🇻🇪 🇺🇸 What You Must Know About USA-Venezuela Chaos

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Author: Simon Dixon
Publication Date: 4th January 2026
Source: A 1-hour, 28-minute discussion with Ben from the BTC Sessions YouTube channel.

Hey hey Bitcoin Wealth Builders,

Over the weekend, the US carried out a military operation in Venezuela, and the media immediately split into two predictable camps. On one side, celebrations of liberation from Maduro's rule. On the other, accusations of classic American imperialism.

Both are wrong. 

Both are narratives designed to distract you while the real deal is brokered behind closed doors.

The reality, as always, is far more complex. If you follow the money, the real story emerges: this isn't about exporting democracy or making America great again. It's about a controlled demolition of the old world order. 

This is your guide to understanding the real geopolitical stakes and what this event means for you. This analysis comes from an emergency session I just had with Ben from BTC Sessions, and it’s critical you understand what’s truly at play.

1. It's Not Democracy, It's an Agreed-Upon Corporate Heist

The operation in Venezuela is a classic play from the "Proof of Weapons Network" playbook. This is the network that truly underpins the US dollar, and it has three core components:

• The Military-Industrial Complex, built on the philosophy that "might is right."
• The Financial-Industrial Complex, which exists to "privatize the gains and socialize the losses."
• The rising Technical-Industrial Complex, where the "algorithm can potentially become more important than capital flows."

The procedure is always the same: financially weaken a country with resources you want, impose extreme sanctions to create distress, use the media to justify intervention, and finally, install a leader who will serve US corporate interests. This isn't a Trump decision; it's a JP Morgan decision, a Larry Fink decision. It's a Chevron, Exxon, and BlackRock decision.

Sound familiar? It should. It's the same playbook they've run for decades.

But here is the most counter-intuitive and critical point: in my opinion this is not a unilateral US action. This is pre-negotiated theater. As part of America’s managed decline into a regional power, this move has been tacitly agreed to by all the major world players.

From my perspective, Russia would have agreed, China would have agreed, the US would have agreed, and Maduro would have agreed. We're getting a theater right now. He'll be incredibly wealthy, he'll probably have a fake trial, but there'll be a settlement. He's already negotiated a strategy.

But why would Russia and China tacitly agree to a U.S. corporate heist in the territory that have infested into? Because it solves a massive domestic inflation problem for the Trump administration—a problem they can exploit.

2. This "War" Is an Anti-Inflation Strategy for the U.S.

Behind the geopolitical theater lies a stark domestic economic motivation. The Trump administration is running the US economy hot—rolling over debt and pumping the stock market at all costs. This creates massive inflation, crushing ordinary people with a severe cost-of-living crisis.

The administration has painted itself into a corner. To tame the inflation it created, it has three politically painful options:

1. Tax more: Sucking money out of the system is disinflationary but deeply unpopular.
2. Deploy disinflationary tech: AI and robotics boost productivity but kill jobs, risking social unrest.
3. Crash the cost of energy: Orchestrate a resource grab to lower prices across the entire economy.

They chose option three. The seizure of Venezuelan oil—an estimated $17 to $18 trillion in resources—is their escape hatch. By flooding the market with cheap oil, they provide temporary relief to citizens, while the immense profits are privatized and funneled directly to the corporate interests propping up the US stock market. In my opinion, this resource grab is America's compensation for agreeing to shrink into a regional power.

3. The World Isn't Heading for WW3; It's Being Carved Up

Contrary to the fear-mongering, we are not heading for World War III. Don't mistake this for chaos. What we are witnessing is a highly coordinated restructuring of global power—a managed decline of the American empire from a global hegemon into a regional one.

The terms of this new multipolar world order, brokered behind the scenes, are becoming clear:

• America: Its corporate interests get control of Venezuelan assets and the Western Hemisphere.
• Russia: In exchange for its approval, it gets uncontested control over Ukraine with Blackrock.
• China: It gets Taiwan and its critical semiconductor industry.
• Europe: Europe is the primary loser, sacrificed to prop up the US stock market by being forced to buy American weapons, turning it into a vassalized funding source for the US corporate empire.

The public is only being shown the theater. The real event is a negotiated redistribution of global power.

4. Venezuela's Rumored $60 Billion Bitcoin Stash Will Be Stolen?

Now for the wildcard: a rumor, first reported by Zero Hedge, that Venezuela may be sitting on a secret Bitcoin stash. The story is that businessman Alex Saab has been covertly converting the country’s oil and gold assets into a massive Bitcoin reserve since 2018—a stash potentially large enough to rival MicroStrategy’s.

Let me be clear on my prediction: if this Bitcoin exists, it will not end up in a sovereign wealth fund for either the American or the Venezuelan people.

History shows us what happens. The stolen Bitfinex coins were never returned to shareholders. The gold from Iraq never made it to the US balance sheet. These assets will be siphoned off-balance-sheet to fund the CIA's black operations—drug running, weapons trafficking, and all the other dark enterprises that never go away.

That's all going to be chopped up and carved up for US corporate interests. That will go straight into the CIA coffers to fund and support the dark web drug operations.

Conclusion: Your Sovereign Strategy is the Only Way Out

The events playing out on the world stage are a performance, designed to mask a fundamental restructuring of global power and a massive transfer of wealth. The elites and the financial-industrial complex need an escape valve from the debt-based ponzi scheme they created. That escape valve is Bitcoin.

Here is the core takeaway: The system couldn't beat Bitcoin, so now it's trying to co-opt it through ETFs, custody solutions, and leverage. They want your Bitcoin on their balance sheets, under their control.

The only rational response is to pursue a sovereign individual strategy. Your job is to self-custody your bitcoin, run your own node, and opt out of the centralized, surveilled system they are building.

In a world of managed chaos and corporate control, are you building your own lifeboat?

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Disclaimer

This blog post is provided for informational and educational purposes only and reflects the insights and analyses shared during a special discussion on the US-Venezuela chaos and the evolving geopolitical stakes. The views expressed regarding the "proof of weapons network," the "financial industrial complex," and the transition toward a multipolar world order are based on the guests' interpretations of current events and historical patterns.

Please be advised that discussions concerning regime change, the rumoured existence of a secret Bitcoin stash rivaling major corporations, and the underlying motivations of global power structures are highly speculative in nature. While the content seeks to unpack the "shadowy figures" and "theater" of international relations, it does not constitute official reporting or absolute factual certainty.

Furthermore, the information presented here does not constitute financial, investment, or legal advice. The discussion of Bitcoin as a "gateway drug" for digital standards and the critique of the "debt-based ponzi scheme" are intended to foster critical thinking rather than serve as a basis for financial decisions. Readers are reminded that the sovereign individual thesis relies on personal responsibility. Strategies such as self-custody, running personal nodes, and avoiding centralised entities or leverage are presented as methods to mitigate the risks of market manipulation and asset stripping, but they carry their own technical risks.

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