Trump and Co. will just TAKE what oil they want….
Then install OUR Oil companies who will do what WE want….
THEN tell Venezuela ‘who’ we want to run the place…
But?
We ACTUALLY do NOT want to get into the dirty work of running the place….
ALL of this probabbnly ain’t go the way Trump wants…
But we’ll see….
The energy secretary, Chris Wright, said on Wednesday that the United States intended to maintain significant control over Venezuela’s oil industry, including by overseeing the sale of the country’s production “indefinitely.”
“Going forward we will sell the production that comes out of Venezuela into the marketplace,” Mr. Wright said at a Goldman Sachs energy conference near Miami.
Mr. Wright’s remarks came after President Trump said late Tuesday that Venezuela would soon hand over tens of millions of barrels of oil to the United States.
Venezuela would send 30 million to 50 million barrels of oil, or up to two months’ worth of daily production, to the United States, Mr. Trump said in a social media post, adding that he would control the profits from those sales.
“We need to have that leverage and that control of those oil sales to drive the changes that simply must happen in Venezuela,” said Mr. Wright, a former oil industry executive. He added that the money “can flow back into Venezuela to benefit the Venezuelan people.”
If put in place, the Trump administration’s plans would amount to a sharp reversal in U.S. policy on Venezuela. The nation’s oil production and exports have been severely restricted since 2019, when Mr. Trump imposed tough sanctions on the country, including on Venezuela’s state-owned oil company.
More recently, the United States has imposed a partial blockade designed to prevent many tankers from leaving Venezuela with oil. That has choked a vital source of revenue for the country’s government and forced it to keep oil in storage tanks and shipsfloating off the coast.
It was not clear what legal authority the Trump administration would operate under to oversee Venezuela’s sales of oil.
Taylor Rogers, a White House spokeswoman, said the Trump administration made a deal with Venezuela’s interim authorities for the United States to control the sale of the country’s oil. “Secretary Wright and the Department of Energy are working with the interim authorities and private oil industry to execute this historic energy deal that will restore prosperity, safety, and security in the United States and Venezuela,” she said in a statement….
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Lets get this straight?
Venezuelan leaders ‘say’ they agree to this ?
Their last leader got grabbed in the middle of the night and is now in a Brooklyn Federal jail….
And American military armanda is sitting off its shores….
So?
The left over government ‘Agrees’ to what ever Trump wants?
‘Indefinitely?’
(Or until Trump leaves the Presidency with his cut?)
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