US Diplomacy: Bombs for Venezuela, 'Negotiations' for Oil
The Hill details a White House meeting with Chevron, Halliburton, and other energy behemoths to explore restarting Venezuelan oil exports. This comes just as the US eased some sanctions on Venezuela (after years of crippling them), following the Trump administration's failed attempts at regime change, which included recognizing an opposition leader as president and seizing Venezuelan assets.
(Remember when US officials said they were 'saving' Venezuela from itself? Turns out, they just wanted to save 'itself' some oil). One might wonder about the timing: the same geopolitical forces demanding 'stability' for oil are often the ones sowing chaos first. It appears US foreign policy often creates the 'problems' only US corporate interests can 'solve.' It’s less diplomacy, more resource
extraction 101, dressed up as a crisis response.