Trump plunges the United States into a new regime change war in Venezuela to start off the new year.

And I interview Pod Save the World co-host, Tommy Vitor, and Ben Rhodes about the move.

I'm Brian Tyler Cohen, and you're listening to No Lie.

Just days into 2026, Trump has engaged the United States into a brand new regime change war.

Exactly the kind of war that the quote-unquote America First President promised his supporters he wouldn't do when he was running for office to get a second term.

And certainly not that he would do a George W. Bush redux by launching a war expressly for oil.

And yet, this was Trump in the immediate aftermath of his attack.

As everyone knows, the oil business in Venezuela has been a bust, a total bust for a long period of time.

They were pumping almost nothing by comparison to what they could have been pumping and what could have taken place.

We're going to have our very large United States oil companies

the biggest anywhere in the world, go in, spend billions of dollars,

fix the badly broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure,

and start making money for the country.

And we are ready to stage a second and much larger attack if we need to do so.

So we were prepared to do a second wave if we needed to do so. We actually assumed that a second wave if we needed to do so.

We actually assumed that a second wave would be necessary, but now it's probably not.

In other words, it's for oil.

That's it.

Trump supporters thought they were getting an isolationist president and said they got

2002-era neocon policies.

Now, most of the commentary on the left has been around the fact that this was an illegal

incursion into Venezuela.

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