Venezuela, “Experts,” and the Real Reason We’re There: It’s Oil, Not Drugs
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Okay, welcome on welcome all I am Chris Markowski I am also the host of watchdog on Wall Street show and I am going to be your guide through the Venezuelan news sewer because that’s what we’re dealing with at this point in time lots of experts we got experts here we got experts there what I want to tell you about these various different experts this is for some of the newer listeners here to the program they’re there they’re basically what we like to call pitching their book
They are paid to have a certain opinion one way or another. It’s amazing. It’s amazing that some people on TV and these so-called experts, they can’t seem to acknowledge that two things, two different things can be true at the same time. Anyway, let’s go back in time when we started our great American Venezuelan journey. And we were told,
We were told by the powers that be that we were blowing up boats, blowing up drug boats from Venezuela because they were killing, it was fentanyl, and they were killing hundreds of thousands of Americans. Now, make no bones about it, drugs are a scourge in the United States. They’re a scourge in all of the world for that matter. And the United States has most certainly got the brunt of that.
And when it comes to fentanyl and fentanyl deaths. Now, first and foremost, I pointed out, I pointed out here on the program that fentanyl does not come from Venezuela. It makes absolutely zip zero zilch nada sense for them to manufacture fentanyl in Venezuela and get it all the way to the United States. If you’re not familiar where Venezuela is, it’s on the bloody equator. They’re make fentanyl. They make it in Mexico.
Mexico. So you were told this and it was repeated again and again and again by experts, experts that are on a certain side. They’re there, they’re paid to have that opinion. Now, do drugs come in via boats into the United States? Yeah, cocaine in particular. We’ve talked about how cocaine and
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the trade and the submarines and the various different things that the drug cartels do to get cocaine here into the United States. But cocaine has never been bad, but it’s never been the big killer. Not to mention the fact that most of that cocaine, it’s not being grown. Okay, if you don’t believe me, look it up, your own homework. Venezuela is not the place where they’re growing cocaine. The coca plants, that’s done in Colombia.
Take that and put that aside. We talked about this here on the program and I came under fire various different listeners there. I don’t understand. I don’t understand why you’re getting so upset about this. Let them blow up drug boats. Okay, whatever. Meanwhile, at the same time, the Coast Guard is still doing their job and they’re still basically arresting and going up and doing it the old fashioned way. Neither here nor there. Now, what’s funny,
watching what’s going on. It’s not really funny, but it’s kind of predictable. The narrative that was being pushed, Marco Rubio, when he came out and spoke about this going in and seizing Nicolas Maduro, he said basically arrest warrant, bad guy, dictator. Pete Hegseth said drugs. Trump just, he said, you know what?
throwing away that teleprompter. I’m going to tell them exactly what this is all about. It’s about oil. Now, your friendly neighborhood watchdog on Wall Street told you this. Okay. Well, he was giving me all sorts of flack about my bag. We said it right here on the program that it’s about oil. Venezuela, by far and away, the largest amount
of oil in the entire world. Nobody comes close. Nobody comes close. Now, why is this important? Why does this matter? Well, Venezuela, Venezuela. Well, they got the idea that they were going to start pricing, pricing their oil, not in dollars, but in one and other
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Currencies the bricks talking about coming up with their own currency. I remind you you got to go back to the 1970s and the whole petrodollar Situation that Henry Kissinger worked out with the Saudis where yes all oil is priced in dollars now if all oil is Priced in dollars think about this for a second a lot of oil
being bought and sold every single day, right? And if all has to be priced in dollars, well, then guess what? There’s a great demand for those dollars, which again allows the United States to be the, in essence, yeah, know, world’s reserve currency. Oil’s priced in dollars and everyone’s buying and selling it. They need a lot of dollars out there.
sloshing around the globe and it gives us a quite a bit of power. I do want to remind you there was a guy by the name of Muammar Gaddafi. Muammar Gaddafi got taken out by Hillary Clinton. Taken out by Hillary Clinton in Barack Obama and Muammar Gaddafi had this idea in his head. Shouldn’t have gone there Muammar to come up with a commodity
It was actually gonna be a gold base currency for the continent of Africa by the way at the time That they we decided to get rid of Muammar, Gaddafi They had the highest per capita GDP in Africa Fact can don’t trust me look up my facts that I provide for you here not to mention fact, you know the Countries destroyed and they have open-air slave markets now just throwing it out there
thrown out there. This without a doubt, without a doubt is about, or you even have Venezuelans saying the same thing. know, say, what do you think, China? China wants to be in Venezuela because of some, their salsa music or some recipe that they have there? Or they trying to recruit some Venezuelan baseball players? No.
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No, it’s about oil. It always has been about oil. And I get that. I get that to some degree. One of the things that I couldn’t quite frankly get my arms around when it came to our intervention in Iraq is that we up and left the joint and basically let the Chinese
Develop all of the oil fields there. Why would we do that? Trump without a doubt without a doubt has a Popped into my head maybe because I’m broadcasting from Florence Italy and it’s the home of this guy where he’s from Niccolo Machiavelli and Niccolo he emphasized call it
pragmatic politics, effectiveness, and basically acquiring and doing what is necessary to maintain power. Maintain power and maintain stability. And Trump, without a doubt, has a Machiavellian streak in him, and I think we can all agree on that. Some of the issues that are being raised and
These are important issues. One Thomas Massey coming out and saying, what are you doing here? You have to come to Congress for this. And again, I agree. I agree that that’s the way things should be done. quite frankly, it’s unfortunate. We don’t live in that country anymore. We just don’t.
We don’t, again, I’m a realist here. Much of the Constitution, the people that we have in power right now are basically, just, yeah right, oh sure, yeah, you know, they tinker with it, they do what they want with it, and without a doubt, Congress has basically, I don’t know, just said, know, we’re not gonna really.
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We’re not going to really be involved with the whole war thing anymore. And again, you can go back from, you know, George W. Bush. It’s really it really got kicked into gear after 9 11. You know, Obama continued this straight on through straight on through Congress is just like, yeah, they’ll they like to wave their finger and yell and scream about various different things, but they never hold the commander in chief to account. Now, mind you, is commander in chief
But Congress has the power to declare war. again, we were told that this is a police action. Basically, kind of like Vietnam was a police action as well. The examples I’ve made, you wanna go back to what was that operation called with Noriega? Just Cause? Operation, yeah, yeah, Operation Just Cause. George H.
W. Bush going in and grabbing Noriega and this precedent that was set there because Noriega, some of his lawyers at the time were basically arguing that he’s out of state. You can’t do anything like this. He’s sovereign. Can’t happen. And again, it all got thrown out. So they’re justified in doing this. However, one of the things that we we often while they often
They often just fail to get their arms around when it comes to the unintended consequences. What do I call Washington, D.C. or the Capitol building, the grand cathedral of unintended consequences? Does this mean that any country can indict a leader and just go grab them?
just go ahead and grab them at any point in time, because in essence, that’s what we did.
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That’s what we did. Now, what does this mean? What does this mean for the future in Venezuela? And this is part of the, I’m gonna guiding you through the Venezuelan news sewer. You get various different rallies that you see on, this is a pro-Maduro rally in Venezuela. This is a anti-.
Maduro rally and look at this family here in Miami thrilled that Maduro is gone
This was not regime change. mean, they keep using that phrase, regime change. No, no, they’re socialist, socialist vice president.
is in charge. His, you know, military honchos are still there. They’re entrenched. Their military is entrenched. hasn’t been any regime change in Venezuela. from the looks of things, the ease that this entire raid, I mean, again, was like a hot knife through butter for crying out loud and how easy this was.
It almost seems to me that the fix was in. The fix was in. I said, I don’t know. And this is, I’m letting this out here. This is pure speculation on my part. Maybe the people that are now running the country were in on getting rid of Maduro and cut a deal with Trump, or maybe even Maduro said, okay, come get me and then I’ll give you the goods and some information. I don’t know. We’re gonna find out.
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We’re gonna find out, but don’t expect that, what’s her name? Again, I’m sorry, her name eludes me. She just won the Nobel Prize from Venezuela. What, you think that they’re gonna fly her in there and she’s gonna start running the show? Trump already said no to that.
Trump already said no to that. I heard a phrase, heard a phrase today, they called it, this is not regime change, this is a regime tweak. It’s a regime tweak that took place. Again, we will see, okay, nobody knows. Nobody knows what’s gonna happen next. What I do know is this, we don’t have,
We don’t have a very good track record in our interventions in South America. We don’t have a very good track record in our interventions anywhere for that matter. Maybe this will be different. We’re told, get it, Trump said that we’re gonna run the country. I don’t know about that. know maybe, like I said, maybe we cut a deal with the current socialist.
Vice President, we pony up to dictators all the time. All the time. Is this a very strategic place when it comes to energy, when it comes to oil? Absolutely. Trump talks about how, again, our oil companies were kicked out. We developed their oil, did all of those things. That’s true.
You know, that’s a part of investing. That’s that’s called political risk. You have to actually take that into consideration when you’re investing somewhere and whether or not something like that just might happen. It can can. It’s going to take a long time, long time before this thing is ironed out when it comes to Venezuelan oil. I’ve got many questions in regards to it. I’m surprised. How come?
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You know, barrel oil didn’t drop.
barrel oil didn’t drop because It’s not gonna be free flowing any time soon Not by any time soon not to mention the fact not to mention the fact what you think that The oil companies that go in and get this stuff up and running. Do you think they want to? depress The price of oil so it comes down where they’re not making any money that there’s a lot more
that’s involved with this, not to mention the fact that, guess what? Guess what, and this is true, you don’t believe me, look it up yourself, got, what’s his name there, Paul Singer, Singer Asset Management, went in and, it’s actually, they call it vulture investing. He bought up a lot of the distressed Venezuelan debt and sued, and supposedly he’s gonna get a big stake in the Venezuelan oil company Sitco, he is,
very tied in to the president. He’s a resident down there in Palm Beach County, Florida. I’m gonna caution everybody out there, because you’ve got various different left-wing idiots and right-wing idiots on social media going out there saying that they know a guy. I knew a guy! I a guy that’s in, know, he’s embedded in the…
you know, security is embedded in intelligence and he’s telling us, know, Hezbollah was heavily involved over there.
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Come on, man. It was funny and I gotta give it to John Stewart. He actually did a side by side video montage of all the things that we were told leading into the invasion into Iraq, even all the things that we were told in regards to going into Venezuela. And I know I had a marker rubio. This is not the same thing. I know. I know it’s not the same thing. I get that. I get that.
But people in Washington, quite frankly, have zero credibility with me. And quite frankly, you have zero credibility with a large swath, large swath of the population. Do you think this endeavor is going to move the needle? Move the needle when it comes to
Approval for popularity. Maybe a little.
Maybe a wee little bit. But I’ve got a sinking suspicion that most Americans, ones that are having a little bit more of a difficult time at this point, time, whether it be because of the higher cost of, whatever it may be, are looking at this and saying, I didn’t vote for this.
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I didn’t vote for this.
We’ll see. We’ll see. I’m just telling everybody to be very, very cautious. This isn’t close to being over. Again, I want to remind everybody, there’s no, it’s not regime change by any stretch of the imagination. Not regime change. Military is still embedded. Maduro’s vice president is in charge. His security forces and all of it, he’s got, all of his, like that.
What’s his name? forget his name too. The henchman guy, the really brutal guy. He’s still, you know, up and operating.
No, not regime change. No, I don’t think you’re gonna get that Nobel Peace Prize winner running the country. think that we’ll cut a deal. We’ll cut a deal with the people that are in charge. Again, Donald Trump, and again, I just go back and do a little homework on Niccolo Machiavelli. This is transactional to him.
This is transactional to him. This is just, you know, pragmatic. This is a business deal. That’s how he’s looking at this. And he came out and said so. You can you can keep throwing whenever I see these morons on Fox News throwing out the whole drug thing from Venezuela. I’m like.
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You’re insulting all of our intelligence at this point in time. It’s not about drugs, okay? It’s about oil. Period. The end. Watchdogonwallstreet.com.
