US 'Seizes' Venezuelan Oil, Calls it 'Unexpected Supply Flow'
Bloomberg's enthusiastic headline, 'Traders and Refiners Eye Venezuelan Oil as US Plans Take Shape,' makes it sound like a happy accident. They report the 'Trump administration' plans to 'take control of as much as 50 million barrels,' framing it as an 'unexpected supply flow.' What's missing, of course, is the preceding decade of crippling US sanctions, the undermining of democratic elections,
and repeated coup attempts against the Maduro government—all designed to achieve precisely this kind of 'unexpected' resource capture. One might wonder: how many nations must endure economic strangulation and political interference before their resources become 'unexpected' gifts to the market? This isn't newfound oil; it's the product of calculated, long-term geopolitical pressure dressed up as a
benign market development. It’s not 'taking control' when it’s your own doing; it's simply reaping the spoils of a strategic destabilization campaign. The 'plans taking shape' are merely phases of the original plan, conveniently forgotten by the financial press.