What's the ultimate goal with the United States involvement in Venezuela's oil industry? Well, the ultimate goal was to stabilize our hemisphere, to reduce that running of drugs and guns and criminality. Venezuela's basically become a big drug, big drug, criminal organization with Hezbollah's Western Hemisphere headquarters there. Russia, Iran, Cuba. So the goal of Venezuela was geo strategic to have it as safe, peaceful, prosperous ally of the United States as it was for decades. (06:17–06:25)
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