https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/6d4c1d89-c7da-4e81-8f88-b4759fee65e2 They're Lying About Venezuela. What Happens Next? – Second Thought SUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTS New video every other Friday! Have a topic idea? Send it to us here: https://forms.gle/gihjqi21cZe7ncWr5 Follow and Support Second Thought! Twitter: https://twitter.com/_SecondThought Patreon: https://patreon.com/secondthought BuyMeACoffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/secondthought CashApp: $JTChapman Citations and Further Reading: War with Venezuela https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/52s-fly-off-coast-venezuela-show-force-trump/story?id=126589822 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/us/politics/trump-covert-cia-action-venezuela.html War polls https://today.yougov.com/international/articles/53298-the-us-navy-deployment-near-venezuela-has-become-even-less-popular The Venezuelan “Cartel” https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/24/politics/venezuela-terrorist-designation-maduro#:~:text=his%20government%20has%20repeatedly%20denied%20the%20existence%20of%20the%20alleged%20cartel%2C%20which%20some%20experts%20suggest%20technically%20doesn%E2%80%99t%20exist%20in%20a%20conventional%20sense María Corina Machado https://youtu.be/QukbgnkuPVY?t=1184 https://rumble.com/v6pnsc0-breaking-news-my-father-revokes-biden-maduro-oil-license-live-with-maria-co.html Chevron https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/us/politics/trump-weighs-attacks-venezuela.html#:~:text=Chevron%20would%20be%20best%20positioned%20for%20what%20the%20Trump%20administration%20believes%20would%20be%20a%20boom%20in%20investment%20in%20the%20country%E2%80%99s%20huge%20oil%20reserves US foreign interventions https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/09/13/us-251-military-interventions-1991 The end of unipolarity https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/stagnant-order-michael-beckley https://www.ft.com/content/3ae78a93-231b-4006-8739-5738cc367cac https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/opinion/trump-brazil-india-tariffs.html https://www.thenation.com/article/world/trump-american-century-diplomacy https://www.thenation.com/article/world/usaid-donald-trump-elon-musk https://fpif.org/sanctions-as-civilizational-warfare Global military spending https://www.sipri.org/sites/default/files/2025-04/2504_fs_milex_2024.pdf GDP https://www.imf.org/en/publications/weo/weo-database/2024/october/weo-report?c=924,111&s=PPPGDP&sy=2024&ey=2026&ssm=0&scsm=1&ssd=1&scc=1&ssc=1&sic=0&sort=country&ds=.&br=0 US UN diplomacy https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-fails-make-big-dent-un-vote-calling-end-cuba-embargo-2025-10-29 US reputation https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-countries-with-the-best-reputations-in-2025/ LatAm trading partners https://www.thenation.com/article/world/trump-american-century-diplomacy/ Hakim USAID vid https://youtu.be/APLJle95iZI USAID funding cuts deaths https://www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?view=table&sort=title&order=asc https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/07/01/nx-s1-5452513/trump-usaid-foreign-aid-deaths US LatAm strategy https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-National-Security-Strategy.pdf#page=19.29 Sacrifices made for multipolarity https://iveybusinessjournal.com/trumping-hegemonic-stability-theory/#:~:text=Risking%20Recession%20at,hit.%20Can%20you%3F About Second Thought: Second Thought is a channel devoted to education and analysis of current events from a socialist perspective. Welcome! Business Email: secondthoughtchannel@gmail.com For individuals or small businesses looking for one-on-one production training, I offer hourly consulting services as well. Send inquiries to jtchapmanchannel@gmail.com Fri, 17 Apr 2026 02:25:05 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tankie.tube https://tankie.tube/lazy-static/avatars/3ba3ff73-a8b6-49c9-add8-9653ef090c7f.webp https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/6d4c1d89-c7da-4e81-8f88-b4759fee65e2 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.