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.
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
“Deal”
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.
Chávez must be turning in his grave
“Control” meaning steal?
Fucking USA!!! They just steal whatever they want. They are World’s enemy No. 1.
So this won’t do much for gas pricesVenezuela 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 gauranting the security with this “lease”. This is a scary prospect all the way around.
New forever war started
LOL, “deal”.
Does He still have Maduro kidnapped somewhere?
He’s at Rikers last I heard
Doesn’t refining sour crude result in higher gasoline prices?
No?
Sour crude is what the US refineries are set up for. It’s why we export the sweet crude we actually produce and import sour.
Almost all of what goes through the Strait of Hormuz is sour crude. 80% of the crude market is sour crude.
The US is almost unique in that we are the major sweet crude producer, but our refineries are set up for sour crude.
Trump doesn’t know there are types of oil. But that’s okay, MAGA don’t either so he looks to them like a genius.
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.
So he’s stealing 65 billion barrels of oil from Venezuela. And he’s probably threatening them with war and death if they don’t “sign on”.
not really, this “deal” covers fields that are untapped or in heavy disrepair. will take years of infrastructure buildoit to exploit and it’s unlikely any serious capital will be rushing to do that, as historically when the US has done this to venezuela…after the admin switches hands they just nationalize that infrastructure and go back to business as usual.
this is just venezuela leadership telling trump and co. “sure…whatever, now leave us alone” in the hopes they’ll fuck off get distracted by something else until being replaced by a sane actor shortly.
same as every other deal of supposed investment with the US, UK/South Korea etc. agree to some stupid figure in a half-assed promise for trump and co. to parade on headlines. then they forget you exist and fuck off
Kidnapping a country’s leader and then capturing the oil refineries and oil fields is NOT the definition of a “deal” 🙂
And by deal, he means kidnap the leader and steal the country’s oil.
