Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. I'm John B with my colleague Professor Evan Ellis at the U.S. Army War College Strategic

Studies Institute. Venezuela, Venezuela is part of the axis of resistance. There's no fancy way to say it.

Madura is an illegitimate president, a very strong-minded illegitimate president who is now boasting that he has stood

up to US sanctions and they don't bother him however there is a report that

Venezuela is rushing.

That's the word Reuters uses.

Rushing to men, they also use that word, relations with Iran

in the face of the sanctions being reimposed by the US.

Professor, I was unaware that the relationship had broken down,

the shipping of oil and gasoline back and forth. That's been an ongoing story for a couple of years.

Iranian warships, so-called, making a call in the Atlantic, perhaps headed for Venezuela.

What do we know now about the Iatollah, the I RGC, and its

many surrogates and Maduro? Is Madura on the outs and is it going to take much for him to get back on the inns if he is?

Well, sadly, John, I think Maduro's position despite his mismanagement and other difficulties is actually

yeah, consolidating right now and we're going to see it

considering to consolidate after the you know his almost inevitable victory in the

rigged one-sided upcoming July 28th presidential elections on the birthday of his predecessor

O, Chavas.

But also as you pointed out, the situation with Iran, Venezuela has long been essentially

the principal host of Iranian initiatives in the region.

Although what you've seen Iran work in other areas

as well, and including Nicaragua, lesser extent Cuba among others to a certain extent

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