Anthony Pompliano

And recently, this person and I went and we got lunch.

And unfortunately, he has zero interest in going on podcasts, being publicly known, et cetera.

As he said to me, he goes, I'm very well paid and I enjoy my life.

And I said, okay, that's fair.

But one of the things that he believes, this is not my idea, I wish I could give him credit by name, but it's definitely his idea, is China, if you really break down the world's relationship with China, we will give you commodities and you will be the workplace of the world and you will turn around and give us finished products.

If you want to contain China, if you want to contain their ideas, contain their actions, contain their kind of geographical footprint, you can try to fight on the finished product side, or you can starve them of the commodities on the way in.

And it seems like from a strategic standpoint, the United States is able to kind of kill two birds with one stone by being able to get control of a lot of these commodities and say, hey, we need them.

But also we may be able to maybe not completely starve, but at least limit the usage by what we deem as a, you know, maybe a best economic rival, let alone, you know, geopolitical adversary.

And so as I see this play out, it then begs the question, okay, Venezuela, you know what I find very interesting?

We are one week since Maduro was captured.

What percentage of the American population cares anymore?

It's a lower percentage than what it was last, you know, Sunday morning.

It's not zero, but it is a pretty low percentage.

It's kind of like the world already forgot that this all happened.

And because things are moving so quickly, economically, geopolitically, et cetera.

And with the internet, obviously that's only going to accelerate.

What I find fascinating is that I think the administration understands this.

And so they're willing to maybe do things that otherwise you wouldn't do because, you know, we toppled Saddam Hussein and we toppled Nicolas Maduro.

One was a 20 year war.

One was a two and a half hour snatch and grab and we were gone.