Sea Señor: Political Tsunamis off Venezuela as Trump Targets Oil Routes, Fentanyl Pipelines, and Cartels
The next geopolitical earthquake isn’t in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, or the Pacific. It’s in Venezuela — and it’s unfolding faster than the U.S. media cycle can track.
Geoff Gilson, former speechwriter for British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and geopolitical expert is available for interviews. Also available is Joshua Philipp, senior investigative reporter for the Epoch Times (available after October 30).
On the surface, headlines focus on U.S. drug-interdiction operations and an aircraft carrier task group stationed near Venezuela’s coastline. But the fentanyl-interdiction narrative is only a sliver of what’s really happening. Venezuela has suddenly become the crossroads of global power, where the interests of China, Russia, Iran, and the United States collide — with oil, sanctions, and regional influence in the balance.
Venezuela the Center of Gravity
“Who would have thought,” Gilson rhetorically intones, “that Venezuela would be such a pressure point. It’s like having a pain in the neck that is relieved by pressing under one’s foot, tapping on their elbow, and pulling their thumb back a bit. The neck is suddenly pain free.”
That may be an oversimplification and going too far, as Venezuela remains a pressure point but it is definitely an acute hotspot at the moment.
- China relies on Venezuelan crude as a backdoor supply route — cheap, plentiful, and strategically essential.
- Iran, facing crippling sanctions, uses Venezuela as a shell platform to move oil and money around the world.
- Russia, already stretched across multiple war fronts, simply cannot afford a sustained proxy conflict in the Western Hemisphere — yet it is deeply entangled in Caracas.
- And now, the United States is projecting force into the region in a way we haven’t seen in decades.
Meanwhile, Venezuelan opposition figure María Corina Machado — once celebrated by the international Left after edging out Donald Trump for Nobel Peace Prize consideration — is now openly praising Trump’s posture in the region. The same activists who cheered her are now furious. The ideological ground has shifted so abruptly that the Left can’t decide who their hero is anymore.
This is no longer a regional crisis. This is the new fault line of global influence.
This is the story world media will soon be forced to cover.
Relevant Article(s)
Venezuela claims it captured mercenaries with ties to CIA plotting a ‘false flag’ attack
Trump, Xi to discuss tariff cuts tied to China’s fentanyl crackdown, WSJ reports
How Venezuela’s Nobel Prize Winner built a high-stakes alliance with Trump | Reuters
US Strikes Four Suspected Drug Boats in Eastern Pacific
OPTIONAL Q&A:
- What makes Venezuela the new center of geopolitical gravity rather than Ukraine or the Middle East?
- How do China’s oil arrangements with Venezuela shift the balance of power in the Western Hemisphere?
- What role is Iran playing inside Venezuela, and how does it use the country to circumvent sanctions?
- How strategically vulnerable is Russia if conflict or instability expands in Central and South America?
- Is the U.S. naval presence near Venezuela truly about fentanyl interdiction, or is that a cover narrative?
- Why has María Corina Machado gone from being celebrated by the Left to praising Donald Trump’s posture in the region?
- How likely is it that Venezuela becomes the next major flashpoint between global superpowers?
- If Venezuela is now the chessboard, who is actually playing — and who is running out of moves?
ABOUT GEOFF GILSON…
Geoff Gilson is a retired lawyer, development consultant, and political strategist and speechwriter. He began his career crafting speeches for Margaret Thatcher and leveraged his dual British-US citizenship to navigate elite political circles. With decades of front-row access to senior UK and US officials, Gilson served as a key operative for the British Conservative Party, gaining unparalleled insight into global power structures.
His book, Maggie’s Hammer, is a meticulously researched and gripping exposé that unravels a complex web of money laundering, arms deals, and political collusion, that leads all the way to connections between Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, Margaret Thatcher, and Vladimir Putin.
Gilson’s 30-year investigation traces covert operations from the Iran-Iraq War to Russian financial schemes, revealing covert ties to Robert Maxwell, Israeli Intelligence, and the Russian Mob. His particular knowledge of the links between Epstein, Trump, Russian Collusion, and Tulsi Gabbard’s Report, combined with his firsthand knowledge of UK-US relations, Iran, and Israel, make him an exceptional podcast guest.
ABOUT JOSHUA PHILIPP…
Joshua Philipp is an award-winning journalist and Senior Investigative Reporter at The Epoch Times. He is the host of ‘Crossroads,’ a news and analysis program on EpochTV. His works have included breakthrough investigations into the origins of Covid-19 and the Wuhan laboratory in the early days of the pandemic. He spearheaded the first documentary on the lab leak origins of the COVID-19 virus, released in April 2020. This groundbreaking documentary garnered over 75 million views, and while many tried to label it misinformation, its findings have since been vindicated by the White House and US intelligence agencies.
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