All right, Alexander, let's talk about what is happening in Venezuela or with Venezuela.

Trump is going after Maduro again, and there's a $50 million bounty on Maduro's head.

And we also have ships which are heading towards Venezuela or probably have arrived very close to Venezuela.

And the excuse that the Trump White House is using is that they're going after the drug cartels.

So you have Maduro and Venezuela, once again, now targeted by the Trump administration.

He went after Venezuela in his first term with Juan Guaido, and it looks like he's taken a bit of a different approach this time around in order to get regime change of Venezuela.

Or is this really about

the drug cartels, Alexander? I don't think it is about the drug cartels. We're talking

about three guided missile destroyers, and amphibious warfare ship, the Iwo Jima. We're talking

about a massive naval buildup.

I mean, you don't actually use this kind of show of force against, you know,

conventional drug smugglers and all of that kind of thing.

I mean, you use Coast Guard, you use other types of aircraft.

I mean, this is a military naval force.

It's a massive show of force relative to what we're talking about.

I mean, Venezuela has no military response to this, not in any effective way.

I understand that two of these destroyers are already in the region and they're already patrolling

the coastline around Venezuela as well.

So, I mean, this is clearly a major military buildup.

And of course, the point about the drug cartels is that some of the rhetoric that's coming

from the administration is that Maduro is the illegitimate

leader of Venezuela. He isn't the real leader of Venezuela at all. What he is is the head of a drug

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