Geopolitics with Ghost: Bonus Ep. 117 - Congress Sex Slush Fund, Venezuela Earthquakes & Syria Flashpoint - 7/1/26

Ghost opens this bonus episode with Thomas Massie's 420-0 House vote to expose which members paid off sexual misconduct allegations with taxpayer money, then delivers his GART closing remarks calling Congress a crime scene that needs a forensic team, not a press release. Colombia's post-election fallout gets a full breakdown: El Tigre's ties to Alex Saab and the Maduro orbit, Gustavo Petro's documented anti-cartel record being memory-holed, and the contradiction of neocon Republicans backing a man who was Maduro's lawyer. Venezuela's twin 7.5 and 7.2 magnitude earthquakes have left 2,000 dead and 10,000 missing, and Ghost flags the Clinton Global Initiative activating on the ground with a pointed reference to Laura Silsby and Haiti. Burkina Faso formally severs ties with France, and Ghost maps out Ibrahim Traore's full story alongside a psyop trying to paint him as an Israeli puppet. Italy quietly blocks NATO's open-ended Ukraine commitment for 2027. Trump tells reporters Erdogan and Xi both stayed out of the Iran war at his personal request. The episode closes with Syria as the next flashpoint: IDF troops terrorizing villages inside Syrian territory, Erdogan warning Turkey is next, and Ghost's prediction of an Israel-Turkey confrontation finally coming into view.