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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Last post by Lods -Taco's very worrying announcements include:
"We're going to have our very large United States oil companies, the biggest anywhere in the world, go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure."
"We'll be selling large amounts of oil."
However, US oil giants haven't responded to Taco's claims. Chevron, is the only US oil company currently operating in Venezuela, and they have undertaken to follow Venezuela's “relevant laws and regulations”. I suspect that Taco doesn't understand that multinational companies have to operate in an international context and can't play fast a loose with the resources of sovereign nations.
The formerly US-backed opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Maria Corina Machado, seems to have had the rug pulled out from under her. Despite her "the hour of freedom has arrived" comment, Taco says that Machado doesn't have "support or respect". He is backing Maduro's deputy, Delcy Rodriguez, saying "she's essentially willing to do what we think is necessary to make Venezuela great again." 🤮
Of course, Rodriguez is remaining loyal to Maduro and is promising to resist US aggression ... for now.
It's sounding more and more like there were elements of the Venezuelan administration who were actively involved in negotiating Maduro's capture.
Rodriguez and some of the military may have been involved.
While she publicly condemns the USA it's no certainty she isn't just blustering for a bit of a show and will fall into line.
One suggestion floating around regarding the oil is that by controlling it it will limit the supply to Cuba thus derailing the ruling regime there.
That would be a feather Trump would like to add to his cap.
