Venezuela is now a subservient resource colony for Trump’s billionaire friends to exploit and pillage.
This is what they tried to do to Canada as well during the last trade negotiations.
The growing oligarchy in the US is a parasite that kills its host. It can only survive if it finds new hosts to infect.
Chávez must be turning in his grave
Is that the deal where the US stops attacking fishermen, and Venezuela pays the ransom?
https://www.britannica.com/event/2025-US-Strikes-on-Venezuelan-Vessels
Probably more like we get their oil and in return we won’t depose their new puppet ruler.
You should be focussing on deposing your own pedophile ruler buddy.
Don’t call me buddy, guy, I’m not your buddy.
He didn’t call you his buddy
BRB gonna make a deal at the house down the street where I show up with a gun and they give my ownership and praise me for it daily
And by deal, he means kidnap the leader and steal the country’s oil.
This seems like a much bigger deal than the news has portrayed. It seems like Trump feels like he can’t do fun things (bomb Iran) because of the oil stockpile. So he is doing anything he can to try to show markets that he has oil so he can get back to doing fun.
Consumption of US is 19.4 million barrels a day.
https://www.ceicdata.com/en/indicator/united-states/oil-consumption So 65 billion seems like a lot.However, “The bulk of the country’s petroleum is made up of heavy, sour crude oil—a dark, gloopy, acidic substance that is both high in sulfur and relatively difficult to recover. This type of crude oil is very useful in asphalt production, but it needs to undergo a longer refining process to be made into more lucrative products, such as gasoline and other fuels, compared with lighter crude oil” https://www.britannica.com/science/How-Much-Oil-Does-Venezuela-Have-and-How-Much-Is-Accessible
If our processes are set up to process one type of oil, can we even switch to another type? How many refineries can do it? How much is wasted in the process and what is the rate? This seems like everything trump does: effective on a first glance but the moment you start thinking or asking questions it falls apart
Actually, most US refineries are set up to refine that heavy goop. It is not dissimilar to Alberta’s tar sands product (bitumen). And most US oil comes from Canada.
Him getting this oil is a piece of leverage against Canada and trying to remove a card from Canada’s deck against him taking our country.
And it has the subtle weakness of a tanker and port bottleneck
Also, as CBC pointed out this morning, this is basically the same annoucement he did when the US first took Venezeula.
Since then, apparently none of the oil companies have moved into Venezeula, so this might be an attempt to get any traction there.
“Venezuela’s oil exports fell slightly to 1.16 million barrels per day in July from 1.2 million bpd the previous month as the country drained fewer inventories, but exports to the U.S. jumped to some 786,000 bpd, the highest since early 2019, shipping data showed on Monday.” https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/venezuelas-oil-exports-fell-slightly-july-cargoes-us-rose-2026-08-03
No new projects are shovel in dirt.
Lots of promises and deals in thr making with Venezeula
LOL, “deal”.
Fucking USA!!! They just steal whatever they want. They are World’s enemy No. 1.
Considering how little we teach the Banana Republic era in schools I wonder how few Americans recognize what’s going on here. How many of them know about the American conquest of Haiti or the Dominican Republic or any of the other dozen countries America conquered and pillaged.
Venezuela has twice nationalized the oil infrastructure, 1976 and 1999. Meaning they kicked out the foreign companies that invested and built infrastructure. This is why Trump couldn’t find any companies willing to do it a third time. So now it seems the US is gaurantieeng the security with this “lease”. This is a scary prospect all the way around.
New forever war started
Kidnapping a country’s leader and then capturing the oil refineries and oil fields is NOT the definition of a “deal” 🙂
“Control” meaning steal?
So this won’t do much for gas pricesdeleted by creator
So when I rob someone at gunpoint I can just say they have entered a deal with me to give me their stuff and maybe I’ll throw them back a penny.
