Donald Trump's massive Venezuela mistake paves the way for China to finally dominate the U.S.

once and for all.

And I've got four interviews, Biden's Deputy National Security Advisor John Finer and Obama's

National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vitor both discussed Venezuela.

Senator Mark Kelly responds to beat Heggseth, who's attempting to demote him, and Adam

Kassfeld talks about Nicholas Maduro's arraignment in New York.

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

All right, so this is our first Wednesday episode, so thanks to everybody for tuning in.

We're going to be doing midweek episodes for the rest of the year.

We're just a few days out now from Donald Trump's decision to basically signal a green light to all big countries across the globe that we're entering a second imperialist era.

Trump has obviously announced that he's taking control of Venezuela.

He's threatened to do the same with Colombia and Cuba, along with a refusal to rule out military intervention to take control of Greenland.

And I'm sure the next shot across the bow is

going to be against Panama. That's not far behind. But think for a moment about the downstream

effects of this. So, okay, we take control of a few South American countries for oil. A few problems

there. Like, for example, the fact that the U.S. is already one of the world's biggest oil

exporting countries. So it's not like allowing of the world's biggest oil exporting countries.

So it's not like allowing our oil companies to seize oil in Venezuela will finally allow us to be energy independent for the first time.

Also, the oil doesn't just flood the United States.

It goes to American companies, but they sell oil on the global market.

And even if more oil on the global market means that prices will fall,

OPEC will probably just restrict supply, which are going to send prices back up.

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