Jeff Snyder

Interesting.

China strongly condemns this.

I think these are all related.

I think these, you know, Trump has this image among, you know, certainly his detractors.

He's some kind of buffoon, right?

They are playing strategic chess here.

Everything they're doing is not – it's not like we're going to get Maduro because we want a regime change in Venezuela.

They're getting Maduro because it's the most efficient use of resources because it accomplishes four goals at once.

Well, yeah.

I mean if you look at what they're trying to do – Iran plays in this too.

How do you mess with the Chinese?

Well, you get them distracted over in the Middle East.

and having worried about all the stuff that's taking place over there, is Iran, which is an ally of China, are they solid enough?

Are they going to be a solid Chinese ally in a couple months, maybe?

And this goes back to, why did the US strike the Iranian nuclear facilities?

Yes, again, more than one goal was accomplished in that strike.

First of all, it set back the Iranian nuclear capacity, but also showed to the Iranian people that the Iranian military is toothless.

They had Israeli planes and U.S.

planes loitering over the country for, was it weeks on end?

Yep.