So when I rob someone at gunpoint I can just say they have entered a deal with me to give me their stuff and maybe I’ll throw them back a penny.
“Deal”
Is that the deal where the US stops attacking fishermen, and Venezuela pays the ransom?
https://www.britannica.com/event/2025-US-Strikes-on-Venezuelan-Vessels
Probably more like we get their oil and in return we won’t depose their new puppet ruler.
You should be focussing on deposing your own pedophile ruler buddy.
Don’t call me buddy, guy, I’m not your buddy.
Pretty much, if there had ever been so much as a joint on one of those boats Donnie would have been parading it around as justification
Aha, let me guess, only place to get that fuel is trump’s gas station?
“Control” meaning steal?
Fucking USA!!! They just steal whatever they want. They are World’s enemy No. 1.
So this won’t do much for gas pricesVenezuela has twice nationalized the oil infrastructure, 1976 and 1999. Meaning they kicked out the foreign companies that invested and built infrastructure. This is why Trump couldn’t find any companies willing to do it a third time. So now it seems the US is gaurantieeng the security with this “lease”. This is a scary prospect all the way around.
New forever war started
LOL, “deal”.
Does He still have Maduro kidnapped somewhere?
He’s at Rikers last I heard
Considering how little we teach the Banana Republic era in schools I wonder how few Americans recognize what’s going on here. How many of them know about the American conquest of Haiti or the Dominican Republic or any of the other dozen countries America conquered and pillaged.
Doesn’t refining sour crude result in higher gasoline prices?
Trump doesn’t know there are types of oil. But that’s okay, MAGA don’t either so he looks to them like a genius.
No?
Sour crude is what the US refineries are set up for. It’s why we export the sweet crude we actually produce and import sour.
Almost all of what goes through the Strait of Hormuz is sour crude. 80% of the crude market is sour crude.
The US is almost unique in that we are the major sweet crude producer, but our refineries are set up for sour crude.
So he’s stealing 65 billion barrels of oil from Venezuela. And he’s probably threatening them with war and death if they don’t “sign on”.
not really, this “deal” covers fields that are untapped or in heavy disrepair. will take years of infrastructure buildoit to exploit and it’s unlikely any serious capital will be rushing to do that, as historically when the US has done this to venezuela…after the admin switches hands they just nationalize that infrastructure and go back to business as usual.
this is just venezuela leadership telling trump and co. “sure…whatever, now leave us alone” in the hopes they’ll fuck off get distracted by something else until being replaced by a sane actor shortly.
same as every other deal of supposed investment with the US, UK/South Korea etc. agree to some stupid figure in a half-assed promise for trump and co. to parade on headlines. then they forget you exist and fuck off
