Trump Finds His 'America First' Policy Means 'Oil Company Profits First'
The story presents this as a pragmatic solution to a global energy crunch, but conveniently omits the decade-long US-led campaign of sanctions and destabilization that crippled Venezuela's oil sector and its economy in the first place. This is not about 'restoring' production; it's about US corporations moving in to capitalize on a crisis they helped create. One might recall the early 2000s, when
the US actively supported a coup attempt against Hugo Chávez, partly over oil. (The more things change for 'democracy promotion,' the more Big Oil profits.) So, after years of loudly decrying Venezuela's socialist government and its 'kleptocratic' control over resources, the solution is... to hand those resources back to the same multinational corporations Venezuela nationalized? It’s not a policy
shift; it's a revolving door for profit disguised as foreign policy.