Trump Finds Venezuela's Oil, Discovers 'Free Market' for Coups
The New Arab reports Donald Trump's claim that Venezuela would 'hand over' billions in oil stocks after a push to replace Nicolas Maduro with an 'interim leader.' This isn't just bombast; it's a remarkably transparent articulation of a long-standing U.S. foreign policy doctrine: when a nation possesses valuable resources, its sovereignty becomes negotiable. This isn't about 'democracy promotion';
it's straight out of the 20th-century playbook: destabilize a government, install a friendly regime, and secure access to its natural wealth. After decades of sanctions that crippled Venezuela's economy, the 'benevolent' offer to take their oil for 'reconstruction' is less charity and more resource extraction. One might wonder how many 'interim leaders' the U.S. has helped install simply to
facilitate such transactions, often leaving the original populace with nothing but instability once the resources are gone.