Trump to Oil Bosses: 'Revive Venezuela's Oil — For Freedom!'
The irony drips thicker than crude. Trump, whose administration aggressively expanded sanctions on Venezuela's state-owned oil company, PDVSA, designed to cripple its economy and oust President Nicolás Maduro, now wants 'Western companies' (read: US corporations) to 'rebuild' what they helped dismantle. This isn't about 'freedom' or 'democracy' anymore; it's about shifting global oil supply in the
face of rising prices and geopolitical instability. The 2019 sanctions, cited by the US Treasury Department, aimed to prevent Maduro from 'siphoning funds' – funds that now, apparently, American oil giants are perfectly welcome to siphon. So, the US government breaks it, then US corporations get to buy the pieces cheap, all under the guise of an inevitable, self-serving 'revival.' One might
wonder, how exactly does a nation whose oil infrastructure was deliberately choked by Washington suddenly become a beacon of economic opportunity without a fundamental shift in US policy that caused the problem in the first place? It appears 'regime change' only lasts until profitability returns to the top of the agenda.