Good video on how Venezuula got so bad


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Posted by russsmith on January 05, 2026 at 08:52:57

Long video frankly the guy talks too fast so it's hard to follow but goes into great detail about how the once oil rich nation fell into ruin under Chavez and then Maduro.

Few points, Trump complained about all the immigrants flooding into the country, many of them were Venezuelan, guess who caused that? in 2017 he took over and ignored Obamas warnings about using only targeted sanctions against Maduros government not the country, and he dramatically increased sanctions to pressure Maduro. The result of course was a very bad economy further collapsed, BIGLY and millions of people fled the country to avoid hunger and poverty.

in 2023 Biden got Maduro to agree to a democratic election in exchange for easing the sanctions, but after he lost the election Maduro declared himself the winner so Biden put the sanctions back on. So when Trump talks about Biden caused this by buying oil from them, actually Trump made it MUCH worse with his sanctions, Biden was trying to be a humanitarian.



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