The US military buildup off Venezuela's coast is presented not just as a geopolitical maneuver, but as a critical, high-stakes operation for the American Empire to reassert its global dominance amidst perceived decline and a shifting international economic order, primarily driven by the unraveling of the petrodollar system.
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[music]
When you are weak,
appear strong. >> Sun
>> Sun
>> Zoo wrote that over 2,000 years ago in
his military treatise, The Art [music]
of War. And while the art of war is best
known for, well, actual warfare, many of
its lessons have been applied to
negotiations, diplomacy, and politics in
general. Now, what if I told you that
the US military buildup off the coast of
Venezuela is an implementation of this
very lesson? A strategic performance of
strength at a time when much of the
world perceives the US to be in decline.
With the rise of China on the global
stage, the failure of NATO to defeat
Russia in Ukraine, the inability to
destroy the Islamic Revolution in Iran,
the challenge of defeating Hamas in the
besieged Gassa strip, and the rapid
inflation of the dollar, the American
empire has never appeared weaker.
Regardless of the fact that most of its
military strength remains intact and
that its GDP is still the highest in the
[music] world, the perception held by
many is that the US is an empire in
decline and that its fall is only a
matter of time. And this perception
isn't just felt internationally. It's
felt domestically by Americans [music]
as well. This overall feeling of decline
is what led to the election of Donald
Trump who ran on a very simple message.
Make America great again. The message
itself implies that America is no longer
great and the people desperately want it
to be so.
>> We will take back our country and we
will make America great again.
>> Ever since Trump's [music] re-election a
year ago, the US has been desperately
trying to reassert itself all around the
world. In his first six months in
office, Trump joined Israel in bombing
Iran, escalated tensions with Russia by
continuing to arm Ukraine, sanctioned
half of the planet, threatened to annex
both Canada and Greenland, and renamed
[music] the Department of Defense to the
War Department. All of this is connected
to Trump's campaign promise to make
America great again. But this is more
than just propaganda for a domestic
audience of idiot plebs. It's also an
attempt to remind the world who's
actually in charge. In its latest effort
to flex its strength, the US has set its
sights on its South American enemy,
[music] Venezuela, the US has amassed a
massive naval fleet off Venezuela's
coast and has implemented a no-fly zone
over the country. All things point
towards a major US attack [music] on the
country. So, the question currently on
everyone's mind is, Trump actually
serious about going to war with
Venezuela? In this video, we will
explore the US regime change [music]
plans for Venezuela and reveal what's at
stake for the American Empire. Because
this isn't just another regime change
operation by the United States, this is
do or die for the American Empire.
Because the US finds itself in a rapidly
evolving global economic system that it
created but has already started leaving
it behind. So, this isn't business as
usual for the military-industrial
complex or the Pentagon. This is an
operation that could determine the next
Whenever the US prepares for war or
regime change, whether it's Iraq, Libya,
Iran, and now Venezuela, the first
strikes are always in the information
space. The articles come before the air
strikes. Headlines propagandize the
public, frame the narrative, and
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To understand why the US is now
threatening war with Venezuela, we first
need to explore some basic [music]
history. Venezuela is a very unique
country in South America. It carries the
legacy of Simon Bolivar, the
revolutionary who fought to liberate
Latin America from European colonial
rule. Bolivar did not just want
independence for Venezuela. He wanted a
united sovereign South American
continent, [music]
one strong enough to resist outside
empires. That vision alone put Venezuela
in ideological conflict with the United
States, which has long viewed the
Western Hemisphere as its sphere of
influence under the Monroe Doctrine, a
policy that essentially states this half
of the planet belongs to us.
Now, combine that historical and
political legacy with Venezuela's vast
amount of natural resources. Venezuela
has the largest proven oil reserves on
Earth. More than Saudi Arabia, more than
Iraq, more than the United States. We
are talking about at least $18 trillion
[music] in underground wealth and that
is just their oil. This does not include
their gas, gold, iron or other natural
resources that are mostly untapped. For
most of the 20th century, Venezuelan oil
was controlled [music] by a small elite
aligned with US corporations and western
interests. The profits flowed upward
into foreign banks and private pockets
while the majority of Venezuelans
remained in poverty. In the 1970s, Arab
states imposed an oil embargo in
response to Israel's aggression against
Egypt. This triggered a global oil
shortage that sent prices skyrocketing.
The Venezuelan elite benefited
tremendously from this crisis, but it
wouldn't last long. The sudden rise in
oil prices pushed major economies into a
recession, which forced many of these
countries to seek alternative energy
sources. This shift led to what is known
as the oil glut of the 1980s, where
global oil supply far exceeded the
demand, causing prices to collapse to
record lows. Because the vast majority
of Venezuela's national revenue came
from these oil exports, and because most
of these profits flowed into the hands
of a collaborating elite, the country
was completely unprepared for the
fallout of the oil price crash. The
enormous profits from oil exports in the
1970s convinced the political elite that
Venezuela could take on massive loans
without consequence. The assumption
being that the oil revenue would always
be there to pay them back. But when oil
prices collapsed in the 1980s, the
Venezuelan government found itself in a
predicament. They were now facing a
severe budget deficit, runaway
inflation, and a rapidly accelerating
debt spiral where new loans had to be
taken to pay off the old loans. At the
time, Venezuela had international
reserves of $300 million and a debt of
$34 billion with a poverty rate of 70%.
It was a complete shitow. The Venezuelan
government was trapped between the need
to modernize their economy and pull
their people out of poverty while also
addressing the debt crisis before it
could further spiral out of control.
International lenders like the IMF and
World Bank offered to step in with even
more loans, but on the condition that
the government liberalized the economy
and implement austerity measures. Simply
put, austerity is when governments slash
spending by reducing or outright cutting
budgets for public services and
subsidies. This is done either to
balance the budget or to pay off the
interestbearing loans owed to
institutions like the IMF or World Bank.
But austerity isn't just cutting public
spending. Sometimes, in order to appease
the banks that now effectively own the
economy, nations are required to
liberalize the economy, or in other
words, give up state control of key
aspects of industry and hand them over
to private corporations, usually with
Westernership and investment.
Venezuela's president at the time,
Carlos Andreas Perez, won his second
term by campaigning against austerity,
promising to protect social programs and
maintain subsidies. But once in office,
he reversed course and implemented the
very austerity measures he had
condemned. Entire sectors of the economy
were privatized, social spending was
slashed, and most importantly,
government fuel subsidies were
completely dismantled. The most
controversial part of the reform package
was the removal of these gasoline
subsidies. Subsidies that had kept
domestic fuel prices far below
international rates and even below
production cost. To understand how
drastic this was, you need a little bit
of context. In oil-rich countries like
Iran and Venezuela, government subsidies
push gasoline prices to extremely low
levels. For example, in Venezuela today,
a gallon of gas costs just 8. That's
right, 8. Meanwhile, where I live in
Florida, that same gallon costs at least $2.85,
$2.85,
which is 35 times more expensive. Now,
this sounds wonderful until you realize
that the average salary per month in
Venezuela is just $8. So, gasoline has
to be that cheap. Otherwise, people
can't get around and economy cannot
function. So, in a country where 70% of
the population at the time was already
living in poverty, the removal of these
energy subsidies didn't just raise
prices, it effectively paralyzed the
poor and pushed an entire population to
the brink. This sparked a nationwide
uprising known as El Karakazo, where the
government responded by massacring
protesters in the streets for rejecting
US-backed austerity. The political order
that had governed Venezuela for decades
had literally collapsed in legitimacy
overnight. Born out of this chaos was a
passionate military officer turned
politician, Hugo Chavez. Chavez didn't
come to power offering small reforms. He
came offering revolution. He was Simon
Bolivar reincarnated and his fiery,
energetic, passionate vision for
Venezuela brought him to power. One of
the first things he did was nationalize
the oil industry, not in name, but in
practice, forcing the state oil company
PDVSA to stop operating like a private
corporation serving Western energy
markets and instead redistribute oil
wealth to the Venezuelan people through
healthcare, housing, education, and food
programs. He called it the Bolivarian
Revolution. explicitly linking his
movement to Bolivar's dream of a
sovereign, united, independent Latin
America. Like Bolivar before him, Chavez
didn't just want to liberate Venezuela
from United States control. He wanted to
free all of South America from the
global neoliberal economic order. And
that is how and why the conflict between
the US and Venezuela became inevitable.
Because when a nation with the largest
oil reserves on Earth declares that its
resources belong to its own people, not
to Exxon, not to Chevron, not to the
IMF, the World Bank, or Washington.
That's not just disobedience. That is a
direct threat to the American imperial
strategy in the Western Hemisphere. a
threat to the petro dollar, a threat to
US geopolitical dominance, a threat to a
200year-old doctrine that says Latin
America must remain subordinate. And
that not democracy, not human rights,
not corruption, not drugs, is why the
United States has spent the last two
decades trying to overthrow the
government of Venezuela. Now, while it's
true that the United States wants to
look strong in the face of perceived
weakness, this aggression towards
Venezuela isn't just performative
propaganda. The real reason Washington
has now rapidly accelerated its regime
change plans for Venezuela is because
the global economic order is shifting
fast. For the last 80 years, the United
States has dominated the world through
two main pillars, the dollar and control
of global energy, primarily oil and gas.
These two things are inseparable. You
see, the dollar is strong because oil
has exclusively been priced and traded
in dollars globally. This is known as
the petrod dollar system. But that
system has slowly been unraveling over
the last few years. Countries like
China, Russia, Iran, Brazil, South
Africa, basically the BRICS nations are
actively building an alternative global
financial system. one that does not rely
on the US dollar in order to trade for
commodities like oil and gas. China has
already been signing oil trade deals in
their own currency, the yuan. For
example, just a few months ago in
September, Saudi Arabia and China
settled an oil transaction in the
digital yuan. Even India has been
purchasing Russian oil despite the
sanctions using the Chinese yuan. To
many, this is the beginning of the end
of the dollar's hegemony. So, the United
States now has one urgent strategic
priority. Re-establish control over the
world's largest remaining oil reserves
in order to prevent more sales in
non-dollar currencies. Those reserves
are guess where? Iran and Venezuela.
Trillions of dollars of oil, enough to
determine the future of global energy
pricing, determine the world's reserve
currency, and control over the Chinese
economy, sits under governments that are
not aligned with Washington. Even worse,
Venezuela has been strengthening
economic ties with China, Russia, and
Iran, the three main challengers to US
hijgemony. Beijing has already invested
heavily in Venezuelan infrastructure and
oil extraction operations to the tune of
$67 billion. Russia provides military
equipment and intelligence support, and
Iran advises Venezuela on how to bypass
sanctions and protect against refinery
sabotage. So from the perspective of the
US national security establishment,
Venezuela had crossed from disobedient
to strategically dangerous. And time was
quickly running out to prevent them from
joining bricks. Because if Venezuela,
China, and the entire bricks block began
to finalize oil trade outside of the
dollar system, it would have undermined
the petro dollar, weakened US global
financial power, accelerated the shift
toward a multipolar world, and removed
the economic basis of the US empire.
itself. So again, this is not about
democracy, corruption, or even drug
trafficking. This is about preventing
global power from changing hands. So
when the US positions its navy outside
Venezuela today, it's not simply flexing
for its domestic audience of idiot
plebs. It is defending the core
operating system of the American Empire.
Whoever controls Venezuelan oil in the
next decade will have leverage in this
new global economic order that is
rapidly taking shape. That is why war is
There have been many opposition figures
over the years that the US has
officially recognized as Venezuela's
legitimate leadership. The most recent
is Maria Korina Machado, who has been
going viral recently, not only because
she very controversially won the Nobel
Peace Prize for her stated work to
transition Venezuela from a dictatorship
to a democracy, but also for her viral
clips where she promises to give
Venezuelan resources to the United States.
States.
>> We will open Venezuela for foreign
investment. I am talking about a $1.7 trillion
trillion
opportunity not only in oil and gas
which is huge and you know that the
opportunities because we will open all
all upstream middleream downstream to
all companies but also in mining
in gold in infrastructure
power. We will open markets. [music] We
will have security for foreign
investment and a transparent massive privatization
privatization
uh program that is waiting for you.
>> Do you support US military strikes on
the territory of Venezuela as part of
what you call a process?
>> I [music] believe that the increase in
pressure and the escalation that's
taking place is the only way to force
Maduro to understand that it's time to
go. Simply put, she's a sellout, which
essentially confirms what this entire
conflict is about. Oil, money, the
dollar, China, the future of the US
empire. Now, to be clear, the US isn't
just suddenly attempting regime change
in Venezuela. They've actually been
trying for the last 20 years. Shortly
after Hugo Chavez took power, Washington
began imposing sanctions on Venezuela.
And those sanctions have been gradually
intensified ever since. The sanctions
combined with poor economic policies by
the Venezuelans themselves has pushed
the country into a deep crisis.
Hyperinflation, violent riots, and
multiple coup attempts. After decades of
sanctions and covert meddling, the US
now plans to turn up the heat to its
most extreme point. Just like they did
with Iran, the US will test the strength
of the Venezuelan regime by
assassinating key figures and delivering
strikes on infrastructure. The United
States recently deployed its largest and
newest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald
R. Ford, which is a carrier capable of
launching and supporting over 75
aircraft on its own. And with the recent
order to vacate the skies over
Venezuela, Trump has already set the
stage for aerial strikes deep inside the
country. Only time will tell if
Venezuela can survive this showdown. But
one thing is certain, the United States
is very serious and it will continue to
escalate as far as it needs to in order
to overthrow the Venezuelan government.
So, what do you think? Let me know in
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>> Trust nothing,
>> no [music] laws. Free your mind.
Everything is propaganda.
Everything is propaganda.
Everything is propaganda. So why not
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