Global powers pay little attention to Venezuela, but Iran is importing oil there. Not only has Venezuela’s communist government run their own production abilities into the ground, but Iran is over-stepping the law. Brad Johnson points out this failure is “typical” in communist countries who tend to appoint less-than-ideal cronies to run important functions. Venezuela seems to have no choice to import. Is our Navy making it known we are none to pleased to over Iran’s actions? But Maduro noticed our ships…
With 25 years in the CIA as a senior operative and chief of station, Brad brings his angle to his updates and analysis on important global and domestic issues. This in-depth reporting is seen little in mainstream media. After retiring, he formed Americans for Intelligence Reform to combat political agendas dictating our intelligence agencies as it has so much of our media.
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brad johnson it is october 7th of 2020
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and something that we haven’t talked
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about for a long time
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is venezuela and it’s something that
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probably needs to be watched
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because you don’t want uh toxins like
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that to be leaking out all over the
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place
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what’s the latest on venezuela well kind
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of some interesting
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uh kind of developments in that in just
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the last few days
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now venezuela is still hardcore
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socialist
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uh the uh there’s been no changes
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politically there
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uh they’re still very active running say
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uh
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a guerrilla war against colombia and so
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they’re allowing farc
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to name one one of the guerrilla
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insurgencies to
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uh have safe haven in venezuelan
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territory where they then go
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cross-border and back into colombia to
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do attacks and kill people and
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rampage and those sorts of things so
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they’re definitely on the bad guy list
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that
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and they don’t get really any any
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intention very little has been
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done there was the attempt uh to take
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maduro out
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and and put in wang do uh
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at some point gweido being the
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democratic uh
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candidate he was recognized as the
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legitimate uh ruler in
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in um in venezuela but but maduro has
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absolute control
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and uh hasn’t been willing to step down
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backed by russia backed by cuba
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a lot of troops in there supporting him
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to make sure that he can’t be just
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overrun from inside venezuela by
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venezuelan
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troops who turn against him or whatever
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so he’s got these foreigners there
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making sure he stays in power
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now one thing that has happened that was
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a political effort to put one window in
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it failed uh maduro was apparently
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on his way out but russia sat down and
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talked with him and said
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you know slapped him and said sit back
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in your chair coward
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you’re staying and so he did and they
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were able to put this down and he’s
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remained in power
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the change that has taken place that
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we’ve seen recently is that the us navy
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just conducted a pretty good exercise
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off the coast of venezuela and of course
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venezuela being you know
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communist country now they always you
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know claim that they have international
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waters
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you know 28 miles out or 30 miles out or
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50 miles out or whatever they’re always
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pulling games like that
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what’s recognized i believe the
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international limit is set at three
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miles
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that may have changed but that’s what it
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used to be i believe but whatever it is
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that’s what the u.s navy recognizes so
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they’ll
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they’ll have these exercises a few miles
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off coast
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and what is internationally recognized
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to be international waters
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the venezuelans of course claim it’s
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their water so they take great umbrage
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at this but this is
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definitely tweaking the nose of the
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communist regime
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and venezuela so it is the first time
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we’ve actually done something
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to kind of directly stand up to him and
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make no mistake u.s navy
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if they decide to take out venezuela
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it’s just gonna be a smoking rubble when
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they’re finished
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uh also what’s going on in that same
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context and i don’t know
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if this is kind of what provoked it or
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not but
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oddly uh venezuela which
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ironically you know venezuela’s been a
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huge producer of
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gas and a big exporter of gas and and
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the united states used to
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import large amounts of gas from them
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and they have a uh what is that gas
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station called they anyway they have gas
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stations in the united states even still
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that is
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from venezuelan uh gas but that has
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dropped off so bad
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because of they they they replaced all
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of the actual
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oil drilling experts with political
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hacks
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and so everybody who actually knows how
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to do the job was fired every
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difficult communist and so their
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industry has just gone down the toilet
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they don’t produce enough oil now for
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their own country’s domestic use so
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not not to mention not uh not exporting
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anymore
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and so unless i mean they may produce
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some and export it to make their
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currency and then just not have any for
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their for their people to drive with
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that’s a typical communist
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solution to this problem because they
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want the money so i wouldn’t be
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surprised if that’s happening but they
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certainly don’t have enough for
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domestic consumption and export now what
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has happened on top of that
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is iran always the troublemaker and you
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know in solidarity with the communists
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and they’ve had a very long
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uh relationship with venezuela now
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and what they’ve done is they’re
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delivering fuel
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to venezuela from iran and they’re doing
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that
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uh in in spite of u.s sanctions because
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they don’t
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care about the u.s sanctions so they
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haven’t been stopped or fired upon or
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any of that sort of stuff
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whether it will cycle up to that level
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yeah i don’t know i kind of doubt it
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venezuela is
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such a low priority target for the
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united states of america
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um i don’t think much beyond what we’ve
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seen right now will happen
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however i view this as a major positive
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because like i said other than sort of a
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political movement
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to to have maduro abdicate and
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wong guido sworn in other than that
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uh pretty much nothing has happened
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nobody seems to be working on it it’s
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not a priority for
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any part of the united states for the
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have the navy step in and do this
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and then start to uh actually
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uh you know note that that iran and
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countries like that are acting against
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u.s sanctions
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is a is a big step forward so if
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anything’s going to happen this is the
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first step in seeing it go forward
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that is interesting so yes they have had
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several shipments of oil from iran
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which is supposed to be illegal yes
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and that’s certainly it’s certainly
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interesting you know justin trudeau’s
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father pierre trudeau did the exact same
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thing
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in canada with petro canada and at that
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time we had the world’s only
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money losing oil company so
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yes it is a classic call me move thank
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you very much brad
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