Samuel Trapp revisits Andrei Bezrukov’s “new 1914” warning and asks whether Trump’s Venezuela buildup and secondary Russia sanctions prove that American elites are exporting their own crisis instead of fixing it. From BRICS and SCO to Operation Southern Spear and the hollowed-out U.S. middle class, this episode dissects how sanctions, debt and resource grabs are accelerating the shift from a U.S.-centric order to a messy Eurasian century.