, "Oh," is that Venezuela has, I don't know if I have the right units I'm talking about here, but like 300 billion barrels or something of oil. And then somebody said that that was never true, that the claims that Venezuela had the most reserves of oil were claims that were made by some prior administration so that it looked like they were more powerful than they were. And that the real number of usable oil, because remember it's Venezuelan oil is kind of dirty, so there are only I think three refineries in the world that can even process it, but so that the real number might be closer to 25.

So we've been told it's 300, which would be among or the biggest reserves, but it might be just 25 when you get down to how much you actually refine and how much could you get to. So that's a big question mark, right? If anybody has some visibility on that, I would love to know what is the most credible number for the reserves. If we did this to get access to an enormous part of oil, then it definitely looks like a good idea. If we did it because there's so much oil that was going to China that it would completely change their strategic calculation, it looks like a good idea. But if either of those numbers are not what we think they are, then I don't know what we're getting.

I do love Trump's take that we're just taking back the oil they took from us because first of all, I think that's true. And it's hard to argue against taking back what somebody stole from you, right?

And I also, I'll probably say this a lot of times, but one of the most important things you need to know that I believe Trump knows better than anybody is that countries and organizations and movements, they either grow or they shrink. And the United States was in a shrinking position in the world, was becoming less influential, less rich compared to other people, relatively speaking. And what Trump did is reverse that. So he's found ways to turn the US into a growing entity. If you're not growing, you are definitely shrinking. One of those is an existential threat. And one of those guarantees, not guarantees, but gives you a real good chance for a better future.

So if you feel uncomfortable with whatever the president is doing, the military is doing, the thing you should look at is, is this making the US stronger and growing or is it working in the other direction? If the answer is yes, this makes the US grow and be more important, I would argue that that is probably more important than whatever your moral or constitutional arguments are, which are also important. You know, it's not like I'm blind to ignoring the Constitution if we should ever do that. It's not like I'm in favor of military action if we can avoid it. It's just a simple fa