US to 'Fix' Venezuelan Oil, Just Like Iraq's 'WMDs'
In a surreal BBC report, former President Trump apparently declared the US would 'run' Venezuela and 'fix its oil infrastructure' following a fabricated military strike and the capture of President Maduro. While this specific scenario is a fictionalized 'news' article (and a strangely prescient error by the BBC itself), the hubris of 'fixing' another nation's resources is a well-worn playbook for
US foreign policy. One might recall the 'necessity' of securing Iraqi oil fields post-invasion, a process that miraculously benefited US interests. Historically, the US has a long pattern of intervening in resource-rich nations, from Iran in 1953 to Chilean copper in the 1970s, all under various pretexts. The pattern holds: foreign resources become 'problematic' just before US 'assistance' is
offered, often followed by regime change and Western corporations gaining control. It really makes one wonder if 'fixing oil infrastructure' is just a polite way of saying 'taking control of oil wells.'