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BREAKING NEWS: The United States has taken control of a substantial portion of Venezuela’s oil reserves, it said yesterday.
“The United States of America has just entered into an Agreement with the Country of Venezuela on, THE BIGGEST OIL DEAL IN WORLD HISTORY!” Trump wrote in a social media post.
Details of the deal were not released—other than the fact that it involved Washington taking majority control over more than 65 billion barrels in 17 strategic oil fields. Fuel will be extracted by private US businesses in conjunction with the US government.
The US maintains that Venezuela’s oil fields were “stolen” from the United States.
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‘OUR HEMISPHERE’
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the “win” had the effect of “securing stable reserves and low-cost oil in our Hemisphere and lowering gas prices here at home”.
(The “our Hemisphere” reference reiterates the US claims over the whole of the Americas, including the South American countries and Canada.)
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OIL FIELDS 'STOLEN' PROPERTY
Trump claims the Venezuelan oil fields were “stolen” from the United States, after Americans were among early fuel explorers there.
Venezuela nationalized its oil industry to share profits with its people—an event Trump adviser Stephen Miller said was “the largest recorded theft of American wealth and property”.
However, under international law, resources identified in a country by visitors are the property of the country, not the visitors.
But nothing about US activities in the south American country has been legal. “Experts have denounced US intervention in Venezuela as illegal under international law,” Al-Jazeera reported earlier today.
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ANALYSTS DOUBTFUL ABOUT EASY PROFITS
Still, this may not be the easy oil-grab that it appears to be, analysts say.
The assertions that Venezuela has “the world’s largest proven oil field” and “more oil than Saudi Arabia” are often made in the western mainstream media but are considered doubtful by many oil analysts.
Furthermore, Venezuelan oil is unusually thick and difficult to process, which is one of the reasons why the country has remained poor—the other being a huge raft of sanctions and political interventions by the US.
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U.S. SWITCHED LEADERS
The oil field deal has been signed off to the US by Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodriguez, the White House said.
The original US plan was to claim that Washington-allied politician María Corina Machado was the most popular politician in the country and place her in the top job.
But the US revised the scheme, discarded her as “unpopular”, and chose to put Washington loyalist Rodriguez in the decision-makers' chair.
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VENEZUELA ATTACK CHARGED TO THE COUNTRY
The US made Venezuela pay for the US attack on its territory, President Trump told a rally in Las Vegas last month.
The assault, in which 200 people were killed, and President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores abducted, was paid for “with what we’ve taken out” from the country, Trump said.
“That’s the old-fashioned way, right? The old-fashioned way. To the victor belong the spoils, right?”
The US disregards international law and its military operates as a pirate body, many analysts and commentators have said—including Trump himself, who agreed, describing US forces as being “like pirates” in April this year.
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Imagine the outrage if China or Russia did the same to another country.
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Gerald Sy if that were ever happened … it would be for certain that the elimination of the 5K years civilization by nukes as what they want to do to the other oldest 5K civilization…
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