Trump Seizes Venezuelan Oil Tankers, Then Seeks Oil Exec 'Investment'
The AP casually reports that President Trump is meeting with oil executives to secure $100 billion for Venezuela's oil sector, conveniently after a U.S. military raid to capture Nicolás Maduro and seizing of Venezuelan oil tankers. The administration's sudden concern for 'reviving Venezuela’s ability' to tap its reserves comes only after unilaterally deciding the U.S. would control sales
worldwide. Funny how 'instability, inflation and uncertainty' – often exacerbated by *decades* of U.S. intervention and sanctions – suddenly becomes a lucrative 'opportunity' once military assets are deployed. One might wonder about this 'investment' strategy: First, you sanction, destabilize, and raid a nation (AP even cites the 'U.S. military raid' as context), then you demand its resources be
developed by U.S. corporations, under U.S. control. It’s less an 'investment opportunity' and more an 'extraction plan,' echoing a long, sordid history of interventions in resource-rich nations from Chile to Iraq. Apparently, the 'free market' sometimes needs a little help from the U.S. military to find its footing.