US Oil Firms to 'Rebuild' Venezuela After 'Military Operation'
Bloomberg breathlessly reports Donald Trump's assertion that US oil companies will 'spend billions' to 'rebuild Venezuela’s crumbling energy infrastructure' after a US-backed 'military operation' led to Nicolás Maduro's capture. This tidy narrative conveniently erases decades of US sanctions and covert actions that actively crippled Venezuela's economy and infrastructure. The 'crumbling energy
infrastructure' isn't some natural disaster; it's a feature, not a bug, of successive US administrations' regime-change playbook, from Nixon to Trump. We are now expected to cheer as the very entities that benefited from Venezuela's engineered collapse swoop in as saviors. It’s the humanitarian equivalent of setting fire to a house, then charging the traumatized owners for the renovation. How many
billions did ExxonMobil and Chevron 'invest' in lobbying for the very sanctions that immiserated the Venezuelan people and opened this door? One might wonder if 'rebuild' here means 're-take.'