“The Departments of State and War have negotiated a historic opportunity to secure US majority control of more than 65bn barrels of proven oil reserves in Venezuela at zero taxpayer cost,” a Pentagon spokesperson said.

That is maybe one of the dumbest sentences I have ever read.

I can't comprehend not realizing if you actually think like this that you need to hide it from other people at least superficially.

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