US Presidential Candidate Discovers Oil Exists, Calls for Policy 'Dictatorship'
According to Al Jazeera, Vice President JD Vance (in a hypothetical future scenario) told Fox News that controlling Venezuela’s oil would be key to controlling its government. This candid admission of resource-driven foreign policy is, refreshingly, not cloaked in the usual humanitarian platitudes favored by previous administrations (see: 'spreading democracy' in Iraq, 2003). For decades, US
policy towards nations like Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua has consistently prioritized resource control and regime change over self-determination. From the overthrow of Jacobo Árbenz in Guatemala in 1954 to Augusto Pinochet in Chile in 1973, the US has a well-documented history of 'dictating' policy to sovereign nations when its economic or strategic interests are perceived to be at stake. The
only difference now is, they're saying the quiet part out loud. One might wonder if this bold new era of 'dictated' policy applies equally to all nations. Or is it, perhaps, reserved for countries that haven't yet mastered the art of providing generous campaign contributions or hosting strategic military bases? It seems some countries are just naturally more amenable to 'suggestions' than others,
especially when those suggestions come with the subtle hint of economic strangulation or sanctions, which have crippled the very populations the US claims to be helping.