Bloomberg Discovers Trump Wants Venezuela's Oil — Again
Bloomberg's 'Balance of Power' segment highlights Donald Trump's alleged interest in Venezuela's oil, packaging it as groundbreaking insight into potential future foreign policy. What's left unsaid, as usual, is that 'US eyes Venezuela oil' is a headline from 1908, 1950, 1999, 2002, and every decade since. Former National Security Advisor John Bolton openly admitted in 2018, 'We're looking at the
oil situation... that's the most important part.' It seems some 'national interests' are eternal, particularly when they involve vast crude reserves. Instead of dissecting this tired rhetoric, one might wonder why the 'Balance of Power' panel isn't asking why—after generations of meddling, sanctions, and attempted coups—Venezuela still isn't 'free' enough to choose its own oil customers. Perhaps
the problem isn't their authoritarianism, but their insistence on independence. How many times must a nation's resources be 'eyed' before it's just called theft?