Hypocracy
I think they [the US administration] know they've got a serious problem right now. They really haven't changed anything of substance yet in Venezuela. They removed Maduro and his wife. That's all. So, what has changed in Venezuela? Answer: nothing. And how much do you think you can change? Do you think you can waltz into the place, start repairing oil infrastructure and drilling for oil with impunity? I have real doubts about that. What do you think is going to protect you in Lake Marbo if the locals decide to blow up your oil rig? What's going to protect you in the Oronaco basin if you come under assault and attack? Or if you try to go back and reinvigorate the gold mining, the emerald mines or extract rare earth. I mean, this is a big place there. There are almost 30 million people living in that country. You got a lot of enemies right now. Remember, hundreds of thousands of people in the so-called people's militia h are armed. They're out there with weapons. They're not innocuous.
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investing in defense and extracting real warf fighting capability are not the same. It never has been. It never will be.
The the real danger for us is that now President Putin and his colleagues have essentially flipped the switch and they are no longer listening to anything we say. They no longer trust us. I mean, they saw Witkoff and and Kushner go to Moscow the last time around and they were polite to them and then they discovered that Kushner and Witkoff were concerned with 200,000 acres and how Black Rockck and others would have control of it in Ukraine. I mean, they actually brought this up and I think the Russians at that point figured out these people aren't serious. The these people are all about self-enrichment. They're about a grand self aggrandizement and these are not people that represent legitimately the American people.
