Tom Bilyeu

America first.

great again but the honest answer is those are just the surface level slogans that politicians use what's really at play is that the world is already and always has been a very dangerous place and when two great powers collide lines are drawn there are no referees and actions are taken at least when you have action-oriented leaders and love or hate trump and g they are both men of action to

To actually understand what's happening now, you have to understand something absolutely terrifying about history.

Peace is the exception, not the rule.

For most of human existence, the world has been defined by conquest, slaughter, and power struggles between rising and falling empires.

Genghis Khan and the Mongol invasions killed roughly 10% of the entire world's population.

That is a level of slaughter so dramatic that global CO2 levels were measurably reduced.

In modern Russia, Stalin created a famine that wiped out entire generations, not to mention all of the people that he simply had murdered.

Not to be outdone, Mao Zedong instituted policies in China that led to the deaths of more than 45 million people.

That's not even to mention the tens of millions, more that were lost to war in the 20th century alone.

Adolf Hitler dragged the world into a war that killed roughly 85 million people.

And Pol Pot managed to kill a staggering share of his own country in just four years.

History is a bottomless bottle of black pills, violence, domination, conquest, corruption, sabotage, murder, slavery, subjugation, and a whole lot more.

Great powers will do whatever they think they can get away with to advantage their own people.

And when two such nations collide, God help us all.

So why are so many people so confused by what's happening in Venezuela right now?

Because briefly after World War II, something changed.

Historically, wars were limited in scope by an army's ability to travel and the rate at which one human could hack another to death with a sword.

Then World War I hit.

And we saw just how many people could die and quickly.