What You're Missing About Trump's Focus On Venezuelan Oil
The Lance Wallnau Show
Dr. Lance Wallnau
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🗓️ 9 January 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Most people are completely missing why Venezuela matters so much in the global power struggle and why oil is only part of the story. I explain how Trump's focus on Venezuelan resources connects to China, Iran, and America's long term leverage in a rapidly shifting world order. When you understand what is really driving these moves, you'll see why this moment has implications far beyond headlines and why discernment matters more than reaction.
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| 0:00.0 | It is the Lance Walnows show. I want to talk immediately about the Trump train is now on track to bring America back in ways that we had not even anticipated. |
| 0:12.6 | You know, this man sits down and looks at the United States, looks at the world. |
| 0:17.4 | In a way, I can't imagine J.D. Vance stepping into those shoes and saying, |
| 0:25.0 | we want Greenland. |
| 0:26.9 | By the way, their third greatest deposit of oil in the world is in Venezuela. |
| 0:34.1 | I'm taking it back next weekend. |
| 0:36.7 | It takes a rare breed of cat, a rare Trumpian person in history, to just look at the world that way |
| 0:44.1 | and have the chutzpah to actually do something and pull it off. |
| 0:51.0 | It just takes such incredible personal confidence and courage to do that. And you just don't |
| 0:58.0 | see it. George Herbert Walker Bush, who led the coalition of the willing, Indigo take out Saddam Hussein. |
| 1:06.1 | And our last time to, I theoretically the idea was, I guess, to bring stability, weapons of mass |
| 1:12.4 | destruction was the story, probably going for Iranian oil. |
| 1:16.4 | I don't know what the real motive was. |
| 1:18.4 | I had my theories on that. |
| 1:20.2 | But I mean, there was no, there was a drumbeat of Howard Baker and these guys working for, was it Howard Baker? |
| 1:29.0 | It was the Secretary of State. |
| 1:31.5 | There was just a long drum beat. |
| 1:33.6 | Trump on a weekend, boom. |
| 1:35.6 | He had his private meetings, no leaks, not going to get the whole world on the same page, |
| 1:40.3 | not going to Europe and getting permission, but bam, that's a different kind of leader, |
| 1:46.6 | folks. I just want to point it out because people don't think about it. Now, Glenn Beck, |
| 1:53.0 | I got two minutes of Glenn here and cut two. I have not heard Glenn's cut, so this will be me |
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