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It's Monday, September 8th, and this is your Chapo.

On today's episode, we will be taking a tour around the

world with a guest well known to you. You may remember him from such podcasts as American

prestige or substacks such as foreign exchanges. But to us, he is simply our senior foreign policy

world affairs correspondent. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the show. Once again, Derek Davison. Always a pleasure to be here, guys. Thanks for having me. I mean, it's never a pleasure to talk about this shit, but always a pleasure to be here with you guys. Well, I wouldn't, I don't know who else I'd want telling me about it. But Derek, obviously, there's a lot going on around the world.

And I think today, obviously, we're going to begin with Venezuela.

But before we get to that, I think I'd like to just begin by framing today's episode with a, you know, a smaller but perhaps, I don't know, telling detail from our government as of this last week.

And that is the Trump administration's decision to, I don't want to say officially rename the

Department of Defense, the Department of War, but just to sort of announce that they are going

to start calling it the Department of War and encouraging others to do the

same. So, Derek, I'll just begin here with the Department of War, because on one level,

it's sort of like, hmm, this is interesting, this is sort of anti-Orwellian. But then on another

more obvious level, it's just like, this would be like what the party would do in 1984 if they

didn't feel the need to create euphemistic lies to blind's just like, this would be like what the party would do in 1984 if they didn't feel

the need to create euphemistic lives to blind people. They're like, oh, the Department of Peace is actually the Department of War. But now they're just like, no, we'll be doing wars. They don't need to be by the way, we're doing more wars. We're going to have so many wars. You're going to get tired of wars and And guess the best part, they don't have to be declared by Congress. It's, uh, yeah, they don't even have to get Congress to do the name change, apparently. I mean, like, it's so, it's so funny because they can't change the name of the department officially. So instead, they're just like doing it in every way except going to Congress and asking

them to do it, which, I mean, the Republicans would probably do this anyway. Is anyone doubt that

Congress wouldn't allow them to change the name to the Department of War? I can't believe that they

would push back against this. But so they're just going to waste a shitload of money, like scraping the

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