Saturday, 3 January 2026

Trumps Venezuelan Oil Grab

Back in the day when America invaded other countries for their oil at least they had the decency to lie about it, even George W Bush went to the trouble of making up the WMD and links to Al Queada  before going into Iraq but Donald Trump didn't even bother, plumping for regime change and oil rights as justification for bombing and kidnapping Nicolás Maduro and his wife although there was the Fentanyl flooding America and Maduro being some sort of Drug Boss nonsense but according to a US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) report, Fentanyl is produced mainly in Mexico and crosses into the US almost exclusively via land through its southern border and Venezuela is not mentioned as a country of origin for Fentanyl smuggled into the US in the DEA's 2025 National Drug Threat Assessment so that was rubbish straight away.
Maduro called it using the Fentanyl as an excuse to try to depose him and get its hands on Venezuela's vast oil reserves and Trump pretty much confirmed that when he said recently that: 'They took our oil rights. We had a lot of oil there. As you know they threw our companies out, and we want it back' so spot on Nicolás, you called that 100% right.
For a man who wet his pants when he wasn't given the Nobel Peace Prize, Trump sure has no problem not only using his own military but providing the arms for others to use but while Trump is blustering about what a great success the operation was, the details are yet to be seen and we all remember how he said the same thing about Iran but that ended up amounting to dropping tens if millions of pounds worth of bombs to put a dent in a mountain and put back the Iranian's Nuclear program weeks according to his own intelligence Agencies.   
So here we are with the latest press conference to discuss the unprovoked and illegal coup where Trump said American oil companies would move in to fix infrastructure and will be: 'Taking a tremendous amount of wealth from the ground and get reimbursed for everything we've spent' with the US selling oil to other countries, that's the US, not Venezuela.
So naked Imperialism and regime change to enable an oil grab but Trump has done nothing since taking office except massively increase the number of people around the world who would hope that if there was going to a regime change, it will come in the United States.
That said, nobody is talking about the sex pest and probable pedophile appearing in the Epstein files today though.