The Duran Podcast - Venezuela military operation fast approaching

Episode Date: October 4, 2025

Venezuela military operation fast approaching

All right, Alexander, let's talk about the big meeting that took place with 800 plus generals and top-level U.S. military personnel, with Pete Hegseth and U.S. President Trump speaking to all these people in attendance. And the conflict with Venezuela that appears to be coming, I believe everyone understands that some sort of, of a conflict or an operation is going to be launched against Venezuela. Some people believe that this meeting with the generals has some sort of a connection to this operation against Venezuela that is going to be launched. The public picture that was presented of this meeting was one of Hegg Seth and Trump talking about the end of wokeness in the US military, the warrior ethos, and stuff like that.

But definitely the timing of this meeting along with many of the rumors about something happening in Venezuela. It's they coincide the two events. So what are your thoughts on this? Well, the public explanation for this enormous meeting, that you bring 800 top military officers from around the world to come and listen to these speeches by Hexeth and Trump to hear statements made. which could perfectly easily be communicated in far simpler language to all of these generals by email, and which disclosed nothing that could remotely be described as classified. If that is indeed why this meeting was held, then it was absurd. I mean, it was a ridiculous thing to do.

And I ought to quickly say, I thought Trump's speech at this meeting was the worst I have overheard him make. I mean, it was completely lacking in humor. It was entirely bombastic. And it was full of idiotic bragging. Our submarines are better than their submarines. Why haven't I been given the Nobel Peace Prize? I mean, when I've ended eight wars. I mean, it was awful.

What was the point of that speech? What was the point of it? What was the point? What was the point of it? Well, exactly. exactly with the American flag behind him, you know, all made to make it look like, you know, that scene from the film pattern. I thought the whole thing was just dreadful.

And you could see that the military people who had been called in were absolutely furious. They mean, they listened to Trump with stony faces in complete silence. I mean, none of the applause that Trump usually gets. I mean, as I said, if it was all about that with a warrior ethos, people being fit and ready to battle and all of that kind of thing, then all I could say is, I mean, it was the most pointless, the most foolish meeting that has ever taken place. Now, I have to say, I do think that it is possible that what has been suggested by people like Eve Smith and. others, that this was actually cover for a more private meeting, which was a meeting to discuss attacks on various countries. I think that might be true.

I mean, it would at least give some reason for this meeting better than the one that we've had. I absolutely believe an attack on Venezuela is coming every single day. We see more of a buildup take place. I saw an article in National Review, William Buckley's old piece, Neocon Central Publication. It says that regime change in Venezuela is the logical and necessary thing to do. I mean, so you can see that the neocons are already salivating. and they're demanding their regime change operation in Venezuela.

I'm a little surprised that the attack hasn't come sooner, but I have no doubt that it is being prepared at some point over the next couple of days or weeks, an attack on Venezuela is bound to take place. But my own guess is that if there was a secret council of war, which quite plausibly there was, yes, they will have been. discussed Venezuela, but an even more important attack will be against Iran. There's lots of reports of American fighter jets being deployed to the Middle East, of U.S. supply planes flying to the Middle East. And we've had all of the talk about deploying long-range missiles to Ukraine,

to attack targets in Russia. They might have been wanting to talk about those things too. The optics of this meeting, I have to say this were dreadful, and they reinforce a sense of an administration that is making it up as it goes along. No, I mean, it makes sense that this would be used as some sort of a cover, a bad cover at that. But it's the way that the Trump White House operates, at least when it comes to foreign policy. Deception. Yeah. This is what they do. They like to create these types of deceptions, whether it's with negotiators,

scheduling meetings to negotiate a sort of peace and then bombing the other side or whatever. The Trump White House has been doing over the past six, seven months. This is how they operate. They present one picture of something going on and behind the scenes. They're actually up to some treachery. That's just the reality of it. Well, it is. It is so completely pointless because if the United States wants to conduct,

secret councils of war, what prevents them? Why call 800 generals in and put them through the ordeal of having to listen to these tedious speeches? If you want to conduct a secret counsel of war, I mean, it's not, it's not. Because Trump wants to boast about it. He wants to. Well, I know, exactly. That's ultimately the whole thing. I mean, he wants to go. He outsmarted everyone. He outsmarted anyone. He also wants to project the image of pattern, you know, with the U.S. flagvind. and talk about his enormously effective submarines and all of the rest. And by the way, he knows nothing about submarines. I mean, I'm not an expert on submarines, but as it happens, I do know somebody who is.

And, you know, he's correctly about all of that. I'm not going to go into all of this. But, I mean, you know, this tiresome bragging that Trump does, even as he prepares to launch the United States, into a whole set of new military adventures. completely going against what he promised his base that he would do. It's all marketing. That's why he goes on and on about the Nobel Peace Price things. I mean, he wants the Nobel Peace Prize.

He absolutely wants it. And I mean, why not? They gave it to Obama. So I mean, you know, give it to Trump as well. What does the Nobel Peace Prize have to do with peace anyway? But I mean, you know, he presents this picture about ending all of these wars. I've ended seven wars and eight wars and ten wars and Albania and Camas. Bodia and Abra-Bajian, whatever, he's ended all of these wars.

He doesn't even know which wars that he's ended. He has no idea. And at the very same time, as he's talking about this, he's waging all of these wars, right? Iran, Venezuela, Ukraine. These are American wars. The United States is involved in these wars. I wonder how many people in the United States, like a percentage of the population, that realizes that Trump is in three or is about to be in three freaking wars.

Venezuela, Iran, Middle East, and not even Iran, the entire Middle East, Gaza, the Middle East, he's in that war, bogged down there, and he's in a direct war with Russia. I wonder how many people in the United States, actually, a percentage of the people in the United States realize what the Trump administration is doing. No, I mean, they don't. I'm sure they don't. I mean, the neocons do and the hard line is in the United States do, and people within the Trump administration do.

But overall, I think very few people do understand it and won't understand it until it happens. But anyway, that is what is playing out. What, again, however, this event highlighted is the complete absence of a strategy behind this. I mean, these are all tactical moves. they don't come together into anything coherent. Now, you know, one thing that might have happened at this meeting, one thing I did wonder that it might have happened, would have been Hegson-Trump discussing the new national security strategy that Elbridge Colby and others have been drafting, the one that has talked about

retreating and defending the homeland and the Western Hemisphere. I mean, that would have been doing the exact opposite. reason. Exactly. Exactly. So, I mean, you know, without even really explaining what they're doing. And I don't think they're not explaining what they're doing because they have no way to explain what they're doing. I mean, I'm increasingly starting to wonder whether the United States even has a government in any real sense anymore.

Because it looks to me as if we have one decision made after another or by or reality. active, all on impulse. If there is some kind of a plan, I can't see what it is. Well, the United States doesn't have a strong executive, and it hasn't had a strong executive for a while now. I mean, Biden was definitely not a strong executive. And it is becoming very obvious that Trump is also not a strong executive. I mean, that's becoming a abundantly clear now. It is a neocon. You could argue that, I mean, you said about, You could argue that it's a neocoon policy, right? Well, this is the thing.

What always happens in the United States, what has happened in every election that I can remember since the, well, since 1990, since the 1990 election, which brought Bill Clinton to the presidency, is did you have the candidate who comes out? He says, look, I'm not going to give so much time to foreign policy. I'm going to focus instead on domestic policy. Remember, it's the economy stupid. Wasn't that what Bill Clinton said? You had the same with George W. Bush.

You have the same with Obama. You've had the same with Trump. You've even had the same with Biden. I mean, Biden at one time was saying the same thing. They always win on this platform. And then inevitably and invariably, what happens is that they are drawn back into the neocon way of doing things. You don't know whether they were sincere when they said some of the things that they did.

It ultimately doesn't matter whether they were or not, because ultimately you always drift back and you end up doing exactly the same as all of the other presidents do. You neglect the United States itself. I don't really see, as I said, much in the way of government being done there. And you shape everything around your foreign policy, which is in the economy. Yeah, so Venezuela is going to be regime changed. They're going to try to regime change Venezuela. They're going to try to take out Maduro.

There are reports saying that the United States already has forces within Venezuela that are working to to move that forward. The former opposition party leader, I forgot his name. I want to say Gonzalez, but maybe I'm wrong about that. But he's in exile in Spain. Yes. Yeah, I forgot his last. Maybe I'll look it up when you're speaking.

But when you're commenting. But the reports are that he's been briefed. So he's already been briefed and he knows what to do to return back to Venezuela and to declare himself the legitimate president. So it's not going to be Guaido, he'll be this guy. And so it looks like they've prepared everything. But as with all MioConn plans, they always end in disaster. And it never goes as they as they planned it to go.

So how do you see this thing unfolding? Yes. Bear in mind, I am not an expert on Venezuela or its internal realities. and I'm most certainly not an expert on the state of the Venezuelan military. I would be very surprised, however, if there was an organized attack on Venezuela, if the Venezuelan military would be able to hold. And to repeat again of what we made in an earlier program, Venezuela's friends, its allies, are far away, very far away.

China and Russia do not have the means to project power. into Venezuela to defend Venezuela. So Venezuela would be alone up against the might of the United States, which is enormous and very considerable. So if you take that as the underlying reality, it's very difficult for me to see how the United States can fail in a regime change operation in Venezuela, in Caracas. I mean, that's, I mean, maybe I'm wrong here. here, and people want to prove to me otherwise. But everything that I've heard about the state of Venezuela's military, the fact that it hasn't received modern weapons for a while, not since Hugo Chavez's time, its size, I doubt that it will be able to hold together and defend for

very long. Then he will get this man come in. He will have been installed by the United States that will already call into question his legitimacy, the rest of South America is going to be horrified because they have a long, long history of American adventures and regime change operations in South America. It's going to harden attitudes against the United States across South America as well, and it will probably, in the end, create a whole set of new problems, some of which we cannot foresee, which will ultimately cause more trouble for the United States. So I don't myself think this is going to be the success that people think it is, but it may take a few years before that becomes clear. Edmundo Gonzalez, Alexander, in exile in Spain. Edmundo Gonzalez, yeah.

He's already been briefed on everything, the reports claim. He is the new, he is the new great hope. Yeah. As so many others have been. I mean, if we're talking about who the United States backs in South America, I mean, look, they've already invested tens and tens of billions of dollars in millions of dollars in Millay, and already that's going up in smoke. So why assume that another American installed government in a country like Venezuela is necessarily

going to be more success? I wonder how Colombia is going to react. They're on very bad terms with Colombia now, too. Absolutely. The United States. They're once most loyal ally. Yeah. Who they revoked the visa of the president.

Yes. But anyway, I mean, you know, that's what you do. As I said, you don't stop, you don't get off the regime change caravan, which to repeat again, I think Trump was in a politically strong position to do at the start of his presidency and said he would do. You don't get off that regime change caravan. On the contrary, you take the driver's seat. Yeah.

He was in the strongest position to get off of the regime change caravan and to do away with the neocons and the globalists, but he's failing in a big way. Anyway, all right, we will end this video. The durand.locals.com. We're on Rumble and X Telegram and go to Duran Shop, pick up some merch, like what we are wearing in this video update. There's a link in the description box down below. Take care.