Initially, Trump told us we were going to fight Venezuela as part of our “war on drugs.” That was why we kidnapped the president of Venezuela and his wife.
But Venezuela is not a major origin of most U.S. drug supply, and that justification was always a concocted lie.
What Trump never admitted: Oil was always a key strategic interest for the U.S. — historically through trade, sanctions, and company involvement — and because Trump has blocked renewable energy, oil has become much more explicit as an objective of U.S. policy and military action.
The conflict has therefore evolved from drug rhetoric to overt oil control and regime pressure.
In short, the United States kidnapped the president of a foreign nation in order to steal that nation’s oil. It used drugs as a cover story.
Notably, though the president of Venezuela and his wife are in custody, all the other “bad actors” still are in place, and no change in drug manufacture or shipment is involved.
Here are excerpts from an article in today’s Florida Sun Sentinel:
Trump huddles with oil executives
President seeking $100B for Venezuela; US seizes 5th tanker
By Josh Boak Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump met with oil executives at the White House on
Friday in hopes of securing $100 billion in investments to revive Venezuela’s ability to fully
tap into its expansive reserves of petroleum — a plan that rides on their comfort in making
commitments in a country plagued by instability, inflation, uncertainty and a dilapidated
energy infrastructure.
Since the U.S. military raid to capture former Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro on Jan. 3,
Trump has quickly pivoted to portraying the move as a newfound economic opportunity
for the U.S., seized tankers carrying Venezuelan oil, saying the U.S. is taking over the sales
of 30 million to 50 million barrels of previously sanctioned Venezuelan oil and will control
sales worldwide indefinitely.y
On Friday, U.S. forces seized their fifth tanker over the past month that has been linked to
Venezuelan oil.
It’s all part of a broader push by Trump to keep gasoline prices low. At a time when many
Americans are concerned about affordability, the incursion in Venezuela melds Trump’s
assertive use of presidential powers with an optical spectacle meant to convince Americans
that he can bring down energy prices.
In short, Trump now has given tacit approval to China to invade Taiwan, and has revealed why he has been so reluctant to help Ukraine fight the Russian invasion.
Trump has turned America back into the bad old days of gunboat diplomacy, where the powerful nations bully the weaker nations by threat of force (or actual force).
In this case, Trump hopes to save his criminal presidency by taking your mind off crises like inflation, Epstein, low polling numbers, and ICE craziness and brutality, by creating another crisis — Venezuelan drugs — and then yet another crisis — oil (all while he hamstrings renewable energy production) .
When people object to Trump spending billions to bribe oil companies to refine Venezuela’s crap oil (while the government “can’t afford” to fund health care), or people begin to remember Epstein, inflation, Trump’s many other lies, and most recently ICE’s public murder of Renee Good, Trump will invent yet another crisis to occupy weak MAGA minds.
There always is some new Trump outrage to blur memories of the previous Trump outrages. And the beat goes on.
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