Valuetainment - ＂Trump Is SUFFOCATING Putin＂ - Trump ROCKS Russia With HISTORIC Venezuelan Oil Tanker TAKEOVER

00:00:00.000 Have you guys been following the whole Russian tanker that's been followed by U.S. the last week?

00:00:04.480 U.S. sees Venezuela linked Russian-flagged oil tanker after weeks' long pursuit.

00:00:11.480 Rob, go a little bit lower to look at this because the timing, let's just look how beautiful the ship is first.

00:00:15.700 Take a look at that ship.

00:00:16.540 Okay, brand spanking new, go a little bit lower. 0.96

00:00:18.480 Great condition.

00:00:19.260 Great condition.

00:00:20.140 Just had it detailed.

00:00:21.420 How much oil was it leaking along the way?

00:00:24.080 U.S.C., well, climate change, we've got to take care of that. 0.97

00:00:25.900 So U.S. sees a Russian-flagged oil tanker that was being shadowed by Russian submarine on Wednesday

00:00:32.340 after more than a two-week-long pursuit across the Atlantic as part of the U.S. blockade of Venezuelan oil exports.

00:00:38.320 This appeared to be the first time in recent memory that U.S. military has seized a Russian-flagged vessel.

00:00:42.860 The operation took place after the tanker originally named Bella-1, great name, slipped through the U.S. marine time blockade

00:00:50.600 of sanctioned tankers in the Caribbean and rebuffed U.S. Coast Guard efforts to board it.

00:00:55.480 The seizure effort was first reported by Reuters.

00:00:58.820 It was on ex-military European command, says the Trump administration has seized the vessel

00:01:02.320 for violating U.S. sanctions.

00:01:05.260 The blockade of sanctioned and illicit Venezuelan oil remains in full effect anywhere in the world.

00:01:10.220 The U.S. official who were speaking on the condition of anonymity said Wednesday operational near Iceland

00:01:15.400 was being carried out by U.S. Coast Guard, and U.S. military Coast Guard did not immediately respond

00:01:20.060 to the request of a comment.

00:01:21.640 Go a little bit lower to see if the Russians have said anything about it.

00:01:24.080 There's no immediate comment from Russia as well.

00:01:26.660 Interesting.

00:01:27.300 Tom, your thoughts on this?

00:01:28.340 Well, first of all, my favorite line of the whole article there was, was being shadowed

00:01:35.120 by a Russian submarine.

00:01:36.700 In other words, we knew that, or we figured that out.

00:01:40.860 And I think it goes to the technology advantage that we had when we went in and got Maduro.

00:01:48.440 Remember, nobody, we didn't lose any equipment.

00:01:51.340 We didn't lose any guys.

00:01:52.580 We didn't have like a massive firefight on the ground that somehow involved also civilians

00:01:57.920 accidentally.

00:01:58.800 We went in, we closed our eyes in and out.

00:02:01.320 And now they're saying, well, it was being shadowed by a submarine.

00:02:04.100 And can you see the Russians?

00:02:05.360 Wait, they know we're here.

00:02:06.100 Can you see if there's an image of it, Rob?

00:02:09.360 Can you see if there's an image of the submarine, Russia, Venezuela?

00:02:13.800 I thought I saw one.

00:02:14.820 I thought I saw one on X as well.

00:02:17.140 If you type in submarine, oil, Venezuela, shadow, submarine, yeah.

00:02:22.640 I mean, it might have been a stock photo.

00:02:24.020 It could have been.

00:02:24.620 I mean, nowadays, anything is.

00:02:26.260 AI.

00:02:26.840 See if there's anything there with the submarine.

00:02:28.640 I mean, no, is there, um, um, no, no.

00:02:35.300 Because if it was never really seen, but we knew it was there, then we leaked to the media

00:02:38.980 to tell Putin, dude, we know you're, we know you're following this thing.

00:02:42.240 Again, that's the point, right?

00:02:43.400 I mean, the reason why they took this tanker is actually about India.

00:02:47.140 This is really about India.

00:02:47.940 What's that right there?

00:02:48.760 Let me read the top what it says.

00:02:50.820 Russia dispatched a nuclear submarine to escort a tanker attempted to reach Venezuela.

00:02:54.820 The tanker was already harassed by U.S. Coast Guard.

00:02:56.940 Moscow is, uh, moving to guarantee its safe passage through the Atlantic in recent, uh,

00:03:02.460 U.S. piracy.

00:03:03.680 And who's saying that?

00:03:04.660 Is that the submarine?

00:03:07.620 All the stuff I've seen has not said that it is the sub.

00:03:10.880 Yeah.

00:03:11.240 I've not seen.

00:03:12.660 If it's out there, I'd love to see it, but I didn't see anything that talks about, oh,

00:03:16.620 here's the picture of them both pulling over for lunch.

00:03:19.920 Yeah.

00:03:20.420 I thought I saw something, but it could have been AI that I said, Jeff, where are you at

00:03:23.680 with this?

00:03:24.080 I guess I think this is about India.

00:03:25.580 India, um, again, multiple goals here.

00:03:28.140 They seize the tanker, say you are violating sanctions.

00:03:30.960 We're going to enforce sanctions.

00:03:32.380 Who is the biggest buyer of Russian oil right now?

00:03:34.360 India.

00:03:34.760 India.

00:03:35.300 So they're saying, look, you guys are continuing to buy sanctioned Russian oil and there is

00:03:38.900 a ton of it floating around the world right now.

00:03:41.240 There is a massive amount of seaborne, uh, oil, uh, oil at sea inventories.

00:03:45.740 And so what they're saying to India is, look, we've tolerated it. 0.97

00:03:48.580 We've, we've, we've, we've let it happen.

00:03:51.080 We've, you know, we've, we've talked about it.

00:03:53.140 We've given you warnings.

00:03:54.220 Now we're actually going to act on it.

00:03:55.680 Rob, what's this?

00:03:56.420 Uh, this is president Trump aboard air force one, where he talked about sanctions against

00:04:00.460 India for purchasing Russian oil.

00:04:02.460 They wanted to make me happy, basically.

00:04:05.500 He wanted to, Modi's a very good man.

00:04:07.280 Yes.

00:04:07.780 He's a good guy.

00:04:08.940 He knew I was so happy.

00:04:10.880 And it was important to make me happy.

00:04:12.440 They do trade.

00:04:13.200 It's important to make me happy.

00:04:14.200 And we can raise tariffs on them very quickly and be very good for them.

00:04:17.660 People are afraid of that.

00:04:20.120 Is that Lindsey?

00:04:20.840 Who is that to the left?

00:04:21.920 Yes, Lindsey Graham.

00:04:23.120 He looks like, he looks different from a profile.

00:04:26.460 Like, it doesn't look like himself.

00:04:27.640 But there's a story here, Rob, if you want to go to from CNBC, India state-owned refiners.

00:04:32.880 Keep buying Russian oil, even as New Delhi seeks U.S. tariff relief.

00:04:38.040 So let me get this straight.

00:04:39.080 You're coming to ask for relief, yet you're still buying.

00:04:42.820 If you want to go to that story, Rob, state-owned refiners in India are still buying Russian

00:04:46.780 oil.

00:04:48.280 The U.S. imposed a secondary 25% tariff on Indian goods in August, citing New Delhi's continued

00:04:53.840 imports of Russian crude.

00:04:56.040 Washington also sanctioned Russian oil companies, Luke Oil and Rosneft, in late November on Sunday.

00:05:02.460 Lindsey Graham claimed that India's U.S. Ambassador Vinay Mohan Katara had asked him to urge President

00:05:09.400 Trump to lift these tariffs, arguing the New Delhi has reduced its purchase of Russian oil,

00:05:14.080 while India's overall demand for Russian crude oil fell in December.

00:05:20.160 Analysts say the decline was largely driven by reduced buying from Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance

00:05:25.940 Industries, which had been a major importer before the U.S. sanctions on Luke Oil and Rosneft took

00:05:30.980 effect in late November.

00:05:32.100 So there's—do you have a video on this, Rob?

00:05:33.920 I do.

00:05:34.860 It's just the president, again, talking about Modi.

00:05:38.540 Is it the same thing?

00:05:39.540 It's a different speech, but he just talks about Modi and the Apache helicopters that India

00:05:43.580 purchased from him.

00:05:44.420 But he's not talking about oil?

00:05:46.160 No.

00:05:46.580 Okay.

00:05:47.040 Brandon, your thoughts on this?

00:05:48.460 Yeah.

00:05:48.640 So think about what could be done here.

00:05:50.460 So Russia—when you talk about going after the core, the nucleus of somebody's power, 0.75

00:05:56.740 like 30 to 40 percent of Russia's GDP comes from selling oil.

00:05:59.880 So it's already hurting them that oil's down from $70 or $80 a barrel to like $56 now, which

00:06:05.440 I almost think the market was anticipating this takeover of Venezuela with what oil prices have

00:06:09.480 been doing.

00:06:09.800 And so what could be done now where India buys like 30 percent of—they represent like

00:06:15.440 30 percent of Russia's oil buyer.

00:06:18.080 So now could we start selling Venezuela's oil to India to offset that if we want them

00:06:23.780 to stop buying Russia's oil?

00:06:25.140 Because if we chop away at Russia's oil demand, then that decimates them.

00:06:30.240 Their GDP is already going down because of the lower price in oil and the lack of buying

00:06:34.560 pressure from the country.

00:06:35.340 Because it's really just China and India that buys Russian oil and Iran a little bit.

00:06:38.520 But so, you know, if Iran falls, if we have Venezuela's oil, then really we have the biggest

00:06:43.800 oil-producing countries in the world, like, at our mercy.

00:06:47.280 You know what I mean?

00:06:48.180 Yeah.

00:06:48.540 But you know what this is doing?

00:06:49.620 Let me tell you what it's doing.

00:06:50.700 And this is the feeling I'm getting.

00:06:54.320 And I'm really curious to know how he's going to react.

00:06:57.960 I think he is fully suffocating Putin.

00:07:01.020 Yeah.

00:07:02.040 I think he is fully suffocating Putin to the point where you ever got into a fight and

00:07:07.860 a guy is choking you and you're willing to do anything and everything to get out of it 0.97

00:07:11.620 or else you're going to pass out and you do something really dumb and reckless. 0.98

00:07:17.380 What's Putin's next move? 0.99

00:07:19.560 Actually, think about it.

00:07:20.780 Another submarine?

00:07:22.300 No, but really, what do you do next?

00:07:25.180 So let me get this straight.

00:07:27.160 So it's like, okay, okay, all right, so you're putting sanctions on, you know, EU and whatever.

00:07:32.260 I'll do business with India. 1.00

00:07:33.380 No, you can't.

00:07:35.140 All right, Iran, keep sending me drones so I can attack Ukraine. 1.00

00:07:38.040 Nope, decimate Iran so they can't. 1.00

00:07:40.820 So now I can't buy drones from Iran to attack Ukraine?

00:07:43.000 No.

00:07:44.220 Okay, so let me go to China.

00:07:45.880 China can't get the oil from Venezuela now.

00:07:47.520 He is so cornered right now, Pope Putin, in such a way that Putin is probably sitting

00:07:57.320 there saying, man, I miss President Biden.

00:08:01.140 But you notice how he's doing it very slowly, incrementally.

00:08:04.620 It's almost like, you know, just tightening the noose a little bit at a time so you don't

00:08:08.640 really realize it.

00:08:09.820 The right sequencing.

00:08:10.900 But I don't know about whether he's not realizing it.

00:08:14.460 Here's a question.

00:08:15.520 Well, I think that's the whole submarine story.

00:08:17.300 But Jeff, here's a question, Tom.

00:08:18.700 I'll come to you here.

00:08:20.580 Do you think he's doing, do you think he stops this aggressive, like what's more important

00:08:26.460 to him?

00:08:27.340 Do you think he would allow all of this stuff to happen and get behind Putin and support

00:08:31.160 him to open a business again if Putin flat out just comes out and gets it over with Zelensky?

00:08:36.700 Yeah.

00:08:37.060 Do you think that would put a stop to all of this, to a lot of this?

00:08:40.160 I think that's the two, the carrot and the stick, right?

00:08:42.220 The carrot has always been stop the war in Ukraine and join us and let's do a lot of business.

00:08:46.500 We'll buy all your oil again.

00:08:48.280 The stick is we're going to slowly strangle you and there's nothing you can do about it.

00:08:52.760 How much worse does it get than this?

00:08:54.720 I mean, of course, there's different levels of worse, but Putin can't breathe right now.

00:09:01.200 I think the goal here for Putin, what he really cares about is remaining as president of Russia.

00:09:06.980 Yeah.

00:09:07.480 So if Trump can undermine his power base, he ends up like Maduro.

00:09:12.360 I mean, what else is he doing right now?

00:09:16.660 You know, Brandon, go ahead.

00:09:18.600 Yeah, no, I just think it still goes down to who's going to break first and kind of comply

00:09:22.940 with us more first between Russia and China, because we need one of them to be more friendly

00:09:27.640 with us than they are.

00:09:28.520 You know, we need one of them to turn against the other.

00:09:30.360 And ideally, it'd be probably better and easier to get Russia to turn against China with us. 0.72

00:09:35.060 Having said that, folks, since September 9th or 10th, even when we went to Aspen, I keep

00:09:41.280 telling you this.

00:09:42.280 I have been wearing the same exact shoes.

00:09:44.360 I'm not kidding with you.

00:09:45.620 This sounds crazy, doesn't it?

00:09:47.240 It has to be.

00:09:48.020 It's the only thing that I wear every single day.

00:09:49.940 And I show you every single time this is on, right?

00:09:52.160 Future looks bright shoes.

00:09:53.220 We are now seeing this in 20, I think we just hit 25 or 26 countries that it's been

00:09:59.460 ordered in.

00:10:00.300 If you're somewhere in the world watching this, you haven't placed an order yet, go ahead.

00:10:03.700 But here's a future looks bright shoes.

00:10:05.060 Rob, go ahead and play the clip.

00:10:07.000 When we set out to create a shoe that blends comfort, function, and luxury, we had the choice

00:10:13.500 to make it fast.

00:10:14.740 We had the choice to make it cheap.

00:10:16.820 We chose neither.

00:10:18.500 Instead, we chose Tuscaneiro.

00:10:20.140 We chose true Italian craftsmanship, each pair touched by 50 skilled hands.

00:10:26.280 We chose patience, spending two years perfecting every detail, and we chose the finest quality

00:10:31.780 at every step.

00:10:33.740 Introducing the Future Looks Bright collection.

00:10:37.400 Not rushed, not disposable, not ordinary.

00:10:41.740 Rather intentional, luxurious, timeless.

00:10:50.140 All right, so guys, it's officially on the fourth order.

00:10:53.100 This is how quickly this thing's going right now.

00:10:55.000 We were not expecting for a shoe, but it has become such a big hit.

00:10:59.560 And the biggest thing is people come to this page, and they compare it to the Berluti,

00:11:02.400 the Ferragamo, the Zenia, the Gucci, and you look at the FLB and what it offers with the

00:11:06.100 super foam technology at the bottom of it, and the craftsmanship, made in Tuscany, Italy,

00:11:10.200 at five factories.

00:11:11.100 If you haven't placed an order for yourself, or your husband, or your son, or somebody,

00:11:16.400 go place an order.

00:11:17.700 They will fall in love with the shoes.

00:11:19.400 Go read the reviews on the website for yourself, only from people who purchase the shoes, and

00:11:24.660 enjoy it.

00:11:25.440 They'll come back to you saying, this is the most comfortable thing I've ever worn.

00:11:28.760 Go to vtmerch.com, place your order, and having said that, let's get right into it.

00:11:33.640 If you enjoyed this video, you want to watch more videos like this, click here, and if

00:11:36.660 you want to watch the entire podcast, click here.

00:11:41.100 Go to vtmerch.com.

Valuetainment - January 07, 2026

＂Trump Is SUFFOCATING Putin＂ - Trump ROCKS Russia With HISTORIC Venezuelan Oil Tanker TAKEOVER

Episode Stats

Summary

Transcript