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market oil trading vessels, which are hauling sanctioned illegal crude on stateless vessels, meaning they constantly change the registration, falsify the registration of these vessels, which under any kind of international maritime law, they can be boarded and seized as pirate vessels, which is exactly what they just did this week.

And that is an excellent strategy exhalation

to clamp down on Maduro's ability to fund his illicit government.

Now, at the same time, you have Maria Karina Machado, who was

well smuggled out of the country in some kind of a maritime exfil, probably through a bunch of checkpoints by boat to Curacao, a Dutch island off the northwest of Venezuela, and then jet to Norway, where she receives the Nobel Prize for her valiant pursuit of representative democratic elected government.

I hope that that kind of pressure campaign works and that it convinces Maduro to leave.

I hope it does.

I'm not convinced it will until something goes bang in the Capitol.

That Maduro and Díaz-Dado Cabello and Pedrinho, the Minister of Defense, Jorge and Delcy Rodriguez, all of those people must go.

They're all of the same cartel.

And Trump is right.

To not be interventionist means it doesn't mean you have to become a complete pacifist, that you're unable or unwilling to actually use force to correct a wrong if it is demonstrably in American national interest.

Well, let's go to that.

The national security strategy memo, and you had a lot of input into the first administration where we talked about China and Russia.

This national security memo that kicked off will have the military strategy coming off of that.

One of the biggest things that Europe and NATO came last, they were like on page 29 of 33 at the beginning, was hemispheric defense.

For those that are sitting there going, hey, you know, I voted for President Trump because I'm America first, he's America first, or he told me he's America first.

I don't know why we're getting involved in this.

Is it part of – and they call it the Trump corollary.

It's Monroe Doctrine 2.0, hemispheric defense.