Glenn Greenwald

We're not in Venezuela.

How are we going to stop that or change?

And then Colombia and other countries, including Mexico, can just, even if the drug flow were impeded from Venezuela, just send more drugs into the United States.

It's not going to impede a single iota of drugs in the United States.

It's not going to help people who have drug addiction problems and want drugs and keep consuming drugs in the United States.

Then we were told it's about liberating the Venezuelan people.

except the entire communist government under maduro is still in place president trump wants to leave them in place at least for the time being he's saying there we don't want to have elections there was an assumption that president trump would put into power the opposition candidate edmond gonzalez who was declared the winner of the last election or maria machado the nobel prize winner and he's saying no we're not going to put them in place we're going to do business with the communist regime

There's evidence that there's more repression now in Venezuela because they feel like they've been attacked externally.

So that rationale has gone by the wayside.

And then what, we're gonna take their oil?

Do you know how long it's gonna take to refurbish that oil infrastructure?

And Megan, even if we steal their oil, and I can promise you, if we do that,

Obviously, a lot of people in Venezuela are going to fight very hard against the United States.

Against that, we're going to be dragged into the middle of a guerrilla war, the kind that any country would fight if we say we're going to steal your oil for our benefit.

But for whose benefit would that be?

For the shareholders and the executives of Exxon and Chevron and these international oil conglomerates?

None of that is going to flow to the benefit of the American people.

So the question is, for whose benefit is all of this happening?

I think Americans voted for no more regime change wars.

We don't want to be governing other countries.