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S8 Ep746: Failed Leadership Models and Australian Fuel Shortages Guest: Gregory Copley Gregory Copley critiques the Venezuelan model for Iranian political transitions while detailing Australia's fuel crisis. Australian governments have neglected domestic refining,

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🗓️ 15 April 2026

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Failed Leadership Models and Australian Fuel Shortages Guest: Gregory Copley Gregory Copley critiques the Venezuelan model for Iranian political transitions while detailing Australia's fuel crisis. Australian governments have neglected domestic refining, leading to energy vulnerability and the rise of nationalist parties.
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Today. I'm John Batcher, Gregory Copley, Defense and Foreign Affairs this year,

0:49.6

and we've been speaking to the two choke points now in the news.

0:53.6

Bobham and Deb at the choke point of the Red Sea coming out of the Suez Canal through the

0:57.9

Red Sea, way an exit for oil from Saudi Arabia and other partners outside of the Persian Gulf.

1:04.5

Then we have the Straits of Formuz that are now blockaded not only by the United States,

1:09.3

but also by threat by the Iranian regime.

1:12.2

The threat continues to be available enough for people to be intimidated about traversing the Straits of Armuz.

1:19.1

The news is, and these are out of hours, the last hours, is that all the ships attempting to traverse the Straits of Hermuz have turned

1:28.4

around and turned back. U.S. Naval blockade is in place, according to the news. Fog of War.

1:35.3

We go to Caracas, however, in a conversation I mentioned to Gregory earlier this week, a conversation

1:41.6

with a member of the opposition in Venezuela. And what I learned is that the opposition

1:48.3

led by Ms. Machado, the Nobel Peace Prize winner, is concerned that D'Azzi Rodriguez, who is the

1:54.5

provisional president of the country, having been elevated to that position by the United States,

2:00.2

by the Trump administration,

2:01.9

and her brother Jorge, who commands the assembly, in other words, one is the president of the

2:07.0

country, the other one is the leader of the Congress, are slow walking, says the opposition.

2:13.2

Why? Because they believe the longer they can drag this out, the more likely it is that the Trump administration will lose power.

2:20.1

What does that mean? I'm told by the opposition that power is the flotilla that was off the shore of Venezuela for weeks.

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