‘Expecting An Attack Any Day Now” Venezuela Boat Attacks With John Kiriakou & Ed Calderon

Piers Morgan Uncensored

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🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Venezuelan cartels are shipping fentanyl into the United States - they say - with the full complicity of president Maduro. The socialist leader is thereby contributing to a crisis which has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans; justifying a state of war readiness and a series of deadly air strikes on small Venezuelan boats. But not everybody is convinced. The majority of all fentanyl in the US is made using Chinese chemicals by cartels in Mexico, from where almost all of it is imported. OS1 Ed Calderon, who is a combat instructor, security consultant and a cartels expert join Piers Morgan to discuss. Then; from plotting to lace Fidel Castro’s diving suit with poison fungus to the execution of Che Guevara, the CIA has a long and troubled history of meddling in the countries south of its own border - especially when socialists are involved. President Trump says he’s authorized secret CIA missions inside Venezuela, along with a not-so-secret massing of Naval forces in the Caribbean sea. Piers is joined by OS2 former CIA officer and whistleblower John Kiriakou. Piers Morgan Uncensored is proudly independent and supported by: Oxford Natural: To watch their full stories, scan the QR code on your screen or visit https://oxfordnatural.com/piers/ to get 70% off your first order when you use code PIERS. ExpressVPN: Right now you can get an extra four months of ExpressVPN for free. Just scan the QR code on the screen, or go to https://ExpressVPN.com/PIERS and get four extra months for free. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You said fentanyl at the beginning and you are right.
0:04.0	A lot of that product is not coming from Venezuela.
0:07.0	It's coming from Mexico. It's coming from China, specifically.
0:10.0	It's a very broad sword. This narco-terrorism designation.
0:13.0	I think that it's being used to conduct some regime change.
0:17.0	Right. So that's the key point here.
0:19.0	I think there's something global hope happening here, and this is just one part of the chessboard.
0:23.6	Perhaps this is a way to keep the Chinese out of the Caribbean, to keep the Chinese out of Venezuela.
0:29.6	You can say you're doing it in order to stop the flow of drugs, even if that's not really the case.
0:34.6	What will the CIA be doing right now in Venezuela?
0:38.2	To affect a coup, if you want it to be quick,
0:41.2	everything that's important is going to take place in the Capitol.
0:44.4	You have to control the radio and television stations.
0:48.3	You have to surround the presidential palace,
0:50.8	and you have to control the major intersections in the city.
0:57.3	Once that happens, all the other dominoes begin to fall.
1:03.1	The White House is very clear about why it's ramping up pressure on Venezuela.
1:07.8	Drugs, Venezuelan cartels are shipping fentanyl into the United States, they say, with the full complicity of President Maduro.
1:10.0	The socialist leader is thereby
1:11.3	contributing to a crisis which has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans, justifying a state
1:16.5	of war redness and a series of deadly airstrikes on small Venezuelan boats. But not everybody's
1:21.5	convinced. The majority of all fentanyl in the US is made using Chinese chemicals by cartels in
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