How does taking the oil work?
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Anonymous
| Trump will get a percent of the proceeds |
Anonymous
American oil will step in and exploit the situation. I wonder if Venezuela has refineries because that what the U.S. needs more than oil. |
Anonymous
This is what the American military has always been. We have always been supplying our children as cannon fodder for the goals of rich people. Stop sending your kids to the military. They are not heroes. They are cannon fodder, tools of the elite, hired killers. It is propaganda to frame anything about participation in the military as anything close to honorable, and anything other than economic exploitation and training young people to kill to advance the goals of the American owner class. I'm sad it's taken so many people so long to see this clearly for what it is, but glad it seems to be clicking now. These are not our wars. These are not our goals. None of this benefits us regular people. Your sons and daughters do not need to die, get maimed, or get permanently emotionally damaged to preserve the wealth of some billionaires (whose children would NEVER serve!). |
Anonymous
You mean robbing? |
Anonymous
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Once you start noticing the pattern, you start seeing this justification everywhere. Weird how everyone currently engaged in killing and stealing and dominating is divinely entitled to whatever they are trying to take, and the people they must kill and steal from in the process are bad/uncivilized/murderous/criminal, and thus deserving of what is happening to them.
We heard it with kidnapped and enslaved Africans. We heard it with Native Americans trying to protect their land. We hear it about Ukrainians. We hear it about Palestinians. We are hearing it about Venezuelans. |
Anonymous
Isn’t Trump stepping towards nationalizing some of our tech industry (Intel (company), in particular?)? |
Anonymous
Who wants to send their kids to serve the greatest Fortunate Son of all Cadet Bone Spurs who thinks we don’t notice his pathetic attempt to position himself as a military man. He’d shxt himself if someone handed him a gun. My guess is he drives a car as well as he handles a gun. |
Anonymous
Exactly. We’re just trading governments with Venezuela is all. |
Anonymous
He's also taking a cut of NVidia chip sales to China. |
Anonymous
| This is terrible for oil companies. It will decrease the price more. Oil and gas need to have a certain profit level. Don't know how this helps actually. |
Anonymous
He makes Madoff look like a teenage shoplifter at a candy store. |
Anonymous
Yes.. it's not complicated. Oil companies are already operating in Venezuela, but their operations were limited by law. Limits will be removed. |
Anonymous
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The oil the U.S. is taking from Venezuela is NOT for the American people.
It is for the big oil companies who will sell it on the world market to increase their stock price so CEOs and investors can make millions more than they’re already worth. NO Americans will see ANY benefits other than paying taxes for the cost of the military. |
Anonymous
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Nearly 40% of the world’s oil production is now under the umbrella of the ‘Donroe Doctrine’ — an economic and geopolitical lever no US president has had since FDR.
Respected, measured Bloomberg oil columnist https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-01-05/venezuela-oil-trump-now-has-his-own-petroleum-empire-in-the-americas?utm_source=website&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=twitter?sref=5dj0X2VO |
Anonymous
| If you are really interested, the Economist has an online article on Venezuela’s oil industry and what it would take to bring it back. Bottom line is that it would take substantial long term investments, including redeveloping a labor force that largely fled the country. It’s unclear whether US oil companies would be interested given the likelihood of a different US administration in three years. |