Joshua Philipp

Well, Donald Trump seems to have given Nicolas Maduro an ultimatum, leave or die.

And it seems that Nicolas Maduro came back with it and said, well, how about you give me like $200 million and make me also so I can't be criminally charged anywhere else in the world.

And Trump seems to have suggested, you know what, I think you're asking a little too much here, buddy.

I don't think you realize the predicament you're in.

But what I will say is this.

The policy to remove Maduro from office was a Biden policy.

It was a Trump first term in office policy.

It was even before that, because what Maduro represents is not just, you know, everyone's paying attention to the drug boats.

Right.

And they're blowing up the drug boats and whether you agree with it or not.

Right.

Right.

The deeper context of it is that Venezuela was kind of the beachfront used by a partnership with Cuba, Fidel Castro and Chavez working together on it, to bring in Chinese Communist Party Belt and Road debt traps through all of Latin America to create what they called the pink wave of socialist governments.

It took over almost every country and to push the United States out and to reject the Monroe Doctrine.

So Venezuela is like more than just...

drug problem

They're an ideological threat to the United States in terms of the influence operations they've been doing throughout the entire region, creating organizations designed to exclude the United States in interregional diplomacy and to instead bring in, crazy as this sounds, Iran, Russia, and China.

What you're watching on that side goes back to about 2018 with the Venezuelan elections.

Right.

So let's go back in time.