Vera Bergengruen
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262 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 1 Sep
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As North Dakota.
And you know, that's an important kind of thing to keep in mind.
It's just going to take a very long time to ramp up.
I think it really shows how determined Trump is to turn Venezuela into his landmark foreign policy win and also a tangible economic win.
Again, he spent months saying that you know he took this bold action to remove Maduro and that he secured this enormous supply of cheap oil for Americans.
And he is going to use every tool at his disposal to make that closer to a reality, at least one that he can sell.
So, you know, he's going to use the Pentagon, the State Department, he's going to work with these controversial businessmen.
But you know, he really needs to be able to speak about Venezuela.
As a foreign policy win for the rest of his term.
This was a way to really give him something he can point to, even if the benefits to oil companies, to consumers, don't materialize until way after he's out of office.
Venezuela had these massive earthquakes in June.
People are still recovering from that.
And the country itself, the average person, has not seen a benefit from Maduro's removal for the most part.
The economic situation for people in Venezuela hasn't changed.
And the idea that now they're going to do this, you know, what Trump calls a gift from Venezuela to the American people in abundant cheap oil, when they really can be put food on the table, when they can keep the lights on, I think there's going to be a lot of pressure building for political change, and that may really end up hampering the Trump administration's efforts to wrench this through quickly.
We saw the president threaten this massive blockade.
He said the U.S.
military will now basically be stopping ships and chasing them down.
That's a great question.
As of now, it is holding.
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