I wonder if US oil companies will take Trump up on his invitation to pillage Venezuela? They're good at long-term planning, and know that the US might be under new management in three years--not nearly enough time to recoup any investment.
"Narco state"? We only have our addled hallucinating Commander's word for it. For sure there are some Venezuelan traffickers (just like there are some US traffickers) but blowing up boats, including fishing boats, does not turn their ports into those of a "narco state."
Busting Maduro for drags after pardons of Ross Ulbricht and Juan Orlando Hernández is weirdly akin to any given US administraton cherishing US-aligned (or US-seducible) dictatorships while "Condemning in the Strongest Terms" dictatorships that preferred the other guys. But "our dope-dealers are good, yours are bad" -- it's too far-fetched. Is there even a word for bad faith so far beyond mere hypocrisy?
Trump was all for taking other states' oil as far back as 2011. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/21/donald-trump-iraq-war-oil-strategy-seizure-isis has details. The oil companies don't so much mind blood on their hands (e.g., Nigeria's Niger Delta) if they're in it for a good long suck. But I wonder if Venezuela will have an armed resistance. Maduro was not universally unpopular, and I suspect that even his opponents will not stand by as Chevron etc. come in to snatch their national wealth.
Maybe we'll have another forever war, to protect the oil companies.
I wonder if US oil companies will take Trump up on his invitation to pillage Venezuela? They're good at long-term planning, and know that the US might be under new management in three years--not nearly enough time to recoup any investment.
More than that, how does anybody expect the U.S. to "run Venezuela"?
The US is not going to run Venezuela. The petroleum companies are going to run Venezuela. From a narco state to a Petro state.
"Narco state"? We only have our addled hallucinating Commander's word for it. For sure there are some Venezuelan traffickers (just like there are some US traffickers) but blowing up boats, including fishing boats, does not turn their ports into those of a "narco state."
Not too sure what
The short run plan is
in big oils head
Beyond control of the rate and direction
Of the present out flow
World market prices
are the key factor
And more then big oil gets into that
Panel discussion
Busting Maduro for drags after pardons of Ross Ulbricht and Juan Orlando Hernández is weirdly akin to any given US administraton cherishing US-aligned (or US-seducible) dictatorships while "Condemning in the Strongest Terms" dictatorships that preferred the other guys. But "our dope-dealers are good, yours are bad" -- it's too far-fetched. Is there even a word for bad faith so far beyond mere hypocrisy?
Trump was all for taking other states' oil as far back as 2011. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/21/donald-trump-iraq-war-oil-strategy-seizure-isis has details. The oil companies don't so much mind blood on their hands (e.g., Nigeria's Niger Delta) if they're in it for a good long suck. But I wonder if Venezuela will have an armed resistance. Maduro was not universally unpopular, and I suspect that even his opponents will not stand by as Chevron etc. come in to snatch their national wealth.
Maybe we'll have another forever war, to protect the oil companies.
Oil is just a sweetener
In fact a plug at first will be applied
To wack cuba and perhaps threaten
To
freeze out prc
The existing regime can be toyed with
At low cost
beyond drone diplomacy
For 9nce an operation worthy
of old busch might insue