:33:26.980 --> 00:33:28.980
in Latin America and the Caribbean
656
00:33:28.980 --> 00:33:30.920
and indeed internationally.
657
00:33:31.580 --> 00:33:33.080
China firmly opposes this
658
00:33:33.080 --> 00:33:35.460
and the international community has also expressed
659
00:33:35.460 --> 00:33:38.380
widespread grave concern and strong condemnation.
660
00:33:41.220 --> 00:33:43.800
The dramatic developments followed a late night raid
661
00:33:43.800 --> 00:33:45.160
in Caracas on Saturday,
662
00:33:45.520 --> 00:33:47.200
when Maduro and his wife were detained
663
00:33:47.200 --> 00:33:49.260
and transported to the United States.
664
00:33:49.760 --> 00:33:51.220
Maduro is now facing charges,
665
00:33:51.420 --> 00:33:54.460
including narcoterrorism and weapons related offenses.
666
00:33:55.280 --> 00:33:57.420
All right, I'm gonna pause this interjector.
667
00:33:57.740 --> 00:34:00.340
So remember how I discussed earlier
668
00:34:00.340 --> 00:34:02.340
that everybody is suddenly talking about China
669
00:34:02.340 --> 00:34:03.080
and the China involvement.
670
00:34:03.580 --> 00:34:07.580
When this happened, I posted on my social medias right away.
671
00:34:07.640 --> 00:34:08.699
I was like, look, I'm sitting here
672
00:34:08.699 --> 00:34:09.800
waiting for the China response.
673
00:34:09.840 --> 00:34:12.480
And everyone was like, huh, what the hell you talking about?
674
00:34:12.620 --> 00:34:14.380
This isn't about China, it's about oil.
675
00:34:15.900 --> 00:34:17.400
All right, it took a couple of days
676
00:34:17.400 --> 00:34:18.659
and then all of a sudden,
677
00:34:19.139 --> 00:34:22.139
Xi Jinping was everywhere with his statement.
678
00:34:22.239 --> 00:34:23.800
Everyone was like, oh, China said this
679
00:34:23.800 --> 00:34:24.880
and condemns the US.
680
00:34:25.739 --> 00:34:27.699
Here's what's rich about China's statement.
681
00:34:29.340 --> 00:34:31.360
These are the same people
682
00:34:31.909 --> 00:34:35.880
that in the Indo-Pacific region
683
00:34:37.800 --> 00:34:39.440
terrorize the Philippines,
684
00:34:41.179 --> 00:34:42.840
the Filipino fishing boats and whatnot.
685
00:34:43.639 --> 00:34:44.780
So they terrorize that area.
686
00:34:47.940 --> 00:34:50.139
They terrorize South Korea,
687
00:34:51.260 --> 00:34:52.480
not as much as North Korea does,
688
00:34:52.960 --> 00:34:57.560
but they give Japan a hard time
689
00:34:58.050 --> 00:35:00.620
and they absolutely give Taiwan a hard time.
690
00:35:00.620 --> 00:35:02.780
So they're out there antagonizing Taiwan,
691
00:35:04.000 --> 00:35:07.720
South Korea and Japan and the Philippines daily.
692
00:35:08.660 --> 00:35:10.840
All sovereign nations, by the way,
693
00:35:11.780 --> 00:35:13.900
but yet it's okay for China to do that.
694
00:35:14.120 --> 00:35:15.800
And if we're talking about violations,
695
00:35:16.540 --> 00:35:20.200
I mean, are we even talking about China's consistent
696
00:35:20.200 --> 00:35:25.560
and insistent genocide of the Uyghurs?
697
00:35:25.560 --> 00:35:30.900
The native Muslim Uyghurs in China?
698
00:35:34.260 --> 00:35:39.370
I mean, they're literally like capturing these people
699
00:35:39.870 --> 00:35:42.590
and chemically castrating them
700
00:35:42.590 --> 00:35:43.750
so that they can't breed
701
00:35:43.750 --> 00:35:45.830
and they can't continue their race.
702
00:35:48.260 --> 00:35:50.320
So it's very rich for China to speak up
703
00:35:50.320 --> 00:35:51.740
against the US's actions here.
704
00:35:51.820 --> 00:35:53.780
But again, why is China concerned?
705
00:35:53.820 --> 00:35:55.100
Because of everything I said.
706
00:35:55.220 --> 00:35:57.780
China was investing heavily into the area.
707
00:35:58.240 --> 00:36:00.060
China was making inroads with Venezuela.
708
00:36:00.060 --> 00:36:03.740
China was giving money to Peru and developing Peru.
709
00:36:04.040 --> 00:36:06.440
They were very heavily involved in Panama.
710
00:36:06.980 --> 00:36:11.100
This whole thing that Trump decided to do
711
00:36:11.100 --> 00:36:14.900
just disrupted China's plans.
712
00:36:15.180 --> 00:36:18.120
It dealt a major blow to China's plans
713
00:36:18.120 --> 00:36:20.640
to control the area in our backyard.
714
00:36:21.340 --> 00:36:22.600
Or I can continue this report.
715
00:36:22.820 --> 00:36:24.500
Accusations, he is strongly denied.
716
00:36:24.920 --> 00:36:26.960
He has pleaded not guilty in a New York court.
717
00:36:27.400 --> 00:36:29.220
Now Washington has defended its actions,
718
00:36:29.220 --> 00:36:31.780
saying this was a law enforcement operation
719
00:36:31.780 --> 00:36:33.980
based on longstanding indictments.
720
00:36:34.280 --> 00:36:35.920
In fact, President Donald Trump
721
00:36:35.920 --> 00:36:37.720
had referenced the Monroe Doctrine
722
00:36:37.720 --> 00:36:39.200
to justify the operation,
723
00:36:39.640 --> 00:36:41.780
a principle that has shaped US policy
724
00:36:41.780 --> 00:36:43.860
in Latin America for nearly two centuries.
725
00:36:44.620 --> 00:36:48.760
First articulated by President James Monroe in the 1800s,
726
00:36:48.920 --> 00:36:50.600
the doctrine was originally designed
727
00:36:50.600 --> 00:36:53.260
to warn European powers against intervening
728
00:36:53.260 --> 00:36:54.260
in the Western Hemisphere.
729
00:36:56.020 --> 00:36:58.640
All of these actions were in gross violation
730
00:36:58.640 --> 00:37:02.240
of the core principles of American foreign policy,
731
00:37:02.560 --> 00:37:07.460
dating back more than two centuries, and not anymore.
732
00:37:08.840 --> 00:37:13.220
All the way back, it dated to the Monroe Doctrines,
733
00:37:14.100 --> 00:37:17.040
and the Monroe Doctrine is a big deal,
734
00:37:17.400 --> 00:37:22.040
but we've superseded it by a lot, by a real lot.
735
00:37:23.240 --> 00:37:25.060
They now call it the Monroe Doctrine.
736
00:37:25.060 --> 00:37:29.380
I don't know, it's Monroe Doctrine.
737
00:37:30.140 --> 00:37:31.680
We sort of forgot about it.
738
00:37:31.680 --> 00:37:33.440
It was very important, but we forgot about it.
739
00:37:33.460 --> 00:37:34.940
We don't forget about it anymore.
740
00:37:35.200 --> 00:37:37.760
Under our new national security strategy,
741
00:37:37.860 --> 00:37:40.780
American dominance in the Western Hemisphere
742
00:37:41.350 --> 00:37:42.900
will never be questioned again.
743
00:37:43.420 --> 00:37:44.160
Won't happen.
744
00:37:46.160 --> 00:37:48.580
I'm pausing here because it's important.
745
00:37:48.720 --> 00:37:51.000
Now look, whether you like Donald Trump or not,
746
00:37:51.180 --> 00:37:53.200
sometimes it sounds like he's just fumbling around
747
00:37:53.200 --> 00:37:55.320
and making stuff up on the fly.
748
00:37:56.120 --> 00:37:57.280
And many times he is.
749
00:37:58.420 --> 00:38:00.460
He's never been a person to stay on script,
750
00:38:00.500 --> 00:38:02.080
but what he said is very important,
751
00:38:02.800 --> 00:38:04.500
and what was reported earlier
752
00:38:04.500 --> 00:38:08.260
before they cut to this clip is true.
753
00:38:08.740 --> 00:38:12.660
Now, we need to understand what the Monroe Doctrine,
754
00:38:13.440 --> 00:38:16.000
sorry for that flub, let me say that again,
755
00:38:16.340 --> 00:38:19.440
what the Monroe Doctrine represents.
756
00:38:21.100 --> 00:38:24.060
Listen, this was created at a time
757
00:38:24.060 --> 00:38:26.960
when America was sending a message to Europe
758
00:38:26.960 --> 00:38:30.260
and saying, look, you have no right
759
00:38:30.260 --> 00:38:33.780
to be in our hemisphere and we're going to stand up
760
00:38:33.780 --> 00:38:36.280
to European colonialism in our backyard.
761
00:38:36.700 --> 00:38:39.440
But more importantly, what the Monroe Doctrine did
762
00:38:39.440 --> 00:38:43.440
is it established the Western Hemisphere.
763
00:38:44.380 --> 00:38:48.060
The Western Hemisphere that was to be controlled
764
00:38:48.060 --> 00:38:52.080
and ran by the United States of America.
765
00:38:52.680 --> 00:38:55.560
Look, the US has been a superpower for a very long time.
766
00:38:56.420 --> 00:38:59.440
The United States of America is the big dog.
767
00:38:59.960 --> 00:39:00.860
And I'm not just saying that
768
00:39:00.860 --> 00:39:02.360
because I'm American and I'm born here.
769
00:39:02.780 --> 00:39:03.960
It's just a fact.
770
00:39:04.320 --> 00:39:07.020
And before America, the big dog was,
771
00:39:07.020 --> 00:39:08.700
well, the UK, it was Britain.
772
00:39:08.940 --> 00:39:12.080
I mean, we cannot argue Britain's history
773
00:39:12.080 --> 00:39:15.360
and its power, its control, its prowess,
774
00:39:15.500 --> 00:39:16.780
what it contributed to the world.
775
00:39:17.080 --> 00:39:20.100
And so before America, it was Britain.
776
00:39:21.320 --> 00:39:24.180
But for a very long time, to this day,
777
00:39:24.240 --> 00:39:26.320
it is the United States of America.
778
00:39:26.820 --> 00:39:31.980
And the Monroe Doctrine established the ability
779
00:39:31.980 --> 00:39:36.160
for America to say what happens in the Western Hemisphere
780
00:39:36.760 --> 00:39:41.200
and that nobody, nobody has a right to control,
781
00:39:41.860 --> 00:39:46.320
manipulate, or get involved in our hemisphere
782
00:39:46.320 --> 00:39:48.440
without our permission, without our say.
783
00:39:49.500 --> 00:39:52.420
And that we will not allow anybody
784
00:39:53.120 --> 00:39:56.820
to do what we don't give permission to do.
785
00:39:57.800 --> 00:40:00.420
Now, that is a very slippery slope
786
00:40:00.420 --> 00:40:01.820
because you can take that many ways.
787
00:40:02.220 --> 00:40:03.300
You can take that as, well,
788
00:40:03.300 --> 00:40:05.320
that's America just being authoritarian
789
00:40:05.940 --> 00:40:07.440
within the Western Hemisphere.
790
00:40:07.720 --> 00:40:10.040
And basically even telling other sovereign nations,
791
00:40:10.220 --> 00:40:11.380
like, no, you answered to us.
792
00:40:11.400 --> 00:40:13.540
It's almost like, yeah, we're the boss.
793
00:40:13.560 --> 00:40:14.440
You kick up to us.
794
00:40:14.440 --> 00:40:15.560
And if you want to do something,
795
00:40:15.560 --> 00:40:17.460
we'll have a meeting and we'll decide whether or not
796
00:40:17.460 --> 00:40:18.740
you can look out for your nation
797
00:40:18.740 --> 00:40:20.760
and move forward and progress, et cetera.
798
00:40:21.420 --> 00:40:22.940
But the U.S. has never done that.
799
00:40:23.080 --> 00:40:25.560
They've never really came out and really did that.
800
00:40:26.340 --> 00:40:27.720
What the U.S. has done though,
801
00:40:27.980 --> 00:40:29.860
has been vigilant, has been cautious,
802
00:40:29.860 --> 00:40:31.300
and they have kept watch.
803
00:40:32.260 --> 00:40:33.740
At some point though in history,
804
00:40:34.260 --> 00:40:38.960
we lost our way in establishing our presence and prowess
805
00:40:38.960 --> 00:40:40.020
in the Western Hemisphere
806
00:40:40.020 --> 00:40:42.220
and taking action in the Western Hemisphere.
807
00:40:42.860 --> 00:40:45.900
I think a lot of that happened after the Cold War.
808
00:40:46.040 --> 00:40:47.820
We kind of just got away from it
809
00:40:47.820 --> 00:40:50.060
because the big threat was Russia and all of a sudden,
810
00:40:50.640 --> 00:40:52.540
well, no, the USSR at that time.
811
00:40:52.920 --> 00:40:55.460
And then it was suddenly like, well, it's over now.
812
00:40:55.500 --> 00:40:56.140
Everything's good.
813
00:40:56.220 --> 00:40:57.240
They were the threat.
814
00:40:57.300 --> 00:40:58.600
Like we weren't even considering China
815
00:40:58.600 --> 00:40:59.920
necessarily back then.
816
00:41:01.400 --> 00:41:03.020
But, you know, things have shifted.
817
00:41:04.400 --> 00:41:07.040
Russia, the current USSR, well, it's not USSR,
818
00:41:07.180 --> 00:41:10.180
but Russia today, still an absolute superpower,
819
00:41:10.180 --> 00:41:14.980
still an issue, but nothing compared to China
820
00:41:14.980 --> 00:41:16.760
and their capabilities right now.
821
00:41:17.180 --> 00:41:21.220
And so China has been taking over where Russia left off
822
00:41:21.220 --> 00:41:22.880
and they've been doing it differently.
823
00:41:23.040 --> 00:41:25.460
They've been trying to take a diplomatic approach
824
00:41:25.460 --> 00:41:26.720
to controlling the area.
825
00:41:27.440 --> 00:41:29.980
But Donald Trump just said, fuck that.
826
00:41:30.880 --> 00:41:32.680
Let me put my foot down and show you who we are
827
00:41:32.680 --> 00:41:34.820
just because it seemed like you forgot a little bit
828
00:41:34.820 --> 00:41:38.140
and basically just squashed all that.
829
00:41:38.480 --> 00:41:39.840
So now China's trying to figure out,
830
00:41:39.840 --> 00:41:40.800
well, how are we gonna approach this?
831
00:41:40.860 --> 00:41:41.260
What are we gonna do?
832
00:41:41.300 --> 00:41:43.360
Because China knows right now that Trump is serious.
833
00:41:44.260 --> 00:41:47.320
If they come in and they try to press any harder,
834
00:41:48.600 --> 00:41:49.680
there will be a war.
835
00:41:50.620 --> 00:41:51.760
There will be a war.
836
00:41:52.080 --> 00:41:53.640
And I'm not sure China wants that.
837
00:41:53.900 --> 00:41:54.520
And I'll be honest,
838
00:41:54.560 --> 00:41:55.980
I don't think the United States wants that either.
839
00:41:56.520 --> 00:41:58.980
I mean, we don't want two big giant superpowers
840
00:41:58.980 --> 00:41:59.740
going at it.
841
00:41:59.900 --> 00:42:02.760
It's not good for either of the countries
842
00:42:03.940 --> 00:42:05.500
in discussion right now.
843
00:42:05.660 --> 00:42:09.140
And it's also not good for the world whatsoever.
844
00:42:11.660 --> 00:42:14.780
So anyway, that is what was important
845
00:42:14.780 --> 00:42:15.960
about the Monroe Doctrine.
846
00:42:15.980 --> 00:42:19.500
It wasn't just, oh, we have the right
847
00:42:19.500 --> 00:42:20.520
to control Latin America.
848
00:42:20.680 --> 00:42:21.380
No, no, no, no.
849
00:42:21.400 --> 00:42:22.920
That's not what it was about.
850
00:42:22.980 --> 00:42:26.360
What it was about was establishing the Western Hemisphere
851
00:42:26.360 --> 00:42:29.300
and letting the world know this is our backyard.
852
00:42:29.480 --> 00:42:30.740
What we say goes down here.
853
00:42:30.800 --> 00:42:32.740
And don't even try to fuck around
854
00:42:32.740 --> 00:42:33.920
or you will find out.
855
00:42:34.300 --> 00:42:36.060
And the Monroe Doctrine is back.
856
00:42:36.060 --> 00:42:39.620
And Trump is the president, surprisingly,
857
00:42:41.000 --> 00:42:43.120
that recognized this, stepped up,
858
00:42:43.700 --> 00:42:45.500
and made the statement that needed to be made
859
00:42:46.080 --> 00:42:47.960
well before the Trump administration, by the way.
860
00:42:48.080 --> 00:42:52.160
I mean, this should have been done a long time ago.
861
00:42:52.580 --> 00:42:54.460
All right, let me get back to this video clip.
862
00:42:54.760 --> 00:42:56.840
Now, the United States insisted
863
00:42:56.840 --> 00:43:00.000
there was no war against Venezuela and no occupation,
864
00:43:00.380 --> 00:43:03.840
only a move to protect its citizens from narco-terrorism.
865
00:43:03.840 --> 00:43:05.920
Meanwhile, Russia sided with China,
866
00:43:06.320 --> 00:43:09.520
accusing the United Nations of international banditry
867
00:43:09.520 --> 00:43:11.620
and saying there could be no justification
868
00:43:11.620 --> 00:43:13.520
for the operation in Caracas.
869
00:43:14.000 --> 00:43:16.440
The United Nations has voiced serious concern,
870
00:43:16.740 --> 00:43:18.840
warning that the raid could worsen instability
871
00:43:18.840 --> 00:43:21.700
in Venezuela and create a troubling example
872
00:43:21.700 --> 00:43:23.820
of how states deal with each other.
873
00:43:24.120 --> 00:43:26.500
Now, Colombia, which requested the emergency meeting
874
00:43:26.500 --> 00:43:28.640
with supports from China and Russia,
875
00:43:29.100 --> 00:43:31.060
urged all sides to focus on the wellbeing
876
00:43:31.060 --> 00:43:32.680
of the Venezuelan people,
877
00:43:32.680 --> 00:43:35.600
warning that civilians often pay the highest price
878
00:43:35.600 --> 00:43:36.460
in such crises.
879
00:43:37.440 --> 00:43:40.260
Isn't it interesting that the people who spoke up
880
00:43:40.260 --> 00:43:42.880
against what the U.S. did in Venezuela
881
00:43:43.300 --> 00:43:46.320
are China and Russia and Colombia,
882
00:43:47.800 --> 00:43:55.380
a narco state and two authoritarian nations
883
00:43:55.380 --> 00:43:57.660
built on the backbone of communism?
884
00:43:57.660 --> 00:44:06.080
I mean, you can't, you just can't make this shit up.
885
00:44:06.760 --> 00:44:07.680
All right, let's continue this.
886
00:44:08.040 --> 00:44:10.180
China has deep economic and strategic ties
887
00:44:10.180 --> 00:44:11.000
with Venezuela.
888
00:44:11.680 --> 00:44:13.420
Analysts say China may not offer
889
00:44:13.420 --> 00:44:14.940
direct material support,
890
00:44:15.180 --> 00:44:17.560
but its diplomatic weight could shape
891
00:44:17.560 --> 00:44:19.560
international opinion against Washington.
892
00:44:22.380 --> 00:44:24.900
Cooperation between China and Venezuela
893
00:44:25.330 --> 00:44:27.940
is collaboration between sovereign states.
894
00:44:27.940 --> 00:44:30.800
It is protected by international law
895
00:44:30.800 --> 00:44:33.080
and the respective national legislation
896
00:44:33.080 --> 00:44:34.600
of both countries.
897
00:44:35.400 --> 00:44:37.600
Regardless of political developments in Venezuela,
898
00:44:38.200 --> 00:44:41.080
China's commitment to deepening practical cooperation
899
00:44:41.080 --> 00:44:43.840
across various fields remains unchanged,
900
00:44:44.480 --> 00:44:47.100
and China's legitimate interests in Venezuela
901
00:44:47.100 --> 00:44:50.040
shall be safeguarded in accordance with the law.
902
00:44:53.400 --> 00:44:55.740
So what are those interests there, China?
903
00:44:57.940 --> 00:44:59.280
What are you trying to safeguard?
904
00:45:00.420 --> 00:45:03.900
Your interests are resources, are oil,
905
00:45:04.360 --> 00:45:07.100
they're a strategic position in the Western hemisphere.
906
00:45:07.980 --> 00:45:09.100
That's what it is.
907
00:45:09.140 --> 00:45:10.380
That's what you're not saying.
908
00:45:11.160 --> 00:45:14.300
And a great choice of words there earlier, right?
909
00:45:15.060 --> 00:45:17.540
This is about a relationship
910
00:45:17.540 --> 00:45:19.320
between two sovereign nations.
911
00:45:19.540 --> 00:45:22.880
You're right, you and Venezuela are,
912
00:45:22.880 --> 00:45:24.500
China and Venezuela are sovereign nations,
913
00:45:24.680 --> 00:45:26.780
but the reason you're there is nefarious.
914
00:45:26.780 --> 00:45:30.700
The reason you're there is to antagonize
915
00:45:31.760 --> 00:45:36.140
and disrupt United States power in relationship
916
00:45:36.140 --> 00:45:37.020
within our own backyard.
917
00:45:37.140 --> 00:45:38.740
That is all there is to it.
918
00:45:38.760 --> 00:45:40.980
And the fact that you were there negotiating was for what?
919
00:45:41.240 --> 00:45:41.900
For the oil.
920
00:45:42.000 --> 00:45:43.860
Don't act like you weren't looking at the oil,
921
00:45:44.180 --> 00:45:45.980
looking at the gold, all the resources
922
00:45:45.980 --> 00:45:47.600
that you could rape and pillage from that land,
923
00:45:47.800 --> 00:45:49.980
just like you have done in Africa.
924
00:45:52.620 --> 00:45:54.260
See, the Chinese are really snakes.
925
00:45:54.320 --> 00:45:55.640
They really are.
926
00:45:56.240 --> 00:46:00.240
They're trying to look diplomatic, professional,
927
00:46:00.800 --> 00:46:02.920
trying to cite United Nations laws,
928
00:46:03.060 --> 00:46:05.600
while at the same time doing everything against
929
00:46:05.600 --> 00:46:08.680
what they are chastising the U.S. for.
930
00:46:09.460 --> 00:46:12.160
The U.S. went in strategically, took care of a situation,
931
00:46:12.320 --> 00:46:13.860
Maduro's alive, he wasn't killed.
932
00:46:14.740 --> 00:46:19.100
He's in custody, sorry, he is on trial.
933
00:46:20.600 --> 00:46:24.160
And you know, China would have done it a lot differently.
934
00:46:24.920 --> 00:46:27.140
The difference here is the United States
935
00:46:27.140 --> 00:46:31.200
is not trying to take over rule and absorb Venezuela.
936
00:46:32.220 --> 00:46:34.380
China was trying to do that through money
937
00:46:35.040 --> 00:46:38.540
and through big air quotes here, people,
938
00:46:38.820 --> 00:46:40.160
diplomatic relations.
939
00:46:42.220 --> 00:46:44.720
So while China may be opposed, don't be fooled.
940
00:46:45.860 --> 00:46:47.660
China was there for the resources.
941
00:46:47.900 --> 00:46:49.840
China was there for the strategic position.
942
00:46:50.780 --> 00:46:53.140
And China, like in this report earlier,
943
00:46:53.140 --> 00:46:58.300
said, well, while China doesn't offer any materials
944
00:46:58.300 --> 00:47:01.900
or material goods or whatever, that's a complete lie.
945
00:47:02.080 --> 00:47:03.080
Well, okay, maybe not a lie.
946
00:47:03.140 --> 00:47:04.580
The reporter probably didn't even know
947
00:47:04.580 --> 00:47:07.560
that China absolutely sells arms,
948
00:47:07.820 --> 00:47:11.260
armaments to the Venezuelan government for the military,
949
00:47:11.540 --> 00:47:14.340
and China trains the Venezuelan military.
950
00:47:14.640 --> 00:47:17.780
Why would China be training the Venezuelan military
951
00:47:17.780 --> 00:47:21.920
to help protect China's interests in the region
952
00:47:21.920 --> 00:47:27.060
against you-know-who United States of America, period?
953
00:47:28.580 --> 00:47:29.340
All right, let me go ahead
954
00:47:29.340 --> 00:47:30.800
and keep playing this video a little bit more.
955
00:47:31.120 --> 00:47:32.560
Well, for nearly two decades,
956
00:47:33.000 --> 00:47:34.900
China and Venezuela have built a unique
957
00:47:34.900 --> 00:47:37.020
oil-backed financial partnership.
958
00:47:37.480 --> 00:47:38.960
Through loans for oil arrangements,
959
00:47:39.420 --> 00:47:41.240
Beijing extended billions of dollars
960
00:47:41.240 --> 00:47:42.320
in credit to Caracas.
961
00:47:43.200 --> 00:47:45.440
This episode exemplifies the dynamics
962
00:47:45.440 --> 00:47:48.440
of great power competition on the global stage.
963
00:47:48.800 --> 00:47:50.640
For many, the seizure of Maduro
964
00:47:50.640 --> 00:47:52.660
without multilateral authorization
965
00:47:52.660 --> 00:47:54.620
reinforces longstanding claims
966
00:47:54.620 --> 00:47:57.440
that international law is applied selectively.
967
00:47:57.800 --> 00:48:01.020
How this moment is absorbed by global institutions
968
00:48:01.020 --> 00:48:03.080
will signal whether multilateralism
969
00:48:03.080 --> 00:48:04.980
can still restrain power.
970
00:48:05.720 --> 00:48:08.680
All right, so they do have a point there.
971
00:48:09.200 --> 00:48:12.460
This does set the precedent for other nations, right?
972
00:48:12.740 --> 00:48:14.120
It's like, well, if the United States
973
00:48:14.120 --> 00:48:15.780
can just step in and snatch Maduro
974
00:48:15.780 --> 00:48:17.260
to take care of this situation,
975
00:48:17.320 --> 00:48:19.160
then what's stopping China or Russia?
976
00:48:19.160 --> 00:48:20.560
It's like, how can we talk about
977
00:48:20.560 --> 00:48:21.720
what's going on in the Ukraine
978
00:48:21.720 --> 00:48:23.580
while on the other hand,
979
00:48:23.840 --> 00:48:26.040
the U.S. is invading another sovereign nation
980
00:48:26.040 --> 00:48:27.560
and just snatching their president?
981
00:48:28.160 --> 00:48:29.820
Well, it's not quite the same thing
982
00:48:29.820 --> 00:48:32.300
because Russia, if you're talking about Russia
983
00:48:33.180 --> 00:48:40.540
and Putin, Putin's legacy is reuniting the old USSR.
984
00:48:40.920 --> 00:48:44.020
When it was broken up, it was broken up a few times.
985
00:48:45.300 --> 00:48:46.760
Putin has made it very clear many times
986
00:48:46.760 --> 00:48:50.780
that he wants to reunite the great old USSR.
987
00:48:51.200 --> 00:48:53.940
His interests in Ukraine aren't necessarily
988
00:48:54.480 --> 00:48:59.100
just for resources or to take out a corrupt leader.
989
00:48:59.620 --> 00:49:02.840
No, he wants to take over the entire area
990
00:49:03.280 --> 00:49:07.040
and make it part of Russia and in doing so,
991
00:49:07.440 --> 00:49:10.460
increasing Russia's landmass and territory.
992
00:49:11.600 --> 00:49:13.740
And of course, Russia has her eye on Poland.
993
00:49:14.460 --> 00:49:16.380
Russia has its eye on Belarus.
994
00:49:17.140 --> 00:49:19.720
Russia has its eye on, I mean,
995
00:49:22.320 --> 00:49:25.560
Russia wants the entire region, period.
996
00:49:27.040 --> 00:49:30.300
And so, take what Russia says
997
00:49:30.300 --> 00:49:32.480
or what Putin says with a grain of salt.
998
00:49:33.360 --> 00:49:35.260
Take what China says with a grain of salt.
999
00:49:36.160 --> 00:49:38.320
Iran has no leg to stand on.
1000
00:49:38.880 --> 00:49:40.280
The reality is, is they're pissed
1001
00:49:40.280 --> 00:49:43.540
that we disrupted their plans again
1002
00:49:44.480 --> 00:49:47.720
to gain a strategic position in the Western hemisphere
1003
00:49:47.720 --> 00:49:53.740
where they can have a bit of control and power
1004
00:49:54.300 --> 00:49:57.600
to stand up against the United States of America.
1005
00:49:57.740 --> 00:50:00.620
That is exactly what this whole situation was about.
1006
00:50:03.850 --> 00:50:06.730
Now, with that being said,
1007
00:50:06.770 --> 00:50:08.550
how does Venezuela feel about all this?
1008
00:50:09.510 --> 00:50:11.210
You know what's funny is after this happened,
1009
00:50:13.980 --> 00:50:15.540
all the protesters out there,
1010
00:50:16.380 --> 00:50:18.580
like let me do a little thing, a little history here.
1011
00:50:18.580 --> 00:50:22.300
So remember Ukraine, all the protesters
1012
00:50:22.300 --> 00:50:24.340
that were protesting on behalf of Ukraine,
1013
00:50:24.440 --> 00:50:25.620
like we've got to save Ukraine,
1014
00:50:25.800 --> 00:50:26.680
send Ukraine all the money.
1015
00:50:26.860 --> 00:50:28.980
Let's do everything we can to save Ukraine
1016
00:50:28.980 --> 00:50:31.140
from the big bad Russian oligarchy.
1017
00:50:33.120 --> 00:50:35.400
And then, Palestine happened.
1018
00:50:35.620 --> 00:50:37.220
And then suddenly everybody forgot about Ukraine.
1019
00:50:37.380 --> 00:50:38.640
Then it was like, save Palestine,
1020
00:50:38.820 --> 00:50:41.260
free, free Palestine, Palestine, Palestine, Palestine.
1021
00:50:43.720 --> 00:50:44.520
Excuse me.
1022
00:50:44.900 --> 00:50:48.260
And so now, everyone forgot about Palestine.
1023
00:50:48.480 --> 00:50:49.860
Now it's free Venezuela.
1024
00:50:49.940 --> 00:50:50.620
What are we doing?
1025
00:50:50.620 --> 00:50:53.640
We shouldn't be stepping into a sovereign nation.
1026
00:50:54.420 --> 00:50:55.720
Let Maduro go.
1027
00:50:55.920 --> 00:50:57.880
Now you have all these protesters protesting
1028
00:50:57.880 --> 00:50:59.840
on behalf of Maduro.
1029
00:51:01.460 --> 00:51:04.220
And it's like, it's the next thing, right?
1030
00:51:04.220 --> 00:51:05.960
It's the next thing to get behind.
1031
00:51:06.100 --> 00:51:07.300
It's like, it's the trend.
1032
00:51:07.680 --> 00:51:09.560
You know what's crazy about all these protesters
1033
00:51:09.560 --> 00:51:12.660
is most of them are actually paid protesters.
1034
00:51:12.780 --> 00:51:15.240
You know, there's a company, I should know this.
1035
00:51:15.280 --> 00:51:16.360
You know, I brought it up.
1036
00:51:16.720 --> 00:51:18.860
I'll bring it up on next episode.
1037
00:51:21.030 --> 00:51:22.010
Well, hopefully I'll remember it too.
1038
00:51:22.090 --> 00:51:23.590
But anyway, there's a company specifically,
1039
00:51:24.090 --> 00:51:26.750
there's more than one, but there's a company out there
1040
00:51:27.550 --> 00:51:31.330
that all they do is they provide protesters.
1041
00:51:31.410 --> 00:51:33.950
Like you pay them and they will provide protesters
1042
00:51:33.950 --> 00:51:38.470
to go out and protest on the issues on your behalf.
1043
00:51:38.730 --> 00:51:39.430
Like literally.
1044
00:51:40.450 --> 00:51:43.150
And so a lot of what you're seeing is fake.
1045
00:51:43.730 --> 00:51:46.370
It's like, it's opposition for opposition's sake.
1046
00:51:46.530 --> 00:51:48.330
It's just like whatever is against
1047
00:51:48.330 --> 00:51:49.870
what the Trump administration is doing
1048
00:51:49.870 --> 00:51:52.690
or more to the point, whatever the American government
1049
00:51:52.690 --> 00:51:54.510
is doing is what they are protesting.
1050
00:51:54.970 --> 00:51:56.170
It's not about America.
1051
00:51:56.250 --> 00:51:57.370
It's not about American interests.
1052
00:51:57.430 --> 00:52:00.230
It's not about what's good for the rest of the world.
1053
00:52:00.310 --> 00:52:03.370
It's really just opposition to the American government.
1054
00:52:04.930 --> 00:52:07.590
And so all these protesters are out there
1055
00:52:07.590 --> 00:52:11.250
and they're protesting what happened in Venezuela.
1056
00:52:12.010 --> 00:52:13.950
I got a video that's really, really cool here.
1057
00:52:14.030 --> 00:52:15.910
So this guy, let me go ahead and switch over here.
1058
00:52:16.030 --> 00:52:19.350
This guy here, blow this up.
1059
00:52:19.870 --> 00:52:22.590
He went out and he actually started questioning these people.
1060
00:52:22.870 --> 00:52:23.950
And this isn't Switzerland.
1061
00:52:24.550 --> 00:52:26.530
Like this is a worldwide thing.
1062
00:52:26.550 --> 00:52:28.110
This isn't just the United States.
1063
00:52:28.210 --> 00:52:30.410
This is everywhere people are protesting
1064
00:52:30.410 --> 00:52:31.610
what the United States did.
1065
00:52:32.070 --> 00:52:33.630
So this guy is like questioning everybody.
1066
00:52:33.850 --> 00:52:35.970
He's like, are you even Venezuelan?
1067
00:52:36.190 --> 00:52:37.610
Are you from Venezuela?
1068
00:52:37.710 --> 00:52:39.650
Like, do you even know what you're protesting for?
1069
00:52:40.290 --> 00:52:41.090
Check this clip out.
1070
00:53:00.010 --> 00:53:01.290
If you guys don't understand what he's saying,
1071
00:53:01.450 --> 00:53:02.750
he's basically asking everybody,
1072
00:53:03.490 --> 00:53:04.990
is anyone here Venezuelan?
1073
00:53:05.050 --> 00:53:06.590
Like, are you Venezuelan?
1074
00:53:06.830 --> 00:53:07.550
Anybody here?
1075
00:53:07.930 --> 00:53:09.710
And so far everyone is not answering.
1076
00:53:09.790 --> 00:53:10.970
They're like saying, no, no, no.
1077
00:53:11.150 --> 00:53:12.310
Maybe this guy over here.
1078
00:53:12.590 --> 00:53:13.530
So that's what's happening right now.
1079
00:53:13.530 --> 00:53:14.530
He's like, are you Venezuelan?
1080
00:53:14.670 --> 00:53:16.190
Is anybody here Venezuelan?
1081
00:53:16.270 --> 00:53:17.070
All right, continue playing this.
1082
00:53:20.150 --> 00:53:22.790
He just said, I want to talk to a Venezuelan around here.
1083
00:53:42.890 --> 00:53:44.330
So he just said, you know,
1084
00:53:44.330 --> 00:53:46.530
you got everybody out here with these Venezuelan flags.
1085
00:53:46.590 --> 00:53:47.810
And he just pointed out one guy saying,
1086
00:53:47.810 --> 00:53:51.310
you know, you guys are supporting the Chavismo
1087
00:53:51.710 --> 00:53:53.910
and not one of these people is from Venezuela.
1088
00:53:54.590 --> 00:53:56.510
Not one of them, not a single one.
1089
00:53:58.290 --> 00:54:00.610
So you got a lot of this going on
1090
00:54:00.610 --> 00:54:02.710
where people are just calling out all the fake bullshit.
1091
00:54:03.670 --> 00:54:04.890
And here's a few more clips.
1092
00:54:05.090 --> 00:54:09.010
Now, this is from Uriel Cohen.
1093
00:54:10.050 --> 00:54:11.850
And I'm sorry if I said your name wrong,
1094
00:54:11.850 --> 00:54:12.810
but this guy's here on X.
1095
00:54:13.050 --> 00:54:15.050
What he did is he put a thread together
1096
00:54:15.730 --> 00:54:17.210
of people from Venezuela
1097
00:54:17.210 --> 00:54:18.670
who made social media posts
1098
00:54:19.530 --> 00:54:21.750
to explain how they feel about the situation.
1099
00:54:22.070 --> 00:54:23.770
And I'm just going to scroll and run through some of these
1100
00:54:23.770 --> 00:54:26.890
just so you guys get an idea of what's going on.
1101
00:54:27.070 --> 00:54:28.170
All right, let's start with the first one here.
1102
00:54:47.250 --> 00:54:49.890
Dying because you didn't have the medication
1103
00:54:49.890 --> 00:54:51.970
while the members of the Chavismo
1104
00:54:51.970 --> 00:54:54.250
are walking with Rolex in their hands.
1105
00:54:54.550 --> 00:54:56.150
Do you want to know how many people died
1106
00:54:56.150 --> 00:54:58.910
trying to come to America, going through a jungle?
1107
00:54:59.290 --> 00:55:01.710
Do you want to know how many women were raped there?
1108
00:55:02.730 --> 00:55:05.150
We are eight millions of Venezuelans
1109
00:55:05.150 --> 00:55:06.990
who have left Venezuela.
1110
00:55:07.330 --> 00:55:09.190
You don't know what is to live like that.
1111
00:55:09.210 --> 00:55:11.650
You are too freaking busy eating your Starbucks
1112
00:55:11.650 --> 00:55:13.550
with almond milk, you motherfucker.
1113
00:55:13.750 --> 00:55:15.130
I have a question for you guys.
1114
00:55:15.130 --> 00:55:18.050
Where were you when they were killing us?
1115
00:55:18.450 --> 00:55:21.150
Where were you when they were killing students?
1116
00:55:21.510 --> 00:55:23.510
Students who didn't have any weapons.
1117
00:55:23.890 --> 00:55:25.610
You were too freaking busy
1118
00:55:25.610 --> 00:55:28.230
drinking your Starbucks with almond milk.
1119
00:55:28.390 --> 00:55:30.510
So you better shut the fuck up
1120
00:55:30.510 --> 00:55:33.710
and take Venezuela out of your filthy mouth.
1121
00:55:34.590 --> 00:55:37.170
Okay, here's another one.
1122
00:55:37.830 --> 00:55:43.370
Hi, my name is Paula and I am Venezuelan, born and raised.
1123
00:55:43.370 --> 00:55:44.970
I've lived in the United States
1124
00:55:44.970 --> 00:55:46.970
for almost 10 years to the date.
1125
00:55:47.190 --> 00:55:50.670
And I am an American citizen also, by the way.
1126
00:55:51.310 --> 00:55:52.930
The main reason why I'm coming here today,
1127
00:55:53.090 --> 00:55:53.990
I'm literally nobody.
1128
00:55:54.350 --> 00:55:56.610
And if this reaches one person, my job here,
1129
00:55:56.850 --> 00:55:57.910
that one person that didn't know
1130
00:55:57.910 --> 00:56:00.190
what was happening in Venezuela and now they do,
1131
00:56:00.350 --> 00:56:01.910
my work here is done.
1132
00:56:03.950 --> 00:56:08.730
I am outraged about the comments I've been seeing today.
1133
00:56:08.890 --> 00:56:11.930
I made the mistake myself of going on social media
1134
00:56:11.930 --> 00:56:14.110
and reading all the news outlets,
1135
00:56:14.390 --> 00:56:16.310
reporting on the news of the Venezuelan strikes,
1136
00:56:16.790 --> 00:56:19.970
well, military strikes to remove Maduro, thank you.
1137
00:56:21.610 --> 00:56:25.390
And everybody, ton of Americans
1138
00:56:25.390 --> 00:56:27.230
and then from wherever you're from,
1139
00:56:27.250 --> 00:56:28.690
but you've never been to Venezuela.
1140
00:56:28.950 --> 00:56:31.110
You have no idea about the political situation
1141
00:56:31.110 --> 00:56:33.250
of Venezuela, the history of Venezuela
1142
00:56:35.370 --> 00:56:38.130
and trying to be like our savior's account.
1143
00:56:38.930 --> 00:56:40.790
Let me set some things straight.
1144
00:56:40.790 --> 00:56:44.870
First of all, the regime has been going on since 1998
1145
00:56:44.870 --> 00:56:46.910
when Chavez was elected president.
1146
00:56:47.310 --> 00:56:50.430
From there on, their country is the mess
1147
00:56:50.430 --> 00:56:52.450
in good words that it is today.
1148
00:56:53.110 --> 00:56:54.850
We have suffered a lot.
1149
00:56:55.390 --> 00:56:58.110
The Senate was dissolved, the constitution was changed.
1150
00:56:58.570 --> 00:57:00.690
They bought the military, all the armed forces.
1151
00:57:01.310 --> 00:57:03.130
Many people have been killed, kidnapped.
1152
00:57:03.550 --> 00:57:07.110
You can go do the Google search yourself or just ask
1153
00:57:07.110 --> 00:57:09.410
because clearly Google is not working for you people.
1154
00:57:10.830 --> 00:57:12.170
Three things I wanna get across today.
1155
00:57:12.330 --> 00:57:13.790
One, Venezuelans are sad.
1156
00:57:13.830 --> 00:57:14.370
No, we're not.
1157
00:57:14.770 --> 00:57:17.670
This is literally the happiest day of our life.
1158
00:57:17.950 --> 00:57:19.550
This is our second independence.
1159
00:57:20.910 --> 00:57:23.530
We are still in shock, complete shock
1160
00:57:23.530 --> 00:57:26.010
about what finally happened.
1161
00:57:26.110 --> 00:57:27.390
We have been wanting this.
1162
00:57:27.450 --> 00:57:28.950
We have been praying for this.
1163
00:57:29.390 --> 00:57:32.330
We have been literally anybody
1164
00:57:32.330 --> 00:57:34.430
that we have been able to go to and ask
1165
00:57:34.430 --> 00:57:35.630
and nobody listened to us.
1166
00:57:35.630 --> 00:57:40.130
So we are happy, enjoy.
1167
00:57:40.910 --> 00:57:43.570
And even if you're a Venezuelan in Venezuela
1168
00:57:43.570 --> 00:57:45.530
or a Venezuelan outside of Venezuela
1169
00:57:45.530 --> 00:57:46.810
in any country that you are,
1170
00:57:47.010 --> 00:57:50.250
if you left 10, 15 years ago, five days ago
1171
00:57:50.250 --> 00:57:52.170
or a week ago, we are all happy.
1172
00:57:52.250 --> 00:57:53.390
So don't worry about us.
1173
00:57:53.890 --> 00:57:54.950
We're happy.
1174
00:57:56.130 --> 00:57:57.550
The United States only attacking Venezuela
1175
00:57:57.550 --> 00:57:58.430
because of the oil.
1176
00:57:58.770 --> 00:58:00.950
People, we do not control our oil.
1177
00:58:01.790 --> 00:58:03.290
We haven't seen our oil.
1178
00:58:03.290 --> 00:58:08.590
But Russia, Iran, Cuba, China.
1179
00:58:09.270 --> 00:58:10.470
Sorry, I had to pause it
1180
00:58:10.470 --> 00:58:14.130
because it's exactly what I've been telling everybody, man.
1181
00:58:14.950 --> 00:58:16.030
I'm not even from Venezuela,
1182
00:58:16.110 --> 00:58:17.570
but I could read the tea leaves
1183
00:58:17.570 --> 00:58:19.450
and read through the bullshit and the headlines
1184
00:58:19.450 --> 00:58:20.210
and go deeper.
1185
00:58:20.990 --> 00:58:22.910
I mean, here's someone from Venezuela
1186
00:58:22.910 --> 00:58:25.870
just telling you how it is firsthand.
1187
00:58:27.170 --> 00:58:28.510
All right, I'm gonna keep playing her.
1188
00:58:28.890 --> 00:58:29.570
Whatever other countries,
1189
00:58:29.770 --> 00:58:31.030
Central America and South America,
1190
00:58:31.030 --> 00:58:33.770
we've been giving away our oil to all these countries.
1191
00:58:33.990 --> 00:58:35.510
We're not seeing that.
1192
00:58:36.070 --> 00:58:39.610
Anyways, so, and we used to have trades
1193
00:58:39.610 --> 00:58:43.350
and whatever other things with the United States
1194
00:58:43.350 --> 00:58:47.630
before tariffs about our oil
1195
00:58:47.630 --> 00:58:49.230
and our country was working fine.
1196
00:58:49.970 --> 00:58:53.350
So the way we don't care, don't worry about us.
1197
00:58:53.530 --> 00:58:55.210
If United States wants to take our oil,
1198
00:58:55.270 --> 00:58:57.910
we will be happy to be giving away the oil
1199
00:58:57.910 --> 00:58:59.350
to United States if that means
1200
00:58:59.350 --> 00:59:01.250
that our country is gonna be safe
1201
00:59:01.250 --> 00:59:06.250
and that us citizens, residents of whatever of Venezuela
1202
00:59:06.250 --> 00:59:08.830
are gonna be good, are gonna be able to make money,
1203
00:59:08.950 --> 00:59:09.910
are gonna be able to retire,
1204
00:59:10.050 --> 00:59:11.630
which none of those things are happening right now.
1205
00:59:12.230 --> 00:59:13.210
And then number three,
1206
00:59:13.430 --> 00:59:16.510
if you're worried about what United States
1207
00:59:16.510 --> 00:59:19.070
think to Venezuela and what's gonna happen now,
1208
00:59:19.530 --> 00:59:21.110
nothing, literally, and I mean this,
1209
00:59:21.530 --> 00:59:24.830
nothing can be worse than the hell
1210
00:59:24.830 --> 00:59:27.430
we've lived up until now.
1211
00:59:27.430 --> 00:59:30.990
So stop, and I mean this,
1212
00:59:32.510 --> 00:59:36.510
stop trying to explain Venezuela to Venezuelans.
1213
00:59:36.890 --> 00:59:37.410
Stop.
1214
00:59:37.770 --> 00:59:42.190
If you wanna know, reach out to someone from Venezuela.
1215
00:59:42.870 --> 00:59:43.210
Okay?
1216
00:59:44.430 --> 00:59:44.910
Right?
1217
00:59:45.830 --> 00:59:46.330
Good point.
1218
00:59:46.950 --> 00:59:49.870
Here's another clip from another Venezuelan right here.
1219
00:59:50.430 --> 00:59:51.790
I'm Venezuelan and let me tell you something.
1220
00:59:51.830 --> 00:59:53.770
This is the happiest day of my life.
1221
00:59:54.050 --> 00:59:55.710
They have massacred us, intimidated us,
1222
00:59:55.890 --> 00:59:56.610
humiliated us.
1223
00:59:56.610 --> 00:59:58.310
And today we finally recover hope.
1224
00:59:58.530 --> 01:00:01.130
It's been 25 fucking years of dictatorship.
1225
01:00:01.230 --> 01:00:02.510
How can you defend that?
1226
01:00:02.610 --> 01:00:04.950
They have forced more than eight million Venezuelans
1227
01:00:04.950 --> 01:00:06.970
to flee the country, including me.
1228
01:00:06.990 --> 01:00:08.610
And I'm not going to let anyone to tell me
1229
01:00:08.610 --> 01:00:10.170
that this is not good for us.
1230
01:00:10.410 --> 01:00:12.490
This is the best thing that could happen to Venezuela.
1231
01:00:12.630 --> 01:00:14.530
This is what all Venezuelans want.
1232
01:00:16.310 --> 01:00:18.090
All right, here's another guy right here.
1233
01:00:18.230 --> 01:00:21.810
This is a video for all those liberals and leftists,
1234
01:00:22.430 --> 01:00:24.950
mostly American, that I've seen in the media,
1235
01:00:24.950 --> 01:00:27.730
complaining about what's going on in Venezuela,
1236
01:00:27.970 --> 01:00:30.730
complaining about this military attacks
1237
01:00:30.730 --> 01:00:33.310
against military buildings,
1238
01:00:34.150 --> 01:00:35.710
against government buildings
1239
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that were attacked today in the early morning.
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01:00:41.710 --> 01:00:43.030
What the fuck is wrong with you?
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01:00:43.790 --> 01:00:50.230
We have had 27 years of dictatorship in our country
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that has censored us, that has tortured us,
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01:00:55.370 --> 01:00:56.550
that has killed us,
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01:00:56.810 --> 01:00:59.870
and that made us go away from our country.
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01:01:00.430 --> 01:01:04.730
Like they made us run away from our own homeland.
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01:01:04.910 --> 01:01:09.030
Do you ever imagine that you will have to do that?
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01:01:09.050 --> 01:01:12.650
Like, do you even put yourself in the situation
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01:01:13.190 --> 01:01:14.690
of what does that mean?
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01:01:14.950 --> 01:01:16.690
I'm pretty sure you don't,
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01:01:16.690 --> 01:01:18.370
because you still live here,
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01:01:18.370 --> 01:01:22.190
even though you complain about everything about this country,
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01:01:22.230 --> 01:01:24.450
you still choose to stay here.
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01:01:24.470 --> 01:01:26.170
So why don't you go to Venezuela?
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01:01:26.270 --> 01:01:27.510
Why don't you go to Cuba?
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01:01:27.650 --> 01:01:29.330
Why don't you go to Nicaragua?
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01:01:29.630 --> 01:01:31.490
Why don't you go to any of these countries
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01:01:31.490 --> 01:01:35.690
that pretty much share the views you have,
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01:01:36.270 --> 01:01:38.130
the political views you have?
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01:01:38.370 --> 01:01:41.330
So also I'm doing this message in English
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01:01:41.330 --> 01:01:46.290
because unfortunately American liberals are the ones
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01:01:47.090 --> 01:01:49.470
talking about how bad this is
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01:01:49.470 --> 01:01:55.270
and how the US wants to steal our oil,
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01:01:55.630 --> 01:01:58.990
wants to steal our natural resources.
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01:01:59.210 --> 01:02:04.450
Do you know that Russia, that Cuba, that Nicaragua,
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01:02:04.890 --> 01:02:08.990
that all these communist countries, pieces of shit
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01:02:08.990 --> 01:02:12.450
have been stealing all that from my country already?
1267
01:02:12.690 --> 01:02:14.170
Did you even know that?
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01:02:14.290 --> 01:02:15.750
Like, why do you care?
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01:02:15.750 --> 01:02:19.430
What happens with our natural resources now?
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01:02:19.610 --> 01:02:23.590
Why do you care about what happens in our land now?
1271
01:02:23.870 --> 01:02:25.130
When not too long ago,
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01:02:25.250 --> 01:02:27.810
people were being killed on the streets
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01:02:27.810 --> 01:02:30.510
for protesting against the regime.
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01:02:30.930 --> 01:02:34.950
Well, nowadays we have a center of torture
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01:02:34.950 --> 01:02:37.590
in the capital of our country
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01:02:37.590 --> 01:02:41.790
with thousands of political prisoners.
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01:02:42.070 --> 01:02:43.870
So I ask you this,
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01:02:43.870 --> 01:02:47.350
why do you feel that you are in the right
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01:02:48.050 --> 01:02:50.370
to defend a dictator?
1280
01:02:52.650 --> 01:02:53.730
Fair enough.
1281
01:02:55.030 --> 01:02:56.330
Look, I'm gonna scroll a little bit
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01:02:56.330 --> 01:02:57.890
so you can see if you're on X.
1283
01:02:58.130 --> 01:03:00.510
This guy has a lot of videos in this thread
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01:03:00.510 --> 01:03:01.810
from various peoples.
1285
01:03:02.570 --> 01:03:04.650
And so these are all people from Venezuela.
1286
01:03:04.750 --> 01:03:06.730
These are all videos from Venezuelans.
1287
01:03:07.370 --> 01:03:13.170
And it's definitely something you should check out.
1288
01:03:15.130 --> 01:03:18.030
And get a better grasp on what's happening out there.
1289
01:03:18.030 --> 01:03:19.370
And look, I'm sure there are people out there
1290
01:03:19.370 --> 01:03:19.810
that can argue,
1291
01:03:19.810 --> 01:03:22.390
well, those are all just propagandas, videos.
1292
01:03:23.490 --> 01:03:24.630
Look, we're gonna get it all.
1293
01:03:25.330 --> 01:03:28.530
It's really on you to read between the lines
1294
01:03:28.530 --> 01:03:29.710
and filter through the bullshit.
1295
01:03:30.350 --> 01:03:31.450
And someone like me,
1296
01:03:32.270 --> 01:03:34.710
listen, if you listen to the show consistently,
1297
01:03:34.750 --> 01:03:37.270
you already know that's what I do.
1298
01:03:37.350 --> 01:03:38.130
I go deeper.
1299
01:03:38.310 --> 01:03:39.590
I dive beyond the headline.
1300
01:03:39.910 --> 01:03:42.710
But I don't expect for you to take everything I say
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01:03:43.770 --> 01:03:45.470
as face value, for example.
1302
01:03:45.590 --> 01:03:47.190
I mean, look, you could even challenge me.
1303
01:03:47.370 --> 01:03:47.630
Please do.
1304
01:03:48.090 --> 01:03:49.530
And if you find something like,
1305
01:03:49.690 --> 01:03:54.330
look, legitimately find something like real information
1306
01:03:54.330 --> 01:03:56.750
that really like corrects or conflicts what I'm saying,
1307
01:03:57.330 --> 01:03:58.010
then let me know.
1308
01:03:58.790 --> 01:04:00.710
But make sure it's legitimate information.
1309
01:04:02.450 --> 01:04:04.710
I'm always open to knowledge
1310
01:04:04.710 --> 01:04:06.690
and knowing what's going on out there.
1311
01:04:06.950 --> 01:04:09.370
But everything I presented to you is true.
1312
01:04:09.370 --> 01:04:11.610
And again, as I said in the beginning of this episode,
1313
01:04:12.390 --> 01:04:13.570
this is rumor control.
1314
01:04:14.010 --> 01:04:14.910
These are the facts.
1315
01:04:15.410 --> 01:04:18.070
And to be honest, there is so much more I can go over.
1316
01:04:18.190 --> 01:04:20.370
I just didn't want to get into the weeds too much
1317
01:04:20.370 --> 01:04:22.370
because I didn't want to bore everybody out there.
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01:04:22.850 --> 01:04:25.490
But I think you got enough information
1319
01:04:25.490 --> 01:04:29.150
in this episode alone to give you a better idea
1320
01:04:29.150 --> 01:04:30.690
of why we got involved,
1321
01:04:31.010 --> 01:04:33.510
what the whole Venezuelan operation was about
1322
01:04:33.510 --> 01:04:36.470
and how Venezuelans feel about what happened.
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01:04:37.410 --> 01:04:40.230
The only thing I have to say is I hope Trump
1324
01:04:40.230 --> 01:04:41.950
absolutely says what he,
1325
01:04:43.110 --> 01:04:45.590
I'm sorry, does what he says
1326
01:04:45.590 --> 01:04:47.310
and that he says what he means.
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01:04:51.670 --> 01:04:54.050
I hope that he helps make Venezuela rich.
1328
01:04:54.390 --> 01:04:56.550
I hope that he actually does get the money back
1329
01:04:56.550 --> 01:04:57.450
to the Venezuelans.
1330
01:04:58.750 --> 01:05:03.570
And I hope that he does carefully and strategically
1331
01:05:03.570 --> 01:05:08.470
work with the Venezuelans to get a democratic government
1332
01:05:08.470 --> 01:05:11.470
that is not built on the backbone
1333
01:05:11.470 --> 01:05:13.530
of communism or socialism.
1334
01:05:15.050 --> 01:05:16.210
Socialism doesn't work.
1335
01:05:16.590 --> 01:05:18.350
Socialism destroyed that country.
1336
01:05:18.770 --> 01:05:21.390
And with socialism always comes corruption.
1337
01:05:21.730 --> 01:05:23.010
It always sounds good on the surface,
1338
01:05:23.390 --> 01:05:25.770
but it started with Hugo Chavez.
1339
01:05:26.710 --> 01:05:29.230
And as it was stated earlier by one of these people
1340
01:05:29.230 --> 01:05:30.610
in the video clips I just played,
1341
01:05:31.630 --> 01:05:34.350
back all the way back to 93, 98,
1342
01:05:34.590 --> 01:05:36.030
somewhere in there in that five-year period,
1343
01:05:36.790 --> 01:05:38.570
all of a sudden the constitution was rewritten,
1344
01:05:38.830 --> 01:05:40.030
everything was thrown out the window
1345
01:05:40.030 --> 01:05:41.910
and it just became a dictatorship.
1346
01:05:43.230 --> 01:05:44.510
Same thing happened under Maduro.
1347
01:05:45.570 --> 01:05:46.750
And while on the surface it looked like
1348
01:05:46.750 --> 01:05:49.530
they had elections, Maduro himself literally
1349
01:05:49.530 --> 01:05:51.650
like ran a rigged election.
1350
01:05:53.230 --> 01:05:56.170
Like in the 11th hour suddenly there was like
1351
01:05:56.170 --> 01:05:59.770
all these votes to side with Maduro
1352
01:05:59.770 --> 01:06:02.470
so it looked like he was overwhelmingly the winner
1353
01:06:02.470 --> 01:06:04.010
when in fact he wasn't.
1354
01:06:04.010 --> 01:06:06.610
And to this day, I forgot the number of countries,
1355
01:06:06.890 --> 01:06:09.010
but I mean the majority of countries
1356
01:06:09.010 --> 01:06:14.230
in the world right now don't even recognize Maduro
1357
01:06:14.230 --> 01:06:15.570
as a legitimate president.
1358
01:06:16.310 --> 01:06:18.610
He's a thug, he's a gangster, period.
1359
01:06:19.090 --> 01:06:20.230
He's an opportunist.
1360
01:06:20.650 --> 01:06:25.710
He's using a nation to basically fund his lifestyle
1361
01:06:26.450 --> 01:06:30.970
and to gain connections and further his power,
1362
01:06:30.970 --> 01:06:35.130
not just within the Caribbean, but throughout the world.
1363
01:06:38.540 --> 01:06:40.560
So with all of that, look, I'm gonna end it here.
1364
01:06:40.660 --> 01:06:41.660
I think we went long enough.
1365
01:06:42.120 --> 01:06:43.360
I appreciate all of you.
1366
01:06:43.660 --> 01:06:45.240
Listen, happy new year.
1367
01:06:45.440 --> 01:06:46.860
Have an amazing 2026.
1368
01:06:47.560 --> 01:06:49.880
And please look, as we move forward to 2026,
1369
01:06:50.040 --> 01:06:52.100
if 2025 proved anything,
1370
01:06:52.640 --> 01:06:55.020
is that people became much more savvy
1371
01:06:55.020 --> 01:06:59.140
as to legacy media, even social media.
1372
01:06:59.820 --> 01:07:02.740
People are now starting to question and challenge
1373
01:07:02.740 --> 01:07:05.360
the headlines, they're being able to better spot
1374
01:07:05.360 --> 01:07:06.860
the bullshitters out there.
1375
01:07:07.380 --> 01:07:08.860
And please continue to do so.
1376
01:07:09.140 --> 01:07:10.280
Fact check, everybody.
1377
01:07:10.720 --> 01:07:12.400
Don't take anything for face value.
1378
01:07:12.820 --> 01:07:15.100
And look, we'll all meet back in the middle somewhere.
1379
01:07:16.960 --> 01:07:18.540
Appreciate your support, everybody.
1380
01:07:19.100 --> 01:07:22.600
By the way, like, share, subscribe to the show.
1381
01:07:22.700 --> 01:07:24.660
Literally tell other people about World of Blaze.
1382
01:07:24.880 --> 01:07:26.300
That's one thing I'm doing in 2026.
1383
01:07:26.320 --> 01:07:27.480
We're gonna push the show harder.
1384
01:07:27.480 --> 01:07:29.780
We wanna grow the show even more.
1385
01:07:29.920 --> 01:07:31.320
Look, I'm going into my third year.
1386
01:07:31.340 --> 01:07:32.980
I'm still a young show, but man,
1387
01:07:33.400 --> 01:07:35.180
has it been a ride for sure.
1388
01:07:35.460 --> 01:07:37.500
The support I have gotten has been amazing.
1389
01:07:38.380 --> 01:07:40.120
I've made some changes for this year.
1390
01:07:40.520 --> 01:07:43.480
And we're gonna continue to push, push, push.
1391
01:07:44.480 --> 01:07:46.080
And please, please, again,
1392
01:07:46.080 --> 01:07:47.760
like, share, and subscribe to the show.
1393
01:07:48.360 --> 01:07:49.740
Thank you very much.
1394
01:07:50.100 --> 01:07:51.440
Have a great 2026.
1395
01:07:51.640 --> 01:07:54.580
Until the next episode, have a great day.
1396
01:07:55.440 --> 01:07:58.340
Devils hide behind redemption.
1397
01:07:58.920 --> 01:08:01.800
Honesty is a one-way gate to hell.
01:07:40.520 --> 01:07:43.480
And we're gonna continue to push, push, push.
1391
01:07:44.480 --> 01:07:46.080
And please, please, again,
1392
01:07:46.080 --> 01:07:47.760
like, share, and subscribe to the show.
1393
01:07:48.360 --> 01:07:49.740
Thank you very much.
1394
01:07:50.100 --> 01:07:51.440
Have a great 2026.
1395
01:07:51.640 --> 01:07:54.580
Until the next episode, have a great day.
1396
01:07:55.440 --> 01:07:58.340
Devils hide behind redemption.
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01:07:58.920 --> 01:08:01.800
Honesty is a one-way gate to hell.
