US Dismantles Venezuelan Oil, Wants You to Pay to Rebuild It
Axios reports it will be 'not easy or cheap' to rebuild Venezuela's oilfields, blaming 'underinvestment, mismanagement, and sanctions.' What it omits is that 'sanctions'—specifically, crippling U.S. sanctions—are the primary reason for the 'underinvestment' and 'mismanagement' it conveniently lumps together. These economic warfare tactics, imposed by the very same U.S. government now considering
subsidizing the rebuild, intentionally decimated Venezuela's capacity after Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro sought economic independence. Now, with global supply needs, former President Trump suggests U.S. companies should rebuild it, reimbursed by 'us or through revenue.' In essence, the U.S. breaks it, then expects its taxpayers to fund its corporate partners to fix it, all to extract Venezuelan
oil under advantageous terms. It’s not just 'a lot' of money they'll spend; it’s the cost of reversing a deliberate act of economic sabotage. How many times must a nation be destabilized before the 'cost of doing business' is assigned to the actual perpetrators?