The US’s oil deal with Venezuela faces multiple legal and logistical problems, including questions about whether it can be implemented

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[–] 8 points 1 month ago
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[–] 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

"Negotiated" - and all it took was a bit of bombing and shooting and kidnapping and forced regime change and oil theft. It's like the school bully announcing they've negotiated a deal whereby the nerds will give them their lunch money.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 month ago

    Trump is a child rapist.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago

    What a Benjamin Netanyahu way of looking at things

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  • This .. sounds like a fancy way to say theft.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    They were saying that they need like $100 billion in investments to get Venezuela back up just to its own peak oil production (which is still small compared to other producers) and only like single digit percentages of that have been pledged over the next five years. Also Venezuela’s oil is a poor quality acidic sludge which can only be refined with specialized equipment like at America’s Gulf Coast refineries and it must be diluted with expensive imported fluids prior to shipping to be usable so exporting it is uneconomical when oil prices go down.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    pedo say what

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    [–] 18 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    "zero taxpayer cost" lmfao

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    So how long until Venezuelans kill Americans, take a few of them hostage, and Americans start foaming at the mouth saying this unprovoked act of aggression needs to be addressed by killing as many Venezuelans as possible?

    Time is a flat circle with the stupidest empire trying to control the entire earth....

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    I don't think I'll ever be able to fathom that the US kidnapped a country's leader from within his own country and the world said nothing and it's completely forgotten about. Especially when the motivation was clearly and obviously stealing oil.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    We can't use it because it's not the right grade for our refineries. Art of the deal

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    "Negotiated"

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