00:00Marcus, let's get your take on this.
00:03America might want heavy crude, but it doesn't necessarily need Venezuelan oil.
00:09But it wants to have a say on who gets the oil from Venezuela, at what price, and under what terms.
00:18So where does oil factor in these U.S. operations against Venezuela?
00:23How important is it for U.S. to have the say here?
00:30I think that I could recall a Chinese saying that says, you know, you shoot a chicken to scare the monkeys.
00:40And the idea that the United States apparently has after the issuance of the security document is that they want to affirm that within the American hemisphere, the United States is prevailing.
00:55And it's hegemonic.
00:57And this action is not an action by a hegemon.
01:01It's an action by an imperial country, right, that wants to identify and to be recognized as an imperial country.
01:10So oil is just a factor in that sense.
01:15And oil is just playing a role like the United States is doing this because they can, because, as A&R said, nobody is going to reverse that.
01:23We may complain about it, but it's very hard for you to go against, you know, the power and strength of the United States in that sense.
01:32So I think that when you look into the actions that have been taking place, basically the message is clear.
01:38You know, we might use that economically.
01:41We might and it may play a role, you know, in our artificial intelligence, have access to oil and all this.
01:48But it's actually an act of imperialism and basically trying to say to any other countries, particularly China, that if they want to play a role in the region, they have to be careful because the United States is willing to use its force.
02:02And it's basically, you know, the carrot and stick approach, but the issue here is that the United States is just showing the stick and nothing else.
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