He stole it and is extorting the president.
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Venezuela is now a US resource colony. The Venezuelan people won't even see 1% of the wealth being extracted from under their feet. This is what they're trying to do to Canada as well.
American common people also won't see 1% of the wealth...
Kind of a lose-lose for everybody involved except the already rich people
Stealing. Not control oil, steal oil, and put the profit in his pockets and the pockets of his cronies
Good luck with refining it.
What? The US has zero problem refining it. Most US refineries, particularly in the Gulf, are actually set up for heavy sour crude like Venezuelan.
That's kind of the issue. The US mostly produces light sweet crude, but our refineries are mostly set up for sour crude. So, while we are a net oil exporter, we have to import most of our oil to actually refine it because we aren't set up to refine our own production.
This "deal" is explicitly a gift to US refineries who are going to make unfathomable fortunes from it. He is trying to keep them on his side to throw their weight around for midterms and beyond.
In similar news, the godfather hails 'historic' deal where the mafia gets 90% of the restaurant chain's profits, free food, and control over decisions.
Minor problem with sucking the slurry out of the Earth. No problem! I just found a billion tons of titanium on the moon. Titanium tooling should be pretty effective at high temperature.
I said it before and I will say it again, the president of the united states is a fucking communist!
It's fun to say, actually kind of true now. Except state control is subordinate the connected wealthy. For now. Those connected wealthy will be destroyed by their political monster in time. But that's neither here nor there.
Say it with me, the president is a fucking communist. It rolls off the tongue. I remind you he had the US take common stock in Intel was it?
They did this in Stargate except the USAF went around freeing those planets.
Didnt saddam hussein try this with kuwait a while back? Minus the kidnapping, i mean. Is it too much to hope for a similar outcome?
wishful thinking. He is the most secure person in human history perhaps.
Good thing, since he’s too fat to fit in a ventilated dirt hole.
And Saddam wasn’t exactly slim himself.
Now we just wait for Trump to start unloading poison gas on the US people. Maybe that’s his plan for the upcoming elections.
Now we just wait for Trump to start unloading poison gas on the US people. Maybe that’s his plan for the upcoming elections.
No need, just poison the food instead
Did you forget that he was in the receiving end of getting curbstomped by the American oil regime lol?
Technically the similar outcome already happened with Venezuela. Their "crime" was trying to sell oil without American permission.
When you kidnap someone and then make money negotiating, that's called ransom not a deal.
SMDH
Trump hails 'historic'
dealheist for US to control 65bn barrels of Venezuela's oil
All this proves is that tankies got vindicated again (as always)
"but why would you support maduro" this is why. We live in real world
This is why stalin carried out purges. Venezuela is officially american colony now.
What does Venezuela get out of this "deal?"
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