Why War on Venezuela?
Oil, maybe?
I wonder why the Trump administration is so interested in Venezuela?
Oh, so that’s why.
A barrel of oil is selling for about $60 this morning. 303 billion barrels at $60 a barrel is more than $18 trillion in future earnings (likely much more than this as the price of oil climbs to $100 per barrel and higher).
Who put America’s oil off the coast of Venezuela? Remember, it’s the Gulf of America, people.
In other news, the admiral in charge of SOUTHCOM is retiring early. Rumor has it he’s objected to the kill and regime change policies of Trump and Hegseth vis-a-vis Venezuela.
President Trump himself recently admitted he’s authorized covert overt CIA activities against the Venezuelan government. A CIA-orchestrated coup combined with U.S. military attacks on Venezuela is likely coming. It’s shrouded in drug war rhetoric, but of course the real goal is control over Venezuela’s oil.
The recent award of the Nobel Peace Prize to a Venezuelan opposition leader is another fig leaf in this operation. Once again, war will be sold to the American people as advancing democracy when it’s really all about the Benjamins.
Trump and Hegseth’s murderous strikes against alleged drug-running boats (at least five already destroyed) is another pretext for regime change. Yet the USA was more than happy to tolerate, even encourage, a massive drug trade in heroin during the Afghan War.
Oh well. War always finds a way, especially when oil is involved. Just think of the Iraq regime change invasion in 2003. That went so well, didn’t it?
This short video by Max Blumenthal sums it up quite well:
Conveniently, the government is still shut down, so I guess Trump can’t ask Congress for a formal declaration of war. Yet another unconstitutional war has already started and Congress is nowhere to be found.
It’s time for regime change for democracy right here in America.
Whatever happened to the sweet deal Congressman Joe Kennedy once had with Venezuela for their Oil to needy low-income & elderly families his non-profit Citizen Energy Corporation back in the late 70's. & 80's.? In the Commercials back then Joe K. was even pumping it himself off his trucks...! Joe4Oil
As far as I understand, Venezuelan oil is of the thick heavy sulphur-inflicted heavy type, it doesn't even flow through pipes without an accelerant. It's great if all you want is to tarmac roads. But if you want to propel cars and aeroplanes, make plastics and explosives, you have to apply a lot of energy to it. If I recall correctly, the break even point of Venezuelan oil is $100 a barrel.
No oil companies are interested in this stuff unless they get (at current prices) a $50+ a barrel subsidy. Not only that, the Venezuelan oilfields have deteriorated remarkably, so would need a lot of infrastructure investment just to get them pumping again.
Trump is too dim to know the difference, he just sees everything in $$ signs. So he may be looking at the oil, but I suspect it's more him bullying small nations; an anti-socialism agenda and anti-China agenda. (Most of what oil Venezuela does sell goes to China).
There will come a point, within the next 3 decades, that all nations will have to consider mining coal, oil and gas at a loss, just to keep this sh*tshow we call civilisation going a bit longer. At that point nationalisation in all but name will occur. Or the world's economies will collapse to pre-1750 levels sooner than they otherwise will.