It's not to justify any kind of U.S. Intervention. I'm actually opposed to it. I don't think that Trump should be doing this. Not a fan. No new wars. We can't feed the poor, but we got money for wars. As the saying goes, Trump seems to be going a little bit into the neoliberal. [00:00:18] On yesterday's edition of The Tim Poole Show, he actually went on the record to say something I fully agree with, which I don't get to say often on this show, he is very much opposed to a regime change war in Venezuela, which is very clearly what the Trump administration is currently waging. [00:00:35] Jake, your $0.02. Yeah. Look, this is super encouraging that, some in the right wing media are remembering that they pretended to be anti. No, but in this case not pretended. They actually, it turns out, were actually anti-war during the campaign that they don't appreciate Donald Trump, going back on his promises. [00:00:54] Amazing. Okay, tell us more. Yeah. And to your point on that, I think it's an important point to emphasize for me whether or not I engage in conversations with people I typically disagree with really depends on whether or not their good faith actors. [00:01:10] Are they honest individuals? I genuinely think that people are led astray. I think our media and journalism in America is really lacking, so sometimes people are misled. I understand that, but I'm not interested in having any conversation with anyone [00:01:25] who's just simply carrying water for a tribe or a political party or a president. I want people who actually want the facts. Our opinions might differ, right? Our decisions or opinions based on the facts that are presented might differ, but we have to at least agree on the facts. [00:01:42] So with that in mind, earlier in the segment, Paul had explained that he believes that the Trump administration is targeting Venezuela in order to free up their supply of oil, something that we've also floated here on the show. Let's hear Tim Paul make the case. [00:01:58] Their country used to be the wealthiest in South America. They have a lot a lot of black gold down there, a lot of oil. Everybody wants it. Donald Trump says we're going to get it. And that's likely the big reason for all of this. But I'm not going to be so naive to say. It's just that the US is basically going, let's steal their oil. [00:02:15] What the US is basically saying is your stupid communist system is restricting the oil trade. We're not going to have that. I'm not excusing US foreign military operations, but I'm just saying it's not as simple as the US saying we found oil, boys. Let's go get it. [00:02:30] They're basically saying, okay, you've bankrupted your country. The oil is not flowing properly. And you know what? There's a variety of issues here. I do think it's principally oil. And the companies are going to come in and take it. [00:02:46] But again, it's I'm not justifying the old oil intervention. I'm saying the issue behind it is there. The mentality of these corporations and the government has is if we get a new government in Venezuela, companies can start pumping oil, Venezuela's standard [00:03:02] of living will dramatically improve. They will be wealthy again. So I think Tim Pool is right for the most part. There's one wrinkle to the story that I don't think is getting reported enough. So I'll just talk about it here, which is the fact that, you know, Nicolas Maduro does not want war, very clearly does not want war. [00:03:20] So he actually told the Trump administration and Trump himself confirmed this. I will give you what you want. You want access to the oil reserves. I will give you access. I don't want war. Trump was asked about that by a reporter. He not only confirmed that Nicolas Maduro said he was [00:03:37] willing to give him anything he wants, he just doesn't care because he wants more than the oil for for Trump and more importantly, for Marco Rubio. This is also about ousting Nicolas Maduro. They want Maduro to step down, and that's something that he is unwilling to do. [00:03:55] I guess that's the one red line for Maduro. He wants to step down on his own time and not do it immediately, as the Trump administration is demanding. Now, later. Let me go to one more video, Jake, and then I want to hear from you. Paul said that he believes that the Trump administration wants to gain access to Venezuelan oil in order to lower costs and inflation in the short term. [00:04:13] And here's Paul explaining why he's opposed to that plan. In order to be able to expand your house. Move on up, build a savings. You need to spend less than you make. That's every country. You need to do more work for everyone else. [00:04:31] And instead, the United States does not do that. The United States just says, we'll blow you up and we control the petrodollar. And I think the Republican play right now is after Trump. They want to go neocon. They want to go world police all over again. [00:04:47] And they're going to find reasons to do it. There's a lot to talk about there. But I'm going to wrap it up for you, my friends. I'm not a fan of the war and I don't want it. I think Maduro's a scumbag communist, but I think we'd be better off creating internal working structures for our economy, [00:05:02] where we actually do the work to to increase our wealth instead of playing this stupid neo con, neo lib liberal economic order BS. The neo cons never left the Republican Party and are still very much part of the white [00:05:17] House, part of the Trump administration. I think that's pretty clear at this point. But what do you think, Jake? Yeah, he said after Trump, they're going neo con. No, they're going neo con right now. Yeah. Threatening to invade Venezuela is textbook neo con. [00:05:33] So, but look, Tim's generally saying the right things there, and, petrodollar is a real concern, and he brings that up, educates his audience about it. You know, and that was one of the issues with Saddam Hussein, potentially taking oil, the trading from of oil off the dollar. [00:05:51] And that was another thing that might have precipitated the Iraq War. There's a number of reasons, as we've discussed before. For fun fact. Just something funny. Maduro even looks like Saddam Hussein. Like when we show those pictures, I'm like, this is like an exact replay [00:06:07] when we were coming to Iraq. I mean, come on. When we were covering Iraq war, they had all these. - Oh, my God, you're so right. - Right. - Yes. - Yeah. Look at him. Look at him. We we used to cover these stories. Ben and I used to make fun of this thing that they'd say, oh, Saddam has a lot of doppelgangers, right? [00:06:23] And we never found any of the doppelgangers. Well, maybe there they are. Went to Venezuela afterwards. God, it's just so textbook. So, look, there's. I think there's one piece of hope here that this war is not going to definitely happen. [00:06:38] Because, yeah, it's the same old textbook thing of the neocons, and they're currently they never left the Republican. They are the Republican Party. And Trump has always been part of the establishment, wants to be part of the establishment, wants to be part of the elites. He's not trying to topple them. He's just trying to gain entrance. [00:06:54] Right. And now he's gained entrance, and he's doing the same exact things as they are, right? You know what it's always been about? Taking on the corrupt, greedy establishment. For us, it's the corporate media. We've been fighting that fight for over 20 years. 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All three are still here in Venezuela, by the way, don't underestimate the bankers, because once they've got, you know, loans in some direction and they need to recoup those billions of dollars, they often are the strongest force pushing us into war. [00:08:19] Almost never talked about in in legacy media. But in this case, look, Israel is a tiny factor here. Somehow they claim that Hezbollah is working with Venezuela or some lunatic thing like that. But yeah, but there's one other thing that happened today [00:08:36] real quick I gotta mention. So, that Venezuelan, lawmaker out of Florida was interviewed and she, like, floated this ridiculous conspiracy about how, Venezuela is stealing enriched uranium on behalf of Hamas. [00:08:52] Yeah. I mean, look, I think that they're trying to get the Israel first guys on their team by saying that that's my best guess, right? But like if if they're actually doing anything with Hamas or Hezbollah, then they're goners because then Israel first will demand it and it's over and he's [00:09:08] already dead and we're already in Caracas. Right? But I think the reason why we might be able to prevent this war is because I'm not sure that Israel first is on board for this, and they're an enormously powerful group. Instead, who's on board for it is the Cuban Americans. [00:09:23] Marco Rubio wants to topple Venezuela so he could topple Cuba, right? And so I don't think the Cuban Americans are that strong politically. So if they try the same trick as Israel did with Iraq, they might run into a brick wall. [00:09:40] So I think that might prove critical. I don't think it's impossible for Tucker Carlson and Tim Pool and a lot of Trump's base to turn around and go, no, we said antiwar. We meant antiwar. And and maybe Hegseth getting in trouble with the double tap, etc. [00:09:57] Might push it over the edge to not necessarily go to war. If Israel is not on board, Israel is usually. Jake. Oh, Jake. Ever the optimist. We're going to war. They've already signed contracts that go through to 2028 that provide food for the troops in the build up, near the coast of Venezuela. [00:10:16] It's over. Yeah. It's over. All right. That's just the last two things, as I like that Tim is being principled, and I'm thrilled to see it. Right. I do have to say him saying like, oh, no, don't worry. It might improve the standard of living of Venezuelans. Remind me of will be greeted as liberators in Iraq. [00:10:34] Right. Okay. But all right, one last thing that I'll guarantee for you guys is if we don't attack Venezuela, then they definitely had nothing to do with Hamas or Hezbollah. Because if they did, this war is already begun. [00:10:50] Every time you ring the bell below, an angel gets his wings. 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