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In reply to the discussion: BREAKING: Trump, just now, on Venezuela: "They took our oil rights. We had a lot of oil there. They threw our companie [View all]
AloeVera
(4,264 posts)59. Poor, poor Exxon. My heart bleeds.
A little sarcasm there.
Big Oil tried to exploit Venezuela and rob it of the future wealth belonging to its people - as it does with any powerless country. Chavez said no, fuck you. Of course that is simply not done, is it? Especially by a socialist country (gasp and clutch pearls)!!
Venezuela has been doomed by the common interests of both Big Oil/oligarchs and long-standing U.S. interventionist foreign policy in South America. It will now become another U.S. client state, where "freedom" really means free to be exploited by the likes of Exxon and the greedy pigs running our world.
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BREAKING: Trump, just now, on Venezuela: "They took our oil rights. We had a lot of oil there. They threw our companie [View all]
riversedge
Dec 2025
OP
This war of agression to come is to thank pedo the felon's big oil donors
Justice matters.
Dec 2025
#34
IF there was a problem in the past with US oil companies--then go through the Courts like
riversedge
Dec 2025
#5
Thanks for post. I will have to do some research of this situation. But--seems like Trump
riversedge
Dec 2025
#22
Actually, I shouldn't have said came to power, it makes it seem like he was installed via coup,
MarineCombatEngineer
Dec 2025
#23
The US and UK did the same in 1953 Iran when democratically elected Mosaddegh govt nationalized the oil industry.
ChicagoTeamster
Dec 2025
#53
If this terrorist nation behavior escalates....our allies need to ARM themselves to the teeth ..
Bread and Circuses
Dec 2025
#4
Just like Mexico did, Saudi Arabia did, as well as others. None of it was "our oil" ever. ...
marble falls
Dec 2025
#8
I think he really does want the oil, he needs to replace any dependence on Canada for heavy oil
Bev54
Dec 2025
#28
Yes...but I think there's more than just casual hearing things. I think it's Wormtongue Miller
QED
Dec 2025
#50
"My favorite part is how moronic MAGAs convinced themselves this was over drugs" 😂😂😂
riversedge
Dec 2025
#24
VZ was one of the wealthiest countries in SA before Chavez. Now one of the poorest
Callie1979
Dec 2025
#60
If VZ was doing so great, why was Chavismo accepted and championed by its people?
AloeVera
Dec 2025
#64
So after 8 years or so of savage-level sanctions and embargoes, the country has less poverty than before Chavez??
AloeVera
Dec 2025
#67
The Nobel Peace Prize winner is pretty popular as well as the man who replaced her
Callie1979
Dec 2025
#68
Every bit of credibility and integrity the U.S. had now lost, squandered by a spiteful imbecile. (nt)
Duncan Grant
Dec 2025
#46
Orinoco Belt Petroleum Reserve,
Dragon Natural Gas Field,
Coltan "blue gold" rare earth mineral, Gold mines
duckworth969
Dec 2025
#55
Trump administration asking US oil industry to return to Venezuela -- but getting no takers
Wiz Imp
Dec 2025
#57
A true neo-Colonialist attitude. Nonwhites don't own anything, not even the ground under their feet.
eppur_se_muova
Dec 2025
#65