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Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. There are war drums beating about the United States and the Trump administration’s interdiction of narco-trafficking, maritime shipments to the United States, which we’re destroying.

Recently, we pulled over on the high seas a large tanker that had illicit oil from Iran that was exporting it to embargoed countries.

And it’s a general picture that the Maduro government, the communist government in Venezuela, its days are numbered. So, the media says, in other words, President Donald Trump is trying to put pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and get rid of him because he canceled the last election through fraud and Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, who had been elected, was unfairly denied the victory.

And then we’ve had, in addition, about 7 or 8 million Venezuelans leaving. And he not only sends drugs to the United States, he organizes the cartels and helps them in other adjoining Latin American countries. And he emptied his jails and prisons and said: Go to the United States, basically, cause much havoc. So, we have grounds to want him out.

Should we invade? That’s another question. Let’s go........

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