Col. Douglas McGregor

And it comes, interestingly enough, from Mrs. Machado.

I don't know if she's married or not, so I call her Mrs. She may just be Miss Machado.

She's the lady that just won the Nobel Peace Prize, and she's from Venezuela.

And she said, if we're liberated by the U.S.

Armed Forces and they remove Maduro, our first act will be to move the Venezuelan embassy to Jerusalem.

I'm completely confused.

Like what?

Well, you can't be that confused.

I think she's she's hit on something very important.

She's figured out where the power lies and she's playing to the audience that makes the decisions.

You're talking about this democracy business.

We've always been a republic with limited democracy.

But I think we can pretty much conclude that we're ruled now by a small group of extraordinarily wealthy people.

billionaire oligarchs those are the terms they use in Eastern Europe in places like Ukraine yeah I think they're in charge I think they're calling the shots and I think there are interests in the oil resources oil and gas primarily although let's face it they've got gold mines and Emerald Mines as well and other things I'm told they have a lot of lithium

There may be a true interest in putting in a puppet government and finding way to extract these resources because right now, for the first time in 30 years, all the central banks beyond the borders of the United States around the world hold more gold than we do.

That's a very important thing to understand.

So how do you begin to reverse this process of managed decline, which is really what we've been on now for the last 25 years?

Well, oil is part of it.

Oil is gold.

And even though the oil is exactly what you described, it's heavy oil, high sulfur content, requires a lot of refining.