Surprise! Trump Discovers Oil Exists in Venezuela, Right Before Regime Change
According to The Hill, Donald Trump, in what's presented as a novel insight, has openly linked Venezuela's substantial oil reserves to his administration's efforts at regime change. This 'news' breathlessly details how a former U.S. president would consider national resources a factor in foreign policy—a concept as groundbreaking as discovering water is wet. (Or that the U.S. has a long,
documented history of installing friendly regimes in oil-rich nations.) This isn't a 'Trump puts oil at the center' story; it's a continuation of Washington's century-old playbook. From the CIA's 1953 coup in Iran to overthrow a democratically elected leader who dared to nationalize oil, to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the U.S. foreign policy establishment has consistently sung the same sweet crude
lullaby. Venezuelan oil, the largest proven reserves globally, has always been the 'center' for any administration keen on controlling energy supplies. The real story isn't Trump saying it; it's The Hill presenting it as a special scoop, rather than the historical pattern it so obviously is. Why pretend this is a revelation? Because admitting the cynical, resource-driven motivations behind decades
of intervention would require criticizing the U.S. foreign policy establishment itself—something most mainstream outlets rarely do with such candor.