Rand Paul
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But the thing is, is what's ridiculous about it is our leaders, our soldiers have machine guns.
every country that has soldiers and security forces, machine guns, but to indict him?
But that's then their argument is it's okay to blow up Caracas.
It's okay to do something that looks like a war, but it's not a war because it was just an arrest warrant.
It's gamesmanship for people who might succumb to, I think, a silly argument.
Because there's a lot of bad guys.
I think a country suffers and people just probably want better stuff for the people there.
I think they also do worry, as you mentioned earlier, they say there's too much influence of Russia and China there.
You know, the whole oil situation is an example of why socialism doesn't work very well.
I mean, it's like 30 years old.
Everything's rotting and rusting.
They do a million barrels a day.
They have more oil than Saudi Arabia, but they are justβit's completely incompetent.
And mainly because the one thing that capitalism does is it gives you supply and demand and a price.
And they've controlled the price, not the oil price because that's an international price.
But they've controlled the price of all the things that go into the equipment and who owns it.
So you have a bunch of people who studied in Marxism in Cuba running the companies.
That's not what we do here.