Sumi Somaskanda
speaker
168 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 8 Jul
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Again, he would have to be interested himself.
But talk about someone with really big favorability ratings.
and who could win.
Wait, what was that noise?
All that stuck with me there, among the many beautiful things he said about Wisconsin, was splinter-free toilet paper.
What happened previous to that?
Yeah, that's an important question, isn't it, Matthew?
And we have a couple of answers to that question.
Indeed, what we've heard from President Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, is that they saw Nicolás Maduro as the head of a drug trafficking organization that was directly a threat to the United States.
So the United States, the Secretary of State, had said that they had designated two drug trafficking organizations, the Tren de Aragua, as well as the Cartel de los Soles, the Cartel of the Suns, as drug trafficking organizations.
And because of that, they said that Nicolas Maduro, who they deemed as the head of one of those cartels, was trafficking drugs directly into the United States.
That was the official justification they gave for why there was a direct threat to the United States.
As a result of that, we saw strikes on what the US has said were drug trafficking boats off the coast of Venezuela, in the Pacific, in the Caribbean as well.
More than 30 strikes, more than 100 people killed.
After that, we also saw President Trump change the narrative a bit.
He then started talking about Venezuelan oil.
What he said was stolen oil and stolen land.
Now, it's not entirely clear what he means by stolen land, but by stolen oil, he's talking about Venezuela's large oil reserves and the American companies that were once a big part
of extracting that oil from Venezuela and processing it.
When Venezuela nationalized the oil companies, a few American companies that were involved in that process lost out a lot of money.
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