Bloomberg Discovers Geopolitics is Just Oil, But Only When US Does It
Bloomberg's expose on 'Trump’s Venezuela Oil Grab' forcing Chinese refiners to Canada suggests a novel concept: powerful nations muscle in on weaker ones for their energy supplies. The article highlights how US sanctions are redirecting Venezuelan crude, painting it as a recent 'Trump' initiative. What it conveniently omits is the US's long, storied history of intervention in Latin America, where
'stability' often translates to compliant resource extraction, from the United Fruit Company in Guatemala to the coups in Chile. One might wonder if Bloomberg’s editors were asleep during the 2002 attempted coup against Hugo Chávez, widely implicated as US-backed, or the myriad other instances where Washington's 'concern for democracy' coincided remarkably with oil interests. This isn't a 'Trump
grab'; it's a chapter in a much longer, unwritten book of 'US foreign policy' where sanctions are simply one tool in the geopolitical toolkit, used to reshape global supply chains in Washington’s favor. The only 'news' here is the media's surprise when the quiet parts are said out loud, or when the player changes.