If you bought the “anti-drug bust” storyline, I get it. Narco-terror. Cartels. Bad guys. Clean headline.
But when Washington moves with speed and scale, the press release is usually just the wrapping paper. The real motive hides in the boring stuff: oil leverage, sanctions, settlement rails, and the U.S. dollar’s role as the global trading chip.
In this video I lay out why Venezuela looks less like a moral crusade and more like a strategic play. We talk oil reserves, the petrodollar system, why sanctions create workarounds, and why crypto settlement (including USDT-style payment routes) makes the empire nervous. Then we zoom out to China, the digital yuan, and why de-dollarization is the fight underneath the fight.
Blog post referenced: https://disruptarian.com/blog/us-strike-in-venezuela-9-brutal-reasons-it-was-about-oil-and-dollars/
This is commentary, not investment advice. If you disagree, bring receipts.
The “drug war” story is the headline. The real fight is oil, sanctions leverage, petrodollar power, and the rise of stablecoins as a workaround in Venezuela.
When your identity is your ideology, you stop hearing disagreement and start hearing attacks. This is how bubbles form, facts die, and people defend nonsense like scripture.- G. Carlin
Why does the United States post a much higher suicide rate than the Philippines, a country that’s poorer, more socially conservative, and heavily Catholic?
In this video, I break down the USA vs Philippines suicide rate gap, what the numbers actually measure (suicide deaths vs suicide attempts), and why easy political answers keep failing. I also get into suicide among transgender people the way the data really shows it, mostly through surveys of suicidal ideation and suicide attempts, because most countries do not track transgender identity cleanly in death records.
I’ve lived in the Philippines daily for 14 months, and across Cebu Province I have not personally seen a single pride flag, rainbow flag, or transgender flag flying anywhere, including Cebu City. If transgender people exist across humanity naturally, then they exist here too. So why does “affirmation culture” not translate into a lower national suicide death rate in the U.S.?
We also compare religious affiliation and religious attendance in both countries, because the Philippines is more religious on paper and in practice, yet the U.S. still comes out worse on the suicide scoreboard.
If you’re struggling right now, please reach out. In the U.S., call or text 988. If you’re in the Philippines, contact local emergency services, a trusted local hotline, or the nearest hospital.
