Joseph Humire: The Trump administration was the first to take the Venezuelan situation seriously

With Joseph Humire, Gordon Chang, Dr. David Wurmser and Robert Charles

JOSEPH HUMIRE, Executive Director, Center for a Secure Free Society, former Director of Institute Relations, Atlas Economic Research Foundation, US Marine Corps (retired), Twitter: @jmhumire

• Lessons learned about Venezuela during the Trump years: Shifting Venezuelan military and oil companies away from Maduro will not solve the problem
• The Venezuelan military is reliant on support from Russia, Iran and Cuba

GORDON CHANG, Contributor, Daily Beast, Author, “The Coming Collapse of China,” “Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes the World” and “Losing South Korea,” Twitter: @Gordongchang

• The Genocide Convention of 1948 requires all signatories to act on their designations – What does this mean for China’s genocide against the Uyghur Muslims?
• Gordon Chang: Chairman Xi Jinping must have been “ecstatic” after hearing President Joe Biden’s recent comments
• China has sent about 20 different air-force assets into Taiwan’s air identification zone since President Biden’s inauguration

Dr. DAVID WURMSER, Director, Center for Security Policy’s Program on Global Anti-Semitism, former Middle East Advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney, retired, US Navy Reserves (Ret.) Lieutenant Commander:

• David Wurmser reminds us about how the European Union countries have suspended a good portion of their democratic processes
• The “wedding” of wealth and communist bureaucracy is a sign that the “Davos Crowd” is succeeding in their mission to circumvent individualism
• The recent Gamp Stop saga is another prime example of what happens when outsiders interfere with the business of the elites

ROBERT CHARLES, Former Assistant Secretary, State at the State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs in the Bush Administration, Author, “Eagles and Evergreens,” Twitter: @RCharles4USA

• Why does the Biden administration seem to only be focused on hunting down the perpetrators of the Jan. 6th Capitol riot and not Antifa?
• Swiftly passing a large number of executive orders in a small timeframe breaks with precedent, which can have negative effects on peoples’ livelihoods
• Robert Charles reaffirms that executive orders are proclamations, not laws