There was a major explosion in the dock area where they load the boats up with drugs. They load the boats up with drugs. So we hit all the boats and now we hit the area. It's the implementation area. That's where they implement and that is no longer around. [00:00:19] There you have President Donald Trump confirming that the United States has significantly escalated conflict with Venezuela, with the CIA carrying out a drone strike on a port facility in Venezuela last week. This marks the first time the U.S. [00:00:35] Has actually struck Venezuela on their territory, and the strike was carried out on a dock where U.S. Officials claim that the trendy Aragua gang was storing narcotics that they suspected were going to traffic later. [00:00:53] Now, they also told The New York Times that no one on the dock. There was no one on the dock at the time, so no one was killed. But honestly, anything claimed by the Trump administration at this point, especially in regard to Venezuela, should be taken with a grain of salt since they [00:01:10] have been caught lying again and again. But so far we haven't heard or seen any type of response from Venezuela. Before I give you more details though, Jake, your $0.02. Yeah, it's still a huge mystery who's driving this war against Venezuela. [00:01:28] But at least now we know we're bombing them alongside Somalia, Nigeria, potentially Iran soon. We have a poll up on twitter.com asking you what's the dumbest place to bomb. So check that out when you get a chance. But certainly Venezuela is high on the list. [00:01:45] Let's find out more. So the times also reported that the CIA has allegedly developed intelligence on a number of purported drug facilities in Venezuela and Colombia as part of the planning for an expanded Campaign. [00:02:02] So this is a little bit of foreshadowing information, right. That this could expand into more strikes on Venezuela. And to your point, Jake, the Trump administration, you know, this anti-war president has bombed like six different countries in his second term. [00:02:18] It hasn't even been 12 months yet. It's insane. Now, this attack comes after the US continues striking random fishing boats suspected of trafficking drugs. The New York Times published a pretty damning exposé on some of the damage that's been caused. [00:02:36] And, you know, there's been one instance in which they think they might have found marijuana. But when it comes to the global drug trade, Venezuela is not a major player. If anything, they traffic cocaine. But even in that regard, it is a tiny percentage [00:02:53] of the cocaine trade in the United States. The US military also launched its 30th strike on a fishing boat this week on Monday. The US has also been seizing Venezuelan oil tankers. Now the latest killing bring the total number of people extrajudicially executed [00:03:13] by the US military at sea to 107. Now, again, the Pentagon has failed to provide a shred of evidence to the American people proving that they are, in fact, going after, you know, narco terrorists. You know, a phrase or word that they kind of made up in order to drum [00:03:30] up support for their military operations. And even if those boats were supposedly trafficking drugs to the United States. Again, no evidence of that. Those boats can't even reach the United States. We don't just extrajudicially murder people. [00:03:46] Especially when it comes to drugs, right? Like, there's usually, you know, you intercept, you ask some questions. If they're trying to traffic drugs, you bring them to justice in a different way. You don't just kill people. Everyone on a boat. Now the regime change is really what the Trump administration wants. [00:04:06] Now, they don't say that publicly, but privately they have said it time and time again. And in fact, the chief of staff for the white House, Siouxsie Wiles, admitted as much during an interview with Vanity Fair, saying that President Trump wants to keep on blowing boats up until Maduro cries. [00:04:22] Uncle. Meaning Nicolas Maduro and people way smarter than me on that say that he will. However, if you just check in with Venezuela, you will see that Nicolas Maduro seems to be. I'm sure it's all for show, but he's putting on like a cheery face. [00:04:39] He's he has no intention of stepping down. Despite the military, the US military build up off the coast of Venezuela, despite the fishing boats being struck, despite the oil tankers being seized. He remains steadfast in staying in power and has offered the Trump administration [00:04:55] pretty much everything they want in regard to oil reserves. But clearly that's not what the Trump administration is really out for. They want regime change. And for someone like Secretary of State Marco Rubio, this is also very much ideological. So here's what we know and what we don't know. [00:05:11] Number one, we know it's not about the drugs. Donald Trump Junior's nose holds more drugs than Venezuela does. So if you bought into that hype, you just you got totally lied to and you should be furious at whichever host you're watching that's feeding you those lies. [00:05:28] Simple Google search ask grok. Anything will tell you that Venezuela is a very, very small supplier of drugs. That is not the reason why we're going to Venezuela. And so, by the way, the fact that they're 100% lying about the reason should give you pause for concern. [00:05:45] Why are they lying to you? Why don't they tell us what the actual reason is? Well, obviously they don't want to share the actual reason. So that leads us to speculate. Oil is the number one guess logically. So largest oil reserve in the world. We almost always attack countries with large oil reserves [00:06:03] and no way to protect themselves. So that's why we're partly mental about no one else getting nukes. So later, if they have natural resources, we or Israel or a combination of us can attack them and take their natural resources and they won't be able to defend themselves. Okay, so that's a great strategy. [00:06:18] But the problem here is so that would solve the mystery and we'd be done with it. The problem here is that the oil companies are saying we don't really want to spend more money developing the oil in Venezuela. Trump is almost pressuring them to do it. [00:06:34] Richard Grenell working for Trump actually got a deal from Maduro saying, yeah, we'll turn over all our oil to the Americans because he wanted to stay in power, but that didn't do the job. So here's a third thing we know, we definitively want regime change. [00:06:50] Now, if we already are getting their oil at whatever price ExxonMobil, Chevron, etc. Wants, why do we need regime change? Well, there's only two reasons why we'd want regime change. One is Marco Rubio is obsessed with toppling the Cuban government he thinks the Venezuelan government is backing them. [00:07:06] So he's got to topple the Venezuelan government so he can topple the Cuban government and the Cuban Americans and that diaspora here in America. To be honest, they can get mad. All they like are the closest thing we have to the pro-Israel cult [00:07:22] in this country, right? So they're mental about we have to who cares about America? We have to topple Cuba by any means necessary. That's our number one priority. We don't have a second priority, right? So could that be it? Well, Marco Rubio's secretary of state. So he's uniquely powerful in that case. [00:07:41] Otherwise, that community has a little bit of power, but not overwhelming power. The second group that apparently wants to topple, Venezuela. And the folks who are famous for insisting on regime change are Israel. And Israel says they're working with Hamas and Hezbollah on a tiny little, [00:07:58] you know, slingshot program or whatever imagined scenario they've come up with for them to get panicked about it. And Israel believes that no one should ever be. Say that anybody who has been critical of Israel should ever have any arms. [00:08:14] Not just nukes, but you can't have ballistic missiles. You can't have drones, because that's what they say that Venezuela might be working with the Iranians on, etc.. So no drones allowed, no nothing allowed, no weapons allowed, no rocks allowed, nothing. And you saw in that clip where Trump is talking about it like an idiot, [00:08:31] he's a secret covert CIA plan. You're not supposed to announce it to an international audience. But anyway, was it him or was it Netanyahu? Because Netanyahu is sitting there like a ventriloquist smiling next to him. [00:08:48] Right. All right. So I don't know I really don't know. I'm not I'm not saying it's Israel, I don't have enough evidence of that. It might just mainly be Rubio or it's a combination of the two. But and the last thing that's clear is how painfully dumb this war is. [00:09:03] Literally no one in America wants it. We can't even figure out who the secret people are that want it. And yet we're somehow must, must, must go to another war. Yeah. I mean, look, it's just it flies in the face of everything that Trump promised [00:09:22] on the campaign trail. And look, I'm not stupid. Most people who campaign campaign on things that they don't actually intend on fulfilling. But one of the areas that he really gave himself plaudits over was the fact that he didn't start any new wars during his first term. [00:09:38] I mean, he certainly engaged in existing wars. He, took Obama's drone war and expanded that, so much so that the collateral damage was so embarrassing to the US government that they stopped reporting on the number of civilian casualties tied to the drone wars. [00:09:56] Look, if you paid close attention to Trump's first term, you would know that he's anything but a peace president. So none of this is surprising to me. But in regard to Israel, I don't think that Israel is the main driver of what Trump's administration is doing with Venezuela. [00:10:12] But I do think the fact that, you know, Venezuela is more hostile to Israel, as opposed to a country like the United States, has motivated Israel to vociferously support what the Trump administration is doing in Venezuela. [00:10:27] So much like Iraq, like, was Israel the main driver in pushing us to invade Iraq in 2003? Some might argue, yes, I would say they were more taking advantage of the situation and egging us on. And I think the same thing is happening here with Venezuela. [00:10:44] Either way, it's stupid. And this is happening at a time when the United States is already struggling with, what, $38 trillion in debt? All of this costs money. And so while programs that help our fellow Americans are getting slashed left and right, we're spending more money on bombs. [00:11:02] An additional $8 billion for Israel's jets. I mean, it's just crazy. So it really shows what the priorities are for our government. Like, they don't care about us. They care about continuing the enrichment of the defense contractors [00:11:19] and basically spurring new wars in areas that we really shouldn't be involved in. - So that's what we're dealing with. - Yeah. My last point is what I'm going to remind you about the poll. What's the dumbest country, to bomb Venezuela, Iran, Somalia or Nigeria? [00:11:36] That's on tv.com. The reason I'm reminding you of that is because the Venezuela bombing was done a little bit earlier this month. Nigeria and Somalia were bombed on Christmas Day. Somalia, has been bombed 127 times. [00:11:51] And after Netanyahu came, Trump talked about bombing Iran, Iran again on behalf of Israel. So Iran is winning there because this would be a bigger conflict. 92 million people, potentially disastrous war in the Middle East. [00:12:09] But guys, the biggest takeaway from all of that is no matter who you vote for, you always get a neocon. Trump ran on antiwar. This is the most pro-war administration I've seen since Dick Cheney. But, I mean, he's putting Dick Cheney to shame. [00:12:26] Dick Cheney had to work super hard to get us to invade Iraq. Right? And Trump doesn't work hard at all. He's invading, I think he's bombed about eight countries so far, doesn't ask anybody for permission, doesn't declare war through Congress, doesn't make a case. [00:12:43] We can't even figure out why he's bombing Venezuela. And so he just does it anyway. So the real problem isn't any of this. The real problem is corruption. Because as long as we have bribery legalized in this country, you're always [00:12:59] going to get a deeply corrupt president. It doesn't matter which party they're from, and they're always going to start wars and make you pay for it, and it's always going to be on behalf of someone else and not us.