hat the people who weaponized it would be people like Biden and Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer and all that.

Just in case you wondered, the Venezuelan narrative, as I'll call it, seems to be solidifying. Do you remember the first day or two of the Venezuelan event, I'll call it? People said, "Oh, it's about drugs." It's not about drugs. "It's about oil." It's not about oil. "It's about China." It's not about China. "It's about Iran." It's not about Iran. And there was a lot of disagreement about what was really happening.

But I would say by now the narrative has solidified and there's almost nobody who believes it was only about drugs. Am I right? Pretty much nobody says, "Oh, it was only about the drugs."

How about the people who say it was only about the oil? Well, nobody says it's only about capturing the oil, but they have a bigger narrative that it's about suppressing China and the Belt and Road Initiative, which would have been very correctly going through Venezuela, and it's also about the Monroe Doctrine, which plays into the whole keeping China out of our hemisphere.

It seems to also be the general statement of agreement that if you deny China all of the energy it wants or needs, it's going to slow them down for any kind of bad activity they do to us. So it would weaken them militarily. If they tried to buy more energy from Russia, Russia would be in a pickle because Russia needs all the energy it can get. So it might be a way to diminish Russia's intentions, maybe get a deal faster than we could have otherwise.

But at this point, doesn't it seem to you like the narrative has collapsed and all the smart people know exactly what's going on? Would you say that's true? Yeah. And the deeper you dig, the more good it looks for the United States.

Now, I will add this, and I think all the smart people are saying the same. If Venezuela now falls apart and we can't put the pieces back together, we would not consider that a win or at least as big a win as it