Tom Bilyeu

Many in the international community have said this is without question an unprovoked act of illegal aggression.

But what's really going on?

How does a country with fewer than 30 million people become the obsession of the most powerful country on Earth?

Is this really about drugs, as Trump claims, or even oil as so many others around the world are saying?

The answer is obviously not.

America already produces more energy than we use, and we are already currently exporting our unused energy.

So doing this for oil would make no sense whatsoever.

And Mexico sends us way more drugs than Venezuela ever will.

The real reason we invaded Venezuela is far simpler than people realize and far more dangerous.

To understand what's really happening, we've got to go back in time and understand just how dramatically the world is changing right now.

While everyone is focused on AI as the agent of change, we've lost sight of the real shift.

Namely, the post-World War II era of peace and prosperity has ended.

We're now back in the dog-eat-dog world of great power politics, which we haven't tasted in any real way since the Berlin Wall fell.

But we're back in the thick of that now, and Venezuela's catastrophic collapse under socialism turned it into a sacrificial pawn in the life and death chess game between the US and China.

The how of it all is going to shock you, but if you don't understand, what comes next is going to catch you completely off guard, and that is something that none of us can afford right now.

Back in the 1970s, Venezuela,

The country that's currently in the middle of one of the largest humanitarian crises ever as people fled the country long before the US came.

They used to have the fourth strongest economy in the world when measured on a per person basis.

Now?

Well, in 2023, after nearly 25 years of socialism, their poverty rate skyrocketed to over 80%.