US 'Democracy' Efforts Coincide with Oil Interests, Again
The article suggests Trump's flirtation with Venezuela's oil is a strategic play, almost detached from reality. Let's be clear: U.S. foreign policy has a remarkably consistent habit of finding 'democratic' deficits in resource-rich nations, while overlooking them in convenient allies. From Iran in '53 to Iraq in '03, the pattern writes itself; democratic ideals conveniently align with energy
acquisition. One might wonder if any nation *without* vast oil reserves has ever required such urgent 'stabilization' from Washington. The 'will U.S. companies go for it?' headline isn't a question of ethics, it's a casual query about corporate feasibility, after the political groundwork has been thoroughly churned by the supposed pursuit of 'values.'