Why Socialism Never Works - A Warning From Venezuela - Daniel Di Martino

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

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🗓️ 24 December 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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0:00.0	Up until the 90s, Venezuela was richer than Spain.
0:05.0	People don't understand that Venezuela is the largest refugee crisis in the planet.
0:09.0	It's nearly 9 million of us who have left our country, nearly a third of the population.
0:14.0	How come Iran doesn't have hyperinflation of millions of refugees fleeing?
0:18.0	Iran is not a socialist country.
0:20.0	In Iran, you can't feed your family and live.
0:22.9	In Venezuela, you cannot. Chavez was an international criminal drug dealer, the guy who started at all.
0:28.4	What they didn't destroy because it's not government owned is the drug trafficking. It is tied to terrorism.
0:34.0	I was talking to one of my cousins and he was saying that there's Hezbollah training camps.
0:38.3	Do you think that there's going to be some kind of military action in Venezuela involving the US?
0:44.3	I hope so.
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