By Nadine Wellwood
"Was Venezuela an attack, an invasion—or a strategic signal?
The real story isn’t just barrels. It’s the system around commodities: pricing, shipping, insurance, and settlement—and who controls them. This breakdown explains why outcomes depend on the lens (military, geo-political, economic), why silver matters as a strained industrial + monetary metal, how China plays a decades-long systems game, and why 2026 could be the year of shifts.
In this video
-Why “good or bad” depends on the lens you use
-Economic warfare
- traditional warfare: systems & incentives
-Silver: monetary hedge and critical industrial input (defense, EVs, renewables)
-China’s long game: finance, ports, processing, parallel rails for settlement
-Why leaving the Venezuelan government structure in place signals limited, targeted intent
-Risks: unintended second/third-order effects, precedent, and great-power responses
-Multipolar reality: 3 major economic blocs competing through systems control
Bottom line: Venezuela is a square on a larger chessboard.
The contest is less about occupation—and more about who designs and dominates the systems the world must use"