A Colombian was on Instagram trying to explain that "We haven't been able to wipe out the insurgents for 60 years with the U.S. help. How do you plan on taking out the insurgents when we will all be against you?
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"venezuela? that was some mean bush"
Seems the oil companies are nervous about investing billions of dollars into a country which nationalised them once before, demanding long-term guarantees from Trump when he's going to be dead soon.uziq wrote:
venezuela is pretty much an insurgent's wet dream. like afghanistan on steroids. good luck running that country for the next 20 years when there's a full spectrum of maoists in the mountains and revanchist ultranationalists in the jungle.
Oil price is fairly low, Venezuelan oil is poor quality and expensive to extract, overall none of this makes sense.
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evidently maduro was being guarded by a praetorian guard of cubans. as well as being frequently visited by chinese and russian diplomats (i.e. handlers), it seems fairly obvious what the geopolitical play is here. maduro may have even been slightly relieved to be taken out of that situation by the americans. i'm guessing the cubans would have preferred to shoot him rather than see him defect or bail out of the vise-like situation he has found himself in his country (i.e. massively unpopular and living on a military base).
the oil may be heavy low-grade muck, but that's the oil companies' problem. the american national debt is ballooning and the fed keeps making the money machine go brrrrr. securing a couple trillion dollars in resources can't hurt.
the oil may be heavy low-grade muck, but that's the oil companies' problem. the american national debt is ballooning and the fed keeps making the money machine go brrrrr. securing a couple trillion dollars in resources can't hurt.